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missal
noun
A prayer book
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All these books were gradually combined into one volume, the Missale plenum ("full missal"), which by the 13th century had replaced the older books.
The Missale plenum existed in various forms; the most popular was the missal of the Roman Curia, which had evidently developed primarily during the time of Pope Innocent III (1198 1216).
Seeing that the first need of his diocese was education, he prepared and printed a catechism and a missal for Americans.
The missal was revised in 2011 in order to reintroduce some of the mystery and spirituality that more traditionally inclined Catholics claimed had been lost in the post-Vatican II translations.
A new catechism appeared in 1566, followed by an improved breviary (the daily prayers for clergy and nuns [1568]) and an improved missal (a book containing the prayers and responses for celebrating the mass [1570]).
The missal of Pope Pius V in 1570 prescribed the sequence of Innocent III, with rose on the two Sundays mentioned.
This missal was adopted by the Franciscan friars and spread by them throughout Europe.
A 27-year campaign by the Italian city of Benevento resulted in an order for the BL to surrender a 12th-century illuminated missal believed to have been looted during World War II.
The Council of Trent (1545 63) proposed that the Roman liturgy be reformed, and in 1570 Pope Pius V promulgated a new missal, which was adopted throughout the Latin rite.
The influential liturgical movement in the 20th century led to the revision of the liturgy of Holy Week under Pius XII in 1955 and culminated in the decree of the Second Vatican Council (1963) that allowed the introduction of the vernacular in the variable parts of the liturgy and ordered a complete revision of the missal to be carried out by a postconciliar commission.
The revised missal, issued in 1970, consists of two volumes: one containing the order of the mass and the other a lectionary of Scripture readings covering a three-year cycle.
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