What Hand Missal WIll You Be Purchasing?

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Anathama_Sit said:
Greetings Alwayslooking,

Thanks for posting this link. Do you happen to know how much the Large-Print Daily Roman Missals will be selling for? I could not find a price on Amazon.com.

God Bless you.
Anathama Sit
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I can’t find that MTF is making a large print version. This is pricing and version information from the MTF website.

The prices are a bit high, but Amazon and other online retailers have significant discounts.

GENUINE LEATHER, Black
4.75” x 6.75”
ISBN: 978-1-936045-600
$95.00 USD

BONDED LEATHER, Burgundy
4.75” x 6.75”
ISBN: 978-1-936045-594
$75.00 USD

BONDED LEATHER, Black
4.75” x 6.75”
ISBN: 978-1-936045-587
$75.00 USD

HARDCOVER, Burgundy
4.75” x 6.75”
ISBN: 978-1-936045-570
$60.00 USD

HARDCOVER, Black
4.75” x 6.75”
ISBN: 978-1-936045-563
$60.00 USD
 
alwayslooking said:
I can’t find that MTF is making a large print version. This is pricing and version information from the MTF website.

The prices are a bit high, but Amazon and other online retailers have significant discounts.

GENUINE LEATHER, Black
4.75” x 6.75”
ISBN: 978-1-936045-600
$95.00 USD

BONDED LEATHER, Burgundy
4.75” x 6.75”
ISBN: 978-1-936045-594
$75.00 USD

BONDED LEATHER, Black
4.75” x 6.75”
ISBN: 978-1-936045-587
$75.00 USD

HARDCOVER, Burgundy
4.75” x 6.75”
ISBN: 978-1-936045-570
$60.00 USD

HARDCOVER, Black
4.75” x 6.75”
ISBN: 978-1-936045-563
$60.00 USD
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Greetings Alwayslooking,

Thanks for providing the prices. It is just that the Missal has always been available in Large Print. I have gotten the Large Prints every time this Missal has been printed from this company.

I think perhaps it is the first price you quoted. The large print Missal has always cost me around One Hundred Dollars.

Do you mind providing the link to the website so that I might contact them? Thank you.

God Bless.
Anathama Sit
 
I just preordered from Midwest Theological Forum.

They said they would be shipping Nov 21.

-Tim-
 
I’m somewhat surprised with this discussion. We currently have missalettes in the pews and that will continue with the new translation. I have never seen anyone using a personal missal,only missalettes but most currently know the responses by heart… as it should be. Is reading from personal missals a result of the extraordinary form? We will also have cards with the new responses in the pews. It shouldn’t take too long to reach the goal of memorization. Our eyes and attention should be on the action taking place, not buried in a book (once the new responses are learned). Full,conscious and active participation is still the goal of the reformed liturgy.
 
Anna_Claire said:
I’m somewhat surprised with this discussion. We currently have missalettes in the pews and that will continue with the new translation. I have never seen anyone using a personal missal,only missalettes but most currently know the responses by heart… as it should be. Is reading from personal missals a result of the extraordinary form? We will also have cards with the new responses in the pews. It shouldn’t take too long to reach the goal of memorization. Our eyes and attention should be on the action taking place, not buried in a book (once the new responses are learned). Full,conscious and active participation is still the goal of the reformed liturgy.
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Missalettes don’t contain the daily readings, the various Prefaces, commons, etc.
 
We are suppose to listen as the readings are proclaimed. "“When the scriptures are read in the Church, God himself is speaking to his people, and Christ, present in his own word, is proclaiming the Gospel.” (GIRM 9)

If you truly believe that Christ is present…you don’t read…you listen attentively!
 
Anna_Claire said:
We are suppose to listen as the readings are proclaimed. "“When the scriptures are read in the Church, God himself is speaking to his people, and Christ, present in his own word, is proclaiming the Gospel.” (GIRM 9)

If you truly believe that Christ is present…you don’t read…you listen attentively!
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If that is the way you like to worship that is great. I perfer to follow along in my Missal.
 
