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

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Aeolian said:
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? 🙂
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We revived Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament with Benediction every week, added Novenas, an Ignatian retreat, and 2 of our priests have started to sing the Sunday Mass. This may not sound like much, but a few years ago we didn’t do much like this, except for a Novena. People have responded well to these changes. There also is a daily rosary group and a weekly Rosary on Sat, afternoons before Mass. This year there is an emphasis on the Saints with all the ministries studying James Martin’s My life with the Saints and the general parish population can purchase it for $2.00 through the Library. It is selling well.

This coming spring there will be presentations of Fr. Barron’s series on Catholicism with discussions for a 10 week period and people are excited about this. This is an absolutely wonderful presentation on the history and practices of the Church with excellent teaching on the Mass and the Sacraments.
 
7:30 Mass this morning went well. Like other posters, it was about 60% read the cards and 40% winged it with the previous version. A couple of parishoners loudly used the previous style, but i cannot say whether this was in protest or not. Father F did a great job with the prayers, taking his time to insure He got them right, since english is his second language. He also began his Homily with another explanation of why the changes were made and that this is what we should have been saying/hearing all along. I feel that in my Parish it will go well.
 
CB_Catholic said:
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.
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I agree. My mom is almost 81 and grousing about the changes. She would have been in her mid 30’s after Vatican II.
 
The Mass went great This morning. Father did fumble a couple of times, but corrected himself, as did most others. I have heard nothing negetive from anyone in my parish. Even the older people are saying well that is close to the way it used to read anyway.
 
The change was relatively smooth. I went to 7:30 a.m. mass which is lightly attended anyway. I’ve known about the coming changes for two years or more and still found myself saying the old form out of pure habit. Even Father made some mistakes!

So it will be a learning experience for us all.
 
Just got back and it went very well. By the end of the Mass, everyone was on board with the “And with your Spirit” part. LOL. That one thing alone was the most noticeable. At the end of the Mass (after the “The Mass has ended”), the priest did a “whew” gesture and said something like “one down…”…we all had a good laugh because I think we were all nervous about how it would go.

I was able to go to a 6 week course by the Companions of the Cross here in Ottawa on the new Liturgy, so I felt prepared…but theory and practice are two different things.
 
I attended Mass this morning, and thankfully it went well. The parts where the assembly flubbed up on were basically the “and with your spirit” and the “Lord, I am not worthy…” other than that, it went smoothly.

Since I’m an altar server, I have to get used to using the little book for the prayers for the priest and the big one for the altar.

Next week should be smoother, hopefully.

I heard some complaints by a few people, but I like the new translation. It brings us back to our roots as Catholics, and I think it flows smoother.
 
Phemie said:
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.
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He really should. Someone sent me a link for the Canadian GIRM last night, and it definitely says in Canada we all kneel at the Consecration. Event the “what’s changed” guide highlight that this has changed.
 
Our Mass went relatively well this morning…at least for other folks. Our 1-year-old was a major handful, so I spent most of the Mass in the narthex without the benefit of one of the books or cheat sheets. I’ve been priming my family for this for weeks, and have been harping on the “and with your spirit” the most, mainly because it’s the easiest of the changes to get a handle on, and the single response we say the most. That being said, I naturally screwed it up every time. The rest of the parish did pretty well with it, though, until the very end of Mass when the priest said the final, “The Lord be with you,” and pretty much the entire congregation came back with a resounding, “And also with you!” 😃
 
YoungTradCath said:
I know we already have the merged anticipation thread, but no one has started a thread about the post-implementation process yet, so I’m giving it a go.

How did the new translation work out the first time at your parish?

Did people catch on well?

Anyone have a massive stroke like some feared? (kidding obviously)

Any comments good or bad from Father in the homily or otherwise?

Any comments good or bad from the laity after mass?

Have at it.
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At my parish, we did very well! 🙂
 
It went quite well at my parish this morning. Everyone seemed a bit more hesitant on all of the responses, but I didn’t notice any mistakes. The one that most missed was “May the Lord accept the sacrifice at your hands for the praise and glory of his name, for our good and the good of all his holy Church.”

I think that the parts that are only slightly changed are actually the hardest. Everything is going along just like we are used to and then all of a sudden a new or different word is thrown in there. The bigger changes are easier cause once you learn them you are good, the smaller ones will be a lot easier to slip back into the old version.

But in all, it was good and I didn’t hear any grumbling. 👍
 
We attend the TLM exclusively, but all of you at the Novus Ordo Mass were not forgotten by our priest this morning. Before the homily, he took a moment to mention this historic change for the Church. We have the pew cards as well (our noon Mass is Novus Ordo in Latin), and Father suggested that those of us who attend the TLM familiarize ourselves with the new translation of the vernacular Mass, just in case we are ever in a position of having to know how to respond. Because he says both Masses in Latin a our parish, he said that he was almost envious of all the priests today who get to say this new translation today. But of course not much ever really changed for us because the Novus Ordo is said in Latin anyway, so the changes will be not as dramatic for our parish.

