Has your parish done anything about the new translations yet?

[CatholicZ09]

I was just wondering how many parishes out there have actually started doing lessons on the new translation, which will be implemented on Sunday, November 27, 2011. I haven’t heard anything yet at my parish, but I heard that we are going to be starting soon. Our bishop gave the “ok” as of September 1, 2011 to start using them.

 

[corsair]

Not a thing but I got “snarled at” by my pastor when I asked that there be some dialog between the clergy and laity. He said he didn’t care for my tone of voice. I apologized.

I truly didn’t think that I voiced any disrespect. I certainly didn’t intend any.

It still doesn’t address my concern that absolutely no discussion has taken place, even when directly asked of the priests. Still total silence.

 

[Will_S]

Nothing at all in my parish!

 

[YoungTradCath]

There is a training workshop for all the parish’s altar servers next Sunday. I have no idea what is changing for them. Maybe just to familiarize them with the new texts.

 

[CatholicZ09]

There is a training workshop for all the parish’s altar servers next Sunday. I have no idea what is changing for them. Maybe just to familiarize them with the new texts.

I am hoping for something like this for the lectors at my parish. Right now I’m just going over them by myself. I do think, however, that it’s more useful to altar servers since they’re the youngest out of all of us, so it’s better for them to learn all the material so that they aren’t unresponsive.

 

[CatholicZ09]

Not a thing but I got “snarled at” by my pastor when I asked that there be some dialog between the clergy and laity. He said he didn’t care for my tone of voice. I apologized.

I truly didn’t think that I voiced any disrespect. I certainly didn’t intend any.

It still doesn’t address my concern that absolutely no discussion has taken place, even when directly asked of the priests. Still total silence.

Was this recent? Maybe he thought that since the implementation date is so close and someone was asking about it, he might be thinking that you’re trying to be “liturgy police,” which is totally wrong on his part. I think that it’s good that you went up to him and asked. Maybe he’s easily offended even though there was nothing to be offended about.

 

[Davina100]

We are very fortunate. For the last month or two our parish has been including an insert in the bulletin.

Tomorrow we are starting a 10 week study “A walk through the Mass” which is going to go through the new translation. I’m really looking forward to it.

 

[SanAgustin]

I was just wondering how many parishes out there have actually started doing lessons on the new translation, which will be implemented on Sunday, November 27, 2011. I haven’t heard anything yet at my parish, but I heard that we are going to be starting soon. Our bishop gave the “ok” as of September 1, 2011 to start using them.

Our parish had to buy the religious ed books again because they made slight modifications to adapt the new translation. They were mentioned at that meeting, and we got handed little cards with the changes.

Interestingly, the changes are great for me because the translations are more inline with what we’ve always said in Spanish!

ex: “And also with you” changes to “And with your Spirit”, which is the same as what we say in Spanish, “Y con tu espiritu”. Closer to the the Latin I guess.

 

[CatholicZ09]

We are very fortunate. For the last month or two our parish has been including an insert in the bulletin.

Tomorrow we are starting a 10 week study “A walk through the Mass” which is going to go through the new translation. I’m really looking forward to it.

I just flipped through my bulletin from last week and checked out the insert, and we have the same thing going on. It’s called “A Biblical Walk Through the Mass,” which will be a six week study. This sounds interesting. I might attend. I’m just wondering, though, if they will mention anything during the announcements before/after Mass.

 

[CatholicZ09]

Our parish had to buy the religious ed books again because they made slight modifications to adapt the new translation. They were mentioned at that meeting, and we got handed little cards with the changes.

Interestingly, the changes are great for me because the translations are more inline with what we’ve always said in Spanish!

ex: “And also with you” changes to “And with your Spirit”, which is the same as what we say in Spanish, “Y con tu espiritu”. Closer to the the Latin I guess.

I think that these translations are supposed to be a more faithful translation to the Latin. I heard that the translation we have now is a very “loose” translation of the original Latin.

 

[jcupach]

We had laminates at Mass today. It was funny watching everyone try to read from these, even the priest.

Consubtitional.

 

[DJK100]

We are very fortunate. For the last month or two our parish has been including an insert in the bulletin.

