Why not missalettes for the TLM?

[Catholig]

Here is the “make a suggestion” page for Magnificat. Let’s all request TLM editions.

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[Jfran41]

One would have thought that it was the content of any publication that was of primary importance not its appearance.

 

[dts]

One would have thought that it was the content of any publication that was of primary importance not its appearance.

Yes. This is how most modern Americans think, including me much of the time. Everything has to be really practical fast food at a bargain price.

Contrast this view with the painstaking care that monks in the past took to create profound works of art in publishing the Scriptures. I think this is important, because we are losing a great heritage in the modern church. We just want practical ugliness served up conveniently.

 

[rtconstant]

Well, they’re tacky because they’re cheap and usually ugly. But I don’t subscribe to the current pet obsession of some that we shouldn’t be reading at Mass. Humans are actually (gasp) capable of multi-tasking and reading from a Missal while listening.

I agree with you. While I attend the Ordinaria I really wish we used the full missal. Learning to use the missal is a skill (albeit a simple one) that helps us to be active in the liturgical life of our Church. I think when you bother to learn the missal you’re more likely to keep up with readings on a daily basis and to know when feast days are and not to be “surprised” by days of obligation and such.

The liturgical calendar is a feature of The Church that unifies us and I think that taking the time to flip through at each mass take note of the subtle differences from day to day is a powerful and edifying thing.

 

[puzzleannie]

why not just purchase missals, as Catholics routinely carried before the introduction of the reformed missal. I well remember my dad’s diatribe against “missalettes” when they were introduced.

 

[Miserissima]

Oh, this is driving me practically insane…I once found a website that had all of the propers for the TLM ready to download in MS Word format…and now I can’t find it!

 

[Kielbasi]

Just like for the NO, easy to follow without the backswitching ???

Produced monthly and then pitch the old ones !!

That’s an idea that has several problems with it.

The first is that there are just a whole lot fewer Tridentine mass goers out there, so there isn’t as much of a need for them. Many Tridentine mass goers have their own hand missals already, and many of the remainder prefer to hear the mass without a missal, some engaged in the rosary or other devotions during mass.

The Tridentine mass doesn’t have a three year cycle of readings, but instead the schedule is used each year. Makes it easier to keep in a single volume, if its the 10th Sunday after Pentecost 2007, you will have the same exact gospel and epistle as the 10th Sunday after Pentecost 2006, and will have in 2008.

 

[rlg94086]

I agree. I have not been to a TLM yet, but I found a Missal (copyright 1953) in the bookshelf during adoration. It looks pretty simple to me. It was a very small book. You would only need to flip between two sections, if at all.

I say “if at all” because the Ordinary doesn’t change. How many times would you really need to read it?

Regardless, if you have to flip between two sections, I don’t see that as particularly burdensome.

EDIT ADD: Come to think of it, it is no different than the Missalettes. To follow the Mass entirely, you would need to flip back and forth in a Missalette as well.

That’s an idea that has several problems with it.

The first is that there are just a whole lot fewer Tridentine mass goers out there, so there isn’t as much of a need for them. Many Tridentine mass goers have their own hand missals already, and many of the remainder prefer to hear the mass without a missal, some engaged in the rosary or other devotions during mass.

The Tridentine mass doesn’t have a three year cycle of readings, but instead the schedule is used each year. Makes it easier to keep in a single volume, if its the 10th Sunday after Pentecost 2007, you will have the same exact gospel and epistle as the 10th Sunday after Pentecost 2006, and will have in 2008.