Saturday, July 27, 2019

A version of the traditional Anglican rite



All Saints’ Wickham Terrace, Brisbane (2004)

MISSAL FOR SUNDAYS AND SOLEMNITIES
Recently I have had some requests for the modest revision of The English Missal I undertook at All Saints’ Wickham Terrace, Brisbane. 

When I became Rector there in 1995 I found that in order to manage the liturgical changes that had evolved during the previous twenty years it was necessary to have many little cards and pieces of paper on the altar in addition to The English Missal. Vigilance was also required in order to stay on top of which Sunday after Trinity corresponded with the particular Sunday in Ordinary Time whose readings we were using. 

I am indebted to my predecessors at All Saints’ for incorporating into the traditional rite some liturgical developments of the wider Church. They are included this book, which has been “test driven” over the years at All Saints’, Patmos House, and a number of other traditional rite parishes in Australia and overseas. Comments and suggestions from a range of friends have been incorporated.

In the tradition of The English Missal, the present compilation simply puts together a way of offering the Eucharist which justly claims a patrimony going back at least to the reign of James I. I love this form of the Western Rite, and my motive for providing the Missal for Sundays and Solemnities was simply to keep to keep it alive where it is still celebrated.

The Missal is for printing in black and red. This can be expensive in ordinary photocopy shops. But if you have access to a school, university or workplace colour printer/copier for which you pay just the cost price of copying, you should be able to print the entire Missal with the Readings on A4 sheets for about $50; without the readings, about $20. Comb binding can provide a suitable finish. In the case of “06” below, the most expensive option, stitching the A3 “signatures” and then binding with leather or vinyl might add $100 to the cost. The total amount is not unreasonable for a well-presented liturgical book. I note that run-of-the-mill new altar Missals can cost well over $400 in the shops.

So, here are the downloadable files. Those that include the readings are marked “*”.  

This is 256 pages (128 sheets printed both sides), and easily able to be bound with wire or plastic comb binding.

This is the same as 01, but with the 3 year cycle of readings and Coverdale responsorial psalms. It has 550 pages (225 sheets printed both sides), and – while a greater challenge – can be bound with wire or plastic comb binding. 

This is just the 3 year cycle of readings, and is useful for the Lectern. It is 300 pages (150 sheets printed both sides). 

04 Congregation Mass Sheets
Here are various service sheets for congregations, for use with the Missal. Each is just an A4 sheet of paper (or card)  folded in half to A5 size. To be printed in black and red.

A standard “Interim Rite” Mass sheet. 

This is the same as fm01, except that the word “Eucharist” is used instead of Mass

This is “more Missal, less BCP”, with the Preparation & Confiteor said by priest and people at the start, instead of confession and absolution in the middle. (The way Fr Bates celebrated weekday Low Masses at All Saints’ Wickham Terrace in the 1940’s)

A fairly standard Anglican form of High Mass for most of the year, containing the Asperges at the start and the Angelus at the end.

The same as fm04 but with the Vidi Aquam at the start and the Regina Caeli at the end.

05 Missal A3 signatures
This collection of documents is the Missal (without the 3 year cycle of readings) to be printed as A3 “signatures” for stitching and binding. There are 16 separate files, as each signature is 8 sheets . . . i.e. 16 pages. This format means that the book, though bound, will always open flat on the missal stand.
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THE BEST OF THEM ALL . . .
* 06 Missal and Readings A3 signatures This collection of documents is the Missal and readings to be printed as A3 “signatures” for stitching and binding. There are 35 separate files, as each signature is 8 sheets . . . i.e. 16 pages. This format means that the book, though bound, will always open flat on the missal stand.
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