Change in Liturgy (finally!)
Roman Catholic bishops in the United States voted yesterday to change the wording of many of the prayers and blessings that Catholics have recited at daily Mass for more than 35 years, yielding to Vatican pressure for an English translation that is closer to the original Latin.
The bishops, meeting in Los Angeles, voted 173 to 29 to accept many of the changes to the Mass, a pivotal point in a 10-year struggle that many English-speaking Catholics had dubbed "the liturgy wars."
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The new translation is likely to please those traditionalists who longed for an English version more faithful to the Latin in use before the Second Vatican Council in the 1960's. But it may upset Catholics who have committed the current prayer book to heart and to memory and who take comfort in its more conversational cadences.
Via NY Times.
I, for one, take no comfort in the "conversational cadences" of the Nova Ordo, and long to see some good old mangled English at mass. Now, if only we can get the Vatican to make incense absolutely mandatory!
The bishops, meeting in Los Angeles, voted 173 to 29 to accept many of the changes to the Mass, a pivotal point in a 10-year struggle that many English-speaking Catholics had dubbed "the liturgy wars."
...
The new translation is likely to please those traditionalists who longed for an English version more faithful to the Latin in use before the Second Vatican Council in the 1960's. But it may upset Catholics who have committed the current prayer book to heart and to memory and who take comfort in its more conversational cadences.
Via NY Times.
I, for one, take no comfort in the "conversational cadences" of the Nova Ordo, and long to see some good old mangled English at mass. Now, if only we can get the Vatican to make incense absolutely mandatory!
posted by timothy at 5:42 AM
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