About – Resources – Aedificare Sacra

Rooted in the Magisterium of the Church

While the Church has much to say about sacred architecture, much of that material is scattered in many different texts. Through our research we have been able to compile the most comprehensive list of authoritative documents on sacred architecture anywhere.

These resources are the basis of our program, and will be provided to the attendees as a reference for their future endeavors.

Program Resources

The following texts are referenced in the program and will be thoroughly noted to allow attendees to find pertinent information.

A number of these texts will be included in the information packet to keep as reference for the attendees.

General Magisterium

Bible
Catechism of Catholic Church
Missale Romanum –1962, 1970, 1971, 1975, 2002
Rite of Dedication of a Church –
Canon Law
Code of Canon Law 1983, 1917

Vatican II

Sacrosanctum Concilium
Inter Oecumenici – 1964
Tres Abhinc Annos – 1967
Musicam Sacram – 1967
General Instruction of the Roman Missal – 1969, 1975, 2002, 2011

Vatican Congregations

Domus Ecclesiae – 1989
Redemtionis Sacramentum – 2004
Opera Artis – 1971
Eucharisticum Mysterium – 1967
Eucharistiae Sacramentum – 1973
Papal Documents (Apostolic Letters)

USCCB

Built of Living Stones – 2010

Encyclicals

Mediator Dei – 1947
Mysterium Fidei – 1965

Letters

Saluberrimum Sacramentum Eucharistiae – 1969
Letter to Artists – 1999

Exhortations

Sacramentum Caritatis – 2007

Motu Proprio

Sacram Liturgiam – 1964

Theology

Summa Theologiae – St. Thomas Aquinas
Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard – St Thomas Aquinas

Philosophy

Poetics – Aristotle
Ion – Plato
The Republic – Plato
Beauty – Roger Scruton
Architecture – Roger Scruton
Use and Abuse of Art – Jacques Barzun
Art and Religion – Friedrich Wilhelmsen
Art and Scholasticism – Jacques Maritain

Architecture

Ten Books of Architecture – Vitruvius
On the Art of Building in Ten Books – Leon Battista Alberti
Four Books on Architecture – Palladio

Sacred Architecture

Instructiones Fabricae Et Supelletilis Ecclesiasticae – St. Charles Borromeo
Liber de Rebus in Administratione sua Gestis – Suger
Architecture in Communion – Schloeder
De Aedificatione Sacram Templam – Bootsma
Rationale Divinorum Officiorum – Durandus, William
Church Architecture, The Shape of Reform – The Liturgical Conference
Environment and Art in Catholic Worship – USCCB
Church building and furnishing: the Churchs way; a study in liturgical law – J.B. O’Connell

Liturgy

The Reform of the Liturgy 1948-1975 – Bugnini, Annibale
The Ceremonies of the Roman Rite Described – Adrian Fortescue, and J.B. O’Connell
Spirit of the Liturgy – Romano Guardini
Feast of Faith – Ratzinger
Spirit of the Liturgy – Ratzinger