The Mass of the Roman Rite: ITS ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT (Missarum Sollemnia) By Rey. JOSEPH A. JUNGMANN, S.J. Professor of Theology, University of Innsbruck Translated by Rey. FRANCIS A. BRUNNER, C. $8. R. Professor of Theology, St. Joseph’s College, Kirkwood, Moz VOLUME ONE Lphughie ach be houses Derg oa BENZIGER BROTHERS, INC. NEW YORK + BOSTON + CINCINNATI + CHICAGO + SAN FRANCISCOmprimi Potest: Francis J. Fagen, C. SS. R. Provincial, St. Louis Province of Redemptorist Fathers ‘March 10, 1950. I Obstat: Joun M. A. Farns, 8. T.D. Censor Librorum. Smprimatue + FRANCIS CARDINAL SPELLMAN Archbishop of New York New York, September 22, 1950. ‘The Nihil obstat and Imprimatur are official declarations that a book ‘or pamphlet is free of doctrinal or moral error. No implication is contained therein that those who have granted the Nihil obslat and Imprimatur agree with the contents, opinions or statements expressed. ‘Translated from the German Revised mation of Missarum Solemnie (940) ‘Published by Herder Verlag, Vienna, Austria, ae 3 THE MASS OF THE ROMAN RITE: TTS ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT (MISSARUM SOLLEMNIA), VOLUME ONE, COPYRIGHT, 1951, BY BENZIGER BROTHERS, INC. PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED—NO PART OF THIS BOOK MAY BE REPRODUCED IN ANY FORM WITHOUT PERMISSION IN WRITING FROM THE PUBLISHER,Author’s Foreword 18 1 AM SURE NO ONE WILL DOUBT: IF A STUDY OF OUR TRANSMITTED culture is worth the trouble not only of securing a surface know!- ‘edge, but of delving with all available care and love to gain an insight into its essence and its course of development, and to grasp the meaning of every last detail, certainly it is no less true—even aside from higher considerations—with regard to the liturgy of Holy Mass, which is daily celebrated on a hundred thousand altars, and to which, Sunday after Sunday, the whole Catholic population streams. Of course there is no dearth of penetrating studies. Year after year they make their appearance for the widest possible circles of readers. Nor is there a want of scientific research. In the last few decades investigations of every sort have happily been on the increase. But a work of greater magnitude, which would assemble and evaluate the results of so many separate inquiries—that was hardly to be looked for! ‘That the present writer undertook such a task is to be laid, in a sense, to the evil times through which we have passed. When the theological faculty at Innsbruck was abolished a few months after the invasion of the Nazi forces into Austria, the business of teaching could at first be carried on, at least in essentials and with scarcely a diminution of students, out- side the confines of the University. But then came the second blow. On October 12, 1939 the Collegium Maximum was closed and given up, along with the Canisianum which had already been seized. But only a few days later, even before my departure from Innsbruck, I made up my mind to dedicate the time thus left free to me to an exposition of the Mass-liturgy. For that seemed to me to be the theme most useful to handle in a time of stress like this. Besides it was this subject that my previous studies and writings, and the great amount of notes and my moderately large collection of books would have best fitted me for. The dissolution of the college had of course involved not only the loss of the extensive college library, but likewise all access to the stacks of the liturgical seminar which had been built up through the years with much trouble and pain. But I began the work anyway. To be sure, the notion that I could get along with just a few books soon proved to be a big mistake, for I wanted to build a solid structure that did not rest on conjecture and on the unex- amined acceptance of the data of earlier authors. But in my new residence in Vienna I found that the friendliness of the authorities concerned opened up many libraries for my convenience—the house libraries of my own order, of course, and the collections open to all in the public libraries; also v