Inventive Ideas for getting pre-V2 Missals

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I was just remembering this while reading a PM someone sent me about pre-V2 missals.

I’ve always been a big fan of thrift and second-hand shops, and I remember back in the 1970s, finding LOADS of pre-V2 missals and music books in them…I guess with the new mass just coming into vogue at that time, people were dumping the pre-V2 ones.

As a musician, I’m always on the lookout for music, and I remember picking up a St Gregory’s Hymnal (which, I think, was the pre-V2 Catholic songbook.)

The pickings will surely be fewer and further between these days, but you never know! Why not check out thrift shops, in their book section, for old missals? Sure beats paying 40 bucks for a reprinted one, eh?
 
There’s a huge book-sell put on by our local college every year. It’s awesome; hardcovers for two dollars, softbacks for one. To date I’ve gotten two St. Joseph Daily Missals, a St. Joseph Sunday Countinous Missal, a St. Andrew’s BIble Missal (Novus Ordo Rite), plus a ton of spiritual books like a Daily Bread from 1957, a book containing an anlysis of all the different denominations back in the forties, a Catholic Children’s Bible (for my kids someday, God willing), and tons of books like “What does the Church Teach” or “the young adult’s guide to being Catholic!”

I love finding Old Missals best though. You push aside the books and find a small, thick black book and inside there are messages like “To my Goddaughter Anna, on her Confirmation, may the Holy Spirit guide and protect you always. You are in my prayers” or just “this Missal belongs to 'Judith Hannock” or something. The section containing the Cannon is all dog eared and brown while the rest is still relatively red. The ribbons are all frayed. Old books are great.
 
Rawb said:
There’s a huge book-sell put on by our local college every year. It’s awesome; hardcovers for two dollars, softbacks for one. To date I’ve gotten two St. Joseph Daily Missals, a St. Joseph Sunday Countinous Missal, a St. Andrew’s BIble Missal (Novus Ordo Rite), plus a ton of spiritual books like a Daily Bread from 1957, a book containing an anlysis of all the different denominations back in the forties, a Catholic Children’s Bible (for my kids someday, God willing), and tons of books like “What does the Church Teach” or “the young adult’s guide to being Catholic!”

I love finding Old Missals best though. You push aside the books and find a small, thick black book and inside there are messages like “To my Goddaughter Anna, on her Confirmation, may the Holy Spirit guide and protect you always. You are in my prayers” or just “this Missal belongs to 'Judith Hannock” or something. The section containing the Cannon is all dog eared and brown while the rest is still relatively red. The ribbons are all frayed. Old books are great.
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Just for the heck of it, I went to one of my favorite old book sites…alibris.com and found a whole slew of old pre-V2 missals, just by typing in “tridentine missals”! So that’s another option, too.
 
duskyjewel said:
Why is there a need for inventive? I get catalogs advertising these missals all the time! Here are some links:

catholiccompany.com/catholic-catalog/478/Missals/

ignatius.com/ViewProduct.aspx?SID=1&Product_ID=3310&SKU=OM-P&ReturnURL=search.aspx%3f%3fSID%3d1%26SearchCriteria%3dmissal

I meant as a way of getting them without spending a lot of money. The reprinted ones seem to be very costly.

allcatholicbooks.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=ACB&Category_Code=TD
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Ah… yes some of them are very expensive. I can second alibris… I have gotten some good deals there.

I searched “latin missal” on eBay and found some. You might try half.com as well.
 
A St. Vincent de Paul thrift store is relatively nearby, and I go in every once in a while looking for old Catholic books. I did find a nice 1957 St. Joseph Sunday Missal. It has some color pages and large print.

Maybe my best find is a little book called Extensionist Manual. I can’t find a copyright date, but the table of movable feasts goes from 1931 to 1946. The book is wonderful; its full of various devotions and does have the ordinary of the mass and the Sunday/Holy Day propers. And when I say its little, I mean LITTLE…the book is about 3" x 4".
 
In college I had the idea to send a form letter to every priest in the diocese offering cash for old and “outdated” pre-VII books. I think a combination of laziness ( I was in college) and a slight feeling that it was like war profiteering kept me from doing it. 🙂
 
deigloriam said:
In college I had the idea to send a form letter to every priest in the diocese offering cash for old and “outdated” pre-VII books. I think a combination of laziness ( I was in college) and a slight feeling that it was like war profiteering kept me from doing it. 🙂
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Many might have paid you to haul them away…
 
I have a Marian’s Children’s Missal that was my father’s and a new one cost 12.95 today. Very nice illustration and dialog. You can find one on any catholic bookstore site that has traditional books such as aquasandmore.com
 
I find it incredible that the OP was authored by a Jewish person.

Anyways, I hope you will find the following link helpful:
pcpbooks.com/
 
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