First Issue of Sophia Press’ Benedictus (August 2021) Now Available
My hopes were already high, given the short sample that was mailed out during Lent and the detailed advertising, but I have to say that the first issue exceeds all my expectations. It is an absolutely gorgeous publication. I will share now some photos along with brief comments. (If any of the images are blurry, that’s the fault of my bucket-o’-bolts camera; make due allowances.)
For the sake of scale (it’s a compact book that would fit in a purse or a jacket pocket, but not a pants pocket; a bit larger than Magnificat):
The two-tone artwork (black and gold) with gray shading is more elegant by far than anything I’ve seen in a missallette like this; the layout is handsome, the font easy on the eye; the meditations and features are exquisitely chosen from traditional sources, which will be one of the great benefits Benedictus bestows on its users.
First, for the layout of the Order of Mass, which is repeated with full Propers and Ordinary for each Sunday and Holy Day (so, no page turns in those cases):
Well-chosen artwork complements the texts:
All the Commemorations are in place, as here with the Commemoration of St. Romanus:
Dom Prosper Guéranger on St. Lawrence |
Pope Pius XII on the Assumption |
Fr James Meagher, Teaching Truth by Signs and Ceremonies (1882) |
Fr Francis X. Weiser, Religious Customs in the Family (1956) |
I am told that Sophia has by now over 8,000 subscriptions, well beyond the minimum 5,000 that they needed for a successful launch of the publication. However, if you haven’t subscribed yet, give it serious consideration. For $5 per month, you can get a nearly 400-page guide for yourself, a spouse or child or other relative; it can be primarily for use in church or for your prayer and spiritual reading and/or devotions at home, etc. (particularly in situations where a daily TLM is unavailable or practically impossible).
For full disclosure, I’m not paid anything to promote Benedictus; I’m just gushing with my own enthusiasm. This is a first-class resource for which we have been waiting a long time, and it arrives at exactly the right time. When people ask me, “What do you think about the upcoming restrictions on the Latin Mass?,” I want to reply, “Vatican Shmatican. We keep praying as our forefathers prayed, and we pay no heed to the dying modernists.” That’s the way forward: the way of tradition. Benedictus is yet another beautiful sign of the burgeoning vitality and institutional permanence of the classical Roman Rite.
To subscribe, visit the Benedictus website.
Source: http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2021/07/first-issue-of-sophia-press-benedictus.html
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