Posted on 04/10/2014 7:22:11 PM PDT by marshmallow
(RNS) A new translation of the Mass has been used in the nation’s Catholic parishes for less than three years, but there are signs that the language—often criticized as stilted and awkward—could be in for another edit.
“We’ve tried it, we’ve lived with it, we think it needs correction,” Atlanta Archbishop Wilton Gregory told a conference on liturgical reform last month in one of the most public and high-level expressions of discontent with the missal, as the Mass text is called.
Gregory was seconded by Bishop Robert Lynch of the Diocese of St. Petersburg, in an echo of comments last year by Bishop Robert Brom, now retired as head of the San Diego diocese, who said “the new missal needs corrective surgery and this should take place without delay.”
Reopening that process would be a momentous step.
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I mean... what would somebody think of us if we threw him a party every week then wouldn’t speak to him afterwards? He’d be kind of blue about it.
Ha, so true!
Truly, if it were to go in that direction (albeit it is heading there now), the Sunday Mass will turn into a small weekly collection of the ‘Preaching to the Choir’ club. I mean this with no disrespect to what Christ left us at the Last Supper, but a denouncement against the obsession with the ‘ceremonial’ over the ‘message’ that is now entrenched in the most recent changes that have taken place!
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