So, how did the new translation go down at your parish?

[Teelynn]

Still waiting to find out. The 5:00pm Saturday Mass is not for another 2 1/2 hours or so.

My husband was traveling last weekend (Christ the King) and the priest at the parish where he was visiting made a funny comment while mentioning that the new translation would be used being the First Sunday of Advent…

He said that if everyone who knows about the new translation finds it difficult to read/remember/say the new words, then just think how amusing it will be on Christmas Day when all the Catholics who have been away for months show up and have no clue what is going on.

LOL! Hadn’t yet crossed my mind but it would prove interesting.

 

[Trishie]

People are getting used to the new translation. There was intense preparation from the archdiocesan and parish levels.

In June 13, 2011, CathNews published:
cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=26807

**New Missal translation eases into parishes

"The new translation of the missal was used in Mass for the first time on Sunday, and won praise from a priest of almost six decades and another who has just celebrated his first Mass, reports the Australian…

“The difference between the two translations is incredible, with the new one being so rich and beautiful,” said Father Morgan, who elected to use the new translation for his first mass at St Christopher’s Holsworthy in southwestern Sydney.

Cardinal Pell, the Archbishop of Sydney, said the first masses in the new translation had gone smoothly at Sydney’s St Mary’s Cathedral, and he had good feedback from parishes. “People are quietly appreciative,” he said.

Many parishes began to use the new text on Pentecost Sunday. Parishes have until the first Sunday of Advent to make the full transition**."

In Australia we seemed to favor earlier introduction of the New Translation, and so few people are still slipping into the former responses.

For those who find it difficult to respond according to the new translation, it does get easier.

Australia’s Catholic Bishops decided to implement the changes to the Mass in this way
1 January – Learn to sing new words.
We can sing the new translation of the Lord Have Mercy, Gloria, Creed, Holy Holy, Acclamations and Lamb of God from 1 January.

Check the Archdiocesan Missal website for the new and revised Mass settings.

12 June (Pentecost Sunday) – Learn to say new words.
We are encouraged to say the new translation from 12 June.
Plus the new translation of familiar responses by the people.
The words will be on a people’s Mass card.
We can introduce them all at once, or gradually.

1 November (All Saints Day) – The official starting date.
We are all expected to be using the revised Mass texts.

So it is becoming ‘normal’ very quickly for most of us and will no doubt for those currently beginning with the New Translation

 

[mikeanayaus]

At today’s anticipated mass everything went down smoothly for the most part. The first few "and with your spirit’s came out sounding like and also your spirit since about half the people responded with “and also with you.” I think that surprisingly the part that tripped most people up was the “Lord I am not worthy.” I couldn’t help but notice how much more expressive the prayers were, especially the collect (?) and the Eucharistic Prayer. The new translation is absolutely beautiful!

 

[CB_Catholic]

I will be bringing my Magnificat for this month to Mass with me tomorrow and following the new translation from there–hopefully I won’t mess up too badly. I do not like the new Gloria we have been practicing at all, though. It’s rhythm is awkward and it is hard to sing. Hopefully they will be using something better in the future. The Gloria is my favorite song in the Mass and we have been using a beautiful one, now it is gone and I miss it.

 

[grasscutter]

I will be bringing my Magnificat for this month to Mass with me tomorrow and following the new translation from there–hopefully I won’t mess up too badly. I do not like the new Gloria we have been practicing at all, though. It’s rhythm is awkward and it is hard to sing. Hopefully they will be using something better in the future. The Gloria is my favorite song in the Mass and we have been using a beautiful one, now it is gone and I miss it.

Having recently relocated, I miss the rendition done in my former parish. It’s totally different here. Hopefully, now that it will be new to all of us here, I will learn to love it.

 

[CatholicZ09]

So, I just asked my friend about it, and he said it was horrible, especially the Confiteor and Creed. Most of the people also forgot the “and with your spirit” and “Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof…”.

It got me thinking, and I was thinking that maybe they should have done this earlier so that we could be prepared and comfortable with this new translation by Christmas. Those of you who go to parishes where they have done this, you’re lucky!

