A New Francis Book for Children

The well-know Catholic author and blogger, Amy Welborn, was kind enough to arrange for me to receive a copy of her new book Adventures in Assisi, from Franciscan Media Publications. The book is lavishly illustrated with water-color images by Ann Kissane Engelhart.

The narrative tells the story of two children, who visit their great uncle, Padre Antonio, a Franciscan friar. As he takes them around Assisi, they come to know the Little Poor Man and his city.

This is a marvelous way to introduce your children to St. Francis and spend some time reading to them. I think they will love both the story and the pictures. This book can be ordered on Amazon or at your local bookstore.

Dominican Rite Missa Cantata at Dominican Nuns Monastery, Marbury AL

On the Feast of the Nativity of Mary, Fr. Pius Pietrzyk, O.P., celebrated a Missa Cantata for the Dominican cloistered nuns of the Monastery of St. Jude in Marbury AL.   The sisters have kindly shared these photographs of the event.

Fr. Pius arrives at the altar of the Chapel

The Elevation of the Chalice from behind the grill

The extension of the priest's arms after the Consecration

Father leaves the altar after Mass

The nuns of Marbury celebrate the Liturgy of the Hours in Latin using the traditional antiphons, hymns, and responsories from the Dominican Antiphonale.  They also sing Mass using the chants of the Dominican Gradual.

You can read more about these nuns here.

Corrected Antiphonarium Files Available

Thanks to the Dominican nuns of St. Jude Monastery in Marbury AL, who use the Antiphonarium pro Liturgia Horarum iuxta Usum Ordinis Praedicatorum, which is available for down load in five files on our left sidebar, I can now make available new files with corrections and improvements.

This resource allows an individual or group to sing the entire Latin Liturgy of the Hours in traditional Dominican Chant.  I thank my sisters at Marbury for their careful correction of these texts!

Dominican Rite First Mass of Newly Ordained Priest

This last weekend saw the ordinations of four friars of our Western Dominican Province.

With the permission of Fr. Peter Junipero Hannah, O.P., the celebrant, here are some pictures of his First Mass of Thanksgiving at the Carmel of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph in Canyon CA.  Fr. Peter was ordained to the Priesthood of Our Lord Jesus Christ on May 31.  His first Public Mass of Thanksgiving was the conventual Mass of his priory, St. Albert the Great, in Oakland CA, Our Western Dominican Province House of Studies.  As he has on a good number of occasions served as deacon in Dominican Solemn Masses at the Carmel, he wanted his first public celebration of the Dominican Rite Missa Cantata to be with the sisters there.

As you will see in the photos, the current living situation of the nuns is very primitive: the chapel is in the common room of the lodge-residence of a small ranch.  The simply professed live in the bunk house. The solemnly professed in the lodge. Happily, next fall the nuns, thanks to very generous benefactors, will move to the now vacant Carmelite monastery in Kensington, north of Berkeley CA.  Thus the primitive conditions of this current chapel where Mass was celebrated.

At this Mass the servers were: senior acolyte, Rev. Bro. Gabriel Mosher, O.P. (ordained a deacon on May 31); junior acolyte, Bro. Matthew Peddemors; thurifer, Bro. Clement Lapak, O.P.  The Mass was the Votive of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, sung by the nuns.  Father's sermon focused on the importance of Our Lady of Carmel in the evangelization of California (the first Solemn Mass in what is now the state was on that feast, Bl. Junipero Serra's favorite mission was at Carmel, etc.) and the mutual love of the Carmelites and Dominicans of our mutual patroness, the Blessed Virgin.

At the altar for the reading of the Officium (Introit) and Kyrie

The singing of the Collect.

The incensing before the Gospel.

Father Peter Junipero preaching.

The incensing of the altar at the Offertory.

The thurifer incenses the sisters behind the screen.

The elevation of the Host.

The elevation of the Chalice.

The priest's Communion.

The Priest turns for the Communion Confiteor (customary in Sung Masses in the Western Province)

The presentation of the Host for the Ecce Agnus Dei.

After the Mass Father Peter Junipero gave first blessings to the Carmelite community. I might add that the Altar Cards for the Dominican Rite seen on the altar were a gift to the Carmelite community in honor of Mother Silvia Gemma's 24th anniversary of profession last month.  I thank the Dominican brothers present for these photographs.

