Mass prayers cycle

[hereagain]

Hello!

Been scouring the 'net (I’m usually really good about finding just about anything) and here, but haven’t found satisfying answers to my latest questions.

The Mass prayers. There’s some fancy name for them I found out somewhere I can’t find now, but it’s the Collect, Offering Prayer and Prayer After Communion. There’s the 3 year cycle, but I was wondering if there is also for these prayers?? I have an older Daily Missal (“1975-1999 and thereafter”) where the readings are the same but not the prayers. Is this because of the Third Edition of the Missal that started since November, (Advent) 2011?

How come these don’t match, but the readings do?

Also-and this is a deeper question, but who writes these prayers? Of course, it’s the Holy See, but does anybody know more specifically, such as the college of Cardinals or something?

If anybody knows or can point me in the right direction, please let me know.

Thanks in advance for your advice,

HA

 

[Ad_Orientem]

The prayers that don’t change from day to day are collectively called the Ordinary of the Mass. The prayers that change according to holy days and feasts are called Propers. The Collect, Offertory, and Prayer after Communion (among others) are Propers.

Can’t speak to the differences between 1975 and 2011; I attend the older form (1962). But I can say that it’s quite possible to revise the Propers without changing the Lectionary (readings) and vice versa.

As to who writes them, the ones predating 1969 are mostly anonymous, believed to have been written over the centuries by holy monks and clergy. Some are attributed to Saints, e.g. the Latin version of the Gloria in excelsis to St. Hilary. Some liturgical hymns (e.g. Pange Lingua Gloriosi) were written by St. Thomas Aquinas. There are others.

The prayers dating from 1969 were composed by a committee called the Consilium, made up of liturgical scholars and headed by a Cardinal. The same committee is responsible for the arrangement of the current ordinary form of the Roman rite, and for the many edits and deletions. This was a new approach and is historically unique.

 

[Cor_ad_Cor]

Can’t speak to the differences between 1975 and 2011; I attend the older form (1962). But I can say that it’s quite possible to revise the Propers without changing the Lectionary (readings) and vice versa.

Indeed, they did revise Propers with the 2011 3rd Ed. release.

There is NOT a 3 year cycle for those; they are specific to the day, same every year.

 

[tee_eff_em]

Not the Mass, but on a related topic:

The Liturgy of the Hours has been revised to have a 3 year cycle of antiphons for the Canticles of Zechariah and Mary on Sundays. Look for an English translation whenever they get around to translating the rest of it, I guess?

tee

 

[hereagain]

Indeed, they did revise Propers with the 2011 3rd Ed. release.

There is NOT a 3 year cycle for those; they are specific to the day, same every year.

That’s what I was thinking happened-thank you!

Thanks to all the responses. The word I couldn’t remember last post was this:

The Orations
The Orations are prayers with which the priest celebrant addresses God in the name of the Church and the people (see GIRM 30). They include The Collect, The Prayer over the Offerings, and the Prayer after Communion. Sometimes, during Lent or in special occasions there is also the Prayer over the People.

I got this info from a priest’s blog.

I’m sure TLM is different, but thanks for that info too!

 

[Magdalen2013]

Not the Mass, but on a related topic:

The Liturgy of the Hours has been revised to have a 3 year cycle of antiphons for the Canticles of Zechariah and Mary on Sundays. Look for an English translation whenever they get around to translating the rest of it, I guess?

tee

If you want an English version with these changes, you can order it from the Daughters of St. Paul’s African branch – there won’t be a new one in the USA until the bishops get their act together…sigh

The one volume is $25:
e.paulinesafrica.org/index.php/book/bookDetails/851

 

[tee_eff_em]

If you want an English version with these changes, you can order it from the Daughters of St. Paul’s African branch – there won’t be a new one in the USA until the bishops get their act together…sigh

Thanks.

I’ve no need myself, but even with US approved books, which I presume correspond to a previous version of Liturgia Horarum, there is a taste: Each week the antiphons from Evening Prayer I, Morning Prayer, and Evening Prayer II, correspond one each to the A, B and C cycles of readings.

tee