I found a st joseph daily missal from 1961

[pandacordova]

I found a St. Joseph daily missal with an effective date of 1961 at the thrift store. I am trying to compare it to the small disposable one I purchased for 2010 Sunday masses and I am at a total loss? Have things really changed that much? Can anyone help me make sense of what I a looking at?

 

[puzzleannie]

hang onto it, a real find, you have a pre-1962 missal (like the ones my generation got for first communion or confirmation), and yes the changes have been that great, but if you can find a TLM Mass you will love having this treasure.

 

[pandacordova]

wow and i only paid $2.49!!

 

[Lamafacaja]

hang onto it, a real find, you have a pre-1962 missal (like the ones my generation got for first communion or confirmation), and yes the changes have been that great, but if you can find a TLM Mass you will love having this treasure.

I have a couple missals that are older, a '55 and a 58, I believe. They work fine for my purposes. Do you assist at a TLM? You can use it fine for that.

 

[Monte_RCMS]

I had one of these but in all my moves, it got lost.

You are really fortunate.

 

[MIKE46]

I found a St. Joseph daily missal with an effective date of 1961 at the thrift store. I am trying to compare it to the small disposable one I purchased for 2010 Sunday masses and I am at a total loss? Have things really changed that much? Can anyone help me make sense of what I a looking at?

Yes things have changed that much although many will tell you that the changes were minimal and really affected nothing at all. The Missal that you have will be totally worthless at an Ordinary Form Mass. If you however, decide to go to a Traditional Mass, you will find it quite useful and beneficial.

Take good care of the Missal. Those from that time period are becoming more and more rare and hard to find. They are treasures that should be safeguarded and loved… They are also a constant reminder of what got thrown out in the heady atmosphere of change change change at all cost that arose during and after Vatican II. More than that they provide a link with our past. The past that the progressives and modernists wanted dead, buried and forgotten along with the Traditional Mass itself.

 

[jonpd]

Even if you don’t have the opportunity to use it at an EF Mass, you will find a number of beautiful prayers in it that are useful before and after Mass and after communion.For example the prayers after Low Mass including the prayer to St. Michael which is one of my favorites.

 

[Phillip_Rolfes]

I have a couple missals that are older, a '55 and a 58, I believe.

I can top that even. I don’t know if I still have it, but I used to have a children’s Baltimore Catechism from 1899 that had the Mass in the back. I used to sit up at night reading it and comparing the Latin and English when I was 10. I bought it at a rummage sale for $0.25 (that’s right 25 cents!). I wonder if I still have that laying around anywhere.

 

[Malleus_01]

I found a St. Joseph daily missal with an effective date of 1961 at the thrift store. I am trying to compare it to the small disposable one I purchased for 2010 Sunday masses and I am at a total loss? Have things really changed that much? Can anyone help me make sense of what I a looking at?

Malleus: Hang on to it. They are getting harder to find . I use the St Josephs as well. I have one older than that. But I use a new one I bought last year at my parish . But it is a reprinted exact replica of my older one. ( I bought 3 at 35 bucks apiece too one for my wife and one for my son - I was looking for years for one in better condition) And I was thankful because my 1950’s era Missal was distintegrating.

Now as for if “things have changed that much” - the Tridentine Latin Mass is exactly the same. It will never change and it will always be valid thanks to Pope St Pius the V (Quo Primum) and the Council of Trent.

The Indult is a little different. And the OF is completely different.

Pax

 

[puzzleannie]

Even if you don’t have the opportunity to use it at an EF Mass, you will find a number of beautiful prayers in it that are useful before and after Mass and after communion.For example the prayers after Low Mass including the prayer to St. Michael which is one of my favorites.

the EF if I understand right uses the 1962 Missal, which is somewhat different from what OP has, but is should still be useful. if only for having the Latin prayers available, and who knows, if this new translation is all that is promised, you might start seeing some more similarities. I agree the preayers and devotions in the back are valuable as well. Keep it, or we here will start a bidding war to get it from you.

 

[AmbroseSJ]

I still have my 1959 St. Joseph Missal! I had fairly well used it up by 1963 when my father had it repaired, and the cover gilt with my name. It still wears the original (and official) clear plastic cover made especially for the St. Joseph Missal. It still stirs deep memories to look at all of the beautiful color plates, and even the black and white illustrations that adorned the Proper for the Sunday Masses and many of the Saint’s feast days. It had wonderful color sections on the Rosary and the Stations of the Cross in the back. How remote those days seem today.

 

[daeve]

That’s pretty cool. My dad had a beautiful fancy one bound in white pebble leather, with gold leaf on the edges and his name embossed in gold on the front. I had a St. Andrew Missal. I don’t know what year it was printed but I got it in 3rd grade, which would have been 1959. I wonder where those are today???

I do have a Manual of Prayers, that was published by the Precious Blood Nuns in O’Fallon, MO. I have two in fact, because my sister’s is there too. I use it because I can’t remember things like that very well. Even after all these years, I have to read the Creed from the book at Mass. We chanted a lot – in English – at Mass, and all the Psalms we used were in there, along with Morning Offering, Acts of Faith, Hope & Charity, etc. On the words where you “go up” we’d put a red line above the word. When you “went down” the line was underneath. That’s fun to remember…a room chocked full of 3rd graders, diligently marking the ups and downs in our Psalms.

 

[Chatter163]

Old missals are available in plentiful supply on eBay, and are quite reasonably priced. Because of the internet, they are easier to find today than they were twenty yars ago.