First Saturday Dominican Rite Mass, May 3, at Carmel of the Holy Family, Canyon CA

Chapel of the Carmel, Bishop Barbar Celebrant (New Rite Roman)

This is just the briefest of reminders to readers in the San Francisco Bay Area that the Dominican Rite Votive Mass of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, sung by the student friars of the Western Dominican Province as part of First Saturday Devotions, will not be at St. Albert's Priory in Oakland, this week.

The Mass will be at the Carmel of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph* in Canyon CA, this Saturday, May 3, at 10:00 a.m.  This Mass will be a Solemn High Dominican Rite Mass to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Profession of Mother Sylvia Gemma, O.C.D., the superior of the Carmel of the Holy Family.  This event is open to the public and will be the last First Saturday Mass until the Fall.

*How to find Canyon Carmel, which has no street number: Canyon is just east of Oakand CA. Start from the Canyon U.S. Post Office (99 Pinehurst Road), and go north about one half mile to “John McCosker Ranch Road” on right (easy to miss); take this mostly gravel private road up to the right turn onto “Old Home Ranch Road,” which is signed for “Carmel.” This gravel road ends in the parking lot of the monastery.

April First Saturday Dominican Rite Missa Cantata, Oakland CA

Through the kindness of the students of the Western Dominican Province, I have the pleasure of publishing some photographs of the Missa Cantata of the Immaculate Heart of Mary celebrated as part of the First Saturday Devotions at St. Albert the Great Priory in Oakland.  The celebrant was Fr. Bryan Kromholtz, O.P., Regent of Studies, and it was his first public celebration of the sung Mass in the traditional Rite.  The servers were Rev. Brother Peter Hannah, O.P., and Brother Christopher Brannan, O.P.  The thurifer was Brother Andrew Dominic Yang, O.P.  Music was provided by a schola of the brothers.

The Father Bryan Intones the Gloria

Blessing the Incense at the Offertory

The Servers bow to each other on returning from the Lavabo.

Communion of the lay faithful (about 30 were in attendence)

For more on this Mass and other new about our students, click here.

Recent Dominican Rite Masses at Holy Rosary Church, Portland OR

I am pleased to present these photos of recent celebrations of the Dominican Mass at the house of the Western Dominican Province in Portland OR, Most Holy Rosary Priory and Parish.

ASH WEDNESDAY

The celebrant of this Missa Cantata was Fr. Vincent Kelber, O.P., Pastor of the Parish.  In accord with the Dominican practice, the distribution of ashes was done, with Fr. Kelber's assistance by the Prior of the Dominican Community, Fr. Stephen Maria Lopez, O.P.  As the question is often raised as to the nature of the altar servers attire, it is a modification of the old lay brother's postulant habit: a white tunic and black shoulder cape.  As they are ministering at the altar, the servers wear the surplice, in this case under the shoulder cape, as is the Dominican tradition for the non-ordained.

Blessing of Ashes

Distribution of Ashes to the Servers by the Prior

Distribution of Ashes to the People

The In spiritu humiliatis at the Offertory

Elevation of the Chalice

Dominican Orans position at the Unde et Memores

The Ecce Agnus Dei before Communion

The Et Verbum caro factum est of the Last Gospel

SOLEMNITY OF THE ANNUNCIATION

The celebrant of this Missa Cantata was the prior of the Dominican Community of the Holy Rosary in Portland, Fr. Stephen Maria Lopez, O.P.

Arrival at the Altar

Preparation of the Chalice During the Chants between the Readings

The beginning of the Creed

The Incarnatus est of the Creed

Elevation of the Host

Preparation for Communion

The Ecce Agnus Dei before Communion

For a list of regular celebrations of the Dominican Rite in the Western Dominican Province, click here.

Dominican Chants for the Passion in Latin Now Available

Dominican Liturgy Publications, a subsidiary of Albertus Magnus Press of the Western Dominican Province is pleased to announce the reprinting of the 1953 Cantus Passionis D. N. J. C. with the Gospels of Matthew and John for use in singing those texts in the liturgies of Palm Sunday and Good Friday.  This volume has undergone minor changes to make the text compatible with the rubrics of the 1962 form of the Dominican Rite and (coincidently) the forms of the Passion used in the modern Roman Rite.

