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Visitors ask...Daily Latin Mass Readings-II

I continue to have people searching for "Daily Latin Mass Readings." By this, I suppose they mean Readings akin to these for the Novus Ordo Missae . These are the major readings that change day by day and are read aloud. The Roman Missal of 1962 is explained here on New Advent . Note that: The smaller of these divisions containing that portion of the liturgy which is said in every Mass, the "Ordo Missae" with the prefaces and the Canon, is placed, probably with a view to the more convenient opening of the book, near the centre of the volume immediately before the proper Mass for Easter Sunday . The portions of the Mass which change daily are referred to as the Propers: The remainder of the book is devoted to those portions of the liturgy which vary from day to day according to feast and season. Each Mass consists usually of Introit , Collect, Epistle, Gradual and Alleluia or Tract, Gospel, Offertory , Secret, Communion, and Post-Communion, the passages or p...