[COBOL2Java]

Hmm. I have a quirky question, which maybe somebody here could ansewr: can the Mass prayers be licitly “said” by the priest in Sign Language, e.g. Gallaudet ASL?

There's a deaf church in Lanham MD that my wife and I used to attend; our daughter was baptized there. I would have to say yes, signing the Mass is licit.

Center for Deaf Ministries

[Mrs. Don-o]

Oh, good! I’ll have to read that. I knew there must be an alert, well-informed FReeper out there who would know the answer.

[Mrs. Don-o]

And here's some other links: Canon Lawyer Ed Peters' letter to the Adoremus Bulletin on the Liturgy in Sign Language and his second, equally excellent letter. --- Helen Hitchcock opted not to print either one, which rather disturbed me because as a faithful, fair-minded, and intelligent advocate on liturgical issues, she should have welcomed Ed Peters' contribution as an informed opinion, even if at some points she sees difficulties in his approach.

Anyway, even people who aren't deaf, or don't have deaf loved ones, can, I think, benefit from this discussion. It illuminates the two underlying points: on the one hand the language is deeply important, but on the other hand not all elements of "style" are worth yelling and griping about, if the words say the right stuff.

BTW, I like reading the Spanish version in the missalette, because I'm not so very good in Spanish. . It's paradoxically, an advantage, because I have to slow way down and mull it. So I can grasp the different way it expresses what's in the editio typica and it --- I can't 'splain it --- makes my neural net sparkle.

[TradicalRC]

Do they have a hymnal?