Author: Michael Joncas
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A New Resource for Music Ministers
The collection is free for interested individuals to download
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What translation guidelines for official vernacular versions of Roman Rite liturgical texts in English are presently in force?
What new sets of guidelines might we expect, who would formulate them, and what do the bishops’ conferences want to do with the translations guided by Liturgicam Authenticam?
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An Issue for Future Liturgical Translations (3): Verbal Forms of Court Etiquette
The Deity is sometimes addressed with court vocabulary, obscured in our translations by leaving particular words in lower case.
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An Issue for Future Liturgical Translation (2): Grappling with Changed Cultural Conditions
I have great reverence for the heritage of liturgical prayer that has come to us down the centuries, but I wonder how authentically we can pray texts whose cultural assumptions may be so far from our own.
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An Issue for Future Liturgical Translation (I): Correcting Already-Approved Mistranslations
How does a territorial bishops’ conference identify and correct mistranslations that appear in texts that have already been approved for use by the conference and confirmed by the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments?
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New Book from Mike Joncas
My illness changed my understanding of Anointing, the Eucharist, and my daily prayer.
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Night of Silence Website Goes Live
Helping folks appreciate the beauty and importance of Advent in contemporary life.
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Juliette J. Day’s Reading the Liturgy: An Appreciative Review
In light of Magnum Principium, I believe Day’s Reading the Liturgy should be required reading for all those who embark on the art and task of liturgical translation as well as for all those who would evaluate the new translations.
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Recommended Viewing: “The Churchmen” (“Ainsi soient-ils”)
If I had my way, every seminarian and seminary formator in the USA, as well as every bishop, priest, deacon and pastoral minister, would watch this series.