The text and music of the original edition was hand written by an anonymous friar for the 1953 printing, and his work is what is reproduced in the two-color printing.  A sample page may be seen to the right.  The price of the hardback volume is $26.95, specially discounted for this coming Holy Week from the usual price of $29.40.  Those intending to use this resource liturgically should purchase three copies, one for each of those singing the role of Christ, the Narrator, and the Crowd.

The Cantus Passionis may be purchased here.

Dominican Rite Missae Cantatae at Carmel of the Holy Family in March

Chapel of the Carmel, Bishop Barbar Celebrant (New Rite Roman)

This is to let our readers, especially those in the Bay Area, know about the four Sung Dominican Rite Masses that will be offered at the Carmel of the Holy Family in Canyon CA in March. The Carmel near Oakland CA.* These Masses will take place:

Friday, March 7, 7:45 a.m., St. Thomas Aquinas

Sunday, March 15, 9:30 a.m., Second Sunday of Lent

Sunday, March 23, 10:00 a.m., Third Sunday in Lent

Friday, March 25, 7:45 a.m., Annunciation

The chant for these Masses will be sung be sung by the nuns, and the celebrants and servers will be friars of the Western Dominican Province.  Fr. Reginald Martin, O.P., prior of St. Albert the Great Priory, the Western Dominican House of Studies in Oakland CA, will be the guest preacher for the Solemnity of St. Thomas Aquinas.

The Dominican Rite Low Mass is also celebrated at the Carmel, Tuesdays and Thursdays, at 7:45 a.m. See also all Dominican Rite Masses in the Bay Area, Spring 2014 and Regularly Scheduled Dominican Rite Masss worldwide.

*How to find Canyon Carmel, which has no street number: from Canyon U.S. Post Office (99 Pinehurst Road), go north about one half mile to “John McCosker Ranch Road” on right (easy to miss); take this mostly gravel private road up to the right turn onto “Old Home Ranch Road,” which is signed for “Carmel.” It ends in the parking lot of the monastery.

Recitation of Mass Texts by the Priest at the Dominican Solemn Mass

The Priest and Deacon read the Chants and Lessons at Solemn Mass

Recently, my co-contributor at New Liturgical Movement, Mr. Peter Kwasniewski, posted there a very thoughtful piece on the traditional practice of having the priest read the Epistle, Gospel, Propers, and Ordinary, even when these are sung by a choir, (and by the deacon, and subdeacon when present) at Sung Mass.  The Roman way of doing this differs from the Dominican in a number of ways, and I am not intending to address that in this post.  What I am interested in is the logic of the Dominican practices in the medieval, early modern, and post-1960 reform Mass.

There are a number of things that occur during the Dominican Solemn Mass which originated because of convenience when one or more of the ministers had to perform some function at altar during the Foremass, and it was better for the others to retire to the sedilla (a bench with no separating arms) on the Epistle side of the sanctuary to get out of the way.  This included: the procession of the subdeacon during the Gloria to the altar with the chalice and paten and their arrangement on the altar; and the arrival of the deacon to unfold the corporal during the singing of the Epistle by the subdeacon.  For this reason the priest is at the sedilla from the Amen after the opening collect until he returns to the altar for the deacon's proclamation of the Gospel.

In the medieval rite the ministers recited the Ordinary and the Propers quitely.  The theological logic for this was simple.  The ministers are all members of the community, and the community in a religious house IS the choir.  Thus the performance of those chants fell to all, including the ministers.  Since their "business" often made it impossible for them to sing along with the choir, they recited the texts.  There is no complex theological reason for this; and as this responsibility fell to all the ministers, not just the priest, it is not because of some special about the priestly office.

After the Prayers at the Foot of the Altar, by which time the choir (community) has finished the Officium ("Introit" in the Roman Rite) and probably gotten into the Kyrie, the priest moved to the book and the ministers arrayed themselves to his right: deacon, subdeacon, acolyte 1, acolyte 2.  This is so that they can all recite the chants quietly together.  The priest alone takes the cantor's parts (e.g. the verse in the Officium) and all take the choir parts.  In the middle ages when the Solemn Mass was sung every day, it was expected that the ministers knew all the Propers by heart.  So the subdeacon and acolytes recited along with the priest and deacon (who had the benefit of the book).  Today, they just stand mute (unless they have memorized the texts).

