I know that many readers here have had the experience of writing a masters' thesis. It's an odd thing. You slave over the thing for a year or more, defend it, and then...well, nothing. It gets bound and is placed in the library of your graduate institution (at the GTU, it's called the "thesis cage," a wonderful image). Perhaps a few friends interested in the topic read it. At least with a PhD, you often end up revising it into a book, which ensures a slightly larger audience.Through a happy set of circumstances and the support of Fr. Anthony Ruff, OSB at St. John's Abbey, my master's thesis has been sprung from the thesis cage. A Crisis of Reception: The Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy and the Debate Over the Translation of the Roman Missal has been posted, more or less in its entirety, on the Pray Tell weblog. The thesis focuses on the long-running dispute over the translation of the Roman Missal into English.A fair warning that the tone is horribly pedantic. However, several friends who aren't liturgy nerds (yes, I have a few) tell me that they have found it a good introduction to the dispute for those who want to know what all the shouting is about.And, yes, I'm ruthlessly cross-posting material from other sites because I'm terribly short of time to blog right now...:-)