Old missals

[Ghoti]

Hi, all.

Didn’t know whether to post this here or over at Traditional Catholicism, but here it goes.

I recently purchased two missals at a used bookstore. I’m wondering if they can still be used at Mass.

The first one is the Cathedral Daily Missal, “The Roman Missal adapted to everyday life…in conformity with the new Decree on the Rubrics of the Missal and the Ordinationes ad Librorum Liturgicorum Editores, issued by the Sacred Congregation of Rites, January 1, 1961”.

Published in 1961. It’s side-by-each Latin and English, looks like the EF (as I’ve seen it described). But it also looks very “V-II”: the illustrations of priestly garb show, for example, a chasuble that’s plain red, with a black Greek-key design running down the front, with two plain crosses in black to either side.

The second is a Saint Joseph Continuous Sunday Missal. Published 1957. All in English (!). Since this was published before Bl. JXXIII became Pope, how come it’s not Latin/English?

Anyway, are these Missals useful (Mass-wise)? Or should I just keep them as historical documents-cum-prayerbooks?

Thanks, all.

 

[AJV]

Hi, all.

Didn’t know whether to post this here or over at Traditional Catholicism, but here it goes.

I recently purchased two missals at a used bookstore. I’m wondering if they can still be used at Mass.

The first one is the Cathedral Daily Missal, “The Roman Missal adapted to everyday life…in conformity with the new Decree on the Rubrics of the Missal and the Ordinationes ad Librorum Liturgicorum Editores, issued by the Sacred Congregation of Rites, January 1, 1961”.

Published in 1961. It’s side-by-each Latin and English, looks like the EF (as I’ve seen it described). But it also looks very “V-II”: the illustrations of priestly garb show, for example, a chasuble that’s plain red, with a black Greek-key design running down the front, with two plain crosses in black to either side.

The second is a Saint Joseph Continuous Sunday Missal. Published 1957. All in English (!). Since this was published before Bl. JXXIII became Pope, how come it’s not Latin/English?

Anyway, are these Missals useful (Mass-wise)? Or should I just keep them as historical documents-cum-prayerbooks?

Thanks, all.

They would not help you in following along with the Mass unless you were attending a Traditional Mass.
Not all hand missals were Latin-English. Some merely printed a part or the whole of the Proper texts, in English. The idea (aside from saving space) was that you would know approximately which part the priest was on, and read that.

 

[palmas85]

The Pauline Rite had not as yet been promulgated when these two Missals were published. Neither would be useful in the Pauline Rite. Both could be used if you attend a Traditional Mass however.

The continuous Missals were useful in that you didn’t have to flip back and forth in order to use them. They were in English so that the people could use them easily and know what was going on.

The biggest lies perpetrated by the anti Traditionalit crowd are no one knew what the prayers meant, no body knew what was going on and everyone was reduced to praying their rosaries as a result.

The continuous Missals prove that was not the case and that the only people who didn’t know what was going on were probably the ones who weren’t interested in knowing in the first place.