The Most Beautiful Thing This Side of Heaven

Do you remember the Tridentine Mass? Or would you like to know more about this 1500-year-old liturgy? Kieron Wood's 52-minute DVD The Most Beautiful Thing This Side of Heaven takes you step-by-step through the history and rubrics of this venerable rite.

Filmed by a professional television crew, on location in a parish church in Dublin, Ireland, this unique and inspirational production has won acclaim worldwide for its clarity and precision. Many priests have used the video to teach themselves - or to re-learn - how to celebrate Mass in the old Latin rite.

For students of liturgy, it is an invaluable tool. For older people, it recalls the glories of the past, while for young Catholics, it evokes the promise of the future.

Highly recommended by the Latin Mass Society of Ireland.

"It is - as one would expect from one of Wood's track record - a video of the highest professional quality. His ability to explain the intricacies of the rubrics in such clear and precise language will evoke the admiration of many who struggled with them many years ago. His measured presentation of his subject, reverent and unpolemical, can serve as an excellent starting point for a reflection on the liturgical losses and gains of the last thirty years. I recommend the video (and booklet) to all engaged in the study of liturgy."
Fr Sean Collins OFM, advisor to the International Commission on English in the Liturgy (ICEL)

"I do not hesitate to recommend with my fullest approbation this very fine and attractive production. I watched it recently with growing admiration for its clarity and precision. Everything is there for the priest who wishes to learn how to celebrate Mass in its age-old form, or for the layman who desires to understand better the many rubrics of this venerable rite. "
Very Rev Josef Bisig, former Superior General, Priestly Fraternity of St Peter F.S.S.P.

This is a Region 1 DVD (playable ONLY in Bermuda, Canada, the Cayman Islands, United States and U.S. territories)