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DECREE
The Order of Mass has been established and the texts for the Roman Missal
have been approved by Pope Paul VI in the Apostolic Constitution Missale
Romanum, 3 April 1969. This Congregation for Divine Worship, at the
mandate of the Pope, now promulgates and declares to be the editio typica
this new edition of the Roman Missal prepared in accord with the decrees of
Vatican Council II.
As to use of the new Missal, the Latin edition may be put into use as soon as
it is published, with the necessary adjustments of saints' days until the revised
calendar is put into definitive effect. As to vernacular editions, the
conferences of bishops are given the responsibility for their preparation and
for setting the effective date for their use, after due confirmation by the
Apostolic See.
All things to the contrary notwithstanding.
From the Sacred Congregation for Divine Worship, 26 March 1970, Holy
Thursday.
+ Benno Cardinal Gut
Prefect
+Annibale Bugnini
Secretary
THE SECOND EDITIO TYPICA
Since the Roman Missal must be reprinted, variations and additions have
been included in order that this new edition might be in accord with the
documents published after the appearance of the first edition in 1970.
In the General Instruction, the marginal numbers are unchanged, but a
description of the liturgical functions of acolyte and reader is inserted in place
of the paragraphs that formerly dealt with the subdeacon (nos. 142-152).
There is another change of some importance in the section of the Roman
Missal that contains the ritual Masses and the Masses for various needs and
occasions. Certain formularies have been completed by supplying entrance
and communion antiphons. Texts not found in the first edition have also been
added, namely, among the ritual Masses, texts for the Mass of Dedication of
a Church and an Altar and for the Mass of Reconciliation, among votive
Masses, texts for Masses of Mary, Mother of the Church and of the Most
Holy Name of Mary. Some other, less important changes have been
introduced in headings and rubrics so that they may better correspond to the
words or expressions occurring in the new liturgical books. Pope Paul VI has
approved this second edition of the Roman Missal by his authority and the
Congregation for Divine Worship now issues it and declares it to be the editio
typica. It will be the responsibility of the conferences of bishops to introduce
into the respective vernacular editions the changes contained in this second
edition of the Roman Missal.
All things to the contrary notwithstanding.
From the Sacred Congregation for Divine Worship, 27 March 1975, Holy
Thursday.
+James Robert Cardinal Knox
Prefect
+Annibale Bugnini
Titular Bishop of Diocletiana
Secretary
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