Less Than 4 Months and Counting Now. How Do You Rate Your Diocese/Parish Preparations for the New Roman Missal Translation?

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We had the first mention of the changes this past Sunday. I don’t know what the behind the scenes actions are, but they did say discussions sessions for parish memebers are coming in the future. I voted “poor” but I am hopeful that when the school year starts, and all the staff is back to full steam, progresss and information will be more evident.
 
I’ve been to a few churches out here, and none have mentioned it. It’s not mentioned on websites, in bulletins, in newsletters, or in church.
 
I voted excellent but only because I know what is going on behind the scenes. Since our parish is in a college town many people are away for the summer. Starting to talk about the changes now would be pretty much useless.

I know that starting in a couple of weeks, our pastor has bulletin inserts and handouts ready. We also have an adult education class that meets every week that will be discussing the changes.

If someone isn’t ready for the changes when they come, it won’t be the fault of the pastor.
 
Outside of some small snipets in the weekly bulletin, no catechesis or programs to explain, prepare or educate the parish on the upcoming revisions. The diocesan paper has had arrticles about the individual changes, but the articles themselves are quite vanilla.
 
I began preparing our parish since Advent of 2009 with a series of bulletin articles on the Mass and the changes. We had a workshop for the faculties of our schools and the staff. I held one for all liturgical ministers and one for the Rel Ed teachers. I have 5 sessions scheduled for October plus more bulletin articles. The priests have mentioned it from the pulpit. We have chosen our initial Mass settings. We will be meeting soon to discuss if we are going to begin early with the sung responses or not. We seem to have some on staff who say yes and some say no. We also have had the link to the BCDW website on our parish website for over a year and a half.

So I voted excellent.
 
I voted the last. I attend a “trilingual” parish, Spanish, English, and Latin (EF). The bulletin has stated nothing and neither have the sermons, which are usually printed in the bulletin a week later. Not a top priority at the moment, it seems.
 
I rated poor. We have not had any formal discussions on it yet. The Archdiocese has scheduled Seminars for selected individuals, choir, EMHC’s, Dre’s, and others. So far nothing for the laity. I was told that they have ordered “cheat sheets” for the pews.
 
None, but then again, I go to an EF parish. Yay for no changes since 1962! :highprayer:

I’m wondering if we’re going to see a huge ramp-up in new people who have just been looking for an excuse to visit our FSSP parish once the language changes. We already seem to be bursting at the seams during 2 of our 3 masses, and pretty full at the 7:30a mass as well. And this was last week, in the middle of the hot Texas summer and vacation season, smack dab in the middle of that huge swatch of green masses between Pentacost and Advent.
 
I think things are going pretty well here. We had diocesan meetings for priests, deacons, etc quite awhile ago. We have had two classes, one for EMHC, choir members, readers, and one for the general public. I wasn’t able to attend either though, so I don’t know what they were like. Last year in our catechist gathering we talked about it for a bit and I imagine we will talk even more about it this year. There was a series of articles in the diocesan newspaper and a few in our bulletin. Our pastor has also mentioned that he will be talking about it more in Mass in the weeks leading up to the changes.

In all, I think things are going well. Really the only people that will be caught unaware are Christmas/ Easter goers, and there really isn’t much you can do about them.
 
One priest with health conditions, 3 different churches and one outdoor location (summer only) and he spends his time racing from one to another in his little gas-saving sports car.

No word yet from the Padre, but I’m expecting cheat sheets on the folding chairs (no pews in our church, no kneelers) when it get down to the wire.

No worries - we are just so darn happy every time he makes it to our church safely and nobody cares that he has sandals and shorts under the cassock that he ditches in a hurry to race off to the next Church. Some of you folks have no idea how privileged you all are!
 
I’m afraid to ask this question–I hope I’m not struck by lightening–G know the GIRM addresses receiving communion while kneeling–does it say ANYTHING about what our posture should be when we say The Our Father?
 
Oh! And I didn’t vote in the poll because even though we’ve heard not a word, I would never call our poor Padre’s efforts poor - he puts in incredible miles in our far-flung rural parish, and despite his long hair, jeans and sandals, he is a our holy priest and we love him and support him.

Please pray for your parish priest!!!
 
I have voted excellent because that is true at parish, diocesan and national level. It has been well publicised and there are many resources. Our bishops have decided we’ll start using the revised Missal on Advent Sunday however the people’s parts will be according to the new Ordinary from September. So by the official date the people will be getting used to their revised parts.
 
Jerry-Jet said:
I’m afraid to ask this question–I hope I’m not struck by lightening–G know the GIRM addresses receiving communion while kneeling–does it say ANYTHING about what our posture should be when we say The Our Father?
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The posture for the Our Father is standing. I don’t believe there is anything in the works to change that.
 
Phemie said:
Don’t know about yours but mine wouldn’t take kindly to being told to post something like this in the bulletin. He would consider it his perogative to decide when to do this – some priests believe there is no reason to do this any earlier than early November.
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since it should take at most 2 sessions to prepare liturgical ministers and parishioners for the changes, and they won’t be enacted until Advent, most pastors probably see little need to begin this preparation until Fall.
 
Our parish is starting to have short articles in the bulletin. First the reasons for the changes, and then I think the changes themselves will be introduced. One of our deacons may be giving some talks on it, also.
 
Our priests have mentioned the changes to the liturgy in their homilies a few times. There’s no formal preparation yet, but I attend Mass at a university chapel so most of the congregation is gone in summer. When the fall semester starts and the students return, we’ll probably have some classes on the new missal.
 
PP pressing panic button - asking me if I can get pamphlets etc made up. My own fault for asking him what he was doing about it. Here in Scotland the changes come in on the 1st Sunday of advent, but there is scope for introducing them early, from Sept onwards I think
 
The Diocese of Springfield is doing a pretty excellent job with the implementation of the new Missal.

Every other Sunday, we have a different post in our church bulletin explaining different little changes in the people’s responses. Likewise, the monthly diocese magazine has had an article on the changes in every issue for about a year now.

Finally, all priests and deacons were required to go to information/training sessions that included chant lessons! 😃

I’m confident that we’ll be fine come Advent.
 
Jerry-Jet said:
I’m afraid to ask this question–I hope I’m not struck by lightening–G know the GIRM addresses receiving communion while kneeling–does it say ANYTHING about what our posture should be when we say The Our Father?
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Yes, standing.
 
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