Questions about Daily Mass readings in 1962 missal

[Stavros]

I’ve been going to weekday mass at my FSSP parish, but figuring out the daily mass now that Lent is over is a real struggle some days. Here are my questions:

1. I can usually find the saint of the day in the missal, but last week (or maybe the week before) the monday was “Feria”. What does that mean?
2. What’s the difference between a saint described as a “Priest” and a saint that’s described as a “Confessor”? I thought priests were confessors.
3. This Saturday’s feast is “Saturday of Our Lady”. Which reading would that be?
4. What do the numbers of the feast class mean?

I have both the Angelus and the Baronius missals, so explantions for either would work.

Also, does anyone have a cheat sheat list for postures during Low Mass? I had one that came with my Baronius missal and promptly lost it.

 

[Chatter163]

I’ve been going to weekday mass at my FSSP parish, but figuring out the daily mass now that Lent is over is a real struggle some days. Here are my questions:

1. I can usually find the saint of the day in the missal, but last week (or maybe the week before) the monday was “Feria”. What does that mean?
2. What’s the difference between a saint described as a “Priest” and a saint that’s described as a “Confessor”? I thought priests were confessors.
3. This Saturday’s feast is “Saturday of Our Lady”. Which reading would that be?
4. What do the numbers of the feast class mean?

I have both the Angelus and the Baronius missals, so explantions for either would work.

Also, does anyone have a cheat sheat list for postures during Low Mass? I had one that came with my Baronius missal and promptly lost it.

1. Feria means weekday. If there is no feast or saint, then the priest would repeat the Mass of the Sunday, or celebrate a votive Mass for a particular purpose.
2. In the context of the liturgical context, confessor means someone who confessed the faith. In a pracical context, it refers to a male saint who was not a bishop, martyr and may or may not have been a doctor of the Church. It is a sort of “none of the above” designation.
3. Saturdays of the year that are not feast or saints’ days, similar to the weekday ferias, are dedicated to Our Lady. Hence the missal gives a set of Saturday Masses of Our Lady, which vary by the season of the year.
4. First class feasts are the highest feasts, corresponding to today’s solemnities in the 1970 missal. Second class feasts are akin to today’s feasts, and third class feasts, the lowest rank, are like memorials. (Some might say that ferias with commemorations are like optional memorials, but that’s another topic.)

 

[Stavros]

1. Saturdays of the year that are not feast or saints’ days, similar to the weekday ferias, are dedicated to Our Lady. Hence the missal gives a set of Saturday Masses of Our Lady, which vary by the season of the year.

Ah, the seasons of the year must have been what tripped me up. For Eastertide, which mass would it be? I must have looked at the wrong mass, because I was listening tot he preist and thinking, “I am so not looking at the same thing as him.”

 

[Chatter163]

Ah, the seasons of the year must have been what tripped me up. For Eastertide, which mass would it be? I must have looked at the wrong mass, because I was listening tot he preist and thinking, “I am so not looking at the same thing as him.”

In your missal, at the end of the Common of Saints section, there is a series of Masses listed as “Saturday Masses of the BVM,” or “Masses of Our Lady on Saturday,” or “Common of the BVM,” or similar. Under that section you will see the Saturday Mass for Our Lady during Eastertide, which is Salve, Sancta Parens.

 

[TrueLight]

In the Roman Catholic Missal (Angelus Press), what does it mean when some days have no Gospel.?

For example, I didn’t see a Gospel reading for May 13 (St Rorbert Bellarmine).

Thanks.

 

[wsxyz]

In the Roman Catholic Missal (Angelus Press), what does it mean when some days have no Gospel.?

For example, I didn’t see a Gospel reading for May 13 (St Rorbert Bellarmine).

Thanks.

Notice at the beginning of the page, the missal states “In medio of a Doctor, p.979, except:”

So, the Mass for May 13 is the Mass in medio of a Doctor, found on p. 979, except that certain propers are replaced with propers specific to the Mass of St. Robert Bellamine.

Therefore the gospel for the day is Mt, 5:13-19, found on p. 981.

 

[TrueLight]

Notice at the beginning of the page, the missal states “In medio of a Doctor, p.979, except:”

So, the Mass for May 13 is the Mass in medio of a Doctor, found on p. 979, except that certain propers are replaced with propers specific to the Mass of St. Robert Bellamine.

Therefore the gospel for the day is Mt, 5:13-19, found on p. 981.

Ah, I see. Thank you!

 

[Bbigam]

1. Feria means weekday. If there is no feast or saint, then the priest would repeat the Mass of the Sunday, or celebrate a votive Mass for a particular purpose.

There are a few times of the year that feria have their own proper readings and prayers. Every single day of Lent has full propers. The others are the octaves of Easter and Pentecost, and the Ember Days. But otherwise, yeah, the feria is the Mass of the previous Sunday, minus the Gloria and Credo (the Gloria is retained in the Easter season).

1. In the context of the liturgical context, confessor means someone who confessed the faith. In a pracical context, it refers to a male saint who was not a bishop, martyr and may or may not have been a doctor of the Church. It is a sort of “none of the above” designation.

Another way to say this is that the “Confessor” designation is akin to using the generic “Common of Holy Men” in the modern liturgy.