Let us do justice to the foundational and pioneering work of the many English Jesuits in the last one hundred and fifty years who have been involved in this project.

Fr Clifford Howell SJ  (1902-1981)

Fr Edward Yarnold SJ (1926 -2002) Campion Hall, Oxford
The Awe-Inspiring Rites of Christian Initiation, SPCK, London 1970
Cyril of Jerusalem, Routledge, London 2000.

“The Catechumenate for adults is to be restored: Patristic
adaptation in the rite for the Christian initiation of adults”,
in Continuity and Change in Christian Worship, ed. R. N. Swanson,
(Studies in Church History 35) Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge
1999, 478-494.

Fr Kevin Donovan SJ (1931 – 2008) Heythrop College, London.
Founder of the MA Pastoral Liturgy, University of London

© James Leachman, O.S.B.,  21 June 2010