By the time the ministers finished, it was time for the priest to go to the center to intone the Gloria.  All then swung back to the Epistle side to recite it with the priest and then go sit down.  The reason for this is practical.  The subdeacon needed to go to the sacristy to get the chalice and paten and bring them to the altar in procession as the choir sang the Gloria.  To clear space for arranging veil and vessels on the altar the priest and other minsters needed to get out of the way.  At the sedilla, in the middle ages, the priest and deacon read the Responsorium (Gradual), Alleluia or Tract, and Sequence (if any) from the book held by Acolyte 1.  If the subdeacon got back, he joined them in reciting.  See this happening in the photo at the beginning of this post (where yours truly is deacon).  They did not read the Epistle or Gospel.  Why? Because it is not their office: they pertain to the offices of the subdeacon and the deacon.  The ministers read these choir chants because they belong to the whole the community and they could not sing them because they will be busy preparing the chalice at the sedilla while they are sung.

After the singing of the Gospel, the priest intoned the Creed, and the procession returned from the ambo in the screen, lead by the crucifer and acolytes. They then arrived to the altar for the priest to kiss the book.  As they had been in motion and the priest was waiting to kiss the book, all were busy and did not sing along with the choir.  Rather, after getting to the altar, the priest, deacon, subdeacon, and acolytes swung to the Gospel side so that they could recite the Creed (already underway by the choir) together.  The recitation would be finished by the time they were to swing back to the middle for the Incarnatus.  After the Incarnatus, the acolytes had to escort the Cross to the sacristy, so the major ministers went to sit.  Again, the recitation is (in theory) not just the priest, and the reason for not singing the Creed is practical: the ministers are busy.

The recitation of choir parts happened again at four points in the Mass.  Again, it is not the priest, but all the ministers (in theory), who recite, because they will be busy during at least part of the chants.  At the Sanctus and Agnus, deacon and his acolyte face the subdeacon and his acolyte (so they can keep in sync) and recite with the priest.  They then get about their business as the choir sings on.  For the Offertory and Communion Verse, again at these points when the ministers will be busy during the chant, so they swing to form a line to the right of the altar (Offertory) or to the left (Communion) to recite with the priest.  Again, in the middle ages, all ministers recited these chants together from memory. Today, only the deacon and priest do, because only they can see the book.

So, the logic of the medieval practice is that what pertains to all (the Ordinary and Propers) is to be sung (or at least recited) by all.  The Post-Tridentine period muddied these waters.  About the time the Last Gospel was forced on us (ca. 1600), we also adopted a number of other Romanisms.  One was that the priest recite the deacon's and subdeacon's parts (i.e. the Epistle and Gospel).  The medieval logic of recitation could not explain this: it was adopted because everyone (i.e., the Roman Rite) did it.  As in the Roman Rite, we also developed various ad hoc theologies to explain why we did this (well rehearsed in Mr. Kwasniewski's fine essay).  This change also created a practical problem, as any Dominican who has served as priest at a Dominican Solemn Mass knows.  The reading of the Epistle and Gospel, along with the intervening choir chants, takes time.  The result is a rush to get them read, the chalice prepared (subdeacon) and incense and deacon blessed for the Gospel.  Sometimes the choir is even finished the Alleluia before the Gospel procession leaves the sedilla!

Since 1960, however, the Post-Tridentine usage is no longer required.  In the rubrical reform of 1960, it was provided that the priest (and so logically also the other ministers) need not recite the Epistle, Gospel, or other chants, "but instead may sing along with the choir."  I have discussed these rubrical changes in an article in Antiphon, also available online.  This is fine for the restoration of the Epistle and Gospel to their proper ministers as in the medieval rite.  And the liberty to not recite but sing along would make perfect sense, if the ministers are not busy during the singing, which they mostly are in our rite.  Of course, when they are busy, it is no longer required that they sing:  it says "may sing" not "must sing."  So, the result would logically be, mostly, for the ministers to neither sing nor recite.  In practice, until the more extensive reforms of the mid-1960s, the Post-Tridentine practices just continued and the ministers recited.  And the priest kept on reading the lessons.  When we continued to celebrate the old liturgy after 1970 under the 1969 Rescript, this was again the practice.  In fact, at every Dominican Rite Solemn Mass I have attended (in choir or as a minister) since my novitiate (1977), the priest and ministers have followed the Pre-1960 rubrics as to recitation.