But I thought it was so wonderful to still share in this momentous day with the rest of the Church, it really got me choked up actually. :o

~Liza
 
It went almost smoothly at my parish, despite a couple of confused people mumbling the old missal. As a Catholic of the next generation I found it really easy to understand. I can’t wait to live the rest of my life using this missal and teaching it to my family and my future children 👍
 
Considering we had been using the new text since September, it was rather uneventful.

Father blessed the new altar missal before Mass, before the blessing of the Advent Wreath. And we were off.

As he was introducing us to singing the new translation, he taught us as we went along. For example, he sang the new Sanctus (which in the Celtic Mass isn’t all that different) and then we repeated what he had sung…same for the Memorial Acclamation (new Acclamation A [We proclaim your death, O Lord]) sung to melody of Celtic Mass old Acclamation C [When we eat this bread]).

The missalettes (J.S. Paluch) were in the new translation…so the large, clumsy sheets were no longer necessary.

Opening hymn was “O Come, O Come Emmanuel.”

The recessional was “Proclaim the Joyful Message.”

I heard an older lady comment to Father that the new English translation is almost the same as what the Spanish mass prays.
 
It was interesting at my parish last night. The cantor announced before Mass that there were booklets with all the new words in the pews, but it seemed that I was the only one using it. All through Mass, I was the only one saying “And with your spirit”. No one seemed to look in the booklets except during the Creed, and then only because my pastor mentioned right before we started it to look at them. Father did really well with all of the new prayers, even joking at the end that we all made it through and no one was hurt. 😉

After Mass, I made sure to compliment him on doing such a great job. People behind me were talking about how much they don’t like “consubstantial” and some of the other changes. Sigh. I was disappointed that we didn’t do the new Confiteor (Form A); we did the Kyrie instead.

Overall, it went well, but the people at my parish seem very resistant to the changes and didn’t make use of the resource given to help learn them. Hopefully as the weeks go by, this will change.
 
It went great today at the 8:00 Mass.

We have been watching the Edward Sri series as well as talking about the changes for the last month or so. Our parish also offered classes for anyone interested.

The music is great and in a minor key, I noticed. Sounds more Jewish somehow.

Love the new, improved, more in keeping with the Latin, translation.

We did the Confiteor and it was great.
 
Loren_1of6 said:
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.:love:

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

One of the regulars piped up with, “Don’t make us cry.”😦
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Why would he say that? It’s still the Pauline Mass or the Ordinary Form. In fact, for those of us who belong to religious orders such as Benedictine, Franciscans, Trinitarians and for people who speak Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and other Romance languages, the wording is exactly the same. Nothing has changed since 1970.

We attend mass at a parish where the pastor is a diocesan priest, so he had to use the new Roman Missal. The two other priests, one is a Trinitarian Brother and the other is a Franciscan Friar, they avoided it by using the missal for their respective orders. I teased them for being cheaters. LOL But it is legal and desirable that they use their own missal.

The people were confused with the cards, even though there were five weeks of workshops and rehearsals. It’s hard for people to remember to pull the card out. Most people are not used to holding something.

I messed up on “under my roof”. I completely forgot the roof and I could not find it fast enough on the card, because it caught me by surprise. I don’t know where my mind was, but my card was in the pocket in front of me instead of in my hand. 😊

Fraternally,

Br. JR, OSF :christmastree1:
 
It went very well at the 8:30 Mass I went to this morning, very few stumbles and it was evident that my Priest had been doing his homework because he was flawless this morning, especially during the Communion prayer.
 
My priest said most of the mass with great confidence. The only thing he really tripped up on was “consubstantial with the Father”! He started saying “One in…”, stopping suddenly and momentarily was unable to pronounce the new phrasing.
 
YoungTradCath said:
I know we already have the merged anticipation thread, but no one has started a thread about the post-implementation process yet, so I’m giving it a go.

How did the new translation work out the first time at your parish?

Did people catch on well?

Anyone have a massive stroke like some feared? (kidding obviously)

Any comments good or bad from Father in the homily or otherwise?

Any comments good or bad from the laity after mass?

Have at it.
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I kept screwing up. :banghead: My best friend screwed up. 😛 My dad kept giving me funny looks every time I screwed up. :rolleyes:

Nobody caught on well, even with the handy pamphlets.

I nearly had a stroke. 😉

Fr. Mark thought it was funny

After Mass I heard people asking each other how much they messed up.
 
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