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MAY 12, 2011 • THE CATHOLIC SPIRIT
Preparing for the new Roman Missal
That They May All Be One Archbishop John C. Nienstedt
This new translation has been guided by a new standard of rules that sets out to provide a more exact rendering of the original Latin text
Part of the rich legacy that we have inherited from the now Blessed John Paul II is a new Roman Missal, a text he issued in the Jubilee Year of 2000, but not released until 2002. The Roman Missal is the red book that the priest or bishop uses at his chair and at the altar in which he finds the prayers for that particular liturgy. More often, we hear it called the “sacramentary.” Of course, the official language of the 2002 Missal was Latin and so an English language translation was needed for the celebration of the Mass in the vernacular. That process took eight years of intense work, but received final approval in April 2010. We will begin to use this historic text on the first Sunday of Advent of this year.
Words will change While the Mass itself is not changing — that is, the structure of the Mass as we have known it since the Second Vatican Council is not being modified — the words of the Mass will be changing, and in significant ways. This new translation has been guided by a new standard of rules that sets out to provide a more exact rendering of the original Latin text. The text that we currently use was translated in 1974, and while the translation has served us well for many years, the church in her wisdom has determined that a revised
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“I see the new missal as a great opportunity to stop and re-examine our understanding of the Mass so as to renew and deepen our appreciation for the mysteries that it contains.
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ARCHBISHOP JOHN NIENSTEDT
Read the next installment in the series on the new missal — page 17A translation is necessary, correcting and clarifying those points of the 1974 translation that perhaps were not as clear as they need to be, or that did not do adequate justice to the beauty or power of the original Latin texts. We will also notice in the new translation a different “register,” a term used to describe the kind of speech in a particular setting. The new translation is written in a more formal register, highlighting the dignity and importance of the sacred liturgy and the One to whom we speak. For example, contrast this prayer of the 1974 translation, “Father, your love never fails.
Hear our call. Keep us from danger, and provide for all our needs.” with the 2010 version, “O God, whose providence never fails in its design, Keep from us, we humbly beseech you, all that might harm us and grant all that works for our good.” This is but one example of many in which a more elevated style of speech will be found in the newly translated text. To be sure, the difference in the style of the language will, at first, be PLEASE TURN TO RESOURCES ON PAGE 10A
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Archbishop OKs 18 priest assignments for archdiocese Eighteen priests have been given new assignments in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. Father Jules Omba Omalanga was named as part-time chaplain for French-speaking African Catholics and part-time chaplain for North Memorial Hospital in Golden Valley, effective June 1. He has been serving as pastor of St. Philip in Minneapolis. (See page 5A for additional information on St. Philip.) The additional 17 assignments will begin Friday, July 1. Father Rodger Bauman was named pastor of Guardian Angels in Oakdale. He has served as pastor of St. Mary of the Lake in White Bear Lake since 2002 and previously served at St. Peter in Richfield, Holy Spirit in St. Paul, and St. Edward in Bloomington. Father Douglas Ebert will serve as pastor at Guardian Angels in Chaska. He has been assistant pastor at All Saints in Lakeville since 2009. Father Joseph Fink will be pastor of Immaculate Conception in Watertown. He has served at St. Joseph in West St. Paul since 2009. He prePLEASE SEE APPOINTMENTS ON PAGE 9A
Corrections ■ In the “Journey through the Easter Triduum” photos on page 4 of the April 28 issue, under Holy Thursday, Father James Perkl is washing, not anointing, the feet of Dylan Heiman at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in Hastings. ■ In the story on page 7 about pastor assignments, Father Stan Mader served on the Clergy Personnel Board, not as clergy personnel director.
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