What is the best Daily Missal to use for the Traditional Latin Mass?

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As far as the Latin-English Booklet Missal For Praying The Traditional Mass [Coaltion in Support of Ecclesia Dei] … (The thin red one), I was told that we try to maintain 60 copies minimum at my parish.

There are four or five of us regulars who gather them at the transept entrances and out of the pews after Mass. Our security guard gathers the ones brought back to were they are /were laid out near the front entrances before Mass.

Nearly all of them are being used on Sunday.

I’ve noticed a lot of regular attendees carrying their own missals.

I think we average about a hundred and sixty people in the pews on Sunday. But as far as how many of them percentage wise are using missals I can’t say.

Today, I would suppose those who attend the EF, but who were raised on the OF, do tend to use missals. Just going by younger folks I see carrying them before and after Mass.
 
You may get some glares, though, being on your phone at Mass…
 
Ah, I had not come across that sermon of St Leonard. Thanks for drawing my attention to that.

I skimmed through most of it and I’m getting ready to run down to our Adoration Chapel. After the Rosary and some prayers of reparation I usually spend the last 20 minutes or so of my hour there reading good Catholic writings. That sermon is exactly the sort of thing I like to read during that time, so that will be my reading for this evening.

Right about the time I was old enough to really start understanding what the Mass was, the NO was introduced as the norm. About 10 years ago when I started assisting the local diocese TLM, I had no choice but to use a missal to understand it.

In the missal I chose, this quote of Pope Saint Pius X is in it.

"The Holy Mass is a prayer itself, even the highest prayer that exists. It is the Sacrifice, dedicated by our Redeemer at the Cross, and repeated every day on the Altar. If you wish to hear Mass as it should be heard, you must follow with the eye, heart and mouth all that happens at the Altar. Further you must pray with the Priest the holy words said by him in the Name of Christ and which Christ says by him. You have to associate your heart with the holy feelings which are contained in these words and in this manner you ought to follow all that happens at the Altar. When acting in this way you have prayed Holy Mass. "

Using my missal has helped me achieve that which Pope Saint Pius X proposes as a means to assist Mass.

St. Leonard’s sermon and those methods he describes of assisting Mass will hopefully help bring me nearer to fuller understanding of the four ends of the Mass.

God bless
 
Thanks! Do you mind if I send you a message regarding one I found on eBay? It’s a Saint Andrew Daily Missal (1960) but I’m not sure if I should buy it or not. Pretty sure the seller is not Catholic- I asked if the propers of the day were in both Latin and English and they just replied that it seemed like it.
 
No, I don’t mind if you send me a message. I’d like to see how much they are charging for it.
 
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The link you posted is bad but I found the site.

They have this one I had not seen before. Same cover as my 1962 but a 62 page booklet form.

www.catholicfreeshipping.com

Roman Catholic Sunday Latin English Missal Booklet

Roman Catholic Sunday Missal Booklet--a Latin English Missal
www.catholicfreeshipping.com www.catholicfreeshipping.com

The full version with all the prospers has over 1,900 pages. And of course costs 10 times as much.

I got the faux leather version around 10 years ago or so for $35.
 
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When we were growing up, Byzantine Seminary Press published a little booklet entitled THE MASS: DIVINE LITURGY and it had this

_The Holy Mass [Divine Liturgy] is a prayer itself, even the highest prayer that exists. It is the Sacrifice, dedicated by our Redeemer at the Cross, and repeated every day on the Altar. If you wish to hear Mass as it should be heard, you must follow with the eye, heart and mouth all that happens at the Altar. Further you must pray with the Priest the holy words said by him in the Name of Christ and which Christ says by him. You have to associate your heart with the holy feelings which are contained in these words and in this manner you ought to follow all that happens at the Altar. When acting in this way you have prayed Holy Mass. "

On opposite pages it had a transliteration of Slavonic and English translation.

However, it had the traditional Latin Hail Mary and the Slavonic transliteration of the Byzantine - not Latin - Angelical Salutation. Two different prayers on opposite pages. This is the Byzantine version in English:

Rejoice, Godbearer Virgin [full of grace], the Lord is with Thee; blessed art thou amongst women and blessed is the fruit of Thy womb, for Thou hast given birth to Christ, the Savior and Deliverer of our souls.

Bohorodytse Digo, radujsja, [blahodatnaya], obradovannaya Marie, Hospod c Toboyu; blahoslovenna Ti v zhenakh I blahosloven plod chreva Tvoyeho, yako rodila yesi Khrista Spasa, izbavitelya dusham nashim.

Yet the Latin Hail Mary was opposite the above Slavonic transliteration. (This was printed in 1965.) Now they have the proper Byzantine Angelical Salutation.
 
Yes, that’s the Pope Saint Pius X instruction on praying the Mass or DL frequently quoted.

This…
“Rejoice, Godbearer Virgin [full of grace], the Lord is with Thee; blessed art thou amongst women and blessed is the fruit of Thy womb, for Thou hast given birth to Christ, the Savior and Deliverer of our souls.”

I like that version 🙂
 
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