As a guide to the Traditional Latin Mass, the St. Benedict Tridentine Catholic Community has developed a set of handouts containing the Propers, or changing parts of the Mass, along with the music and announcements for the week. Both the original Latin and English translations are provided, to help you follow the Sacred Liturgy.

PDF versions of these Propers Handouts are posted below, covering the Sundays and major feasts of the year. They are sized to print on legal-size paper, folded in half. You may find these to be helpful in preparing for Holy Mass.

The Red Missals available at the back of the church contain the Ordinary, or unchanging parts of the Mass. Together with the Blue Hymnals which contain most of the hymns and Mass parts that the congregation sings, these resources help you to follow and participate in the Holy Mass. You do not need to know Latin; English is alongside the Latin. The Red Missals also contain pictures and explanations in the margins to help you understand what the priest is doing at the altar.

Large-font English Readings Sheets for use in the pulpit have also been posted here for use by the priest.

Additional handouts will be posted here as more are created.


ORIGINAL WORD DOCUMENTS AVAILABLE TO OTHER LATIN MASS COMMUNITIES

As we were determining how to provide handouts for our congregation, it became apparent that none of the downloadable Propers available on the Internet were sufficiently accurate to meet our needs. We thus took on the multi-year task of creating our own set from scratch. The Latin and English texts in these handouts have been cross-checked for accuracy against a number of Latin and English missals. Citations from Holy Scripture have been verified. Accent marks have been added to aid in proper pronunciation of the Latin. All of the updates from the 1962 edition of the Roman Missal have been incorporated. In all, over one thousand hours of preparation and proofreading were invested in the creation of these handouts.  While perfection is impossible, we believe that they are more accurate than any other alternative documents.

No one should have to go through this exercise again. We are therefore making the original Microsoft Word files of these handouts available to other churches wishing to create Worship Aids for their own congregations. Each month we will e-mail you the Word files for the Propers Handouts and large-font English Readings sheets for the pulpit. Numerous churches and organizations worldwide now make use of these handouts, including Old St. Mary's and Ss. Peter & Paul Westside Churches in Detroit; the Oakland County Latin Mass Association at the Shrine Chapel of St. John Paul II in Orchard Lake, Michigan; the Latin Mass Communities of Montgomery, Alabama and the Space Coast, Florida; and Our Lady of the Gulf Parish in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.

Please e-mail info@windsorlatinmass.org or call (248) 250-2740 for further information.