What do I thnk of this?  This is my opinion, and nothing more, but I think that since the major ministers and servers (usually) are part of the community, and since the Propers and Ordinary belong to the community, their recitation of these texts is very suitable.  And it is permitted: the 1960 rubrical change said "need not recite" not "may not recite."  On the other hand, I think the dropping of the recitation of the Epistle and Gospel by the priest makes good theological and liturgical sense (it is not his part) as well as good practical sense (it allows time for an unrushed preparation of the chalice, etc.).

But I expect that force of habit will mean that Dominican priests keep on reciting the lessons as well as the chants at Solemn  Mass.

Up Coming Dominican Rite Missae Cantatae on Both Coasts

DHS Chapel Washington DC

It is my pleasure to announce that there will be a Dominican Rite Missa Cantata on February 13, at 7:30 p.m., at the House of Studies of the Eastern Dominican Province.  It will be the Mass for the Feast of St. Catherine de' Ricci, O.P., V.  The music will be provided by the student friars.  The House of Studies is located at 487 Michigan Ave NE, Washington, DC 20017. For more information click here.

St. Albert's Chapel, Oakland CA

I also remind readers that, on March 1, at 10 a.m., the student friars of the Western Province will sing the Votive Mass of the Immaculate Heart of Mary as part of First Saturday Devotions at our house of studies, St. Albert the Great Priory, 6172 Chabot Road (chapel entrance), Oakland CA 94618. Confessions will be heard from 9:30 to 9:50  and the Marian Rosary will follow.   More information on that Mass, and on other up-coming Dominican Rite Masses on the West Coast, may be found here.

Incunabula Pritings of the Dominican Rite Missal

Title page of the 1500 Missal

 Thanks to on-line resources, it is now possible to compile a list of all Dominican Rite Missals published up to 1500, the period of  the Incunabula ("in the cradle") printing.  The British Library Incunabula Short Title Catalog and the Online Computer Library Center (Worldcat), have facilitated this overview.  As best we can tell, 11 printings of the Dominican Missal were produced from 1482 to 1500.  Five of these are now available for consultation in digital copies on line (linked below).

As far as I can tell, the most important of these editions are the first of 1483 and that of 1500, as these are the editions for which the greatest number of copies remain. Both are found throughout all of Europe as opposed to other printings found only in more restricted areas.  It is not surprising, given the Order's commitment to poverty, that these editions are in quatro and octavo size: smaller and more economical editions.

 At the right you can see the title page of the 1500 edition of the Dominican Missal, the first with a woodcut illustration on the title page.  The pre-1500 printings of the Missal follow in order, with images of the Canon Page where it could be found.


1. Missale secu[n]du[m] ordine[m] fratru[m] predicatorum.  Venice: Octaviano Scotto, 24 Dec. 1482.

Description: The first OP Missal published. In moderate sized quarto format, it was printed in red and black with double columns, 33 lines to the page. Judging from the extant copies, this seems to have been a large press run acquired by Dominican houses all over Europe. Signatures: a¹^(0) b-z^(8) [et]^(8) [con]^(8) [rum]^(8). Goff M636

Locations in the U.S.A:

Dallas TX, Southern Methodist Univ., Bridwell Library;
Detroit MI, Detroit Public Library;
San Marino CA, The Huntington Library;
Williamstown MA, Williams College, Chapin Library
Tuscaloosa, AL, University of Alabama

Other copies are found in British Isles (2); Germany: 4 copies, 3 fragments; Italy: 3 complete, 4 imperfect copies; Spain, 1 copy; Netherlands, 1 copy; Austria, 1 copy

eBook reproduction: Proquest, Ann Arbor MI, viewable on WWW at libraries that have subscribed to the service.


2. Missale secundum ordine[m] fratrum predicatorum. Milan: Antonio Zarotto, 1482. 

Description: This was a large folio edition and soon after #1, but is very rare. I have not been able to find any further descriptions. It was probably circulated mostly in Italy. Goff M637.

Locations:

Washington DC, Library of Congress, Rare Book Division
Florence, Italy: Biblioteca Lorenziana


3. [Missale secundum consuetudinem ordinis Fratrum Praedicatorum.] Naples: Mattia Moravo, 29 Mar. 1483.

