People are posting accounts of their first encounter with the Missal translation on various threads, but I thought it might be useful to have a single thread that could collect the reactions in one place.<\/p>\n
I am not particularly interested in rehashing complaints about either the old translation or the new, and not even complaints about the process. What I am interested is how it felt in actual practice. Was anything better than you expected? Was anything worse?<\/p>\n
Better: <\/strong>People seemed in good spirits about the whole thing,\u00a0willing to give it a go and\u00a0laughing at their own stumbling. Having responded loudly and clearly with “and with your spirit” at the opening, only about half the congregation got it right at the Gospel, so I said, “let’s try that again.” They got it the second time.<\/p>\n The orations sounded better than I had feared, in part because the pastor had been practicing them all week.<\/p>\n And in EPIII there was one paragraph, which I had not particularly noticed when reading through the prayer, that struck me as quite nice when I heared it proclaimed: “Listen graciously to the prayers of this family, whom you have summoned before you:\u00a0in your compassion, O merciful Father,\u00a0gather to yourself all your children scattered throughout the world.” I liked the concreteness of “this<\/em> family” as well as the language of God’s “compassion” (rather than simply God’s “love”).<\/p>\n Worse:<\/strong> Apart from this, EPIII sounded clunkier than I expected, as did the preface. Maybe with time the priest will get a bit better with his pauses, but I couldn’t help but agree with the parishioner who said to me afterward that it sounded as if it had been written by a lawyer.<\/p>\n Since the point of this post is to report impressions and not to debate them, how about if folks limit themselves to one post.<\/p>\n So, what was better? What was worse?<\/p>\n P.S.<\/em><\/p>\n Any personal attacks, particularly suggestions that people leave the Church if they are unhappy, as tempting as they may be, will be deleted. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How did the new translation feel in actual practice. Was anything better than you expected? Was anything worse?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1398,24],"tags":[1709,1498],"class_list":["post-12395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-missal-implementation","category-translation-new-missal","tag-eucharistic-prayer-iii","tag-november-27-2011"],"yoast_head":"\n