How to use Angelus Press 1962 Daily Roman Missal?

[Crusading_Canuk]

Hi, my parents recently got me a Daily Roman Missal from Angelus Press. I love it and pray with it regularly but I have no idea where to set the book marks for Mass. Could somebody please give me an idea of how to use the missal?

*note for clarification, although I do not get to attend it as much as I would like I am not new to the Tridentine Mass, I just use the missalettes St. Pius X parish provides.

 

[laszlo]

For any missal you need five ribbons.

• one for the beginning of the Ordinary, (usually after the proper of season or breaking it) which goes forward during the Mass
• one for the proper of season (usually at the beginning) which goes forward during the year. Now is the week of Septuagesima Sunday. For the lent there are differenr daily masses otherwise usually just for Sundays
• one for the proper of Saints, which also goes forward during the year, accordind to the Calendar date.
• one for the common of Saints, which is referenced by the proper of Saint, so have to set for each day
• one for the local (US) saints

To prepare for a mass you make a decision if the universal or the local saint is used, and if the saint of the season governs the mass. The thumb rule is that is the saint is no commemoration only (3rd class or higher) than the saint governs the mass, otherwise except for Sundays or seasonal feast there is choice between the ferial (previous Sunday) saint or votive mass. For Lent always (except St Joseph and Annuntiation) the seasonal mass is celebrated.

You follow the Mass from the Ordinary (like in the booklet) and when proper is referenced turn to the proper of saint or season, from the saints office sometimes to the common of saint, then again turn back to the ordinary.

It is easier to do than to describe.

If you need sample I have an online ‘turnkey’ (dynamic) representation:

divinumofficium.com/cgi-bin/missa/missa.pl

Go to the bottom and click on the propers to see the variable parts for the given day. Click on the Kalendar link at the top see the monthly calendar.

 

[odile53]

You really can set the bookmarks anywhere you like, but I set one for the “Ordinary,” and then one for each place where I would have to make a major page turn, to avoid having to flip through during the course of Mass. Although mine are colored with liturgical colors, I don’t particularly “color code” various parts of the Mass. I just insert whichever marker ribbon is attached nearest the page I will need to turn to.

What a great present, by the way! Right now, I’m just borrowing Mom’s old St. Paul Daily Missal, which is older than I am! Part of the reason I don’t “color code” anything is that the ribbons are faded to a nondescript bronzy color from where they have been exposed to the air for the past forty or so years. The parts of ribbon that have been inside the Missal are still the original red, green, etc.