Missalette

Missalette is a generic term for a shortened form of a missal for congregational use, published periodically, and generally including liturgical music and hymns and songs for use at Mass. The missalette is descendent from the pre-conciliar ‘hand missals’, which included the Order of Mass and readings and propers in Latin and English for congregational use. Beginning in 1965, the J. S. Paluch Co., Inc. in Chicago, Illinois, published Monthly Missalette, presently Seasonal Missalette®, one of the first worship aids for the English-language Mass and the first usage of the term ‘missalette’. Several publishers developed similar products soon thereafter. Use of missalettes has long been...