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Bonfire of the Missalettes
Blogged by James Preece on 4th December 2009
From New Liturgical Movement...
However, there is one exception: Catholic Missalette publishers. Every issue comes with a restriction. "The use of this publication is licensed only to current subscribers during the 2010 year." What about those leftover from last year? You must "discard any remaining printed material covered by the license at the end of the designated time period shown on the license."
What about saving up three years of missalettes and reusing them just to eliminate waste and saving parish money? Don't even think about it. That's not allowed. We are even told that it is illegal and violates "moral rights."
And so, every year at exactly this time, there must be a bonfire of the missalettes. They must be destroyed, lest you be immoral, or so we are told. Actually what happens is that they are all collected and hurled into the garbage bin out back and taken off the landfill.
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I'm not sure if the rule about only using a Missalette during a certain year applies in the UK, I wouldn't be suprised to find it did though. Even if it doesn't, the sheer impracticality of keeping and storing many thousands of little books is probably enough to make sure we keep on buying new missalettes every week.
When the new translation comes out (yes, I realise I will be in a nursing home by then) can we please get some proper missals and tell people how to use them?
