This book explores liturgical music from the perspective of liturgy as a ritual enactment of the paschal mystery. How do the acclamations, the hymns and songs the responsorial psalm, and the litanies enable the assembly to participate in this enactment? What musical and pastoral choices best enable music to fulfill this role? And how does this music form us in a paschal mystery spirituality that shapes daily Christian living and makes the relationship between liturgy and life tangible.