I unbox – open the package – of the newly reprinted Pre-55 Missal from the Benedictines of Norcia which just arrived. The monks forewarned that they don’t have many at the time I made this video. They will eventually have more. NB: Therefore, they are not at the time I post this – 10 June 2025, Pentecost Tuesday – able to take orders.
However, I wanted you to see what this treasure is like and how it was shipped to me. I am grateful to a reader and patron of this blog, as well as the wonderful monks of Norcia, for this new old Missal, the 20th edition “iuxta typicam” of 1937.
Buy their beer! It is excellent. Three kinds!
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I still have three of my late mother’s Missals, one is a pre-1955.
Imprimatur, Francis Cardinal Spellman, September 15, 1950, Feast of the Seven Sorrows of the B.V.M.
I wish someone would publish a pre 1955 hand missal. Or even just the Holy Week portion, since our parish usually offers the pre 1955 Holy Week. I do have the iMass app on my phone but I prefer to use a conventional printed missal.
I consider myself lucky to own a small (48o format) Missale Romanum, editio XVII (1933). It is very practical, it fits in just about any coat pocket. Maybe I’ll pass it on to a priest someday.
As soon as the monks have enough I will buy some for my pastor and parochial vicar and my sons in case one (or both) of them have a vocation.
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Is there any place where this missal may be licitly used in the judgement of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments?
@JonPatrick, is the Father Lasance missal not pre-55?
@JonPatrick
Pre-1955 Holy Week.
https://romanseraphicbooks.com/products/hebdomada-sancta-2nd-edition
Certainly a beautiful book. I am unclear on something. I thought the Missal of 1963 is the version of the pre-conciliar Mass that is ”current.” How is this earlier version used today? And what are the most significant differences?