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At Pray Tell’s invitation, gifted hymntext writer Jeffrey Rowthorn offers his thoughts on the literary quality of the Ordo Missae (Order of Mass) in the new English missal. In the second article in this series, hymn text writer Carl Daw will comment on the proper texts. Both Rowthorn and Daw are from The Episcopal Church.<\/em><\/p>\n

Intelligibility, Euphony, and Proclaimability in the New Missal Texts by Jeffrey Rowthorn<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am left with a sense that, with some very clear exceptions, many of the prayers in the proposed translation cry out for poetry or at least for less ponderous prose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[235],"class_list":["post-2046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-new-missal","tag-jeffrey-rowthorn"],"yoast_head":"\nIntelligibility, Euphony and Proclaimability in the New Missal Texts by Jeffery Rowthorn - Home<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2010\/05\/20\/intelligibility-euphony-and-proclaimability-in-the-new-missal-texts\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Intelligibility, Euphony and Proclaimability in the New Missal Texts by Jeffery Rowthorn - 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