Where do TLM-attending Catholics get their missals?

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Fauken said:
You have to do that with an OF missal too
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Missals are almost superfluous in the OF, though, because the Mass is almost always celebrated in the venacular, so there’s not the issue of trying to keep up or wondering where we are in the Mass.

Even if a person likes to use the missal to follow along with the readings, there’s no need to flip to see the ordinary in the OF because you can just hear it and know where you’re at. (Maybe eventually some people get that way with the EF, too; I don’t know.)
 
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(Maybe eventually some people get that way with the EF, too; I don’t know.)
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People can. I can. The cues are just more visual than audible. Do I know exactly what line of Psalm 42 Father is reading? Or the Secret? No. But I don’t have to know exactly what line he’s on. I know what he’s doing. It’s just like if I went to a Spanish Mass. I don’t know Spanish, but I know the rite.
 
Keep them! Especially the St. Andrew Missal.

Although I’m Ukrainian Greek Catholic, I have the original Blessed Be God (1925 - which was reprinted by Angelus Press - Google them) and the St. Andrew Missal volume for the pre-Lenten period and Lent (up to Good Friday). I never knew the Latin Church had Presanctified until I saw this missal. (It’s only on Good Friday - which is the one day of Great Week that we DON’T have Presanctified.)
 
I possess a number of Missals containing what is now called the ‘Extraordinary Form’. However, I would have to be careful about using them at a celebration of the Mass in the Extraordinary Form. That is because Pope St. John XXIII issued a new editio typica in 1962 and it is that editio that is to be used in the celebration of the Extraordinary Form. All but one of my ‘older’ missals pre-date that editio. There are a number of publishing houses and organisations that sell the Extraordinary Form missal (1962) online as I am certain online book retailers will do. Although I have never seen an Extraordinary Form missal on sale in the Catholic book shop adjacent to our cathedral I am sure they would be able to order me one. Indeed, any book retailer should be able to order you any book that is in print.
 
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