 

[SMHW]

At today’s anticipated mass everything went down smoothly for the most part. The first few "and with your spirit’s came out sounding like and also your spirit since about half the people responded with “and also with you.” I think that surprisingly the part that tripped most people up was the “Lord I am not worthy.” I couldn’t help but notice how much more expressive the prayers were, especially the collect (?) and the Eucharistic Prayer. The new translation is absolutely beautiful!

I have a feeling that the “Lord, I am not worthy,” will trip up both people who never knew anything but the previous translation and also people who remember the previous previous translation(s). The new translation is kind of a blend of the previous translation and the older version (which also said, “under my roof”.)

 

[Aeolian]

We have been building up to the new translation for a while, now. We actually implemented it in full on Thanksgiving day. We used it again for daily Mass on Friday. I was soaking in the wonderfully poetic language and really enjoying it.

After that Mass, Father said, “So ends the Mass of Paul VI.”

One of the regulars piped up with, “Don’t make us cry.”

It’s STILL the Mass of Pope Paul VI!

 

[DS59]

I went to Mass this evening and I thought it went very well.

We’ve been practicing before Mass the last few weeks learning the musical parts of the Mass (which I like).
What was funny is the organist reminded us before Mass about the new sung responses that we’ve been rehearsing and Father also reminded us at the very beginning about the new translations and that we should follow in the missalete. So has soon as he says “The Lord be with You” There were a lot of “and also with you” mixed in with “and with your spirit”. But it got better as Mass went along. I noticed the responses were a little slow at times. I flubbed up a little bit during the Nicene Creed while I was bowing and started to say by the power of the Holy Spirit but I caught myself.

I thanked Father after Mass on how well he did.

 

[mikeanayaus]

I have a feeling that the “Lord, I am not worthy,” will trip up both people who never knew anything but the previous translation and also people who remember the previous previous translation(s). The new translation is kind of a blend of the previous translation and the older version (which also said, “under my roof”.)

I didn’t even realize there was a previous-er translation

But that would explain why it sounded like everyone was saying their own version… All in all, it went by a lot smoother than I had expected. It should only get better from here.

 

[YoungTradCath]

Whoa! I wonder what her specific issue is… considering (by older woman) she probably attended the Mass before Vatican II… anyway, I consider (without having been there and maybe not understanding) her reaction to be childish.

I figure older and middle-aged people are the most anti-EF and anti-tradition because they were told that everything in the Church was forever changing when they were younger (which was completely untrue), drilled into their very psyches, and now that the Church climate is reverting back to its perpetual tradition, they either feel that they were lied to and thus betrayed now. While ultimately I think it’s childish (purely childish, and nothing else) to hate tradition, I understand where they’re coming from.

 

[CB_Catholic]

I figure older and middle-aged people are the most anti-EF and anti-tradition because they were told that everything in the Church was forever changing when they were younger (which was completely untrue), drilled into their very psyches, and now that the Church climate is reverting back to its perpetual tradition, they either feel that they were lied to and thus betrayed now. While ultimately I think it’s childish (purely childish, and nothing else) to hate tradition, I understand where they’re coming from.

I don’t think this is it at all. I think it’s just that the older you get, the more resistant to change you get. Don’t forget, we older ones went through the huge change post Vatican II fairly well-we were young and adapted more easily, but as we get older it becomes more difficult to change. That is a general thing that happens as you get older.

And it’s not that most older people are anti-EF and anti-tradition. They like the Mass in their native tongue. I think that if they had just switched to the vernacular without changing the whole Mass, most people would have been perfectly happy. There seems to be this perception that people who prefer the OF hate tradition and the EF. That is not true for the vast majority of Catholics. Most just like the Mass in the vernacular, they don’t want the Latin. There is really only a vocal few that have strong objections to the EF itself. When we’ve revived some traditional practices in our parish, almost everyone is appreciative. They will say things like “Gee I haven’t seen that done in ages, that’s pretty neat”, etc.

 

[Aeolian]

I don’t think this is it at all. I think it’s just that the older you get, the more resistant to change you get. Don’t forget, we older ones went through the huge change post Vatican II fairly well-we were young and adapted more easily, but as we get older it becomes more difficult to change. That is a general thing that happens as you get older.

