Southern Comfort wrote:John Ainslie wrote:Quite. The CTS altar missal (and its two derivatives, the chapel and study editions) is beautifully printed and bound. But clearly the CTS wanted to save the considerable expense of re-setting all the music from the rather long lines of the ICEL-provided originals. So they have simply photocopied the ICEL copy. The result is that the text under the music is a good 3 or 4 points smaller than the body text, and noticeably smaller even than the rubrics. The distance at which a priest can read comfortably from a missal stand is much too far to read the music settings easily. I fear that it will discourage many priests from even trying to sing the preface - or the Eucharistic Prayer.
If only they'd read the Sound Reflections column in the latest M&L !
And many clergy round here are saying that the chapel edition (same page size as the £10 temporary altar missal) is simply too small to read at the altar when on the road, let alone the altar edition itself. Hmmm...
I dread to think what the study edition will be like (mine has still not arrived yet).
PS: I know someone who re-engraved the entire new Exsultet in order to make it user-friendly for deacons in candlelight.....
Indeed. Unfortunately, ICEL's excessive love of copyright limits publishers' scope for improvement. See, for example, the discussion here and here.