1962 Daily Missal for Home

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Hello,

I have been thinking of purchasing a 1962 Daily Missal for home use. There are no EF Masses where I live, only OF. Do any of you use the 1962 Missal on your own at home? If so, how would you go about doing it? Would you pray the entire Mass at home by yourself? Would that be okay?

Thanks in advance!
Ryan
 
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Do any of you use the 1962 Missal on your own at home? If so, how would you go about doing it? Would you pray the entire Mass at home by yourself? Would that be okay?
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I have a 1962 missal, and I’m not sure what you mean by using it on my own at home, but you can’t pray the Mass unless you’re a priest. I’d suggest you get a good traditional Catholic prayer book (like “Blessed Be God”) that you can use at both the EF and OF. If/when you move close to an EF parish, then you can get the missal.

Blessed Be God – Fraternity Publications

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Only a priest can say Mass, whether OF or EF, or Eastern Divine Liturgy. Priests and bishops, who possess the fullness of the Sacrament of Holy Orders are the only people who can say Mass and consecrate the bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ.

As Fauken said, get a good prayer book and buy the Missal if you move into an EF parish.
 
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I have several different traditional Latin missals and I would take one with me to the OF of the mass. I would just pray along using my missal for the responses, which I gave in Latin.

And other times I would bring a prayer book with me instead. The one I used the most was God and My Heart but just recently I started using My Prayer Book by Father Lasance, which is excellent as well.
 
There is value to praying some parts of the Mass like the Introit, the Confiteor and the Collect. However it escapes me as to what value praying the Canon would offer since it is used for only one very specific purpose.
 
canadaryan said:
Hello,

I have been thinking of purchasing a 1962 Daily Missal for home use. There are no EF Masses where I live, only OF. Do any of you use the 1962 Missal on your own at home? If so, how would you go about doing it? Would you pray the entire Mass at home by yourself? Would that be okay?

Thanks in advance!
Ryan
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A good prayer is any portion of the Liturgy of the Hours (or Divine Office).
 
canadaryan said:
Hello,

I have been thinking of purchasing a 1962 Daily Missal for home use. There are no EF Masses where I live, only OF. Do any of you use the 1962 Missal on your own at home? If so, how would you go about doing it? Would you pray the entire Mass at home by yourself? Would that be okay?

Thanks in advance!
Ryan
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Makes for a great reference book if nothing else.
 
I have the original 1925 version of that book. It belonged to a priest who was a friend of the family.
 
I use it at home… not to pray Mass of course, but I use it for the included Sunday/Feast Vespers which I say even though I usually go to an OF Mass.

It contains Compline, Vespers of the BVM, which I use daily. And for anniversaries of family deaths, there is the Vesper Office of the Dead, which is just the Vespers of All Saint’s Day.

Even though the readings and calendar might be different at times from what you will hear at the OF, if you just follow the older calendar and read the lessons of the day it makes a great daily reader.

The '62 missal is a powerful, general purpose prayerbook and I often take it with me to the OF mass, since the prayers before and after Mass in the '62 are wonderful/amazing/beautiful, etc. I don’t bother with the current missal, since the new Mass is in the vernacular, anyways.

Mine is from Baronius Press.
 
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Mine is from Baronius Press.
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I also have the Baronius Press 1962 missal and it is a fantastic treasure trove of prayers, litanies, historical details in addition to the Mass propers etc. I would really recommend it.
 
Further to my earlier post re the Baronius missal (and I am not at all connected to the company in any way) the Baronius Press website gives complete detail regarding content of this missal and is well worth reading before making any purchase.
 
I sort of collect hand missals. I have 2 full daily missals, a St. Josephs from 1960 and an Angelus Press reprint of the 1962. I read the Prayers of the EF calendar daily.
 
I have an ancestor who kept a diary during the civil war. He was a Confederate soldier. Almost every Sunday he went to mass. When he wasn’t able to go to mass, either because of the distance or because of having to do maneuvers, he wrote that he read from his mass book. I don’t know what prayers that he said, but he observed the Lord’s day every Sunday.
 
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