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Missale Meum: Get EF Mass Texts on Your Devices

Fr. David Friel · August 9, 2020

AND MISSALS for use by the faithful during Mass are a rather recent invention. They first became widespread in the early 20th century at the initiative of the Liturgical Movement, which sought to promote deeper and more intelligent participation of the faithful in the sacred mysteries. They are so ubiquitous today that we often think of hand missals as some sort of ancient practice, but my great-grandparents would likely never have seen a hand missal (let alone a “missalette”).

They serve a useful purpose and have undoubtedly brought spiritual profit to a host of Catholic faithful. Legitimate criticisms exist (see, for example, a good discussion of printed resources here and Cardinal Sarah’s thoughts on digital resources here), but the value of hand missals and related resources for helping the faithful to unite themselves more closely to the liturgical action is clear.

A new resource for the Extraordinary Form now makes the Mass propers and ordinary for every day of the year easily accessible on one’s phone, tablet, or computer. A website entitled Missale Meum places the texts of each day’s EF Mass in English and Latin—Sundays, weekdays, feast days, and even votive Masses—at a user’s fingertips. Visit this new project here:

* * * Visit Website • Missale Meum

An older resource provides the same texts in an easily printable booklet format. This is very useful for parishes, but cumbersome for individual users. The layout of Missale Meum is much easier to use for a member of the faithful preparing to assist at Mass.

Gratias vobis ago to the team behind Missale Meum!

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About Fr. David Friel

Ordained in 2011, Father Friel served as Parochial Vicar at Saint Anselm Church in Northeast Philly before earning a doctorate in liturgical theology at The Catholic University of America. He presently serves as Vocation Director for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.—(Read full biography).

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“Only against this background, of the effective denial of the authority of Trent, can one understand the bitterness of the struggle against allowing the celebration of Mass according to the 1962 Missal after the liturgical reform. The possibility of so celebrating constitutes the strongest, and thus (for them) the most intolerable contradiction of the opinion of those who believe that the faith in the Eucharist, as formulated by Trent, has lost its validity.”

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