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Showing posts with label Is your praish studying the new translations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Is your praish studying the new translations. Show all posts

Friday, April 1, 2011

Is Your Parish Studying the New Translation?

The new Sacramentary translations go into effect at the Vigil Mass for the first Sunday of Advent about eight months from now. My parish is running a series introducing the changes which bring the Mass into closer alignment with the Latin. The Latin doesn't change at all, but the English will be more in accordance with what the Latin really says rather than the "dynamic equivalency" of the former translation (which wasn't equivalent at all).

I'm delighted to see the changes and I look forward to a more beautiful Mass with more poetic language that is appropriate to the solemnity of liturgy. "From east to west" becomes "From the rising of the sun to its setting...." Who can complain about that?

Is your parish preparing the people for the new translation?  Are people talking about it? Are people complaining about it? What's going on where you live?