And it’s not that most older people are anti-EF and anti-tradition. They like the Mass in their native tongue. I think that if they had just switched to the vernacular without changing the whole Mass, most people would have been perfectly happy. There seems to be this perception that people who prefer the OF hate tradition and the EF. That is not true for the vast majority of Catholics. Most just like the Mass in the vernacular, they don’t want the Latin. There is really only a vocal few that have strong objections to the EF itself. When we’ve revived some traditional practices in our parish, almost everyone is appreciative. They will say things like “Gee I haven’t seen that done in ages, that’s pretty neat”, etc.

I don’t think the EF is on the screen for 95+% of the world’s Catholics. It’s not even something they think about.

I would love to hear about the traditional practices you have revived?

 

[HHMom]

Not bad…by the end of the Mass most people got the responses right…“and with your spirit”.

But I agree with the OP…Xmas Mass will be interesting…this is what ya git for not comin all year!

 

[Melchior_1]

We had workshops the last couple of months during the week. We had one of the Companions of the Cross come in and do a presentation on it during last week’s Life Night. Inserts and blurbs in the bulletin for weeks. Mentions during announcements. Mass parts were introduced by the music teams/choirs over the last couple of months, and all music teams/choirs are doing the same setting.

Saturday evening Mass went well, except at the end people weren’t sure if they were to say “thanks be to God!”. Mass went a bit longer due to the priest not having anything memorized so he had to do a bit more reading.

 

[agnes_therese]

Saturday evening Mass went well, except at the end people weren’t sure if they were to say “thanks be to God!”. Mass went a bit longer due to the priest not having anything memorized so he had to do a bit more reading.

Same here, with the addition of quite a few saying “and also with you” out of sheer habit. Our deacons and music leader have been taking some time before Mass to explain and practice the changes, in addition to what’s been in the bulletin.

All in all, our first time went very well. I loved it.

 

[MissRose73]

The church I attended Saturday evening we have pew cards as it doesn’t have a projector like a few other churches I’ve been to. Before Mass started, the priest reminded people to please use the pew cards & have them in hand, and we will have them out for a long time. Yes, there were some people mixing up the responses while others were doing them right. Our priest did say for example for the profession of faith we would use the Apostles’ Creed today instead of the Nicene Creed. I am sure we will use the various other penitential rites and also eventually use the Nicene Creed too so we are used to the options.

Before the final blessing and dismissal, the priest made the usual announcements then asked people how they felt they handled the first time using the spoken responses as we learned the musical parts, and have been using them for a month or so already. I think I did fine personally with them even though some people near me were using old responses. Some people were even speaking the new responses louder to drown out those not using the right ones!

It will take time I am sure. But it will be interesting at Christmas Time and later at Easter Time for those who attend Mass a few times a year, and may not be aware of the new responses.

 

[Phemie]

It went remarkably well. Yes there were a few ‘and also with you’ but that changed by the third time. People used the pew cards and it was relatively painless.

The only surprise came when the visiting priest informed us that the diocese had decided to go with the profound bow at Consecration instead of kneeling – as though it was a choice. All this time we’d happily thought we’d be returning to kneeling which we haven’t done as a parish in 11 years. That was very disappointing and I keep hoping that he misheard what was said because his first language isn’t English but considering that he’s a canon lawyer I think he’d know the difference.

They also decided to keep processing the Lectionary because Canada doesn’t have a Book of Gospels but since it’s not even necessary to process the Book of Gospels I don’t get why they’re so adamant on this.

 

[pnewton]

We had an excellent start to the new translation of the Mass. My part went real well. The priest was very deliberate with the new words and explained some of the changes. He did cue for people to pick up the pew cards three or four times. I did not need one. I made extra large print copies of the changes and put it in my music notebook so I could read it without having to find a pew card. I will probably need the Creed for quite a while.

 

[gh4]

It went very well in our church last night for the vigil mass. I was surprised at how well it went since most of our parish is of the retired age. Our choir takes a much bigger part in the mass now, doing the response and acclaim musically, and as a musician I was pretty nervous, but it went really well and we were very pleased. We got a lot of positive feedback after mass and that was fabulous.
This morning is our larger mass and we’ll see how it goes, I’m going in with a positive attitude and this mass will be easier since we’ve done it once, but the butterflies in the tummy are still there.