Tag: Comparing Translations
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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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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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Linguistic comparisons
No wonder we have such problems with liturgical translations….
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Dateline: April 4th, Holy Saturday, Scammon Bay, Alaska
In any event, in this post I hope some readers might find a glimpse into the church at one edge of the North American continent, as well as into the heart or soul of a veteran pastoral minister struggling with the Missal text in service to the church’s liturgical tradition.
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Collect for the Most Holy Trinity
Comments concerning this collect are taken from Anscar Chupungco’s new book: The Prayers of the the New Missal: A Homiletic and Catechetical Companion.
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The Collect for the Mass of Pentecost Day
The Collect for Pentecost provides a good example of the difficulties that beset translators working within the constraints of Liturgiam Authenticam.
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Today’s Orations in the New English Missal
Both these translation errors in themselves might be construed as trivial, but they do interfere with the meaning of the text. More important, it seems from studies of the Missal that such small errors are by no means infrequent.
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The Prayer over the Offerings for the First Sunday of Lent
Three questions seem to arise from a consideration of this little prayer.