A reasonably-priced EF Latin missal?

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Is there one? I mean, a hand-missal type, for personal use. I imagine demand is quite low, but I’m wondering if such a thing exists. Anyone know?
 
If you can find a SUNDAY missal they’ll be cheaper than the larger sixty buck ones from angelus/baronius etc.

A good source for used missals at reasonable prices appears to be ebay.
 
RosaryCrusader said:
If you can find a SUNDAY missal they’ll be cheaper than the larger sixty buck ones from angelus/baronius etc.

A good source for used missals at reasonable prices appears to be ebay.
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Oh, haha, no, I’m familiar enough with those. I mean a Latin missal, not a Latin-English missal. And not an altar missal (example) either, since those are expensive and bulky, but one suitable for personal use. That’s why I imagine there’s pretty much no demand for them, but I figure if there’s one to be had, someone here will know about it.
 
Start “trolling” on Ebay. I have picked up several for $5.00 plus some shipping
 
MarkThompson said:
Is there one? I mean, a hand-missal type, for personal use. I imagine demand is quite low, but I’m wondering if such a thing exists. Anyone know?
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How about 25.00 + 3 bucks shipping from a non-profit org ?
olrl.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=O&Product_Code=bBM-cMM&Category_Code=bBM

Can’t even get a used one for that 🙂
amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B000BMWMGM/ref=dp_olp_0?ie=UTF8&redirect=true&condition=all

EDIT : ok, I see you want a Latin only, but the Latin/English serves the same purpose.
 
Yeah, I can see how my thread title was unclear. Obviously it’s true that a Latin-English missal can be made to serve the same purpose as an all-Latin missal, but generally the Latin is crammed into one column, or the Latin text is smaller than it has to be, or the rubrics are only given in English, or some combination of undesirable attributes. A one-language missal only has to be about half the size of a two-language. And sometimes I just feel like I want to follow along with the Mass itself and not be distracted by going back and forth. (Naturally, I’m not going to pay $200 or something to indulge that desire.)

Maybe the answer is that no such thing exists because nobody would ever want it. If that’s the case, then that’s how it is, I guess. It just seems unfortunate that if you want a book to follow along with the texts of the Mass, you’re forced to have it in two languages.

PS, At Trent, that looks like a great price for an English-Latin Missal for those who want one. I wasn’t aware of that one.
 
Perhaps they exist, but I don’t recall ever seeing a strictly Latin edition in hand-missal size format. In pre-conciliar days there were altar editions in what I’ll call “chapel format” (I don’t remember the precise designation) which were about 12" l x 6" wide, which were portable. One such was published by Maison Mâme in Tours (which I think is now defunct). As I say, they were altar Missals and were beautifully printed and bound (I have one that I purchased new for a song back in 1966 when they were “closing out” their stocks). Anyway, that was about as small as I remember.
 
If you are fluent enough in Latin to understand it, why read along? Why not just listen the Mass? If you are wanting to read along with the Priest’s Latin prayers, then what’s wrong with having a Latin-English missal and just reading the Latin column?

If you want to go cheap, my advice is to get this one:

My Sunday Missal

or this:

St. Joseph’s Daily Missal
 
I have such a missal. I see them periodically in the listings of the used booksellers to which I suscribe. However, they do typically run more than the hand missals in terms of cost. The one that I have I paid $85 for–and that was in 1985!
 
Windmill said:
If you are fluent enough in Latin to understand it, why read along? Why not just listen the Mass?
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Listening and reading are two different things. Both are valuable.
If you are wanting to read along with the Priest’s Latin prayers, then what’s wrong with having a Latin-English missal and just reading the Latin column?
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Because some of us don’t want to walk around with some translations of the truth? 😉
 
Windmill said:
If you are fluent enough in Latin to understand it, why read along? Why not just listen the Mass? If you are wanting to read along with the Priest’s Latin prayers, then what’s wrong with having a Latin-English missal and just reading the Latin column?
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Well, unfortunately you can’t really very much of the Latin at a TLM. Most of it is silent, and and even for the things that are done out loud, generally I couldn’t understand what was being said even if were in English: no one’s able to make out the words of the Gradual, for instance, or the Epistle chanted towards the back wall. But then, I’ve never been a guy who could make out all the words of rap songs or whatever, so maybe some people are a lot better at that sort of thing that I.

As I said above, nothing’s wrong with having a two-language missal, but it would be nice to have one where the Latin was not relegated to one column or smaller type, without hundreds of pages of English-language devotional materials that someone thought was important, and where there was no distracting translation.
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I have such a missal. I see them periodically in the listings of the used booksellers to which I suscribe. However, they do typically run more than the hand missals in terms of cost. The one that I have I paid $85 for–and that was in 1985!
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That’s funny – it’s a public-domain text, after all. You’d think you could print it for twenty bucks.
 
MarkThompson said:
That’s funny – it’s a public-domain text, after all. You’d think you could print it for twenty bucks.
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One idea is to download a PDF file of the MR, scale it to the desired size, and print it locally. OTOH, that could end up being as expensive as buying one, what with the cost of paper, (anything other than standard letter or legal is both hard to find and rather expensive), and the prohibitive cost of ink (or toner,depending on the kind of printer), not to mention the time involved in duplexing.
 
I am jealous that you are fluent enough in Latin. I’m working on mine, but I still need the vernacular “crutch.” 😃
 
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