The Saint John Fisher Missale

St John Fisher preaching at the funeral of Henry VII, 1509. Reproduced with kind permission of the Warburg Institute, University of London.
St John Fisher preaching at the funeral of Henry VII, 1509. Reproduced with kind permission of the Warburg Institute, University of London.
Welcome to the Website of the Saint John Fisher Missale, a project of Catholic members of the University of Cambridge. This website provides materials that should help the faithful more fully to participate in Holy Mass celebrated in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, and particularly in sung Masses.

Ordo Missæ and Kyriale

Unless indicated otherwise, the following texts are only 1-2 pages long, and they appear twice in each file in order to facilitate printing.

Additional Collects

Proper of Seasons

Unless indicated otherwise, the following texts are 3-4 pages long, so that they can printed on one A4-sheet as a double-sided booklet.

Advent

Christmastide

Time after the Epiphany

Septuagesima

Lent

Holy Week (pre-1955)

Eastertide

Ascensiontide

Pentecost

Time after Pentecost

Proper of Saints

December

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

Local Feasts celebrated in East Anglia

Commons

In preparation.

Votive Masses

Masses for the Faithful Departed

The Order of the Requiem Mass contains an Ordo Missae with the peculiar features of the Requiem Mass, the music for the Ordinary, and the texts of the Proper Chants, which are the same in all Masses for the dead.

Therefore, the files with the Propers contain only the Collects and readings, and hence they are shorter than usual (two pages, again appearing twice in each file).

Because many of those attending a funeral will not be familiar with the Extraordinary Form, a series of files was produced that contain the complete texts of some Masses, with the texts from the Propers inserted at the right place of the Order of Mass. This was done for the Mass for departed priests, and for the Mass on the day of Burial (the latter comes in three different versions, one has alternative words for a man and a woman, the other two are for a man and for a woman respectively).

Texts of Miscellaneous Chants

Please contact the editors at stjohnfishermissale@gmail.com to inform them of any errors you might find or to ask for further permissions to reprint the material.
The editors ask all users to pray, through the intercession of St John Fisher, for the good estate of Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge, the clergy and faithful of its Catholic Chaplaincy at Fisher House, and Masters, Fellows, Scholars and all members of the ancient and religious foundations of Peterhouse, Corpus Christi College, Emmanuel College, Churchill College and Fitzwilliam College in this University, and likewise for the eternal rest of the founders and benefactors of these institutions.