Knowing the New Mass Translation “By Heart”
For those of you who are unaware, the Mass in the English-speaking world is soon to change. The text of the current Mass which we’ve used for the last fifty years is a paraphrase of the original Latin, which itself had been in use for the previous 500 years. The English translation is being revised and replaced with a translation which is much more faithful to the original Latin text. You can hear a BBC recording of the new translation here.
I hope to do a post or two about some of the upcoming changes, but in the meantime, if you would like to know more, I would suggest you check out some of the posts at Dominus Mihi Adjutor. If you would like a more systematic look at the revision, Roma Locuta Est has been blogging about the changes for some time now.
Hey, by chance, do you know if the churches or do you know of a local church that are handing anything out for the changes?
Not everyone has you as a reference. Just sayin… 😉
I would like to have something I can just insert into my missal. Know what I mean?
If not….Thanks for the reference points here. I can always type something up myself if needs be. =)
I imagine that each parish will handle things differently, but in parts of the English-speaking world where they have already begun introducing it they’ve been using laminated sheets.
I hope priests and catechists will use the time in the run-up to this to run courses etc. At JP2 we’re working our way through a video which explains the changes. We’ll probably do a fake Mass read-through too 😉
When you say that the original Latin had been in use for the previous 500 years I assume that you must be attending the Traditional mass. Unless you are unaware that the when the Novus Ordo was promulgated in 1969 it was in Latin and then translated in the venacular. So to say that the new translations are the same as those in the old missal is not correct. What we have in the majority of Catholic parishes is a more faithful translation of the reformed missal of Paul VI. Which is not the same thing at all.
Yeah, you’re right – I kinda blur the two together in my summary making it rather confusing – fixed. Thanks 🙂