Vatican publishing house

[orgel_maestro]

Just curious. I looked on the Vatican publishing house website, they have a catalogue and I checked for their latin publications, but they only have historical copies of the Roman Missal of like Pius V and his breviary.

After all this motu proprio and latin mass revival, why doesn’t the Vatican take charge and start reprinting the 1962 missal with the updated prayers for the new saints and the roman breviary and roman ritual.

All these books are soo hard to find. The newly republished ones have errata and the covers are plain, and there are no beautiful traditional illustrations on the inside, or they’re really cheap quality. There are a few ok ones, but definitely hard to find and expensive.

I bring this up because I purchased a Roman breviary from Preserving Christian Publications about a year before the Motu Proprio, and it is hardcover. The leather or faux-leather with gold embossed and the bible like pages would’ve been nice. THe hard cover and the binding makes it hard to keep the breviary open and its obvious that the leather cover and sewn binding will last much longer.

But, the main point of the above story is that upon further inspection my priest noted that the “imprimatur” was missing. Basically I had bought a copied version of the FSSP-requested reprint of the 1962 Roman breviary which orginally had the permission from the bishop of Scranton with the imprimatur.

Not only does it not have the impimatur, its kinda of mediocre quality and full of errors.

So, does anyone know if the Vatikan publications are going to take over printing these liturgical books?

I’ve always felt it weird that private companies should profit from selling liturgical books (not little hand missals). I mean, like official liturgical church books like the breviary and altar missal. I also think its weird that people are profiting from the selling of church furnishing and sacred vessels they took from old churches. IMHO the dioceses should take them all back to be used only by the Church and should not need to charge.

But, back to the original question. Please, comments, questions or concerns

 

[benedictgal]

It would be a ginormous task, especially since the publishing house would have to publish the 1962 Missal in every language. That is why it leaves it to the individual publishing houses in the various countries to handle. Remember, this isn’t Doubleday or Randam House where they have a huge array of equipment to do this. Compared to these mega-publishers, this is a liturgical mom-and-pop organization.

EWTN and Aquinas Books carry the 1962 Missal. I think Ignatius Press and the Catholic Leaflet Company also carry the missal as well. I would try those. Of course, if worse comes to worse, there is always evilbay, I mean, Ebay.

 

[orgel_maestro]

It would be a ginormous task, especially since the publishing house would have to publish the 1962 Missal in every language. That is why it leaves it to the individual publishing houses in the various countries to handle. Remember, this isn’t Doubleday or Randam House where they have a huge array of equipment to do this. Compared to these mega-publishers, this is a liturgical mom-and-pop organization.

EWTN and Aquinas Books carry the 1962 Missal. I think Ignatius Press and the Catholic Leaflet Company also carry the missal as well. I would try those. Of course, if worse comes to worse, there is always evilbay, I mean, Ebay.

No, no…I meant just the altar missals (which is entirely in Latin). What prompted my question into this was when I found out my Breviary had simply been a duplicated of the original authorized version, i.e. mine lacked the “imprimatur” approval from the bishop

I don’t like the idea of private companies, especially now when there is such demand for the reprint of these texts to just simply photocopy and bind and sell, there should be a high standard which would require a seal or something from the Vatican after having edited and proofreading it