Category: New Missal Implementation
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Irish Synod on Liturgy
Earlier this week the Irish Bishops’ Conference published the Synthesis of the Consultation in Ireland for the Diocesan Stage of the Universal Synod. There is a section in this document on the liturgy. Here is what it says: There is a sense that funerals and special occasions are celebrated extremely well, but there is a…
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Is the Confiteor an obligatory part of Mass?
The Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI published a letter earlier this week regarding the report on abuse in the Archdiocese of Munich-Freising. This post will not deal with the important issue of abuse in the Church, but, given that this is a liturgical blog, I would like to comment on a liturgical assumption that seems to…
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Love’s Labors Lost: The Collect for Thursday after the Fifth Sunday of Easter
Strengths and weaknesses in the present Missal translation
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“One” God no more
A few weeks ago Paul Inwood reported on the change of the collect conclusion in England & Wales. The December/January edition of Intercom the Irish Bishop’s semi-official “pastoral and liturgical resource magazine” contains this official notification that Ireland is also dropping the word “one” from the collects in the Missal. However, the missals that are…
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Eucharistic Prayer II on Sundays
The General Instruction of the Roman Missal number 364 says “Eucharistic Prayer II, on account of its particular features, is more appropriately used on weekdays or in special circumstances.” However, in my experience it is by far the most popular Eucharist Prayer II and is often used even on Sundays. When I was ministering in…
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Addendum to Spanish Book of the Chair
The Congregation for Divine Worship in Rome has sent a clarification to Pray Tell.
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Spanish Book of the Chair
I was in Spain recently and there came across a newly published liturgical book, the 2018 Libro de la Sede or Book of the Chair. This book is edited and published by the Spanish Bishops’ Conference as part of their Third Edition of the Roman Missal (ISBN: 978-8492586981, 1196 pages, €60). It succeeds a similar book that was keyed to the…
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Ordinariate Divine Worship Complementary Norms
Today the CDF released some Complementary Normsof the Apostolic Constitution “Anglicanorum coetibus” of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith along with an Explanatory Note. Some cradle Catholics find the liturgical provisions made for the Ordinatriates to be too conservative in style (and particularly in language). However I, for one, appreciate any attempt to broaden Catholic…
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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?