Category: Translation / New Missal
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New Italian Edition of the Roman Missal Published
The Daily News Bulletin of Holy See carries the news today that Pope Francis granted an audience for the “Presentation of the new Missal of the Italian Episcopal Conference.” Last year PrayTell carried a story on this new translation on its approval by Pope Francis. The new edition which the Italian bishops approved in 2018, will cost €110…
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Scotland’s Bishops vote to adopt the ESV in the Lectionary
The revision of the Lectionary in the English-speaking world has been a long haul. The United States uses a version of the New American Bible, English-speaking Canada uses the New Revised Standard Version. English-speaking Africa and the Ordinariates for Catholics coming from the Anglican tradition use the Second Catholic Edition of the Revised Standard Version.…
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Reflections on the Collect for the Fifth Sunday of Easter
One of the unexpected advantages of the shelter-in-place directives stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic is the leisure to explore liturgical texts in more depth. As I was engaging the Collect for the Fifth Sunday of Easter, I discovered a significant change between the text presented in the first two post-Vatican II editions of the Missale…
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RNJB Bible readings for Advent and Christmas
A sample to help readers to consider the merits of the Revised New Jerusalem Bible translation.
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U.S. Bishops Prepare to Vote on New Translation of the RCIA
With respect to the Christian Initiation of Adults, we are seeing an approach to translation of liturgical texts that is strikingly different from the path taken in the translation of the Missal.
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French Missal Translation Receives the Go-Ahead from Rome
La Croix International reported on November 6 that the Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship has given the recognitio to the new French translation of the Roman Missal, which has been in the works since 2002. Work on this new translation was mandated by the publication of the instruction Liturgiam Authenticam in 2001, yet suffered repeated…
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On Trying to Revise the Missal
And nothing happened.
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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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“My-and-your sacrifice”
The Latin “ac” does not mean what we think it means”