[from my parish bulletin]<\/p>\n
On the First Sunday of Advent of 2011, the Catholic Church in the United States will take a step towards praying in unison with the whole English-speaking Catholic world. <\/span>A new worldwide English translation of the texts of the Mass has been approved by Rome and will be implemented this upcoming Advent in the United States. <\/span><\/p>\n This will not entail radical changes in the structure and flow of the Mass. <\/span>It is a new English translation of the original Latin prayers of Mass, without any major changes in the rubrics of the Mass such as those seen after the Second Vatican Council. <\/span><\/p>\n \n<\/p> The new translation of the Roman Missal, the book used at Mass that contains all the prayers for Mass, is an attempt to develop a better translated, more precise and more faithful text. <\/span>The current Missal was translated in the 1970s by the International Commission on English in the Liturgy (ICEL) created in 1963 during the Second Vatican Council. <\/span>This translation catered to a particular time period and used certain agreed-upon guidelines to translate the original Latin texts. <\/span>The end result was texts that used short phrases and simple grammatical structures that were not always faithful to the original Latin texts in structure and content. <\/span>In the 1970s this was considered appropriate and desired even though it yielded a poor and over-simplified translation. <\/span><\/p>\n \n<\/p> The Church today, after praying with this translation for several decades, has chosen to retranslate the texts using different parameters. <\/span>First of all, the new guidelines direct that the English translation must be faithful to the Latin texts both in structure and content. <\/span>This results in a more formal and deeper theological language. <\/span>In addition, there has been an attempt to link liturgical texts to their Scriptural source. <\/span><\/p>\n As the time approaches we will be providing more information and catechesis about the changes and about the Mass in general.<\/span><\/p>\n \n<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [from my parish bulletin] On the First Sunday of Advent of 2011, the Catholic Church in the United States will take a step towards praying in unison with the whole English-speaking Catholic world. A new worldwide English translation of the texts of the Mass has been approved by Rome and will be implemented this upcoming […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2533,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n