title: Noble Beauty, Transcendent Holiness: Why the Modern Age Needs the Mass of Ages
author: Peter Kwasniewski
description: <span>"Anyone who wants a frank, honest, and deep explanation of worship, prayer, and liturgy should get this book. Be prepared to marvel at the depth of the Mass."--<b>REV. JAMES W. JACKSON</b>, F.S.S.P., author of <i>Nothing Superfluous</i></span><span></span><br /><span></span><br /><span>"With a delightful variety of insightful angles, <i>Noble Beauty, Transcendent Holiness</i> is an admirable contribution to reminding the Church how to move the world with her irreplaceable liturgical traditions."--<b>MICHAEL P. FOLEY</b>, Baylor University</span><br /><span></span><br /><span>"This tremendous new book is an eloquent and erudite confrontation with the very root of the liturgical debate: whether the radical de-mystifying of the Catholic liturgy has been for the good of souls. It is a ringing affirmation that the kind of liturgy that pleases God, softens the hearts of sinners, and raises the pious towards sanctity, is the mysterious product of centuries of development."--<b>JOSEPH SHAW</b>, Chairman of the Latin Mass Society of England and Wales</span><br /><span></span><br /><span>"Peter Kwasniewski illustrates the total collapse of the hierarchy of values brought about by a modern world that has 'turned its back to God,' and man's need for the Traditional Mass to spin him round to a recognition that all good things--temporal things included--flow only from aiming our attention firmly at the Creator."--<b>JOHN RAO</b>, St. John's University</span><br /><span></span><br /><span>"Dr. Kwasniewski has a genius for making a fresh case for Catholic tradition, with a blend of perspectives from the entire 60-year Catholic traditionalist movement. A unique reading experience."--<b>ROGER A. MCCAFFREY</b>, President, Roman Catholic Books</span>
zlib_text: Noble Beauty, Transcendent Holiness
  
  
  _Why the Modern Age Needs the Mass of Ages_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  PETER KWASNIEWSKI
  
  
  Noble Beauty,  
  Transcendent Holiness
  
  
  _Why the Modern Age  
  Needs the Mass of Ages_
  
  
  ![](../images/00006.jpeg)
  
  
  _Foreword by_
  
  
  Martin Mosebach
  
  
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  First published in the USA
  
  
  by Angelico Press 2017
  
  
  © Peter Kwasniewski 2017
  
  
  Foreword © Martin Mosebach 2017
  
  
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  isbn 978 1 62138 284 3 pb
  
  
  isbn 978 1 62138 285 0 cloth
  
  
  isbn 978 1 62138 286 7 ebook
  
  
  Cover photograph of the Rood in the Holy Cross
  
  
  Priory Church, Leicester, by Fr. Lawrence Lew, O.P.
  
  
  Cover design: Michael Schrauzer
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  contents
  
  
  [Acknowledgments](pa