Transform your parish’s experience of the Sacred Liturgy of the Mass.
Most parish congregations struggle to sing along with the vast repertoire of songs. And so they don’t engage with the Mass. The Ignatius Pew Missal combines all the antiphons, chants, and hymns into one beautifully designed annual missal. Would you like to take a closer look?
Beautiful Music
All Year
One hymnal with all the liturgical antiphons for the whole year. Help your congregation join in.
Perfect Fit
The Pew Missal fits your pew bookracks. It typically costs only $3.98 when you order 50 or more.
Help your congregation sing the Mass, not sing at the Mass.
The aim of the Ignatius Pew Missal is to provide a resource to help the average parish “follow the documents of the Church and the desires of the Church, but in a way that’s more accessible.” Brother Elias, Catholic World Report
Gloria Sancta
Alleluia
Psalm: To You O Lord
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See the full order of the Mass, and Antiphons for Sundays and Holy Days, from the first Sunday of Advent through to halfway through Ordinary Time.
Packed with Latin chant and English hymns, all in easy-to-read square notation.
The Ignatius Pew Missal:
Learn & Use Gregorian Chant
Helps the average parish learn and use Gregorian chant by providing the Entrance and Communion antiphons (for every Sunday and solemnity of the year), set to simple, easy-to-sing Gregorian chant melodies.
200 Beautiful Hymns
Brings you about 200 hymns free of faulty theology, to encourage music directors and parishes to focus on a small repertoire, and learn that repertoire well.
An Annual Missalette
An annual missalette, includes the Order of Mass, the Sunday and feast-day readings, weekday Psalm responses and scriptural citations, and some additional prayers.
Spanish Translation
Unify all the Spanish-speaking parishes with one translation in the United States.
There are different melodies for the chants, still easily sing-able, but specifically suited to the Spanish texts.
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What makes the Ignatius Pew Missal different from other missalettes?
The intention is that a choir, cantor, or even the congregation will be able to sing these chants at Mass.
In addition, the Ignatius Pew Missal contains a beautiful collection of hymns and Mass settings that is consistent with the liturgical directives of the Second Vatican Council.
This selection is both practical for the average parishioner as well as fitting for the Holy Mass.
How big is the Ignatius Pew Missal?
Why does the Church promote chant?
Because of this, the chant serves to remind us that when we are at Mass, we’re entering into a different time and place–we are, in a very real sense, experiencing a foretaste of Heaven. Another reason for using chant is because it is deeply rooted in the history of our faith.
The sacred cantillation patterns (that is, the melodic formulas for chanting the Word of God) come to us from our Hebrew ancestors in the faith. At the Last Supper, Our Lord, Himself, chanted the psalms according to these sacred patterns.
Over the centuries Christians have chanted the Psalms and other sacred texts in Aramaic, Greek, Latin, and various other languages.
The Ignatius Pew Missal, continues this rich tradition for the new English translation of the Roman Missal (2011).
“The Ignatius Pew Missal is a beautifully produced and worthy companion… Fr. Samuel Weber, OSB’s newly-composed chants for the propers will enable people to participate in a full, active and conscious manner according to the mind of the Church.”
Robert Cardinal Sarah
Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments
“This handsomely bound and beautifully printed volume includes the chant notation for all the propers, antiphons and the other sung parts of the Mass, as well as the scripture readings for Sundays, Holy Days and Principal Feasts for the given year.”
Bishop James Conley
“The contents of the Pew Missal reflects the classical order of importance for the sung parts of the Mass… What is needed now is stability and perseverance, so that this repertoire can become second nature.”
Fr Cassian Folsom, OSB
A single book to unite your congregation and choir in beautiful song.
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