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Can anyone recommend some books about the Liturgy and its development and maybe a Sunday Missal. I recently have started going to a Ukrainian Catholic Church. The Liturgy is in Ukrainian and I can follow with the English Ukrainian Missals they have.

I go to Latin Masses as well and know what the Collect, Secret etc. are and can follow the Mass without a Missal. I would like to learn more about the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom.

Slava Isusu Khrystu!

There is very nice Ukrainian Catholic Prayer Book which is very much like a missal entitled, "Hear Me O Lord". It was compiled by the Basilian Father - Father Demetrius Wysochansky, OSBM. There is a nice book about the Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom written by the late Father Basil Shereghy available from the Byzantine Press in Pittsburgh. It is "The Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom". It is relatively inexpensive.

Hopefully this will be helpful

By far the best English resource for the text and propers of the Divine Liturgy in English for UGCC usage is The Divine Liturgy: An Anthology for Worship blessed for publication by Patriarch Lubomyr and available through several outlets including the Sheptytsky Institute and several eparchies.

As far as the development of the Liturgy itself, there are numberous Patristic and later works from St. Cyril of Jerusalem and St. Germanus to Frs. Schmemann, Kucharek and Taft.