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Resources:

Ordos
Online Pre-55 Ordo

Missals

• 1920 Typical Edition of the Roman Missal
• 1962 Typical Edition of the Roman Missal

Thanks to the Church Music Association of America and Corpus Christi Watershed for providing many of these PDF files

Sacristy
Ceremonies of the Roman Rite Described (A. Fortescue, 1920)

A Sacristan’s Guide to the Traditional Roman Rite (NEW EDITION COMING SOON)


Holy Week
Holy Week General
For the Faithful
Proper Chants for the Triduum
Proper Chants for Palm Sunday – Holy Saturday
Cantus Passionis, 1938
Officium Majoris Hebdomadae, 1923

Quote This book contains all the texts and chants of Holy Week, the Triduum, and Easter Octave, including both Mass and Office

Rite of the Burial of Christ

Quote More information on this rite available in a blog post here

Fully notated chants for the 12 prophecies of the Easter Vigil
Fully notated chants for the 6 prophecies of the Pentecost Vigil



General Liturgical Resources
Fr Lasance Hand Missal, 1937
Memoriale Rituum, 1950
The Ceremonies of Holy Week In Churches with Only One Priest, 1906This is a vernacular docuмent based on an earlier edition of the Memoriale Rituum to assist those with less latin fluency

Chant Books
Graduale Romanum, 1908
Liber Usualis, 1913
Liber Brevior, 1954
Antiphonale Romanum, 1912
Antiphonale Monasticuм, 1934
Laudes Festivae, 1940

Legal Resources
Code of Canon Law (Latin, English), 1917
Decrees of the Sacred Congregation of Rites (Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), 1898

Rubric and Ritual Books
The Book of Ceremonies (O’Connell, 1943)
The Handbook of Ceremonies for Priests and Seminarians (Herder, 1954)
Ceremonial for use of the Catholic Churches in the United States of America (Kilner, 1894)
A Manual of Ceremonies of Low Mass (Pustet, 1924)
Compendium Sacrae Liturgicae justa Ritum Romanum (Wapelhorst, 1931)

Manual Sacrarum Caeremoniarum (Msgr Martinucci, 1897) (Coming soon)
Esposizione delle Sacre Cerimonie (Baldeschi, 1931)

Sacrae Liturgiae Praxis, Juxta Ritu Romanum (Volume 1, 2, 3 (Vanlinthout Bros., 1903)
Notes on the Rubrics of the Roman Ritual (O’Kane, 1883)
Cosecrada: Rites and Ceremonies Observed at the Consecration of Churches, Altars, Altarstones, Chalices, and Patens (Schulte, 1907)
Liturgical Law: A Handbook of the Roman Liturgy (Augustine, 1931)
Collectio Rerum Litugicarium - Matters Liturgical (Wuest, 1915)
The New Rubrics of the Roman Missal and Breviary (Murphy, 1960)

Articles and Talks
Why Restoring the Roman Rite to it’s Fullness is not “Traddy Antiquarianism”
(P. Kwasniewski, 2019)
The Centenary of the Last Integral Editio Typica of the Missale Romanum
(P. Kwasniewski, 2020)

My First Experience of a Pre-1955 Holy Triduum
(P. Kwasniewski, 2019)


(P. Kwasniewski, 2020)

The Truthfulness of the Pre-1955 Good Friday Prayer for the Jєωs
(P. Kwasniewski, 2020)


(P. Kwasniewski, 2018)

A New English Translation of the General Rubrics of the Tridentine Missal
(New Liturgical Movement, 2020)


Seasonal Comparisons between 62 and 54 Holy Week

Check out the PDF below for a a brief comparison of the Traditional Roman and Pian Holy Week Ceremonies

Christmas
A Rorate Caeli article on the Christmas season changes, thanks to Dr. Peter Kwasniewski.

I thought the pre-1955 Holy Week was pretty good, no?  Is that what "54" means?  Why the change in terms?

I thought the pre-1955 Holy Week was pretty good, no?  Is that what "54" means?  Why the change in terms?

Probably just for convenience or catchiness. 54 = “pre-55”. Even though the new Easter Vigil was published in 1951 (ad experimentum, I think).

Since reading the prayers and ceremonies of Holy Week in a 1945 St. Andrew's missal last year, I can't imagine myself going again to the “reformed” ceremonies, which I cringe just thinking about. So I'm very grateful that our chapel is having the entire Holy Week in the pre-55 rite this year, I really hope we don't go “back” to the newer one in the years ahead.

Also, having served the Novus Ordo for years before coming to Tradition, I and many like me can tell you how the 1955 Holy Week is basically the same as the Novus Ordo Holy Week, especially on Palm Sunday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday. They feel equally awkward and unpleasant to serve.