Will these missals work for Tridentine Mass?

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My husband and I just moved to a new part of the country and we are excited to realize there is a nearby Mass in the Extraordinary form.

I have a couple of missals we have kept for sentimental reasons and I’m trying to find out if we can use those. Everything I am reading says we should use a 1962 missal but these are older than that.

I have a St. Joseph Daily Missal published in 1959.
I also have a Marian Missal. I couldn’t find the date of publication but the Imprimatur is dated 1957. (This missal was my late mother’s, so I would love to use it.)

Does anyone know if these would work? The two missals follow each other well with slight variations in translations.

I also remember my father explaining to me the readings are on a three-year cycle. That doesn’t seem to be the case with these two missals. Is that just for the Novus Ordo mass? He told me that as a child so I can’t remember the context.

Thank you for any help or insight you can provide. We are a bit nervous as this is a whole new format.
 
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Hello!

My husband and I just moved to a new part of the country and we are excited to realize there is a nearby Mass in the Extraordinary form.

I have a couple of missals we have kept for sentimental reasons and I’m trying to find out if we can use those. Everything I am reading says we should use a 1962 missal but these are older than that.

I have a St. Joseph Daily Missal published in 1959.
I also have a Marian Missal. I couldn’t find the date of publication but the Imprimatur is dated 1957. (This missal was my late mother’s, so I would love to use it.)

Does anyone know if these would work? The two missals follow each other well with slight variations in translations.

I also remember my father explaining to me the readings are on a three-year cycle. That doesn’t seem to be the case with these two missals. Is that just for the Novus Ordo mass? He told me that as a child so I can’t remember the context.

Thank you for any help or insight you can provide. We are a bit nervous as this is a whole new format.
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Hello,

Those will be fine. The differences between those and the 1962 version will be difficult to notice (although there were some changes). I also have a “Marian Missal” that is pre-1962. That’s what I use.

As for the readings, yes, the three year cycle does not apply.

Dan
 
It would be okay if you wish to follow the propers in English only. (Difficult to follow if the propers are chanted in Latin.)

The ordinary of Mass, however, is in Latin-English side-by-side in an elegant format.

I use the 1962 handmissal put out by Angelus Press, although I also use the St. Andrews and Father Lasance handmissals at times. (These were originally published before 1962.)

All these have the propers as well as the ordinary in Latin.and English, although as noted above the English translations vary from missal to missal.
 
Using a missal from before 1962 would work, the only thing that will be missing, as far as I know, is St. Joseph in the Canon (which is said silently anyway), and it will probably have the Confiteor before the Ecce Agnus Dei (this was made optional in the 1962 missal). The three-year cycle is only in the Novus Ordo.
 
The St. Joseph’s, St. Andrew’s & Fr. Lasance’s missals published prior to 1962 are all appropriate for the TLM.
 
Sure, they will work. There were some changes but you will be fine. I often use missals printed prior to 1962.
 
The Triduum might be different. I can’t remember when it was changed to what the 1962 Missal has.
 
The Holy Week rites were revised in 1955, and those revised rites are what is used in the EF, with the exception of the prayer for the Jews on Good Friday. That was promulgated in 2008 by Pope Benedict.
 
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