We are finally getting a decent translation of the Mass in to English without too much politicization. Forty years we have suffered with this banal translation marked with an agenda. I only wish it was going into effect a lot sooner.
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Sanctus Lesson
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Here is a great lesson on the Sanctus.
Categories: liturgy, mass, prayer, sixties, translation
Music and Spirituality | Fr. Basil Cole, O.P.
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The Ignatius Insight just published an article from Fr. Basil Cole Music and Spirituality | Fr. Basil Cole, O.P. | Ignatius Insight | Ignatius Insight that is very insightful and very much needed in this Society Gone Madd! I’ve read his book Music and Morals which really helped me, he is just awesome. Now he connects Music and Spirituality to the tune of St Thomas Aquinas – my favorite saint. Part of spirituality is using your mind, but people today seem to believe whatever they feel is ok. When music (or any of the arts, I believe) causes feeling a certain way for a prolonged period of time it is bound to have it’s effects. Please consider reading the article (which I think can be applied to all forms of the arts), it may change your life, like his book Music and Morals did mine.
Categories: book, Good, Hollywood, liturgy, mass, morality, movies, music, sixties, spirituality
40 years later – finally a decent English translation for Mass
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Maybe we can finally pray the way we believe, Lex orandi, lex credendi. Ever since the Mass was hurriedly translated we’ve had to deal with banality. Hopefully we can have liturgy that uplifts us to God instead of bringing Him down to ours. Some of the changes are in this Catholic World News : Vatican approves new English translation for Mass article. I hope there are many more good ones, especially the Gloria, the translation we have now id pretty bad and is barely recognizable next to the Latin, which we should be using anyway since Vatican II says that we should be able to sing or say the prayers in Latin. Ever since I actually read Sacrosanctum Concilium I wondered where I can assist at the Mass called for in the document, maybe we will finally get a little closer.
Categories: bad, bishops, liturgy, mass, prayer, priest, spirituality, translation, wrong conclusion
Pope weighing changes in Novus Ordo
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If this article – Catholic World News : Pope weighing changes in Novus Ordo? – is true, we are seeing signs of the renewal needed for the church. After 40 years in the desert after Vatican II we may be entering the promised land! Once something has gone way off track, it usually is very hard to get it back on track. Let us pray that the Holy Father does what is required.
Categories: 40 days, Good, liturgy, mass, Pope, priest, spirituality