How Many Of You Use A Missal or Missalette?

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in san diego diocese, we have the monthly missalette. for daily mass, i use it for the responses. the mass is engraved in my heart. for sunday mass, i let the people who know how to sing sing. i have a horrible voice. i like daily mass much better, for sunday i prefer the early, early. i love the words of the eucharistic prayers.
 
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MGEISING:
People learn differently, I am a person who is visual … there are people who aren’t. I think whatever it takes for you to be absorbed in the words, that is what is best.
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that is wisdom. we are all different. look at the sparrows. they all have different voices, different feathers…
 
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MGEISING:
People learn differently, I am a person who is visual … there are people who aren’t. I think whatever it takes for you to be absorbed in the words, that is what is best.
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I too am a visual learner and the missal helps me to concentrate better on the readings.

kaimplsI don’t use one because our parish won’t provide them and has told us not to bring them in.
I,m glad that is not my parish because I would not care if they said I could not bring mine, I’d bring it anyway. How can they forbid you from doing something that is neither sinful or against anything in any Vatican documents on the liturgy. I guess that old joke is still true What’s the difference between a liturgist and a nazi? Yo can reason with a nazi
 
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oremus:
For the New Mass, I use the Magnificat. It is a better size for me to hold. When I go to a Tridentine, I use one of those little red missalettes. I want to get a different one, though.

God bless,
oremus
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How do you follow? I keep getting lost and trying to figure out where everybody is.
 
Without reading all the other posts I will say that I don’t understand why there are missilettes. Don’t they speak the same language as the ministers celebrating the liturgy? Plus that the corporate page turning is annoying and not very prayerful.
 
I routinely use one at the Traditional Mass either St Josephs or the St Andrews version.

As for the Novus Ordo, I have the Daily Roman Missal, which gives the side by side translation Latin to English, by the Midwest Theological Forum. However, it is almost impossible to follow in the Missal due to the sheer number of options available as to prayers. I never know which ones the Prist will decide to use, and at some Masses they seem to make them up as they go along. I like the missal because even if I can’t make it to Mass I can still read along.
 
A Missalette??

Is that like a female Missal??

Sorry, I just don’t know, so I have to ask, and make a corny joke out of it in the process.
 
I do use a missal. If i go to an early mass in the morning, and the less inspirational priest is taking the sermon i find the missal very helpful for concentrating on the mass. 🙂
 
i find it rather easy using fr. stedman’s missal. it has the latin on the left and the english on the right. it follows the ordinary of the
mass and indicates by number when to refer to the part of the proper of the mass in its order. easy.
some problems arise when the biblical translation of the epistle or gospel are in conflict. some translations seem to be, shall we say, for the want of better vernacular, “sanitized.”
even, when in attendance at an “indult”, following the sacrificial rite of the roman catholic church is a snap. (alih)
 
I do (St. Joseph’s) even though my parish furnishes missalettes for Sunday services. I just like having my own, especially I’m now a lector. I also like having all of the prayers, directions, etc. as included in the missal.
 
Some priest once waggishly quipped: “Missalettes for Christianettes”. a little missal for a little christian.

I used to have an actual Missal, but during one relocation or other, it got lost. Of course, it would have been useless today… I was a snob and it was a Latin-only missal. I’ve forgotten most of my Latin anyway.

Sometimes I use the missalette to read a bunch of gospel or epistle or old testament bits. Helps to divert me from the leader of song whose voice is so high pitched that it causes pain to the auditory nerve.
 
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mosher:
Without reading all the other posts I will say that I don’t understand why there are missilettes. Don’t they speak the same language as the ministers celebrating the liturgy? Plus that the corporate page turning is annoying and not very prayerful.
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Although I clearly understand the language of the celebrants where I attend Mass, I have to use a missalette. I wasn’t raised Catholic and don’t yet have a handle on the sections of the Mass, so I need it to avoid getting lost.

Dan
 
Today I attended mass for the first time in about 20 years, and I used the Seasonal Missalette that was available. I found it a little confusing; I seem to remember that they used to issue weekly missalettes, but this was a bound book divided by sections of the mass and then the sections subdivided by dates. It took me a few minutes to figure out how I was supposed to follow along, but I finally did. Without the missalette, I would have been totally lost.
 
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ojmom:
At a general meeting that adults of the parish were invited to attend to ‘make our voices heard’ last year
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I have found, over many frustrated years, that any time that phrase is used it is either to give people a chance to vent, even tho they will be ignored; or to ID the dissenters for further neutralization, or both. This has resulted in regretable cynicism on my part, but with reason.
 
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