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The Roman Missal, 1962 (English and Latin Edition)

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Not to be confused with the "Roman Catholic Daily Missal" published by Angelus Press. This is the "1962 Roman Missal" published by Baronius Press, Ltd. in association and colloboration with the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, a religious institute established in 1988 by Pope John Paul II to exclusively to offer only the traditional Latin Mass or the Mass according to the rubrics of Pope John XXIII and Pope Pius XII.

This Missal is great because the readings are based on the Douay Rheims Bible and they are in British English. Many of the feasts of the saints are from the 1970 Novus Ordo Calendar such as St. Richard Gwyn and St. Oliver Plunkett.

It includes prayers for the conversions of England, Scotland, and Wales. Much of the liturgical discipline and feasts are for the British Isles, Ireland, and the USA.

It is the almost the same as the "1962 Roman Catholic Daily Missal", except it does not include the 7 Sacraments with the exception of Holy Matrimony. This Missal includes ALL the Gallican Prefaces used only in France.

The 1962 Missal includes prayers that were edited by Pope John XXIII. Pope John XXIII removed the conversions of the Jews and Muslims in the Act of Consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. He also removed the absolution of venial sins at the Communion of the Faithful in the Ordinary of the Mass.

I own three missals; 1945 St. Andrews, 1962 Baronius Press, and 1962 Angelus Press. What is desirable about the B.P. Missal is its soft genuine-leather cover, gold trim, and cream-colored pages. However, I would suggest that the B.P.'s "weakness" is the format, especially when compared to the beautiful 1945 St. Andrews missal. For example, the St. Andrews has both the Latin and English on the same page, organized into two columns, with rubrics in red. The B.P. however, has [for the mass] English on one page and Latin on the opposite page, with the rubrics repeated on both pages (also in red).

It's text font and spacing also seems to be cluttered, compared to the Angelus and SA. In addition, the LATIN text [for the propers and other prayers] in the B.P. Missal is reduced in size to ~1/2 the size as the English font. This de-emphasization appears to be a common trend among newer missals; post 1950's (note the 1945 St. Andrew gives equal spacing to both).

A third minor complaint; the print in the B.P. is somewhat difficult to read (for example, there is no clear differentiation between headings, canon, and rubrics like there is in the Angelus Press and St. Andrews). In this regard, the Angelus Press and St. Andrews missal are aesthetically "neater" than the B.P. (although there is significantly more "dead space" in the Angelus Press Missal).

There is also less information on each page. In the B.P., the text for the mass consumes about 71 pages, whereas in the S.A. is about half that; at 34 pages! (When I attend mass with the B.P. missal or Angelus Press missal, I find I am constantly turning pages to keep up). One last point, is the commentary in the S.A. missal is quite exceptional; it reads like a an old seminary textbook and contains traditional line art, with explanatory diagrams.

The fallback to the St. Andrews 1945 is that it has been republished in hard-cover (not leather), with white pages and red trim (the Angelus Press has a imitation-leather cover, with gold trim, and cream pages). Perhaps the format of the S.A. 1945 together with the quality of Baronius Press leather-bound publishing would make for an execptional missal.

***NOTE: IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A NEWER EDITION OF THE SA, PLEASE BE AWARE THAT NEWER EDITIONS (AFTER 1945) HAVE SIGNIFICANT CHANGES TO THE FORMAT, SUCH AS THE DE-EMPHASIS OF LATIN TEXT AS MENTIONED ABOVE, AND THE REMOVAL OF LINE-ART****

Physically this is a perfect edition, the leather cover, binding, paper and type set, flawless.

Spiritually this is an amazing book to me. I have no memory of the Tridentine Mass (Latin), as I was very young when it was suppressed. This opened my eyes to what we lost as Catholics! I hope the Vatican Secretary of State was accurate in reporting that Pope Benedict will soon release a motu proprio, allowing much broader use of the Tridentine Mass.

I bought this Missal as a gift for my father when he was diagnosed with cancer. He had told me that he found himself thinking about his childhood Catholic Latin masses where he served as an altar boy. The memories were bringing him some comfort. So, when I found this book, I knew I had to get it for him.

He was very pleased with the gift. I found the quality to be great and it is more compact than I thought it would be so it is easy to hold. He spent a lot of time looking at it and reading from it and in the end, my sister read it to him. I highly recommend this Missal as a gift.

This particular Roman Missal published by Baronius is my favorite of the several that I've seen/used. It is extensive and has lots of content to include traditional devotions and prayers that I didn't see in other missals. It doesn't have the Mass notes some users like (including myself) or the explinations of things like priestly garments etc. that are in the front of some...So, I would recommend it for "veterans" and think they will be well pleased with it, however, this missal was good enough for me even when I was "just beginning" and I've owned it a couple of years now...I saw this item here on Amazon and wanted to review it since I like this particular missal so much. The quality is very nice just as with all Baronius Press books.

Having owned the previous edition, I bought the revised edition just after it came out recently, and certainly its been improved since the last edition. From the aesthetics point of view, the size is larger, but the book is now actually thinner, making it easier to handle and the corners are rounded.
Now there is the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum at the beginning aswell. It really is nice to see that the Missal is being updated with such important documents and the Imprimatur has been renewed.

This is a beautiful missal, but I think it is overly British... there are almost 200 pages of supplemental material for feasts for Great Britain, Scotland and Wales that are basically irrelevant to anyone else. Personally, I'd rather that space be used for the texts of the other sacraments. The main text too, is from a British angle... the translation is British and a little difficult to understand and interspersed throughout are notes that are relevant to the Mass celebrated in Britain... prayers for the Queen and things like that. I'm sure that's wonderful for people that are from England and Scotland and Wales, but I personally find it distracting when I am trying to follow the mass and there is all of this extra information that I have to wade through to get to what is relevant, and it takes a long time to decipher the English dialect. And I agree it's a shame that the Latin text is so small. Part of the reason they probably did that was because the Latin takes less space... The English translation is inevitably longer. Still, I wish it was easier to read the Latin. It is beautifully done though... the collection of the Kyriale is fantastic. I just hope that a more American, or simply a less culturally specific, version comes out in the near future.

I use this missal everyday. It has one medium size flaw-numerous typos. Perhaps this reprinting has them corrected, I don't know.

This is an incredible treasure of our faith. This Missal is excellent, beautiful, complete, easy to manage. I hope that many will begin to appreciate and love our unique catholic liturgy with the help of this Missal. God bless!

I had been wanting this Missal for quite some time as I love the Extraordinary Form of the Mass. However, I was concerned about the amount of use it would get since my parish only has the Extraordinary Form Mass one Sunday per month and mostTuesdays. After receiving the Missal, however, I can say that there is so much more included to justify the purchase aside from the daily readings and prayers of the Mass. I think this will become my primary prayer book (accompanying the Liturgy of the Hours) and I will probably be taking this Missal with me to the Ordinary Form Mass to have the various devotions and prayers that are in the Missal.

Aside from the content, I was blown away by the quality of this book. It comes in a nice hard case to keep it safe. This would also look good on the bookshelf if I weren't using it so much! The quality definitely seems to justify the price tag.