Description: Published moderate sized quarto, this edition is relatively rare. Copies are found principally in Italy and southern Europe. Goff M638

Locations:

The Dominican Historical Institute in Rome has a copy as does the British Library, London. Other copies: Italy (2), France (1), Spain (1). It seems a copy was sold by Sotheby: Parke-Bernet 25 June 1982 lot 96.

Venice1484 Te Igitur Page

4. Missale s[ecundu]m ordinem fratru[m] predicatoru[m]. Venice: Nicolaus von Frankfurt, 1484.

Description: This was the first “compact” missal, issued in octavo. Printed in two columns, in two sizes of Gothic type, with the smaller, lighter gothic used for the texts to be read in unison by the community; text in black, with 2-line capitals and captions in red. Woodcuts: one full-page unshaded Crucifixion. The extant copies and the nationality of the publisher suggest that this edition circulated in northern Dominican houses, especially in Germany and Poland. Signatures: pi¹^(0) ²pi^(4) a-y^(8) A-M^(8) N¹². GW M24169

Reproduction:

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich has produced an online Electronic facsimile

Locations:

The University of California at Los Angeles has a copy, as does the Dominican Historical Institue in Rome. Other copies are found in Britain (1 imperfect), Belgium (1), France (1 imperfect), Germany (4 complete, 4 imperfect), Poland (5).

Lübeck, 1488 Te Igitur Page

5.  Missale s[ecundu]m ordine[m] fratru[m] p[re]dicatoru[m]. Lübeck: Bartholomaeus Ghotan, 1488.

Description: This was the first Dominican missal printed in the north, at Lübeck. I was in large folio format and printed in black and red. It seems to have been purchased, like #4 by northern houses. Any copies were probably lost during the Reformation. GW M24154

Reproductions:

Kungliga biblioteket, Stockholm, Sweden has produced an online Electronic facsimile.
Microfiche: Primary Source Microfilm (an imprint of Cengage Learning), 1996.

Locations:

Other than the copy in Stockholm, which is available on the web, there is an imperfect copy in Germany and a second copy in Sweden.

Venice 1494 Te Igitur page

6. Missale secundu[m] ordinem fratrum predicato[rum] Ordinis s[an]cti Dominici. Venice: Johann Hamman, for Octaviano Scotto, 1 Feb. 1494.

Description: This is another small format, octavo missal. Again, this publication involved the Ventian printer Octaviano Scotto, who also published a number of Dominican authors (St. Albert’s incunabula edition of Thomas Aquinas is by him). The circulation seems to have been in southern Europe mostly, especially in Italy. Goff M639

Reproduction:

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich has produced an online Electronic facsimile.

Locations: In the U.S.A:

Chapel Hill NC, Univ. of North Carolina Library;
New Haven CT, Yale Univ., Beinecke Library (-);
New York NY, New York Public Library, Drexel Collection;
Providence RI, Providence College Library

There is also a copy of this edition in the Dominican Historical Institute in Rome. Other copies are found mostly in Italy (9) and elsewhere in Germay (4), France (2), Spain (2, including the Dominican House in Caleruega), Britain (1), Sweden (2), Poland (2), Hungary (1).


7. [Missale secundum ordinem fratrum predicatorum.] Basel: Michael Wenssler, c. 1488.]

Description: Other than the format, large folio, and that this Swiss imprint of the Missal seems to have been distributed mostly in Germany and the north, I have not been able to find much else about it. GW M24152

Locations:

This version is not very accessible to Americans. The only two complete versions listed are in the National Museum at Prague and the Benedictine Abbey of Scheyern in Germany. Imperfect copies are found in Germany, Finland, Danmark, and Poland.

Venice 1496 Te Igitur page

8. Missale s[ecundu]m consuetudinem fratrum predicatorum cum omnibus additionibus tam ad conuentualem q[uam] ad priuatam missam pertinentibus. [Venice]: Andrea Torresano, 30 Dec. 1496.

Description: This large format folio Missal was published in Venice and is interesting for the inclusion of material on private (said) Mass. It is interesting that the earlier missals seem to have been intended for conventual celebrations. It included a woodcut and some copies are known to have been printed on vellum rather than paper. Goff M640

Reproduction:

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich has produced an online Electronic facsimile.