Tomorrow we are starting a 10 week study “A walk through the Mass” which is going to go through the new translation. I’m really looking forward to it.

Same with my church

 

[Santi2]

I was just wondering how many parishes out there have actually started doing lessons on the new translation, which will be implemented on Sunday, November 27, 2011. I haven’t heard anything yet at my parish, but I heard that we are going to be starting soon. Our bishop gave the “ok” as of September 1, 2011 to start using them.

The new translation of the Mass was introduced in England and Wales on 4th September. Lessons are currently in place in some Churches and Catechetical Centres. Others started lessons on the new translation months ago. Ours was in May.

 

[paperwight66]

The new translation of the Mass was introduced in England and Wales on 4th September. Lessons are currently in place in some Churches and Catechetical Centres. Others started lessons on the new translation months ago. Ours was in May.

Here in the Archdiocese of Liverpool, it has been delayed until Oct. 1st. In our parish, we haven’t had any study courses or talks. I’m curious, what kinds of things are covered in the lessons? Are the changes that radical? Surely not?

Unless it’s an excuse/spur for adult catechesis, which I thoroughly applaud.

In other words, I can see the point of classes if they are an impetus or excuse for evangelising adults, but does the new translation per se require teaching?

 

[MissRose73]

The church I attended, the priest gave us an introduction as to why, when, etc and said before each Mass, he will take about 10 minutes, and will do so for the next 8 weeks. Bulletin inserts gave us the introduction as well.

As someone who has been going to the EF Mass a lot, I find some of the responses similar when comparing the Latin to English translations in my EF Missal that will be used at OF.

 

[Ter1]

Unless it’s an excuse/spur for adult catechesis, which I thoroughly applaud.

I suspect so, since that was the gist of one of the Pope’s speeches to the bishops last year (the one in the Seminary). Something like, ‘use this new translation as an opportunity to expose the faithful to the riches of the Mass’.

 

[Santi2]

In our parish, we haven’t had any study courses or talks. I’m curious, what kinds of things are covered in the lessons? Are the changes that radical? Surely not?

A link to the Diocese of Southwark’s preparation for the introduction of the new translation:
rcsouthwark.co.uk/new_trans_home.html

 

[frenchbeatle]

I am so glad that my parish is giving some attention to this. Yesterday, there was a workshop all about the upcoming Mass changes. Then during the anticipatory Mass, my pastor said that he’d be devoting some of his homily time to discussing the changes every week! And during the month of November, he’ll be giving shorter homilies and discussing one change in particular every week.

Our new liturgical director also said that for the next few weeks, before Mass starts, the choir/cantor will be practicing some of the new musical settings so that we can get used to them. Lastly, in the back of our Gather hymnals, there is a booklet from GIA with new settings and the order of Mass with all the changes. Looks like my parish is being very proactive in putting information out there and getting people used to the changes as early as possible. Makes me very happy.

 

[Phemie]

We are pastorless at the moment and the priest who is covering us until they find us a pastor is unlikely to give any information about the new translation. There was a diocesan meeting on this topic for the Priests and Parish Life ministers (lay people taking care of parishes) but he didn’t attend since he was busy elsewhere.

The priest who had been covering our parish for 3 weeks (while the above priest was away) went but all he really talked about upon his return were some of the changes in the GIRM (remember, in Canada we’re still functioning with the 1975 version). He mentioned how we now needed to genuflect upon coming in to the church – ugh? When had we stopped doing that? He didn’t say word one about the new translation.

We started by putting something about the Roman Missal in the bulletin but I think that we will need to be talking about it from the ambo or nobody will get it. It’s fairly easy to explain the difference between dynamic equivalence and formal equivalence so that people get why the language is changing. 17 inserts in the bulletin won’t do it since, for the most part, they won’t be read.

 

[Jay3gsm]

We’ve been using the revised translation in our Parish since the first Sunday in September. Laminated cards were given out with the new responses on, but there was a lot of hesitation. Today was the third Sunday, and you could feel that people were a lot more comfortable, responses were more ‘natural’.

Being fortunate enough to attend Daily Mass I have found that saying the new responses more frequently has really helped.