ICEL’s Executive Director: New Missal Translation ‘Long Overdue’ [Catholic Caucus]

NewLitrugicalMovement.org ^ | June 30, 2011 | Shawn Tribe

[Salvation]

ICEL’s Executive Director: New Missal Translation ‘Long Overdue’

by Shawn Tribe

I am grateful to have had the following article pointed out to me yesterday: ICEL’s Executive Director: New Missal Translation ‘Long Overdue’.

An excerpt:

Although Catholics have become accustomed to the current translation of the Roman missal and some may wonder why a new one is being introduced, Msgr. Andrew Wadsworth, who is executive director of the International Commission on English in the Liturgy — which prepared the forthcoming translation that debuts in Catholic churches in the U.S. on the First Sunday of Advent — says it was high time for a revision.

“When our current translation of the Roman Missal — the first English version — was implemented in 1973, it was recognized that it would need revision in time. Many people thought it would be only five years before it was revised,” he said. “That was over 40 years ago, so such a revision is long overdue.

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“Although we have become accustomed to the prayers at the Mass as we currently have them,” Msgr. Wadsworth continued, “many people would identify a number of serious limitations in the translation we have been using.”

One limitation, in his view, is that the current translation often fails to convey as full a sense of the sacred as worship requires. Everyday idioms have, in many instances, been used in place of the more lofty language appropriate for addressing God. The new Missal, he notes, does employ a “more formal language suitable for worship.”

Many ancient prayers added dignity and gravity through the use of repetition, and this will be restored in the new version.

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Posted Thursday, June 30, 2011

[Salvation]

There are seven comments at the site, but I couldn't access them. Maybe you can.

I haven't looked at the entire document yet.

[Salvation]

It’s still the Mass ping — about the new translation that will start in Advent, 2011.

[steve86]

Although Catholics have become accustomed to the current translation of the Roman missal

Somehow I avoided that.

[steve86]

I FReepmailed you the first 26 comments. Hope I got the right ones.

[jmacusa]

Thank you, I’ll keep an eye out for it. God Bless you.

[maryz]

He finds the vocabulary “awkward and stilted,” adding, “Presiders . . ."

It's not likely that anyone who uses "presiders" has anything useful to say about anything else either! ;-)

[sayuncledave]

Likewise. I am avidly looking forward to the new translation, and plan to buy a missal, to match my one from Angelus Press for Traditional Latin Mass.

[Salvation]

I think Father Ryan is way off the mark too.

Is presider a post Vatican II word? LOL!

[Salvation]

What don't these commentors understand about Et cum spiritu tuo"?

Don't they realize that we are praying for the priest's spirit, enhanced already by the Holy Spirit in the Sacrament of Holy Orders, to be strengthened?

Can't quite figure them out.....may they are just CINOs?

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[Salvation]

Thanks, I didn’t know that.

[Salvation]

Everyone, Please check the entire article by clicking on the posted link above in the main article.

[Bigg Red]

“Although we have become accustomed to the prayers at the Mass as we currently have them,” ....

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Ha! Not this Catholic!

[Bigg Red]

I still have not seen an explanation of why we cannot just go back to the English translation as it appears in my pre-Vatican II “St. Joseph’s Daily Missal”.

[Coleus]

I agree.

One of the reasons is the political correctness saying “my brothers” “mankind” etc.

[Bigg Red]

One of the reasons is the political correctness saying “my brothers” “mankind” etc.

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You are probably right. But, jeez, they could have done word searches to purge words like that. And really, are the people that stupid that they would think at the “Orate, fratres” that the priest was addressing only the males present.

When I visit my sisters in PA and we go to their parish, I always hope that Mass will not be said by a particular priest who insists on lisping, “Pray, family

When I attend a Mass and here a priest substituting “God’s” for “his” I want stand up and scream.

[Coleus]

When I attend a Mass and here a priest substituting “God’s” for “his” I want stand up and scream. >>

I know a couple of priests who do that...what are they trying to prove?