Missals will are no longer available in the pews. Cards with the prayers for the Mass are available for those who need them in baskets in the church entryways. If you take one as you enter church, please remember to return it to the basket after Mass. The Music issue will still be available. The common prayers will also be available in laminated hard paper. Temporarily we will be printing the readings in English and Spanish side by side in the form of worship and every weekend until such time we will get used to it. The hospitality ministry will make them available only for those who are interested as they enter the church. The reasons why we will not subscribe to having missals in our church anymore are the following:

The General Introduction of the Roman Missal (GIRM) states that the congregation should listen to the reading being proclaimed by the lectors and dnot reading the text with the lectors (GIRM #29).

Otherwise we would not need lectors anymore to proclaim the Word of God and we would just read the texts ourselves.

Listening intently is the real decorum of the congregation while the readings are being read and proclaimed by the lector. Let us make ourselves focused on the readings during the celebration of the Word and be fully attentive while they are being read by the lector. Churches have started during this for quite some time now, like the Cathedral, some churches in the diocese and most churches in the Midwest and East Coast.