I surely hope so; I was looking around on the official site of the new Missal and I couldn’t find a set date as to when we can expect it to be put into use. A year and a half seems like no time at all
I just wish that it could be this Advent. Somehow I think that the publshing houses are trying to delay this implementation.I surely hope so; I was looking around on the official site of the new Missal and I couldn’t find a set date as to when we can expect it to be put into use. A year and a half seems like no time at all
i agree with you. i wish we only had to wait until advent 2010 also. i don’t know anything about the publishing houses.
I could buy that excuse if we lived during the 1970s; however, in this day and age, with all of the technological advancements, it should not take this long.
As a professional historian who routinely reviews and proofs history books for publishing houses all the time as part of my job, I can tell you that a year and a half, believe it or not, would be a lightning fast turn around time. Most books go through DOZENS of drafts and have DOZENS of editors commenting on them. Each time an edit is made, it must be sent back to the author for their approval, and then it goes back, and on and on. Decisions about paper, artwork, typesetting, the cover, and so on all have to be made. It took me almost 4 months just to get the copyright back from my dissertation alone (government red tape, of course)! Photos might have to be cleared. Maps need to be created. All of this is done on other people’s timetables, not yours. It is a shockingly complicated process.
With all due respect, I could buy that argument, but, the Ordinary has already been out for nearly two years. Second, the text is pretty much already printed. It has already been edited by the folks who need to do that, the CDWDS and ICEL. Thus, it should not take that long to do.
Remember that Rome is still editing. My understanding is that there are some things that were in two or more books and they must be edited to make sure that the books contain the exact same translation.
Perhaps, but there’s also the Mass arrangements that need to be created. Most churches don’t just go out and buy missals. They buy missals that have songs and arrangements in them as well. It’s going to take a year and a half more before the volume of arrangements is sufficient to warrant publishing and purchasing these books, not to mention the thousands of dollars it will cost churches to replace hundreds or perhaps thousands of old pew missals. Churches will have to raise funds to buy these new missals remember.
However, I read that the UK is getting something ready because it seems that the Holy Father will be unveiling the new translation when he goes over there in September.
I assume the calendar pages run out, the missal won’t be outdated until the new translation is actually implemented. I just check the Parish Calendar (Ordo) for the upcoming week since my missal has been beyond its calendar for a couple of years.Anyone know when a copy of the new translation will be available and through whom?
My old one will be outdated soon
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Of course, there’s a difference in producing a pamphlet or bulletin with the text for a special event or a Mass with the pope, and an entirely new bound missal…
ICEL already has settings for the new translations. ICEL has already set the Gloria, the Sanctus, the Memorial Acclamations and the like using the new translations. Even the Credo and the EPs have been set. Furthermore, lamentably, OCP iand GIA are already releasing study texts of the revised settings with the new translations. Advent 2010 is still a good time.
The Catechesis should not take that long, especially if the Ordinary has already been out for nearly two years. It just seems like those who do not want the translations will use every excuse to try and delay the inevitable.
But then you’ll be dealing with all the different adaptations of the GIRM (remember, this will be Canada’s first time dealing with the ‘new’ GIRM) and we still don’t know if there will be national adaptions to the Missal as there were with the second edition. Then each country will be using its own printers, who will typeset a Missal which will then have to be edited to make sure there are no errors, etc, etc. The logistics of this are way more complicated than people think.
Agreed. If you’ve never had first hand experience in dealing with a publishing company, you have no idea how many reasons they can come up with or decisions that have to be made that can affect how fast they can print something. It’s simply mind-boggling.
Raise your hand all of you whose parish was ‘prepared’ before this latest recognitio?
