The 2027 Source & Summit Missal is now in stock and shipping to parishes across the country. As we enter the sixth year of publication, we're grateful for the hundreds of parishes and the hundreds of thousands of Catholics who have made the Source & Summit Missal a part of their weekly worship.

The 2026 Missal introduced a number of substantive changes — including expanded hymnody, larger lyric typesetting, and additional devotional prayers. The 2027 edition keeps that work intact and turns its attention to the broader missal program: a beautiful new cover, a meaningful improvement to what comes with every subscription, a brand-new resource for choirs and accompanists, and exciting new features on the Source & Summit Digital Platform.

You can request a sample copy for review, or request a quote to assist your parish's budgeting process.

The 2027 Source & Summit Missal: An Overview

The 2027 Source & Summit Missal is once again available in two editions. The Source & Summit Missal, Standard Edition contains everything you need in one book — readings, hymns, Mass settings, sung antiphons, chant-based Responsorial Psalms and Alleluias, devotional prayers, and more. 

Meanwhile the Source & Summit Missal, Companion Edition, providing readings and priestly orations, but no hymns, can serve as a “companion” to an existing pew hymnal. This comparison of the two editions can help you decide which is best for your parish's needs.

Every missal subscription comes with a free Digital Support Plan on the Source & Summit Digital Platform and a free set of Accompaniment Editions automatically shipped to every subscriber.

What's New in the 2027 Editions

Cover Art: Our Lady of the Annunciation

The 2027 Source & Summit Missal moves into the blue (Year B) phase of our three-year cover cycle. 

This year's cover, once again produced by Ruth Stricklin of New Jerusalem Studios, depicts Our Lady of the Annunciation. Mary kneels before the Archangel Gabriel, who delivers the angelic greeting from Luke 1:28:  Ave, gratia plena — "Hail, full of grace." At Mary's side is the lily, the traditional symbol of her purity. Also beside Our Lady rests a lectern, reflecting the ancient tradition that Mary was at prayer with the Sacred Scriptures at the time of the angel’s arrival. 

Lastly, the image includes a plant rising from the earth: the root of Jesse. The image draws directly from Isaiah 11:1 — “a shoot shall sprout from the stump of Jesse, and from his roots a bud shall blossom” — the messianic prophecy that finds its fulfillment in this very moment. 

The Annunciation is the hinge around which the long arc of salvation history turns, and we’re privileged to have Ruth’s depiction of that moment upon this year’s missals. 

In fact, last month, we sat down with Ruth for a longer conversation about her vocation as a sacred artist and the principles guiding her work. Speaking about her work on the Source & Summit Missal covers in particular, Ruth told us:

"My hope is that my work would allow people to encounter the love of God, the perfect order of his mind, which invites us into healing and integration with this divine order, and to call them into their own participation in his mission to redeem the world."

That is our hope for this Missal as well: that it would serve not only as a practical resource for the celebration of the liturgy, but also as an immediate aid to prayer and an encounter with God for the faithful in the pew.

You can read the full interview here.

Free Accompaniment / Choir Editions, Automatically Included

One of the most significant improvements in 2027 is not a change to the missal itself, but to what comes with every subscription. Source & Summit Missal subscribers have always been entitled to receive a free set of Accompaniment Editions — a book of Entrance, Offertory, and Communion Antiphons; a book of Responsorial Psalms; and a three-hole-punched packet of Mass Settings and hymn accompaniments in two-staff organist format. 

What's changed is how parishes receive them:

• No more claim forms. Previously, parishes had to submit a claim form indicating which accompaniment books they wanted and in what format. Beginning in 2027, one free set of accompaniments will ship automatically to every missal subscriber alongside their missal shipment. These accompaniments will arrive in a separate shipment than the missals themselves, but should arrive at your parish around the same time. 

• Spiral binding across the board. All bound accompaniment books — specifically the volumes of Responsorial Psalms & Antiphons and Entrance, Offertory, and Communion Antiphons — are now produced in exclusively with spiral binding, which lies flat on a music stand or organ console and stands up to weekly use far better than perfect binding. The perfect-bound option is no longer available. The three-hole-punched packet for Mass Settings and hymn accompaniments will still be available as usual.

A New SATB Accompaniment / Choir Edition

For 2027, we're also introducing an entirely new resource for parish choirs and accompanists: a Source & Summit Accompaniment / Choir Edition for Hymns. This large-format, spiral-bound volume contains SATB harmonizations for all of the hymns in the Source & Summit Missal, Standard Edition — ideal for cantors, choir members, , and accompanists who prefer a spiral format.

This Hymn Accompaniment / Choir Edition will be available for purchase as a supplement to the free accompaniment set that comes with every subscription. 

Pre-orders of all accompaniments will be available soon. 

Missal Dimensions Unchanged

As always, the dimensions of both the Standard and Companion Editions remain consistent with prior volumes at 6.125x9.25 inches and with similar page counts as in the past: 860 pages for the Standard Edition and about 650 for the Companion Edition . Any missal covers your parish has purchased previously can continue to be used without concern. New vinyl missal covers are available here. 

Updates to the Source & Summit Digital Platform

The Source & Summit Digital Platform continues to evolve alongside the Missal. While the full list of improvements in the last year would be too unwieldy to list in full, parish musicians have seen meaningful improvements over the past year in two areas in particular: the print-ready resources you can build inside Resource Creation, and the lineup of Ordos available for devotional and seasonal use.

Resource Creation Updates

• Multi-page Crop and Break. Crop and break functionality now extends to multi-page PDFs, not just single-page uploads. Since a large portion of customer uploads run longer than a page, this makes integrating larger music collections into your worship aids and booklets significantly faster.

• Sequential Page Order for booklet formatting. A new sequencing mode brings the page-order conventions familiar from professional tools like InDesign into Resource Creation. It offers greater flexibility for experienced users while preserving the default WYSIWYG bi-fold spread for everyone else.

• Max Verse / Engraving Control for verse splitting. Hymns can now be split into two verse sections (e.g., verses 1–3 and 4–6) for cleaner page breaks and tighter visual flow in print — useful when a longer hymn lands awkwardly across a spread.

Content Expansion & Non-Liturgical Ordos

• Stations of the Cross. Following the move of the Stations out of the Standard Edition last year, two versions are now available in the Platform — one according to St. Alphonsus Liguori and another according to Pope Benedict XVI — ready to customize and download as print-ready booklets.

• Eucharistic Procession. A new Ordo for this devotional service joins the lineup, supporting parishes that incorporate it into their calendar. The Digital Platform makes it easy to prepare your music team and equip your congregation with printed aids. 

• Nine Lessons and Carols. We’ve also added an Ordo for this beloved service to complement parishes’ Advent and Christmas Seasons.

As always, we’re continually working to add more content to the Digital Platform; in the last year we’ve added Orations as configurable options throughout the Ordo, expanding what music leaders can build for custom and special-use liturgies. We’ve also added the Christmas Proclamation as an optional element to The Nativity of the Lord: Mass during the Night and much more. 

These improvements are live now for every Missal subscriber on their Digital Support plan.

Bring the Source & Summit Missal to Your Parish

Our Parish Support team is eager to answer any questions you may have and to discuss the needs of your parish. You can contact us via this form or call us at (888) 462-7780 to place an order.