Time to contact our bishops and ask them to get this done -- and now!
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Whatever.
They've been playing political football with this for years.
I'm from Missouri. Show me.
Personally, I wish that they’d settle on a missal and everybody would use it. When I was a young convert, we all carried our own missals to church — either a Sunday missal (rather thin) or a Daily missal (thick with about 10 colored ribbon book marks). Then, Vatican II came along and the Priests told us to discard our missals around 1966. We had nothing but what the individuals churches published and put in the pews.
Then came the cangeable missals and hymnal combos. I’ve moved around and different dioceses use different publishers. Even if you purchase a “permanent” St. Joseph’s missal, it doesn’t always match what they are reading from the pulpit.
My church has just announced that we will no longer have the changeable missals because they are too expensive. They change 4 times a year, and the shipping costs have become prohibitive. We are fumbling all over the place to find the words to the right hymn. I would prefer to purchase a “permanent” missal and the church provide ONE hymnal. We now have to search in 4 different publications for the right music and words because the cantor, or the organist, does not always announce where to find the hymn we are singing.
I guess this is a small matter in the great scheme of things, but I find it frustrating.