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More good news from Angelus Press - actually, they think it’s kind of negative, because they’ve run out of books, and they want to be able to meet the demand before Christmas, so they’re asking for donations to get the books printed in time - but whatever, it’s still a positive sign.
Angelus Press is grateful to the Holy Father for his recent Apostolic Letter Summorum Pontificum which acknowledges that the Tridentine Latin Mass was never abrogated, that every Catholic priest has the right to celebrate it, and that all the Catholic faithful should have access to it.
The speed of the computer has left Angelus Press with the happy problem of a flood of priests and laymen coming to us for books on the Latin Mass, the crisis in the Church, the positions and canonical status of the Society of Saint Pius X, Archbishop Lefebvre, and various liturgical books (such as the Divine Office).What’s serious is that reprinting the most desirable books so soon was not in our 2007 production budget. . . .
In particular, we are running out of the enormously successful 1962 Roman Catholic Daily Missal, having recently sold within two weeks what we normally sell in three months. That’s nearly 20,000 total missals sold.
I’m posting this particularly for Clara, who didn’t, I imagine, receive the email in which this news came because instead of buying the Angelus Press missal (like all the cool kids did at the time), she owns the Baronius Press missal which, I fear, may not adequately reflect the doctrines of the integral faith.
St. Louis-Marie de Montfort,
Pope St. Pius X,
St. Joseph,
St. Ambrose of Milan,
St. Thomas Aquinas,
St. Francis (and St. Clare),
St. Catherine of Siena,
St. Alphonsus Ligouri,
St. John Chrysostom,
I guess I’m a bit confused. I’ve never heard of a bookseller saying: “Sales are hot! So we need your donations.” What happened to the at least $50 times 20, 000 = $1 million that they got from selling those 20, 000 hand missals? The reprinting costs are only around $140, 000, after all!
Hmmm . . . good point. I think that this must be a crafty plot to seduce unwary traditionalists into supporting the SSPX.
Iosephus, as I’m an owner of neither the Angelus nor Baronius Press missal, but have considered purchasing one or the other and have noticed little real difference in their contents, could you please elaborate on what you perceive to be deficiencies in the Baronius edition? (Personally, the only real drawback for me is the printing of liturgical music in chant notation, which I can’t really read.)
DJB, I only said that to sass Clara. When they were first printed, the Angelus missal was cheaper, but the Baronius missal had a genuine leather cover.
I think that the Angelus missal (which also is now available in a leather cover) has nicer proportions, that is, the book is bigger and so easier to read. I really don’t have strong feelings one way or another - except for purposes of sassing.
Iosephus, do you have any other theories about why they might need the money? I’m a big Angelus Press fan, as you know, but I am just completely confused by this request of theirs.
Uhh . . . my only “theory” is that, somehow, the money from the purchases is tied up some place such that it can’t now be got to. So their sales thus far will help them down the road, but for now, they need us to contribute generously. I don’t know. Got me.
Ambrosius,
My theory is that when Angelus Press contracts with a printer that,in order to make the missals affordable for people, they have to print a sizable number in the tens of thousands and not just a few hundred. Otherwise if they only request a small amount of missals to be printed, the local printsite will have to charge a much higher rate. That being said, they probably don’t have the cash up front right now to be able to pay for an order on the magnitude of 10 to 20 thousand missals.
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