Anna_Claire said:
We are suppose to listen as the readings are proclaimed. "“When the scriptures are read in the Church, God himself is speaking to his people, and Christ, present in his own word, is proclaiming the Gospel.” (GIRM 9)

If you truly believe that Christ is present…you don’t read…you listen attentively!
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Using more than one of our senses makes the message more clear and stays with you longer. I can follow along while it is read., I can also walk and chew gum at the same time.🙂
 
mary_bobo said:
Using more than one of our senses makes the message more clear and stays with you longer. I can follow along while it is read., I can also walk and chew gum at the same time.🙂
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Hopefully not at Mass!😃
 
Anna_Claire said:
I’m somewhat surprised with this discussion. We currently have missalettes in the pews and that will continue with the new translation. I have never seen anyone using a personal missal,only missalettes but most currently know the responses by heart… as it should be. Is reading from personal missals a result of the extraordinary form? We will also have cards with the new responses in the pews. It shouldn’t take too long to reach the goal of memorization. Our eyes and attention should be on the action taking place, not buried in a book (once the new responses are learned). Full,conscious and active participation is still the goal of the reformed liturgy.
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The missalettes do not contain readings for the daily Mass. I also like to reflect on the readings for the next day’s Mass the evening before.

Many missals contain prayer books, small catechisms, reflections on the readings, calendars, preparations for Mass, Lauds, Vespers & Compline, guides for confession, various rites other than Mass that may not be committed to memory, or other useful printed material for Christians.

I believe that every Catholic Christian should own a personal missal. It should be a daily tool. I carry mine everywhere.
 
Anna_Claire said:
I’m somewhat surprised with this discussion. We currently have missalettes in the pews and that will continue with the new translation. I have never seen anyone using a personal missal,only missalettes but most currently know the responses by heart… as it should be. Is reading from personal missals a result of the extraordinary form? We will also have cards with the new responses in the pews. It shouldn’t take too long to reach the goal of memorization. Our eyes and attention should be on the action taking place, not buried in a book (once the new responses are learned). Full,conscious and active participation is still the goal of the reformed liturgy.
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A hand missal is not just about the readings and responses. As alwayslooking has stated, they are a great resource with more than just the readings and responses.

For those new to the faith, a Missal is a great way to understand what to do and why. Many contain the rubrics for the laity, saying things like “Here make the sign of the cross” and “Here bow”. Hardly anyone bows at the “By the power of the Holy Spirit, he was born of the Virgin Mary…” in the creed but I noticed that everyone with a missal bows. I would think anyone concerned with litugical abuses by both the clergy and the laity would want to have a reference point and the missal is, to a certain extent, a guide to liturgical correctness.

I realize that some don’t like hand missals but I also believe that many who have not used one do not know what they are missing. My level of active participation in the Mass has increased and understanding of the Mass has deepened through using a missal.

Case in point… I gave a St. Joe’s Sunday Missal to a friend as a gift. He was a lukewarm former Methodist who basically converted to Catholicism so that he could marry a Catholic. After 12 years of going to Mass, and starting to use a missal just this year, he is coming to understand the Mass in particular and our faith in general in an amazing way. “I always wondered why the priests do that” and such comments are quite common. For him, the missal is a great grace.

-Tim-
 
She just prefers to watch & listen. Nothing wrong with that.
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just meant that that she, anna, must be unaware that there are a great many people out there like myself who prefer to bring their own missal, makes it more personal.

wick
 
There are some people who are hearing impaired, and for them particularly, a personal missal is a great tool. They’re also very practical for churches with bad acoustics, lectors who mangle the pronunciation of foreign words such as names of people and places, and a number of crying babies or loud toddlers. I recall when people did have personal missals in good numbers, and yes, it was pre and circa Vatican II.

Not being able to get Mom’s old St. Paul missal away from her when I started attending the extraordinary form once in awhile, I bought my own Baronius missal. I liked being able to read the readings in the English translation. That’s when I got my current set of St. Joseph missals, since I attend weekday Mass a couple of times during the course of the week. Nothing is wrong with my hearing, but when I follow along in my missal, I notice more nuances of the readings then when I just listen.

Through the ages people listened to the Word proclaimed because many of them could not read. Most of our society is literate. Plus, most of us can read and look up to watch as well from time to time during the course of the reading.

Nothing wrong with either preference, it seems to me.
 
Anna_Claire said:
We are suppose to listen as the readings are proclaimed. "“When the scriptures are read in the Church, God himself is speaking to his people, and Christ, present in his own word, is proclaiming the Gospel.” (GIRM 9)

If you truly believe that Christ is present…you don’t read…you listen attentively!
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Are you using the “Since Christ didn’t write anything, we shouldn’t read” argument? I’m not sure I agree with that. With all the proper names in the readings and homophones in the English language, it definitely helps to follow along with a missal. On the new TV’s they now have the captions available and I suggest you turn them on for yourself. You’d be surprised how much you miss by just listening to the words. Just saying.
 
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