The Gregorian Missal for Sundays [Hardcover]

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Book Description

Publication Date: December 1990

The Gregorian Missal is intended for the faithful who participate in Mass sung in Gregorian chant. The Gregorian Missal contains all of the chants for Sunday Mass in Latin as well as the various prayers from the Mass in Latin and English. The missal also contains the ordinary of the Mass in Latin and English and all of the ordinary chants (Kyrie, Sanctus, etc.) for the Mass. Texts for various special masses (for the dead, for the pope, etc.) are also included. Does not include the Sunday Readings. This Missal is for the Novus Ordo Latin Mass, not the 1962 Tridentine Mass.  Imprimatur: Georgius Gilson, Cenomanensis episcopus, November 16, 1989

Product Details

• Hardcover: 717 pages
• Publisher: Paraclete Pr; 1st Ed. edition (December 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 2852741334
• ISBN-13: 978-2852741331
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #597,441 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Real Vatican II, May 1, 2000

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Peter Elliott (Kensington, CA USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Gregorian Missal for Sundays (Hardcover)

This is a wonderful book for anyone who has the opportunity to regularly attend the Latin Mass with Gregorian Chant: the Novus Ordo as Vatican II intended it. In addition to the Ordinary of the Mass in English and Latin, it contains those parts of the service that are rendered in Gregorian Chant, with a reasonably easy musical notation and English translations. It includes all Sundays and Solemnities.

While the Latin Mass can be an impressive experience even to someone without any Latin, the meaning is obviously much richer if you can understand what's being said and participate in the chants.

And, not unimportantly, the book itself is of very high quality, with sewn pages and sturdy covers: it will not be falling to pieces after one or two uses!

Highly recommended for devout Catholics.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Excellent Resource, October 30, 2001

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Daniel J. Arquilla (Northwest Suburbs, IL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Gregorian Missal for Sundays (Hardcover)

I attend a parish where the Novus Ordo Missae (1970) is celebrated in Latin, using the chants from the Graduale Romanum.

This book is geared to facilitate the singing of Mass with Gregorian chant. The book contains the Order of Mass in Latin and English, with the chants for the responses, settings for the Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus-Benedictus, and Agnus Dei, and the chants for the Sundays and major Holy Days. The Latin texts of the chants are all set with Gregorian chant notation. However, there is no explanatory or devotional material included in the book. Scripture readings (and their lectionary cycles) are cited but not included.

Having the original Latin prayers side-by-side with the International Commission on English in the Liturgy (ICEL) "translation" is alone worth the price of the book! Readers who can read Latin will be able to judge the ICEL's work for themselves.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great price for a great book, January 7, 2009

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Brendan Ross (Grand Rapids, MI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Gregorian Missal for Sundays (Hardcover)

Gregorian Missal belongs in the hands of every person interested in Chant. The Gregorian Missal includes the Chants for every Sunday and Feast Days, as well as the Chants for parts of Mass.

The Missal also includes the Order of the Mass. Included are English translations of the texts of the Chants.

The Gregorian Missal is perfect for anyone looking for a simple, easy to understand introduction to Chants for Mass. The price on Amazon is far cheaper than anywhere else. There is no need blowing hundreds of dollars on the Liber Usualis or Graduale Romanum unless you lead a schola. For the layman, Gregorian Missal is perfect.