Locations in the USA:

New York NY, New York Public Library, Rare Book Division;
Washington DC, Library of Congress, Rare Book Division (on vellum)

There are also 2 copies in the Dominican Historical Institute in Rome. Most other known copies are found in Germany (6) and Italy (7), Britain (2), and France (2), and Poland (1). Imperfect copies are found in Denmark, Croatia, Switzerland, and Poland.


9. Missale s[ecundu]m ordine[m] sancti dominici. Venice: Simone Bevilaqua, 13 May 1497.

Description: This small format octavo missal was published in Venice by a collaborator of Octaviano Scotto. GW M241262

Location in the USA:

University of California, Los Angeles.

The largest group of known copies are in Italy (5), plus one at the Historical Institute in Rome. Others are found in Germany (3), France (2), and 1 each in Austria, Sweden, Hungary (imperfect), and Poland (imperfect).


10. [Missale secundum ordinem fratrum predicatorum]. Seville: Meinard Ungut and Stanislao of Poland, 22 July 1497. 

Description: This rare quarto edition is of interest for serveral reasons. It is the first known printing of the Missal in Iberia, and the printers are Hungarian and Polish immigrants. It is hard to say, but this printing was probably mostly distributed in Spain. GW M2416410

Location: there is only one know copy, imperfect, in the library of the Cathedral Chapter in Burgos, Spain.

Venice 1500 Te Igitur page

11. Missale s[ecundu]m ordine[m] sancti dominici.
Venice: Johann Emerich, Nicolaus von Frankfurt, 6 Mar. 1500.

Description: This compact octavo editon has a woodcut of St. Dominic walking carrying lily and crucifix on the title page, probably the first so decorated. After the first printing of 1482, this seems to have been the largest, at least in terms of copies preserved. It is interesting that again the printers are immigrants, this time, Germans to Italy. Not surprisingly, the largest groups of copies are found in Germany and Italy. Goff M641

Reproduction:

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich has produced an online Electronic facsimile.

Locations:

New York NY, Union Theological Seminary, Burke Library

There is also a copy in the Dominican Historical Institute in Rome and in the British Library in London. Otherwise, most copies are in Germany (9, 1 imperfect), Italy 6, one imperfect), Britain, (2 and some fragments), Belgium (2, 1 imperfect), France (1 at the Dominican house in Toulouse, 2 others imperfect), and 1 each in Austria, Sweden, and Slovinia.


References:

Goff = Frederick R. Goff, Incunabula in American libraries: a third census. Millwood NY, 1973. This is a descriptive catalog in English of Incunabula in American holdings.

GW = Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke. Stuttgart, etc., 1968- [in progress]. As the most commonly used catalog generally, I give references to this when Goff has not. Handwritten original is online at: http://www.gesamtkatalogderwiegendrucke.de

Dominican Rite Latin Masses in the San Francisco Bay Area

Elevation of the Host in the Dominican Solemn Mass

Those readers who live in the San Francisco Bay Area may also be interested in local celebrations of the Traditional Dominican Rite. This academic semester, they will be occurring in four different venues, three in the East Bay and one in San Francisco proper. These Masses are celebrated by priests of the Western Dominican Province and usually served by student brothers of the province. All celebrations are open to the public.


EAST BAY

Saint Albert the Great Priory (Dominican House of Studies, Oakland CA
          Chapel Entrance: 6172 Chabot Road, Oakland CA 94618
     Dominican Missa Cantata (Immaculate Heart), First Saturday of each month, 10 a.m.
          Feb 2, Mar. 1, Apr. 5, May 3

Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, Berkeley CA
          2301 Vine St, Berkeley, CA 94708
     Dominican Low Mass, third Thursday of the month, 5:15 p.m.
          Feb. 20, Mar. 20, Apr. 17, May 15

Carmel of the Holy Family of Jesus Mary and Joseph, Canyon CA
     Off Pinehurst Road, Canyon, CA 94516 (directions below at *)
           Sunday (Missa Cantata), usually Roman Rite (times vary)
                  Dominican Rite: third (9:30 a.m.) and fourth (10 a.m.) Sundays  of the month
                  Jan. 19, 26; Feb.  16, 23;  Mar. 16, 23; Apr. 20, 27; May 18, 25
           Weekdays (Low Mass), mostly Extraordinary Form Roman Rite (times vary)
                  Dominican: Usually Tuesdays and Fridays, 8:45 a.m. until Feb. 1, then 7:45
                  Jan. 7,  10, 13 (Mon.) 14, 17, 20 (Mon.) 21, 24, 28; Feb. 4, 7, 11, 12 (Wed) 14, 18, 21, 24,
                  26 (Wed); Mar. 4, 7, 11, 14, 18, 21, 25, 28; Apr. 8, 11, 15, 22, 25, 29; May 2, 6, 9, 13,
                  16, 20, 23


