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Thanks to this awesome theme chosen by @USNatArchives, I pulled together a brief thread of neat Catholic maritime historical vignettes

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1⃣ First Mass on a submerged nuclear sub, 1958

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πŸŒŠπŸš’βš“οΈβ›ͺοΈπŸ“š "Mass on Atomic Sub&qu...
2⃣ Rev. John Francis Laboon, SJ appointed as first naval chaplain for a US nuclear missile submarine, 1959

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πŸŒŠπŸš’βš“οΈβ›ͺοΈπŸ“š "Jesuit Returns To Sea...
3⃣ Christmas Midnight Masses aboard Polaris nuclear submarines, 1962

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πŸŒŠπŸš’βš“οΈβ›ͺοΈπŸ“š "Polaris Missile Ship ..."Navy's Sub Chaplains ..."MATS Moves the Men Wh...
4⃣ 12 American nuns rescued from Japanese-occupied Bougainville by the submarine USS Nautilus, 1943

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πŸŒŠπŸš’βš“οΈβ›ͺοΈπŸ“š "On Submarine TV Progr..."Thrilling Escape by S...
5⃣ Invention of 'Donnelly buoyancy boxes' thought to produce "unsinkable" ships to break German U-boat threat, 1918.

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πŸŒŠπŸš’βš“οΈβ›ͺοΈπŸ“š "Catholic War Echoes,&..."Is Unsinkable Transpo...S.S. Lucia, a 6744 gross to...
6⃣ During "Operation Hideout", the USS Haddock was submerged for 60 days and the crew exposed to high levels of CO2 as a physiological test. A priest boarded via underwater tube every Sunday to say Mass, 1953.

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πŸŒŠπŸš’βš“οΈβ›ͺοΈπŸ“š "Mass in Submarine,&qu...
7⃣ These Catholic submarine chaplains were stationed at the US Submarine Naval Base in New London, Connecticut (part of the Diocese of Norwich).

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Come back next week for a very special maritime hand missal on #MissalMondays!

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Jun 5
Good morning, we are back for #MissalMondays!

Keeping with the nautical theme from last Friday, today I am excited to share one of my all-time favorite (and scarce) prayer-books with you:

πŸ“– 1925 - A Prayer Book for Catholic Seafarers

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It is one of the most original, interesting, and moving prayer books I have ever encountered.

Compiled by the legendary and prolific Rev. CC Martindale, SJ, almost the entire book is newly-written original prayers and commentary specifically for sailors and seamen. Rev. CC Martindale, SJ  htt...
It also contains what is likely the first and only Marian hymn to include the word "torpedo"! Image
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Apr 24
Good morning, we're back with more #MissalMondays!

Today we have a fascinating item:

πŸ“– The 1932 Missal-Vesperal with Commentary... featuring 'Symbolico-liturgical' illustrations

It's notable for a few things:

βœ… Longest missal ever (!)
βœ… Unique illustrations

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Unlike most missals, which focused on offering commentary, notes, and context for the various sundays and feasts of the ecclesiastical year...

The Missal-Vesperal offered the unique feature of "Symbolico-liturgical illustrations" by carmelite Fr. Fath. Berthold
These were black and white symbolic drawings relating to the liturgy

While the actual texts of Sunday or Feast would receive a brief two-sentence explanation, the drawings were each explained with several paragraphs of text Image
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Jan 2
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
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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

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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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