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Views from the Choir Loft

A New Edition Of The 1962 Missal?

Jeff Ostrowski · September 7, 2015

078 Padre Pio Extraordinary Form HEN PEOPLE PUSH for a new edition of the 1962 Missale Romanum, their primary argument goes something like this: “A new edition is necessary because of all the saints canonized since the 1960s.” However, such an argument cannot be sustained.

Did you know Mass can be celebrated in honor of Padre Pio, who was declared a saint many years after the 1962 Missal was published? Here are the Propers:

    * *  PDF Download • 1962 Propers for Padre Pio

When no text is given in the Missal, the formularies are taken from the COMMONS. This was frequently done when a particular diocese or church was named after a saint lacking a feast day in the Missal. This coming Friday, you could even celebrate a votive Mass in honor of St. Godfrey Maurice Jones!

WILL THERE EVER BE a new edition of the 1962 Missale Romanum? I don’t think we’ll see that any time soon, but we might see some kind of APPENDIX with minor changes published by the Vatican. For example, the appropriate Vatican office might send out a questionnaire to all priests who offer the Extraordinary Form, asking if they frequently celebrate a votive Mass for Saint Pio of Pietrelcina. If an absolutely overwhelming number of them say “yes,” perhaps it would make sense to give him a feast date.

Several years ago, rumors were floating around about Pope Benedict XVI. One rumor said B16 would soon change the 1962 Missal into a type of “hybrid.” When a very important cleric—who promotes the Extraordinary Form at the highest levels—visited our home, I asked him about that rumor. He replied:

A very good bishop asked me to investigate that rumor, so my secretary and I spent considerable time on it. When all was said and done, the rumor was found to have originated from an anonymous source, propagated by an anonymous blog. Since that time, I have warned our people to be careful with internet rumors. The most common reason for people to hide their true identity is a lack of credentials; another is to avoid lawsuits. Neither of these is a good thing!

His advice contains great wisdom, and that’s one reason we have a general policy against linking to anonymous websites. For the record, traditional Catholic websites like this one don’t hold a monopoly on “Vatican gossip.” Several progressive liturgical websites are still wiping the egg from their faces after publicly claiming over and over that Archbishop Piero Marini would be appointed head of the CDW. They were dead wrong, and hopefully now recognize the danger of putting one’s faith in anonymous internet rumors.

Opinions by blog authors do not necessarily represent the views of Corpus Christi Watershed.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Padre Pio, Saint Pio of Pietrelcina Last Updated: January 1, 2020

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About Jeff Ostrowski

Jeff Ostrowski holds his B.M. in Music Theory from the University of Kansas (2004). He resides with his wife and children in Michigan. —(Read full biography).

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    My pastor asked me to write little columns for the bulletin each week. The article for 20 July 2025 has been posted, and it’s called: “What Luther Said…” Martin Luther (an ex-priest and apostate) was an infamous heretic whose ignorance of JESUS CHRIST was only exceeded by his filthy and disgusting vulgarity.
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    “Music List” • 15th in Ordinary Time (Year C)
    Some have expressed interest in perusing the ORDER OF MUSIC I prepared for the 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time (13 July 2025). If such a thing interests you, feel free to download it as a PDF file. As always, the Responsorial Psalm, Gospel Acclamation, and propers for this Sunday are also provided at the the feasts website.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    15th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C)
    This coming Sunday—13 July 2025—is the 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C). All the chants have been conveniently assembled and posted at the feasts website. The OFFERTORY, Ad Te Levávi, is particularly beautiful.
    —Jeff Ostrowski

Quick Thoughts

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    Have you ever heard of the Pope Pius XII Hymnal? It’s a real book, published in the United States in 1959. Here’s a sample page so you can verify with your own eyes it existed.
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    “Hybrid” Chant Notation?
    Over the years, many have tried to ‘simplify’ plainsong notation. The O’Fallon Propers attempted to simplify the notation—but ended up making matters worse. Dr. Karl Weinmann tried to do the same in the time of Pope Saint Pius X by replacing each porrectus. You can examine a specimen from his edition and see whether you agree he complicated matters. In particular, look at what he did with éxsules fílii Hévae.
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    Antiphons Don’t Match?
    A reader wants to know why the Entrance and Communion antiphons in certain publications deviate from what’s prescribed by the GRADUALE ROMANUM published after Vatican II. Click here to read our answer. The short answer is: the Adalbert Propers were never intended to be sung. They were intended for private Masses only (or Masses without music). The “Graduale Parvum,” published by the John Henry Newman Institute of Liturgical Music in 2023, mostly uses the Adalbert Propers—but sometimes uses the GRADUALE text: e.g. Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul (29 June).
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When the matter is thus regarded, an assertion which is being made today, not only by laymen but also at times by certain theologians and priests and spread about by them, ought to be rejected as an erroneous opinion: namely, that the offering of one Mass, at which a hundred priests assist with religious devotion, is the same as a hundred Masses celebrated by a hundred priests. That is not true.

— Pope Pius XII (2 November 1954)

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