The Roman Missal

The Mass of the Roman Rite, in the English of the 1853 Missal for the laity and the Latin and English of the Canon.

The Roman Missal is the book of the Mass: the prayers, readings, and chants the Catholic Church used at the altar each day of the year in the Roman Rite, in the form fixed after the Council of Trent and used until the liturgical reform of the 1960s. It is a liturgy, not scripture, though it is made largely of scripture: the Epistle and Gospel of each Mass, the psalms of the Introit, Gradual and Communion, and the Canon itself.

This shelf is being built in the order of the Missal. It has the Ordinary of the Mass before the Canon (Latin and English), the Canon from the 1921 Roman Missal (Latin and English), the Masses from Advent to Epiphany, from Septuagesima through Lent to Passion Week, and the Masses for the Dead, with more of the Proper of the Season, the Commons and the Proper of Saints still to come. The English is that of the Rev. F. C. Husenbeth's Missal for the use of the Laity (London, 1853), in the public domain. Each book page says which churches have used it.

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