And With Your Passage: The "New Mass" Train Rolls On

witl ^ | July 21, 2009 | Rocco Palmo

[NYer]

As an American arrived in the Vatican post that'll oversee the English-speaking church's global transition to the controversial new rendering of the Roman Missal, the US bishops did their part to keep the process moving, approving each of the four action-items on the new text presented last month in San Antonio... albeit on mail ballot given the meeting's "inconclusive vote" from the floor:

The translation of the Order of Mass II (of the Roman Missal) received 191 votes in favor, 25 against and five abstentions.

The translation of the Masses and Prayers for Various Needs and Intentions passed by 163 votes, while 53 bishops voted against it and five abstained.

The translation of the rituals for Votive Masses and Masses for the Dead passed 181 to 32 with two abstentions.

And the translation of the text for Ritual Masses received 186 votes in favor, 32 nays and two abstentions.

As things didn't go so smoothly last year, this is progress.

Come November, the USCCB will take its final votes on the 2002 editio typica in English. From there, so they say, it's not without possibility that Rome's recognitio (confirmation) for the completed Missal could arrive even before year's end.

To date, however, just two of the eleven Anglophone conferences have green-lighted the entire revised package of Mass-texts, which prematurely appeared in South Africa late last year. Once the Holy See grants its blessing to the "new" Mass -- which, in a change from present practice, will utilize the same text across the English-speaking world -- it falls to each national conference to fix an implementation date.

[NYer]

Liturgy update!

[AnAmericanMother]

And with thy spirit!

[netmilsmom]

Approving it is one thing.
Implementing it is another.

The gnashing of teeth will begin once it is approved.

Like I said, I attended a whooping “Lite Rock” mass a couple of weekends ago. The innovations abounded. In some diocese, this will just be ignored.

[Salvation]

Amen!

[Brian Kopp DPM]

Obedience to the original Latin and to binding/authoritative Church documents on liturgical translations is somehow “controversial”?

[Salvation]

*8The gnashing of teeth will begin once it is approved.**

Not with my priest — he has been waiting for this for three years. I suspect he will have another Faith Formation 101 for Adults during both Advent and Lent on this topic.

It’s so wonderful to have a priest who wants more orthodoxy. His Scripture Study classes are also fabulous. Over 30 adults attend every week — even during the summer.

[Salvation]

One of Rocco's links above had this:

Roman Missal Formational Materials

Introduction to the Roman Missal Formation Website
Welcome Letter from Bishop Arthur J. Serratelli  l En español
Chairman, USCCB Committee on Divine Worship

Parts of the Order of Mass
Letter Accompanying the Recognitio from Francis Cardinal Arinze
Prefect, Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments

• COMPLETE TEXT (PDF)
• COMPLETE TEXT (Scripturally annotated) (PDF)
• Eucharistic Prayer I (Roman Canon) (PDF)
• Eucharistic Prayer II (PDF)
• Eucharistic Prayer III (PDF)
• Eucharistic Prayer IV (PDF)

English translation of The Order of Mass I

[dangus]

Mass Transit?

[livius]

My bishop, who seems to believe that Catholics have the IQs of squid, voted against it and in fact was one of the leaders in the opposition and one of those who derailed it last fall. Hah!

It will be sweet to hear the new translation! It won’t solve all the problems with the Novus Ordo, but it’s a start.

[AnAmericanMother]

I like this very much.

< snarking former Piskie > It was a long way around to get back to something very like the old Anglican prayer book . . . . :-D < /snarking former Piskie >

[Biggirl]

Better to have some needed corrections made then none at all.

[Dajjal]

bumpus ad summum

[netmilsmom]

Well, you know, my parish will adopt it immediately!

But one of our six weekend Holy Masses is TLM

[IrishBrigade]

My bishop, who seems to believe that Catholics have the IQs of squid, voted against it and in fact was one of the leaders in the opposition and one of those who derailed it last fall. Hah!...

...your bishop wouldn’t be the eminent Donald Trautman of the Erie, Pa. diocese, would it? This individual worried in print about the parishionate being exposed to such terms as ‘efficacy’, and not fully appreciating the Mass due to the ‘elevation’ of the language...apparently not giving us enough credit to look the word up ourselves and thus end the confusion...when I think of individuals like Bishop Trautman messing with the Mass of All Time, and giving us the pallid, protestant Pauline celebration, I seethe, further stressing my already clogged arteries...