{"id":5627,"date":"2010-11-30T09:39:24","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T15:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=5627"},"modified":"2010-11-30T15:54:21","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T21:54:21","slug":"many-missals-one-mass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2010\/11\/30\/many-missals-one-mass\/","title":{"rendered":"Many Missals, One Mass"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pray Tell reader Paul Schlachter sends in the piece he wrote for his parish bulletin regarding the upcoming English missal. <\/em>Pray Tell offers it as a good example of catechesis\u00a0 intended to help the transition go more smoothly.\u00a0 – Ed.<\/em><\/p>\n

For as long as I can remember, back when our Mass was celebrated in Latin, my family brought little missals to church and used them in following the rite.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure that you did, too.\u00a0 Our church has always insisted that the Mass is the supreme public prayer.\u00a0 We were not just to \u201cattend\u201d or \u201chear\u201d it but to become \u201cone body, one spirit in Christ.\u201d\u00a0 The little missals helped us to do that.<\/p>\n

In the process, we learned another lesson that was affirmed by the Second Vatican Council.\u00a0 Many books are written to explain the Mass to laypersons.\u00a0 One had color photos of Bishop Fulton Sheen posing at different moments.\u00a0 The photos gave me the impression that the \u201cpriest celebrant\u201d was the only one who counted.\u00a0 But in reality we are all celebrants.\u00a0 In the words of the traditional Roman Canon: \u201cWe your holy people offer you the pure, holy and sinless victim.\u201d\u00a0 And the Council fathers desired that everyone present \u201ctake part fully aware of what they are doing, actively engaged in the rite and enriched by it.\u201d<\/p>\n

If we were not familiar with Latin, we had to rely on the translation in the little missal.\u00a0 And so our eyes would move back and forth from the printed words to the actions before us.\u00a0 It was not a perfect solution, but it was all we had at the time.<\/p>\n

Even after our bishops gave their approval for the Mass to be celebrated in our native or adopted languages, little missals did not disappear. \u00a0Although we understood the prayers at last, we still felt a need to see them in print as a way to understand their meaning.\u00a0 Our parish provides copies of paperback missals to help us in this.\u00a0 Even though the words have not changed in nearly forty years, we want to know that we are praying the same words as the universal church is praying.\u00a0 On occasion, we reach for our paperback copy if we have difficulty understanding a lector, deacon or priest.<\/p>\n

In a year there will be some changes in the language of the Mass for English-speaking countries.\u00a0 These changes signal a closer adherence to the phrases that defined the Latin Mass over the centuries.\u00a0 When Advent 2011 comes, paperback missals will remind us of these changes.\u00a0 But let us avoid using them as a crutch.\u00a0 Let us promise each other that we will become familiar with the Mass responses as soon as possible.\u00a0 Let us be fully engaged participants, not like spectators at an opera who need a libretto to follow the plot.\u00a0 Let us be fully present to the Lord as he is fully present to us.<\/p>\n

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Muchos Misales, Una Sola Misa<\/strong><\/p>\n

En los d\u00edas de mi juventud se celebraba la santa misa en lat\u00edn. \u00a0Mi familia llevaba misalitos a la iglesia, us\u00e1ndolos para seguir de cerca el rito.\u00a0 A lo mejor su familia los usaba tambi\u00e9n.\u00a0 Nosotros los cat\u00f3licos siempre insistimos que la misa es la oraci\u00f3n comunal de suma importancia.\u00a0 As\u00ed que no hab\u00edamos solamente que \u201casistir\u201d u \u201co\u00edrla\u201d sino formar \u201cen Cristo un solo cuerpo y un solo esp\u00edritu.\u201d\u00a0 Los misalitos nos ayudaban en este esfuerzo.<\/p>\n

En el proceso aprendimos otra lecci\u00f3n que lleg\u00f3 a ser afirmada por el Concilio Vaticano Segundo.\u00a0 Muchos libros han sido escritos con el fin de explicar la misa a los laicos.\u00a0 Yo hab\u00eda visto uno que conten\u00eda fotos a colores del monse\u00f1or Fulton Sheen en varias etapas de una celebraci\u00f3n. \u00a0Esas fotos me daban la impresi\u00f3n de que el \u201csacerdote celebrante\u201d era la \u00fanica persona que importaba.\u00a0 Sin embargo, en la realidad todos somos celebrantes.\u00a0 En las palabras del Can\u00f3n romano tradicional: \u201cNosotros, todo tu pueblo santo, te ofrecemos el sacrificio puro, inmaculado y santo.\u201d\u00a0 Los padres conciliares deseaban que todos presentes \u201cparticipen con plena conciencia de lo que est\u00e1n haciendo, comprometidos activamente en el rito y enriquecidos del mismo.\u201d<\/p>\n

Los que no entend\u00edamos lat\u00edn ten\u00edamos que depender de la traducci\u00f3n en nuestro misalito. \u00a0Y as\u00ed fue que pasamos los ojos entre las palabras impresas y las acciones lit\u00fargicas frente a nosotros.\u00a0 No fue \u00e9sa una soluci\u00f3n ideal, pero no dispon\u00edamos de mejor remedio en el momento.<\/p>\n

Luego de que nuestros obispos dieron su aprobaci\u00f3n al uso de idiomas del pueblo (idiomas tanto nativos como adoptados), los misalitos no desaparecieron de uso. \u00a0Aunque entend\u00edamos las palabras, sent\u00edamos la necesidad de verlas impresas como modo de produndizarnos en ellas.\u00a0 Nuestra parroquia suministra copias de misalitos con este fin.\u00a0 Hace casi cuarenta a\u00f1os que usamos las mismas palabras, y aun as\u00ed queremos estar seguros de que oramos lo mismo que la iglesia universal va orando.\u00a0 Y de vez en cuando recurrimos al misalito si tenemos dificultad en entender a un lector, un di\u00e1cono o un sacerdote.<\/p>\n

Dentro de un a\u00f1o vamos a experimentar algunos cambios en las palabras de la misa celebrada en ingl\u00e9s.\u00a0 Los cambios significan un acercamiento m\u00e1s fiel a las frases de la misa en lat\u00edn que forma su base.\u00a0 Cuando llega el Adviento de 2011, los misalitos volver\u00e1n a indicarnos los cambios.\u00a0 Pero necesitamos dejar de depender de ellos como si nos fueran muletas.\u00a0 Prometamos unos a otros que nos familiaricemos con las nuevas frases en seguida.\u00a0 Seamos part\u00edcipes plenamente comprometidos, no como espectadores de una \u00f3pera que tienen que leer el libreto para seguir el argumento.\u00a0 Estemos completamente presentes al Se\u00f1or, como \u00c9l nos est\u00e1 presente en su Palabra, y en su Cuerpo y Sangre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Paul J. Schlachter, Ph. D.
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