Make Missals Great Again.
Need to Know
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Ad orientem FTW.
Make missals great again, indeed. The modern (and I daresay Modernist) “missalette” is a pox on the Church that serves no purpose but to enrich the grifters at OCP and Gia and their ilk. And don’t get me started on the royalties paid by parishes (this means you) to composers of the campfire songs that allegedly pass for “liturgical music” in this benighted age.
Frank,
Adding to the insanity of the OCP ilk of “Catholic” music publishers: they will slap a copyright on absolutely anything and everything appearing in their little throw-away missalettes. “Adoro te devote“? Written in the 11th century, in Latin, by St. Bernard? Copyright! “We changed a few of the words in the English translation.” The same for “Angels We Have Heard on High,” “O Come, All Ye Faithful,” etc., etc.
They have become a self-parody in their greed.
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Fun story- before I was Catholic, I was randomly given a 1962 Angelus Press missal by someone I didn’t know (I think she was preparing to enter religious life), and she said she thought I would find it interesting or something like that. At the time I didn’t know what a missal was, and definitely didn’t know the significance of the 1962 moniker on it, although I did find that a bit odd. It kind of sat in a box for years, and after I got married I was going through some severe health issues and my wife was looking for some spiritual support. I remembered this missal had a lot of prayers and such in it and so I gave it to her, and she found it to be amazing.
At any rate, we both eventually converted and now go to the TLM regularly, and I get to use the same missal I was given all those years ago, so kind of full circle. I’m grateful to whoever did that for me, and while it wasn’t THE reason we converted, it was certainly part of the road to it. I guess you never know what impact even small gestures like that can have.
What is a missal? They are the things that Iran is firing at Israel 😆
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Fr. J, I shouldn’t be surprised at that, given how the USCCB has copyrighted the NAB. Sigh.