Resources for the Sacred Liturgy
The Society of Saint Odo of Cluny is a Catholic organization devoted to the worthy celebration of the Sacred Liturgy. While we have interest and love of the many different expressions of the Roman Rite, our primary focus is on the Ordinary Form, celebrated in continuity with twenty centuries of Catholic custom and heritage.
This site is intended as a resource for Catholic clergy and lay ministers, and for those who may have questions about the Sacred Liturgy.
We hope that the content of this site may prove useful to those priests who are typically sent to what Pope Francis calls “the peripheries”, as well as to the volunteers and staff who support their liturgical efforts.
The Church’s liturgy may, therefore, be considered as a sacred poem, in the framing of which both heaven and earth have taken part, and by which our humanity, redeemed by the blood of the Lamb without spot, rises on the wings of the Spirit even unto the throne of God Himself.”
(Blessed Ildefonso Schuster)
Why “Zelanti”?
In the Catholic Church, the word zelanti has been applied to the devout and the orthodox since the thirteenth century. While its specific connotations have shifted with the centuries, the term literally means “the zealous”.
Today it may be applied to those who support the call of Pope Benedict XVI to a “new liturgical movement“.
The Church becomes visible in many ways: in charitable action, in mission projects, in the personal apostolate that every Christian must carry out in his own walk of life. However the place in which she is fully experienced as Church is in the liturgy; it is the act in which we believe that God enters our reality and we can encounter Him, we can touch Him. It is the act in which we come into contact with God: He comes to us and we are illuminated by Him.”
(Pope Benedict XVI)
