Lex Loquendi, Lex Orandi: On the Reform of the Roman OffertoriaThis study develops a more robust theory of liturgical language that brings Pickstocks postmodern vision and the Thomistic construal of prayer into a constructive, complementary dialogue. Such a Pickstockian Thomistic synthesis then lays the foundation for an assessment of the twentieth century Roman liturgical reform by means of a contrastive linguistic historical philosophical analysis of the medieval Roman Offertory and its analogue in the Missal