SAN FRANCISCO

Star of the Sea Church, San Francisco CA
          4420 Geary Boulevard, San Francisco 94118
      Dominican Sung Mass (probable dates, watch here for confirmations and additions)
         Mar. 19 (St. Joseph); Mar. 25 (Annunciation)

Those attending these Masses may wish to purchase their own copies of the Dominican Rite Pew Booklet with the Ordinary of the Mass in Latin and English.  One may do so at Dominican Rite Publications.

Elsewhere in the Western Dominican Province, the traditional Dominican Rite is celebrated with regularity at: Holy Family Cathedral (weekly), Anchorage AK, Holy Rosary Church (monthly), Portland OR, and Blessed Sacrament Church (quarterly), Seattle WA.  Contact these churches for specific dates and times.

*How to find Canyon Carmel, which has no street number: from Canyon U.S. Post Office (99 Pinehurst Road), go north about one half mile to “John McCosker Ranch Road” on right (easy to miss); take this mostly gravel private road up to the right turn onto “Old Home Ranch Road,” which is signed for “Carmel.” It ends in the parking lot of the monastery.

Dominican Rite Solemn Mass of Ember Wednesday of Advent, 2013

Thanks to the kindness of the Traditional Latin Mass Society of San Francisco, I can now present some photos for the Solemn High Dominican Rite Mass celebrated at Our Lady Star of the Sea Church in San Francisco CA on December 18, 2013.  I have selected some of the photos from the Society's photo gallery because they show distinctive Dominican features of Solemn Mass on penitential days and ferials.

The celebrant was Fr. Anselm Ramelow, O.P.,  of the Western Dominican Province who was assisted, once again, by the Province's student brothers from the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology (Berkeley, CA).

Since it is not the Dominican custom to celebrate a devotional "Rorate" Votive Mass of the Blessed Virgin in Advent, this Mass was that proper to the Ember Day, which does, happily, have the Officium (Introit) "Rorate."  As it was expected that the Mass would be by candle light as is the common Roman custom, the church was in darkness except for the large numbers of candles.

Here are some photos from the Mass:

The Priest with his hands in the Dominican Orans Position

Here you can see the Dominican position of the hands at the Collects, with palms facing forward rather than toward each other as in the Roman Rite.

Ministers at the Sedilla

In this photo you can see the Dominican order of seating for the ministers (here during the sermon).  The higher ranking the minister, the closer to the altar, thus the priest (preaching and so not present) is closest, followed by the deacon, subdeacon, senior acolyte, etc.  You can also see over the major minsters' laps the violet "mappula" or "mappa," which is analogous to the Roman gremial.

Ministers reciting the Offertory Verse

In this unusual photo, you can see the order of the ministers to the Gospel side of the altar during the reading of the Offertory Verse.  In our Rite this position is taken so that at least the deacon can recite the verse with the priest.  In the middle ages, of course, all the ministers would have had the propers memorized from frequent use and so all would join the priest in the recitation.  (The acolytes would not normally carry candles at this point, but it was so dark in the church that they carried them so that the ministers would not trip on the steps.)

The Elevation of the Host

There is, of course, no thurifer since incense is not used on penitential days and ferials.

Here are the ministers in the sacristy after the Mass: Brother Christopher Wetzel, O.P. (in cappa, assisting), Bro. Thomas Aquinas Pickett, O.P. (senior acolyte), Rev. Bro. Peter Junipero Hannah, O.P. (deacon), Rev. Fr. Anselm Ramelow, O.P. (priest), Bro. Gabriel Mosher, O.P. (subdeacon), and Bro. Bradley Elliott, O.P. (junior acolyte).  The Dominican practice that the deacon and subdeacon do not wear dalmatics on penitential and ferial days is clearly evident in this photo.

A video of the entire Mass: