FATHER LASANCE'S EASIEST MISSAL TO USE

CONTINUOUS LATIN/ENGLISH MISSAL FOR ALL SUNDAYS AND HOLY DAY MASSES

Who will love this missal?

• Those who are new to the Latin mass
• People who rarely get to daily mass
• Anyone who wants an uncomplicated, simple
to use missal with minimal page turning

Since many Catholics find it difficult or impossible to attend daily Mass and others
find the use of a daily missal inconvenient because of the constant page-turning required,
this Ad Altare Dei Missal is designed for exceptional ease of use for every Sunday, all other
Holy Days of obligation in many English speaking nations (Canada, Australia, New
Zealand, Ireland, England and Scotland), and very many additional Feast days (including the
Sacred Triduum) that numerous Catholics are likely to attend. Included also are the Masses
for weddings and funerals, the Rites of Matrimony, Baptism, Confirmation, Extreme Unction,
and prayers for Benediction of the most Blessed Sacrament. All of the approved text
used for this missal is that of the Sunday Missal or the New Roman Missal of Fr. Lasance from
1916 or 1945.

• Sewn binding 4.5" x 6.75"

• Leather cover - 1440 pages

• Ribbons- Gilt edges

• Rubrics in red type

• Full Latin & English texts

• Highly readable font & spacing

INTRODUCTION

This is a Continuous Sunday Missal for the Latin Roman Rite of Mass, which means that, unlike most missals, you do not need to keep flipping from place to place in the book in order to follow the entire Mass seamlessly. You only move from the Mass of the day to the Canon and back once, after the Introit has begun.
Two ribbons are provided. One is used at page 684 for the Canon and the three other parts of the Mass that never change–the Asperges, prayers at the foot of the altar before Mass, and the Leonine prayers at the end of low Mass. The other ribbon should be placed at the Mass of the day. When Mass begins, you should be at the Asperges for a High Mass or at the Foot Prayers for a Low Mass. When the priest ascends the altar for the Introit turn to the Mass of the Day. There you will remain until the Canon, since every prayer and reading of that Mass will follow. When instructed, turn to the other ribbon left at the Canon. After Communion turn back to the Mass of the day for all that follows.

Explanatory Notes
We have tried to make this continuous missal as compact and simple to use as possible, so we have eliminated much of the additional material such as: lengthy introductions, theological and liturgical history, explanatory materials, charts, etc., often found in daily missals that may run close to 2,000 pages.
All of the approved text used for this missal is that of the Sunday Missal or the New Roman Missal of Fr. Lasance from 1916 or 1945. The Imprimaturs for the text used were granted by Cardinal Farley of New York on July 13, 1916, Cardinal Hayes of New York on February 16, 1917, and Cardinal Spellman of New York on August 1, 1943. It therefore uses the Holy Week rituals before the changes in the 1950s made by Pope Pius XII. Also, the slight alterations made by Pope John XXIII in 1962 are inserted and notated where required, so that those attending masses using the 1962 missal will be easily accommodated.
The masses and rituals of the sacraments are taken from the 1950 edition of the Roman Ritual for the Sacraments by Rev. Philip Weller with an Imprimatur granted by Bishop John Treacy of LaCrosse on April 29, 1948.
The introductions to the Liturgical sections are written by the editors at Loreto.

Loreto would like to thank John Paul Murphy, Jacob Sullivan, and Michael Hamilton for their exhaustive research and labors in producing what we hope will be a very useful missal for the assistance of those faithful Catholics who worship according to the ancient and immemorial Latin Rite of the Catholic Church.

In cordibus Jesus et Mariae,

The Editors at Loreto Publications
Feast of Saint Pius V in the year of Our Lord 2024