I need to find the contents of a Catholic Missal!

October 29, 2009 2:33 AM

For a school project I chose to redesign a Catholic Missalettes. Only problem, can't find any to redesign!

When I was younger, and went to a Catholic Church in central NJ, we used missalettes, little booklets that had the readings and such for the mass. They were definitely mass produced and almost definitely subscribed to.
They had a solid colored cover, with usually a stained-glass image inset within the color. The applicable dates were written below that.

I'm interested in re-doing one of those for a layout project for school, but I can't seem to find any examples of the content online. By content, I mean all the directions, section numbers, etc. I recall the ones of my youth to be rather specific.

I realize this is a long shot, but does anybody have any sources for the content of a missal? I'm running late on this project so I'm kind of willing to take any subset of Christianity.

posted by Brainy to religion & philosophy (5 comments total)

Why not just go to the local parish church and ask for a copy?

I'm sure you could get one first thing tomorrow.
posted by Netzapper at 3:08 AM on October 29

The church missalettes I've seen most commonly used are published by OCP, so if you've got the time, then ordering one from there might be an option. But yeah, as Netzapper says, any local Catholic church should be able to hook you up.
posted by Bardolph at 3:13 AM on October 29

I am lay chaplain to a Catholic High School.

Most of the Missalettes are copyrighted to major companies so are not readily available.

You could use the website Universalis as it has all the readings for the church year.

Would the Mass responses be of any use to you? I have them in a Powerpoint and a Word Document if necessary? Or you could redesign a calendar for the feasts and colours of the Church year.
posted by ndaguiar at 3:26 AM on October 29

The people at OCP are sweethearts, so I'd just email or call them directly and ask. Explain that it's a school project. The permissions phone number is 1-800-548-8749--I don't have an up-to-date name to go with that, though.
posted by Sidhedevil at 9:32 AM on October 29

ndagular, they would be a big help. It doesn't need to be exact as my teacher is far from Catholic so I can play around a bit with the content. Please, please, send my way!

I will be trying to hit up a church today or tomorrow. Thanks everybody!
posted by Brainy at 10:49 AM on October 29