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\u201cIn countries where parts of the new English translation of the Roman Missal are already in use, the feedback has been very positive,\u201d Zenit.org<\/em> reports.\u00a0The speaker is Monsignor Andrew Wadsworth, executive director of the Secretariat of the International Commission on English in the Liturgy (ICEL). Msgr. Wadsworth says, \u201cPeople find the elegance of the language, its dignity, the sort of cadence of the language \u2013 which particularly lends itself to the sung parts of the liturgy \u2013 they find all of that to be a great improvement.\u201d<\/p>\n

Archbishop Gomez of Los Angeles says that the new missal translation “restores the beauty<\/a> of the original Latin.” The translators “did a beautiful job<\/a>,” he writes.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI have no stomach for the doublespeak that attempts to present this translation as the best thing since sliced bread,\u201d Fr. Michael Briody of North Lanarkshire writes to The Tablet<\/em><\/a> in this week\u2019s issue. \u201cI have seen nothing in it which backs up the assertion, for instance, that this will make the Mass more prayerful, something which I desire and have worked on for 34 years of priesthood.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cIntroduction of new missal going smoothly in English-speaking nations,\u201d says the CNS headline<\/a>. A gradual introduction of the Order of Mass is underway in many English-speaking countries. For the most part, the entire new missal with the proper prayers of the priest will not be introduced until this coming Advent. There have been extensive efforts to explain the changes to the people in the past year. CNS quotes Martin Foster of the bishops\u2019 conference liturgy office in the UK, \u201cMy ambition is that people turn up on the first Sunday of September and they’ll know there’s a new missal.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A woman from the UK emailed me yesterday that she just discovered Pray Tell<\/em>.<\/p>\n

She was searching the internet because of her distress that the new translation will begin to be implemented this coming Sunday. \u201cI can honestly say that I am heartbroken and feel spiritually flat. I do not feel I can worship at a church that uses these words. As there is no way to protest our outrage at this intrusion into spiritual life, I and my young adult children have (independent of each other) decided we will most likely worship at the local Anglican church in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Bishop Joseph Toal and Archbishop Mario Conti have told Scottish Catholics<\/a> to embrace the \u201cmarvelous opportunity, challenge and necessity\u201d of the new English translation of the Roman Missal ahead of the first Scottish parishes adopting it this weekend. Archbishop Conti wrote in a pastoral letter, \u201cThere has been an attempt to dignify the language we use at Mass by a return to words which might be judged as more literary, and thought by many to be more becoming for public prayer.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe prospect of having to implement the new translation of the Missal is making me ill. \u2026 This new translation I find totally unnecessary, clumsy and off-putting. The manner of its imposition is also, in my opinion, unworthy of people who profess to follow Christ,\u201d writes Fr. Val Farrel of Lancashire, also in\u00a0this week\u2019s\u00a0Tablet<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Cardinal Pell of Sydney, Australia, president of the Vox Clara<\/em> translation commission, has been a vocal defender of the new translation. As the Diocese of Sydney\u2019s website states<\/a>, \u201cCardinal Pell believes when those priests become familiar with the way the changes were undertaken and the results, there will be few who will remain displeased. Parishioners too, he believes, will come to see the improvements with the translation.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cMight I report on three months\u2019 experience of the use of the new Missal?\u201d writes a man from Australia in this week\u2019s Tablet<\/em><\/a>. \u201cWell, after an initial compliance, the faithful have \u2018voted with their voices.\u2019 At the principal Sunday Masses over the last three weeks I have hardly heard on \u201cAnd with your spirit.\u2019 Overall the level of responses by the congregation has dropped off significantly. There is almost an angry silence from a large portion of the people.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Is the transition to the new missal going smoothly, as the CNS headline claims? It\u2019s too early to tell. We really won\u2019t know until the worst texts of the missal, the proper prayers of the priest (collect, prayer over the offerings, prayer after communion) come into use. It is these prayers which are especially clumsy, poorly constructed, and \u2013 despite the claims \u2013 shockingly inaccurate in places. The heresy<\/a> in the collect for Trinity Sunday, for example. Or the incorrect word order<\/a> in the prayer after communion for the First Sunday of Advent, telling us that we learn to love the things of heaven not from the celebration of the sacred mysteries, but from the \u201cpassing things\u201d of this earth!<\/p>\n

I hope the transition to the new missal does go smoothly. That\u2019s right \u2013 I hope it goes smoothly. The liturgy is the \u201csource and summit\u201d of our Christian life, and we must always strive for its worthy celebration. Come Advent, I\u2019ll be laboring mightily for the best possible use of the new missal at the abbey. The sacred liturgy isn\u2019t the place for protests or divisions. It\u2019s the place for celebrating our new life in the death and resurrection of Christ.<\/p>\n

But outside the liturgy is another thing. There, it is important (a duty, according to canon 212.3<\/a>) to make known to our bishops that this translation was a mistake, that it never should have happened, that it would not have happened if our governance structures had proper accountability. As it is, a mediocre translation is being forced on us because the hierarchy has unlimited power to force whatever it wants. This is not as it should be in Christ\u2019s church.<\/p>\n

And so, I will implement the new missal as best I can. I will work so that the transition goes \u201csmoothly,\u201d as CNS puts it. But I will make my opinion known, for example at the Call to Action<\/em> convention in November and throughout the U.S. on my CTA<\/em> speaking tours. I will encourage my listeners to make their displeasure with the new missal known to the bishops. I encourage you to do the same.<\/p>\n

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