missaletten.
/ˌmɪsəˈlɛt/, U.S. /ˌmɪsəˈlɛt/ Roman Catholic Church.
A sheet or pamphlet containing the prayers, readings, etc., for the Mass of a specific day.
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1971 M. Gilligan How to prepare Mass 27 This, in fact, is the decisive advantage of any hymnal over a missalette…the choice you have in a hymnal is far wider than that of any missalette.
1974 Catholic Herald 7 June 5/8 Most of them can hardly cross the sanctuary without consulting a ‘missalette’.
1985 Chicago Tribune 15 Mar. iv. 12/1 In front of the whole church, his mother and the nuns, Joe must read from the missalette.
1994 Remnant 15 July 3/2 Pick up a child's textbook, a missalette, a ‘thought for the day’.
2002 Crisis (Notre Dame, Indiana) Jan. 29/1 Missalettes ‘make it easy for you to introduce the latest music to your parish, and changes in Church rituals are easy to implement’. Thus the missalette is ‘always up-to-date’.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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