Dr Marshall’s Happy Meal: Traditional Catholic Books You Must Own

Many people rediscover traditional theology, traditional liturgy, and traditional piety. They want to go to the next step. “What books should I buy?” Dr Marshall recommends these 8-10 books as the Traditional Happy Meal:

Latin Mass and Liturgy:

You need the 1962 hand missal because that’s what is stipulated in Summorum Pontificum, but everyone realizes that the 1955 Holy Week of Bugnini is inferior and thus you also need a pre-1955 hand missal. These are my favorites:

• 1945 Father Lasance Roman Missal (this is currently out of print – buy used)
• 1945 Saint Andrew Missal (if you cannot find the Father Lasance Roman Missal, this is a close second)
• 1962 Roman Missal (Angelus Press) (this is my third place option)

If you want to pray the old traditional office, it can be intimidating. Traditionally, the laity prayed the Little Office instead. This the traditional format with Latin/English:

• Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary (1961 Latin/English)

Canon Law:

• 1917 Pio-Benedictine Code of Canon Law (Ignatius Press)

Sacred Scripture:

• The Holy Bible Douay Rheims Bible (Baronius Press)

If you want Latin:

• Holy Bible Douay-Rheims and Latin Clementine Vulgate

Theology, Prayer, and Catechism:

• Roman Catechism aka the Catechism of the Council of Trent
• Baltimore Catechism
• Summa Theologiae of Saint Thomas Aquinas in English
• The Raccolta Manual of Indulgences (1957 Edition)

Video on why you need THIS VERSION of the Summa:

You don’t need all these books, but every Catholic home should have these books as references on the bookshelf.

Godspeed,
Dr Taylor Marshall