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[[File:John William Waterhouse - The Missal.JPG|thumb|''The Missal'', a 1902 portrait by [[John William Waterhouse]]]]
A '''missal''' is a [[liturgical book]] containing instructions and texts necessary for the celebration of [[Mass (liturgy)|Mass]] throughout the [[liturgical year]]. Versions differ across liturgical tradition, period, and purpose, with some missals intended to enable a priest to celebrate Mass publicly and others for private and lay use. The texts of the most common Eucharistic liturgy in the world, the [[Catholic Church]]'s [[Mass of Paul VI]] of the [[Roman Rite]], are contained in the 1970 edition of the [[Roman Missal]]. 

Missals have also been published for earlier forms of the Roman Rite and other [[Latin liturgical rites]]. Other liturgical books typically contain the Eucharistic liturgies of other ritual traditions, but missals exist for the [[Byzantine Rite]]s, [[Western Rite Orthodoxy|Eastern Orthodox Western Rite]]s, [[Lutheran]] and [[Anglicanism|Anglican]] liturgies.