LEX ORANDI LEX CREDENDI - the Law of Prayer is the Law of Belief draws on the work of Michael Davies, 1936-2004, teacher, writer and valiant defender of the Tridentine Sacraments - the ancient liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church codified at the Council of Trent - bringing his many publications to a wider audience.

"I have been profoundly touched by the news of the death of Michael Davies. I had the good fortune to meet him several times and I found him to be a man of deep faith and ready to embrace suffering." Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger - the future Pope Benedict XVI- translated from the original German, November, 2004

A short easily readable book, LEX ORANDI LEX CREDENDI makes sense of the impact of the liturgical changes in 1969 and their effects, with chapter headings: The First Sunday of Advent 1969, Meal or Sacrifice?, The History of the Mass, What Went Wrong, Learning from the Past. A substantial bibliography essential for anyone truly interested in perpetuating Tradition.

Informative appendices including full texts of the Tridentine Mass and the New Mass.

Black and white illustrations, derived from French and Flemish illuminated manuscripts, by artist and writer Miss Madeleine Beard, M.Litt.(Cantab.) Front cover colour photograph: High Mass, Book of Hours, Flanders, 1423

About the Author
Born in Cape Town in 1942, John Wetherell was educated at Ampleforth. After a career in the City of London from which he retired in 1998, he read Theology at St Benet's Hall, Oxford where he obtained his BA. He was later awarded an MA in Theology at the University of Chichester. The father of six children, he and his wife live in Sussex.