Category: Translation / New Missal
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Joint Lectionary Project
NEIL XAVIER O’DONOGHUE — “For over 50 years parishes and communities in Australia, Ireland and New Zealand have listened to the scripture readings proclaimed in church from the same translations which are given in the Lectionary for Mass. Many of these books are now in a poor state and need replacing.”
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Podcasts: ACU’s Speaking of Liturgy
EDITOR — Fr. Andrew Menke outlines the work of ICEL undertaken on behalf of the English speaking Conferences of Bishops around the world.
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Retrospectives on Composing for the Church’s Worship, Part 3
MICHAEL JONCAS — The General Instruction of the Roman Missal #61 … opened up to me another compositional avenue for creating a setting of the Responsorial Psalm as an art song.
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New texts for Communion outside of Mass and Eucharistic adoration
EDITOR — The updated texts will be implemented on the First Sunday of Advent, December 1st, 2024.
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Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Malaysia-Singapore-Brunei opt for RNJB Lectionary
NEIL XAVIER O’DONOGHUE — These new Lectionaries will replace the existing Jerusalem Bible (JB) edition that Great Britain shares (with some minor differences in the Psalm responses) with Ireland, Australia and New Zeeland, along with some other areas.
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The Divine Office Hymnal: a few initial reactions
FRITZ BAUERSCHMIDT — Some thoughts after using the Divine Office Hymnal for a few moths.
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Inclusive practice or linguistic nightmare?
EDITOR — “While some of these changes are not that dramatic or noticeable in English, introducing inclusive wording in languages such as Spanish, where nouns are either grammatically masculine or feminine, becomes quite obvious due to the novel alteration of noun endings.”
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Synod calls for … another English translation…
EDITOR — Another translation in English? What language shall we borrow?
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Euchological Insights from 1983
If I am reading the information provided in the “Foreword” to the document correctly, the proper Preface of the Eucharistic Prayer provided for use at an anointing Mass was newly composed for the USA edition.