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Jan 2 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Good morning, we're back with #MissalMondays once again

Today, we're interrupting our regularly-scheduled content... here's a short thread on the hand missal Pope Benedict XVI requested for Christmas in 1934 at age 7.

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Several years ago, a childhood Christmas letter from Ratzinger and his sister were found:

"Dear Baby Jesus, quickly come down to earth. You will bring joy to children. Also bring me joy. I would like a Volks-Schott [...] I will always be good. Greetings from Joseph Ratzinger"
The hand missal requested by young Joseph Ratzinger was the "Volks-Schott" mass book.

This was a simpler abridgmenet of an extraordinarily popular and groundbreaking German hand missal originally published by Anselm Schott, OSB
First published in 1884, Schott's "Mass Book of the Holy Church (Das Messbuch der hl. Kirche) went through at least 37 editions in the first 50 years and was printed into millions of copies. It was also translated into multiple European languages.
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Schott hand missal in 1934, the same year that young Joseph Ratzinger wrote his Christmas letter, Pope Pius XI offered a warm commendation for book:
For more on the Christmas letters from the Ratzinger family, see the Diocese of Passau:

bistum-passau.de/artikel/christ…

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Dec 19, 2022
Good morning! We've got a bit of a doozy for #MissalMondays

The Saint Jerome Missal, published in 4 volumes in 1964.

It features the most .... unusual .... art we've ever seen in a hand missal (and that's saying something!)
Published by The Catholic Press of Chicago, it was clearly intended to be a new, major "flagship" missal property which was chock full of selling-point features.

They pulled together a large (and slightly unusual) cast of experts to contribute, including Father Andrew Greeley
(interesting note: it holds an imprimatur of January 1963 and a copyright date of 1964, and does not survive in many copies.

It's clear this was immediately overtaken and made irrelevant by the many sudden a d rapid changes to the mass which happened in 1964)
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Dec 18, 2022
There are many interesting comments and replies in this thread, go check it out!

For anyone interested in the history, I did a series of short, illustrated articles on the history of microphones & loudspeakers in Catholic worship between 1922-1958

handmissalhistory.com/feature-microp…
Part 1 reveals that mics & speakers were widely installed in Catholic churches throughout the world in the 1920s, and used for a variety of surprising things like radio broadcasts, simultaneous masses, and audio for overflow crowds.

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Part 2 demonstrates that microphones were soon placed directly on the altars and throughout the sanctuary by the 1940s.

Much of the mass was heard via electronic amplification, thanks to altar, lapel, and moveable microphones.

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Dec 16, 2022
There is a long history of publishing things like this for the Catholic laity! Re-discovering and documenting them is one of the main reasons I started this project.

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Limiting myself strictly to the modern period... did you know that the American bishops did exactly this?

At the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore in 1884, they ordered the publication of an official prayerbook for the laity containing all of this &more

Called "A Manual of Prayers for the Use of the Catholic Laity", it was published in 1888 and would remain in print right up until the 1950s.

(interesting note: this Council of Baltimore also was responsible for creating the well-known Baltimore Catechism!)
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Aug 22, 2022
You've all heard the story of how the Catholic sacraments went from Latin to vernacular, right?

“Thanks to the advocacy of the Liturgical Movement, the church finally changed things following Vatican II…” etc.

But what if almost everything about that story was wrong? 🧵
It is commonly believed that the switch to vernacular sacraments occurred in September 1964, following the liturgical decrees of the Second Vatican Council. The Catholic Transcript, Aug 20, 1964. Page 1.
There were some limited vernacular permissions available in 1961 and 1962…

but did you know that in *1954* the American bishops had unanimously approved a vernacular ritual which permitted the sacraments and blessings to be administered almost exclusively in English? The St. Louis Register, December 24, 1954. Page 9.
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