Certainly not faulting the FSSP for it, but you could say that. Considering that “Sursum corda/Habemus et Dominum” is virtually untranslatable into English literally, there’s a lot to deal with right there. And what first year Latin student would translate that into “Lift up your hearts/We have lifted them up to the Lord.”? They used to burn some of those English translators at the stake for such translations.
They are in the section of general instructions, as are the postural directives for the servers, the deacon, the subdeacon. Some of the Altar missals also note when the people are to stand, sit, or kneel within the text; all approved include the deacon’s instructions.
The IGMR/GIRM was part of the Missale Romanum of 1969, and does not apply to the 1962 Missal.
Sounds like a good opportunity to offer your sufferings to God. I don’t say this flippantly. As a mother of 5 young children, I haven’t been able to completely focus on the Divine Liturgy/Mass in years. I would much prefer a Mass in which I don’t have to take a child out to the bathroom, moderate children talking, continuously remind my 10 year old daughter to keep her body oriented toward the front, etc. I’m sure you would prefer a Mass in which I didn’t have to do that sort of thing, too.
The reality is that life is full of distractions, and those among us who are more easily distracted have got to learn to deal with them. With your ADHD, you have likely struggled with this your whole life, more than most. I can understand why you want your time in Mass to be a refuge from the world, but perhaps ADHD and the consequent stress and frustration at mass is your cross to bear. Some people are gifted with the ability to completely tune things out. My husband, God bless him, is one of them. He can be sitting, deep in prayer and completely focused on God, while the children chatter and do handstands around him. 
I get so angry with him because of this sometimes; mostly it is because it leaves me all alone to deal with the kids, but I’m also jealous that he gets to pray and I don’t. He doesn’t get this cross, but he has others.Sounds like a good opportunity to offer your sufferings to God. I don’t say this flippantly. As a mother of 5 young children, I haven’t been able to completely focus on the Divine Liturgy/Mass in years. I would much prefer a Mass in which I don’t have to take a child out to the bathroom, moderate children talking, continuously remind my 10 year old daughter to keep her body oriented toward the front, etc. I’m sure you would prefer a Mass in which I didn’t have to do that sort of thing, too.
Will you join my prayer that, rather than focus our frustration and anger at others’ behavior, we can pray for the grace to have fortitude and perseverance in carrying our own cross.
I never heard that explanation for “lift up your heart”. A preparatory moment when we can release our personal concerns or sufferings in the Mass. When we free our “heart” we are better prepared for communion.Sounds like a good opportunity to offer your sufferings to God. I don’t say this flippantly. As a mother of 5 young children, I haven’t been able to completely focus on the Divine Liturgy/Mass in years. I would much prefer a Mass in which I don’t have to take a child out to the bathroom, moderate children talking, continuously remind my 10 year old daughter to keep her body oriented toward the front, etc. I’m sure you would prefer a Mass in which I didn’t have to do that sort of thing, too.
Will you join my prayer that, rather than focus our frustration and anger at others’ behavior, we can pray for the grace to have fortitude and perseverance in carrying our own cross.
The French translation is no more accurate:*
Thanks for that. As is the Spanish first-person plural “Levantemos el corazon/Lo tenemos levantado hacia el Senor.” (basically the same thing as the French.) Seems to me the English was used in these cases as a basis for the translation, not Latin. I thought they were going to fix that, though I have to admit “Sursum corda/Habemus ad Dominum” is hard to translate literally in some languages and make grammatical sense.
In the Polish and Latin the sense is the direction of the heart, not the physical removal of it.
The name changed in 1969… but the Rubricae Generales Missalis dates back much further. Paragraphs 519-522 & 524 are about everyone BUT the celebrant.
Sursum corda is a Latin translation of the Greek. Cor in Latin means the physical organ but Kardia in Greek means mind, character, intention. The Syriac Orthodox based on the St. James Anaphora translate kardia as thoughts, minds, and hearts. see Wiki Sursum corda.
The classical (Ciceronian?) meaning of “cor” is similar, as it’s the “heart as the seat of the feelings” or “heart as the seat of thought, the mind, judgement.” Either way, Greek or Latin, a lot is lost in the translation into English.
Depending on which anaphora, the wording is completely different. In Anaphorae Syriacae for the Anaphora of St. Cyril of Jerusalem, the Latin translation of the Syriac is “…cogitationes et mentes nostrae,” just as an example of difference. I have the Anaphora of St. James here as well but I don’t have time to flip through it - the Syriac Orthodox, though, have a habit of adding things because it “sounds nice,” and then their sources differ from all the other Syriac redactions. This is not mere conjecture but I know an SO bishops who have made “hamburger anaphoras” of their favorite parts of anaphoras.
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