How Many Of You Use A Missal or Missalette?

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coeyannie said:
:confused: Maybe this is the wrong forum, but I do use the Roman Daily Missal. In ordinary time where do you find the preface that is read at daily Mass. It starts out with, what I still call, the Epistle, unless it is feast day. Does anyone know what preface the priest is using. Also, some days, a Gospel is read and it is not even close to what is in my missal for that particular day. Anyone?/Q
most missals are divided into three sections for the cycle of the year. we are in cycle c now. Could this possibly by he problem?
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Fidelis:
How many people here use missals or missalettes? Do you think they are helpful, unhelpful, or neither?
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UMM… i don’t follow in the missal because i prefer to listen to the readings rather than follow, i tend to *intake *most of his word when i listen. I’m the team captain of the altar servers at my parish and am training them to listen to the word and to listen period. lol:rotfl:
Unless you are deaf, i advice you to *listen *to the word not follow in the missal.😃 😉
 
I no not use the pulp “missalette” in the pews at the cathedral in Santa Fe because it seems that the service is almost entirely invented, and the little that is actually in the pathetic document is not worth digging out. O.t.o.h., I do bring the full NOM missal (Latin on the left, English on the right) and use it for quiet prayer when the chaos of hand-holding, hand-shaking and English/Spanish equal opportunity hymnody permit. So my answer is “no” and “yes, but.”
 
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BrianDay:
I only use one for the responsorial psalm(s).
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Me, too. But only when for the life of me I can’t figure out what the words are in the responsorial psalm from the way the cantor is singing it.

Yes… very qualified and even talented singer to lead us in the Responsorial Psalm. But a little DICTION would be nice…

:o
 
Reflection:
St Joseph’s Missal for reflection at home (occasionally)

Recollection:
Missalette - for recollection before Mass read the scripture for the Mass just prior to Mass

During Mass:

Use Missalette for Creed and Gloria and Responsorial Psalms
 
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BrianDay:
I only use one for the responsorial psalm(s).
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Ditto. Although I do read the little “story” of the day before Mass. Sometimes use it for prayers after Communion to keep my mind on prayer, and not on the people still receiving.
 
I find them most helpful for following along with the readings when the lector is not speaking very loud, or in buildings with poor acoustics. And I have to admit that on some days I’m not as focused as I should be, so being able to read along during the readings helps me pay closer attention.
 
I don’t use one. But I do try to prepare for Mass the night before during my holy hour of adoration by reading the readings in my Magnificat. This is the BEST investment anyone could ever make! Check out their website: www.magnificat.net You can request a free copy to try them out! 👍
 
I only use it before Mass, if I don’t have a chance to go over the readings of the day or during Mass for the hymns. Personally,
I like hearing the Word proclaimed and not reading along.

I did not vote in the poll, since I don’t use it during Mass.

Peace…
 
I don’t use one because our parish won’t provide them and has told us not to bring them in. (My husband thinks this is because they don’t want people to know just how much of the Mass they are changing and omitting. 😦 ) I understand the reasoning that the readings are meant to be proclaimed and “heard”, but I’m also one who really needs the print in front of me to focus and retain. I also think it helps the kids to learn the prayers of the Mass. We’re getting a new pastor next week though, so we’ll see what changes he brings…
 
I find using a missel very helpful , for three reasons:
  1. I find it helpful to read the redings, and prayers, ahead of time, it helps me to understand them better, and to meditate on them. :hmmm:
  2. Often the readers make important mistakes which change the meaning of the text. :confused:
  3. My mind tends to drift and reading along with the reader, helps me to keep my concentration on what I am suspossed to. :sleep:
I also know many others, who can’t hear the reader, because of poor hearing, and they would be lost without the books.

AMDG :blessyou:
 
Since I posted this poll, I guess I should throw my two cents in too. I always bring my own missal to Mass, the little Millenium edition published by the Daughters of St Paul. I used to use the St Joseph ones, but the commentary kind of grated on me as being too PC.

Our parish does not provide missalettes (and I’m shocked that a priest would actually forbid it!), but many people I see at Mass bring their own, be it the St Josephs, the paper one’s available at our parish bookstore, the Magnificat, or whatever.

I find it helpful for several reasons:

1. I am a very visual and hands on person. I like to see the words and imprint them on my mind and heart. Also, frankly, I actually like the feel of having a nice, beautifully printed and bound book in my hand. Call me a bibliophile.
2. My parish is better than others in this regard, but occasionally we do have readers that mangle the readings (I’ve heard some doozies that change the meaning of the whole passage), priests that mis-state the prayers, and sung responsorial Psalms that are not the prescribed ones and may have no relation to the other readings. Perhaps everyone should read the readings ahead of time or after Mass. The reality is most people don’t (although I do, since I prepare a pretty in-depth Bible study on the Sunday readings every week). As a result, whatever they hear at Mass, proclaimed properly at not, is what they take away from it.
3. It helps me focus better and participate more fully. By following along in my missal I’m not looking idly around and making judgments on the dress or posture or level of participation of others in the congregation. In a perfect world I would have perfect concentration and would not be tempted to look around and idly judge others. It isn’t and I don’t. Thank God for missals.
 
I use it when I can’t hear the lector or priest very well.

I also like my Missal as it has many traditional Catholic prayers for before and after Mass within it.
 
I use one — Magnificat, the best missalette in the world — but never in church during Mass. The missalette is for preparing for Mass and studying the readings before Mass.

karen marie
 
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ojmom:
I don’t use one because our parish won’t provide them and has told us not to bring them in.
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Wow! Missals and missalettes are forbidden?? Now I’ve heard everything. Would the ushers show you the door if you brought one in?

JimG
 
Melman:
Says who? (he said as delicately as he could)
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Says karen marie, because that is how a missal functions in my Catholic life. I’m exceedingly more likely to have my Liturgy of Hours book with me at Mass than my Magnificat, since I’m in the habit of praying Morning Prayer in the Chapel of Reservation before Mass on Sunday.

During Mass, I use the Order of Worship the ushers distribute at the door, which has the service music settings, hymnal numbers, responsorial response music, and music for any hymns not in the hymnal. I don’t need it ---- my hearing is good ---- but there are copies of the readings, in large print, also available at the entrances for the hard-of-hearing, those who like to follow along, and those who wait to study the readings until after Mass.

I find it much more fruitful to pray the Mass if I prepare ahead of time. I was taught in my childhood that one of the many good and distinctive things about being Catholic is that we pray before we pray, to get ready, and we pray after we pray, to give thanks. Then I can put all my effort into paying attention to my bishop’s homily, and into worship, and not into reading out of the book.

Your mileage may vary…

karen marie
 
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kmknapp:
Says karen marie
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I see; thanks for clarifying. In my area, some parishes are removing missalettes or encouraging people not to use them - arguing that because the liturgical documents tell us to “listen”, that forbids reading along. I thought perhaps you’d been “told” something like that too.
 
I use my St Joseph’s Missal and my kids each have a small book called My First Missal. We can all follow along, but I put mine down during Eucharist so that I can help the boys follow along and learn.

Michaela
 
Studies show that what you read and hear you learn and know better than that which you merely hear. God bless.
 
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