Mass text in French?

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Hello all. I’m not sure if this is the proper place to ask this or not, but I was wondering if anyone knew of somewhere online I could download the text of the Mass in French?

I’m currently living in Morocco with the Peace Corps, and the only Churches I’ve seen all have the Mass in French, which I haven’t learned yet (still trying to get Arabic down since it’s more commonly spoken here). I can pretty much follow the Mass since I know it so well in English, but I don’t really know what to say during it. I was thinking if I could find a translation then it would be a big help… plus maybe help me to learn a little French.

I’ve searched online but I haven’t found anything yet, so if anyone knows of a good website, I would really appreciate it. Thanks!
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I can’t help you with the location of the authorized French translation of the Sacramentary… but this is just another reason why saying the Mass in Latin is always a valid option for any priest anywhere in the world.
 
I’m a little surprised there’s no Latin over here actually. Seems like there’s every other language imaginable… 2 dialects of Arabic, Berber, French, Spanish, a tiny bit of English… But as for me, my Latin is really weak so I probably wouldn’t be able to follow it any better than I have been the French…
 
This is supposed to be a more-o-less complete French missal for Sundays at least (the Proper of saints is largely incomplete) - but I don’t know whether they have a more recent version. On the odd times I’ve had to go to French Masses (all anticipated Sunday Masses), it’s worked for me.

For the Ordinary of the Mass, this may be easier to navigate through.
 
I empathize with your situation.

I live in a part of Canada where the population is about 50/50 francophone and anglophone. My parish is shared by a French priest, who is bilingual, and an English priest, who isn’t. All this adds up to is that many English people frequently wind up at French masses the don’t understand, and vice-versa. Also there are frequent “biliungual” masses, in which parts of the mass are in French, and parts are in English, and nobody completely understands. I am lucky, in that I am bilingual, but many, many older people aren’t.

And then my Bishop turns around and says that using Latin would compromise people’s understanding of the mass, which he says is imperative to its effectiveness. What a world we live in.
 
Pious_Mat said:
And then my Bishop turns around and says that using Latin would compromise people’s understanding of the mass, which he says is imperative to its effectiveness. What a world we live in.
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I thought the Mass has its value simply because it is the sacrifice of Christ and is independent of our ability to understand it. And it is our interior participation and our sins that determine how beneficial the Mass is for each of us, not our intellectual capacity.

The magnificent amount of riches and the sublime communion with God that is available to us at Mass, who can fully grasp or comprehend that while we are on earth?

The society for the mentally challenged and each of us should be very upset with this Bishop.
 
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I can’t help you with the location of the authorized French translation of the Sacramentary… but this is just another reason why saying the Mass in Latin is always a valid option for any priest anywhere in the world.
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Not for Eastern Priests!

(Note–you said “any priest”, not “any Latin-rite priest”.)
 
This site has the mass readings & reflections available for download in PDF but if you contact them they may be able to help you w/the rest fo the Mass.

Also, here is the diocese of Rabat.
 
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This is supposed to be a more-o-less complete French missal for Sundays at least (the Proper of saints is largely incomplete) - but I don’t know whether they have a more recent version. On the odd times I’ve had to go to French Masses (all anticipated Sunday Masses), it’s worked for me.

For the Ordinary of the Mass, this may be easier to navigate through.
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Thanks to this poster for the link of the Mass in French. I will be traveling to France in a few weeks to a month and I can’t wait to go to Mass and be able to at least follow along, if not stumble through a little bit of it along with the congregation! I would bet that they still kneel for Communion, too…I hope so, anyway. I will be in a smaller region, not Paris or one of the larger cities.

The 2nd link was perfect. I am going to start working on pronunciation now!

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Oh, and p.s. - I see they already say “And with your spirit” as we will also say when our new Missal arrives at Advent!
 
If you’re travelling across Europe at all, the CTS produces a booklet called ‘the Ordinary of Mass in 8 languages’ (English, Latin, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Polish); I’ve found it really useful in the past - it has all 8 on a side by side translation.

Not great for the OP, but othe people might like it.

Op, if you’re there for a while (long enough to invest in a Missal), many repositories will sell the French publication Missel des Dimanches 2011, which is a papberback book (under 10 euros in France, I don’t know how much in Morocco) with all the ordinary parts of the Mass and responses, plus all the variable parts for every Sunday of the year, including readings. A new one comes out every Advent.
 
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