Q: Greetings once again from Canada,

In your recent post https://paulturner.org/readings-on-all-souls-day/ , you note that in the Proper of Saints, the use of the Gloria is indicated “when applicable”. This is also true of the Creed. For example, for the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica on November 9, “When this Feast falls on a Sunday, the Creed is said.” Likewise for the Presentation of the Lord and the Transfiguration. No similar rubric appears for All Souls.

The 2008 Missale Romanum does the same thing: “Quando hoc festum incidit in dominicam, dicitur Credo.” appears on February 2, August 6, and November 9, but not for All Souls.

As corroborating evidence, I note that, per my online research, in the 2013-2014 Ordo produced by the CCCB, a Gloria and a Creed were both indicated… this year, they are not. Given that the annual building of the Canadian Ordo seems to me to rely quite heavily on extensive use of a copy & paste function, I expect that that was an intentional change.

For whatever it may be worth, the 1962 Missale Romanum, which in its Proprium Sanctorum indicates the use of a Creed simply by including the word “Credo” in the appropriate location, also omits the Creed on All Souls. 

Notwithstanding the added rubric in the current Italian edition of the Roman Missal (https://paulturner.org/gloria-and-the-creed/), is it not possible that GIRM 68 simply is not accounting for an intentional exception that occurs, on average, only once in seven years?

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A: All the examples you give are Feasts of the Lord, which are in a different category than the Commemoration of All Souls, which is effectively a Mass for the Dead. I understand that the USCCB did not give an opinion on this because some opinions differ. I stand by my position that the Gloria and the Creed follow different rules. There are Sundays when there is no Gloria—and weekdays in Advent and Lent when there is one. But the Creed or the renewal of baptismal promises is part of every Sunday liturgy.