ST. ANDREW DAILY MISSAL

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ST. ANDREW DAILY MISSAL WITH VESPERS FOR SUNDAYS AND FEASTS AND KYRIALE
By Dom Gaspar Lefebvre, O.S.B., of the Abbey of St. Andrew, Belgium
Copyright 1945, reprinted 1999, 1978 pages, black hardcover with gold 
embossing, gilt-edge pages & five ribbons
St. Bonaventure Publications, $42.00, plus $4.50 shipping


St. Bonaventure Publications, rapidly becoming a leading publisher of books 
for the traditional Roman rite, has now republished the 1945 edition of the 
St. Andrew Daily Missal, the most complete Latin-English handmissal.

The St. Andrew is a veritable treasure-trove of riches about the traditional 
Roman rite, which has no peer.  It contains both the Latin and the English 
for all of the Mass and Vespers, whereas many handmissals skimp on the Latin 
for the Epistle and Gospel, or other parts of the Proper.  More than that, it 
contains the texts, again in both Latin and English, for the Blessing of the 
Holy Water, the Asperges, and the Vidi Aquam, the Sacraments, the Litanies, 
and much more than can be enumerated here.

As if this richness were not enough, the St. Andrew contains some of the most 
detailed traditional liturgical commentary available in English for each 
Sunday, Feastday, Votive Mass, and Local Feastday in the USA.  The 
traditional rite of Holy Week is included {before the 1956 revision of Pius 
XII).  Extensive Liturgical and Doctrinal Notes are provided for every season 
of the year and on many special subjects such as the Fourteen Auxiliary 
Saints and the Stational Churches of Rome.

Illustrations in the form of black-and-white woodcuts abound throughout, 
illustrating the ancient symbology of the Church.  The Ordinary of the Mass 
is printed in black in Latin and English.  The Mass rubrics, printed in red, 
are in English only.

The St. Andrew is replete with explanatory tables and a large treasure of 
devotional prayers in Latin and English.  This edition also includes the text 
and music {in modern notation) for Vespers of Sundays and Feasts and an 85-
page Kyriale of text and music for all of the chant Masses.  This magnificent 
tome concludes with detailed indices.

The St. Andrew is to be recommended above all other handmissals for its 
completeness and seemingly limitless treasury of texts and commentary for the 
traditional Roman rite.