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The Semester Edition is designed to be taught in one semester (about 18–20 weeks). The Complete Course is designed to be taught over a full academic year (about 38–40 weeks).

The student textbook still offers the same great content, now reorganized into Lessons to make teaching easier. The Student Textbook has revised Study Questions and Practical Exercises to enhance learning and retention. The Student Workbook questions have been revised with an emphasis on practical application. The Teacher’s Manual has been completely redone in an all-new format for more efficient lesson planning and enhanced classroom presentation. Lecture Points and Classroom Activities have been revised to encourage student engagement and with more focus on practical application. Teacher’s Manual come with ready to print Midterm and Final Exams, in addition to Chapter Tests, Quizzes, and Vocabulary Exercises.

Yes, we offer various resources for The Didache Series. Teacher materials are available on www.theologicalforum.org. You will need to create an account and then request teacher access. You may access the materials by logging in and then going your account to click on Digital Teacher’s Manuals or Classroom Resources buttons. You can also view these links at the website’s footer under “Classroom Resources”.

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Yes, digital teacher’s manuals are available for various titles of The Didache Semester Series. To view available digital teacher’s manuals, please click here. Please note that Teacher Access is required to preview and purchase digital teacher’s manuals. You may request to upgrade your account with Teacher Access by clicking here.

Yes. Our liturgical and catechetical materials carry the necessary approvals required.

The Daily Roman Missal is available in hardcover (burgundy or black) and leatherbound (burgundy or black). If you are unsure which one you have, the title page will have copyright dates and edition information.

The Committee on pine Worship, a committee of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, does not issue an Imprimatur (“permission to publish”) for liturgical publications such as missals, lectionaries, rituals, and books of blessings. Instead, the Committee has issued a Concordat cum Originali, which is an attestation that the texts included in the book faithfully reproduce what are found in the official publications. Since this missal has been granted a Concordat cum Originali, no further permission to publish is necessary (or even possible to obtain).

The Order of Mass—including the Eucharistic Prayers, the Entrance and Communion Antiphons, the response to the Responsorial Psalm, the Sequence, the Alleluia Verse Before the Gospel—and many of the devotions and prayers are in both Latin and English.

The Prefaces in this edition are in English only; however, we do have an edition with the Latin and English texts of the Prefaces: Large Print Edition with Additional Eucharistic Prayers.

There are no proper Prefaces for these Eucharistic Prayers. Whereas Eucharistic Prayers II and IV have proper Prefaces, I and III do not; this is not something the editors forgot to include or decided to omit. When praying Eucharistic Prayer I or III, use the Preface specified by the rubrics. For example, in Ordinary Time see page 839, no. 5: “[O]n Sundays one of the Prefaces of Sundays in Ordinary Time is said, pp. 745–749; but on weekdays, a Common Preface is said, pp. 758–762.”

To a limited extent, yes. The Latin texts are universal and the English texts from the missal are copyrighted by the International Commission on English in the Liturgy, which are used throughout the English-speaking world. However, the readings are taken from the New American Bible with Revised New Testament, which is approved for all Masses in the dioceses of the USA; furthermore, the calendar is adapted for use in the dioceses of the USA, so feasts proper to other English-speaking countries are not in this missal.

Table I, on pages xxxiv–xxxvii, is a useful guide. For example, let us use Table I to find the prayers and readings on the Sunday of Pentecost 2019. This feast is listed on page xxxv, about 4/5 the way down the table. The header rows of the table inform us this feast in 2019 will use the readings for Year C, and tracing this down to the row labeled “Pentecost” informs us this feast will fall on June 9. Turning to page 689, as indicated to the left of “Pentecost,” we find the beginning of this Mass.

It is on page 1823. This is a moveable feast, meaning its calendar date is not the same every year. The feasts at the end of Ordinary Time are Feasts of the Lord, which this is not. Therefore, the altar missal and lectionary place it between May and June because most years it is celebrated in June.

The Psalms are numbered differently in the missal and the lectionary; we have reproduced faithfully what appears in each publication. In the lectionary published by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) in 1998 and 2002, the Psalms are numbered according to the Hebrew tradition; however, in the altar missal published by the USCCB in 2010, the Psalms are numbered according to the Hebrew tradition with the Greco–Latin tradition acknowledged in brackets. As we have no authority to alter either source when printing our missal, we have reproduced faithfully what appears in each one. The number of a Psalm in the Greco–Latin tradition (Septuagint, Vulgate) is often one less than in the Hebrew tradition. Citing both traditions as the missal does conveys more information but is a more accurate citation.

There are two traditions for numbering the Psalms, and this references the Greco–Latin tradition. The number of a Psalm in the Greco–Latin tradition (Septuagint, Vulgate) is often one less than in the Hebrew tradition. Since this prayer is printed in both Latin and English, the editors thought it would seem more dignified to number it according to just the Greco-Latin tradition rather than the Hebrew as well.

They indicate the leader’s verses and a person’s or the people’s responses. The abbreviation “V.” indicates where the leader of the prayer speaks, and “R.” indicates the response. For example, in the Angelus on page 2299, the first two lines are thus:
V. The angel of the Lord declared unto Mary;
R. And she conceived by the Holy Spirit.
In this example, the leader reads the first line, and everyone else responds with the second line.

The answer begins on page 839. This quoted section of the missal explains what elements from the missal are used during Ordinary Time. Number 3b reads, in part: “On weekdays, however, any of the thirty-four [Sunday] Masses may be used.” Unless there is a feast day, the Entrance and Communion Antiphons are taken from one of the Sunday Masses. There is no way for us to know which antiphons will be chosen, again quoting from number 3b, considering that “the pastoral needs of the faithful are taken into consideration.” The best way to learn this would probably be to ask the celebrant; perhaps he has a pattern, for example, using the previous Sunday’s antiphons. Page xx also includes a helpful guide for Mass on weekdays.

The current printing of the Daily Roman Missal does have the invocation of St. Joseph in Eucharistic Prayers II, III, and IV.

Yes. The latest printing reflects the latest translation of the Collect prayer from Latin to English.