Welcoming the New Roman Missal

A new generation imagines the future.

Does the new Missal connect faith to action?

Following up on Kerry rsquo s post about liturgists who are concerned with the new Missal I thought it might be useful to share some practical observations and concerns about its implementation As part of our training for the priesthood every Jesuit scholastic headed toward ordination at my theol

One of the more underreported nbsp aspect of the introduction of the new Mass translations aka the new Roman Missal to be rolled out in Advent this year is the requirement for new musical settings for the various Mass parts nbsp I e new translations mean that some of those old familiar tu

Over the past 37 years, English-speaking Catholics became accustomed to hearing a particular translation of the Latin text for the eucharistic prayer: “Take this, all of you, and drink from it: this is the cup of my blood, the blood of the new and everlasting covenant. It will be shed for you

Examples of the new texts

In the midst of this blog s focus on Advent properly I might say and the liturgical year in general which is the focus of the Catholic Church s activities the year round an interesting challenge of sorts comes from the blog nbsp Inhabitatio Dei in the post The Impotence of the Liturgical Year