THE CATHOLIC KNIGHT: I received this note from a friend this morning by email...
Personally I think the new English translation of the mass is wonderful, but I have already heard some people complain about it. If you don't like it you can always worship at an Anglo-Ordinariate parish in Old English instead. I mean it's not like you're stuck with just one English translation of the mass. You do have a choice you know.I happen to like the new English translation too, but I hadn't given this full consideration until reading this note. It seems that along with Advent 2011 comes the beginning of a new English paradigm in Catholic liturgy. The old 1970s English translation is gone, but English-speaking Catholics are not locked into one single English version of the mass. There are two! There is the new English translation of the Novus Ordo mass, and there is the classical English mass according to the Book of Divine Worship. Both are equally valid and approved by Rome. If some Catholics are terribly displeased with the new English translation of the Novus Ordo, or they are displeased with some other aspect of the general English celebration, there is always the Anglo-Ordinariate liturgy. All a regular Roman Catholic would need do is simply show up to an ordinariate parish for mass, as regular Roman Catholics can receive communion freely in any ordinariate parish. Such ordinariate parishes can be found at this website (here) in the United Kingdom, and at this website in the United States (link will be posted when available), or by simply using this map below. In the United States, all the parishes and groups in this map should be in full-communion with Rome sometime after the first of the new year (January 2012). You should call the local priest in advance for complete information. There is still no word yet on the Canadian ordinariate, however, one should call the pastors of these parishes anyway for complete information. I have heard rumour that some of these Canadian parishes may enter the U.S. ordinariate until the Canadian ordinariate is created. If this is true, it would bring them into full communion with Rome much sooner, simultaneously with the Americans...
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From UK Catholic - Just for information the ACN - Aid to the Church in need www.acnuk.org/shop is selling a very cheap "Order of Mass in Latin and English". This provides both the new English transaltion of the mass and the original Latin text.It also provides musical notation for the parts of the mass in both languages. Now no-one knows where the pope is taking us but take a hint and get this - swot up on your Latin guys.......I thought you might all like this. By the way the pope did the Eucharistic prayer in Latin at all his masses in his recent UK visit.....Get on your knees and pray.......all will be well -TRUST - The pope will lead Mother Church home - and he will take ALL souls - those who want Latin - and those who just "dont get it"....ALL souls must be saved.The good shepherd dosnt want to lose anyone....
Problem is, there are very few Ordinariate Parishes in the US... none in my area.
Not to worry anonymous, that will soon change. Within a few years there will likely be an Anglo-Ordinariate parish in every large to medium-sized city in the USA.
One solution to the banality of the English mass is to sing more of it in beautiful hymns. Michael Praetorius has many beautiful hymns made for German Lutherans and Catholics based on the Venetian Choral polyphony.Mozart also had choir music for Catholics. The point is that the vernacular will never seem as sacred because its what we use every day. However, old English or sung hymns can make the mass more reverent and spiritual.
Anther issue is vestments. Before the 60's, priests wore dignified and beautiful vestments but after VII they have had these bland green uniforms that look more like hippie tunics than sacred vestments. Compare priestly vestments before and after VII online to see what I mean. The war on aesthetics has affected architecture, music, iconography, and even priestly vestments.
We must give more feedback to our priests. My wife and I personalty congratulated our parish priest on being one of the few courageous enough to give sermons that are actually relevant rather than the same dull boring abstract sleep inducing stuff that most parish priests produce.
Uh, wasn't this the new mass before there was the new mass? Wasn't this Cranmer's counterfeit which helped to lose the True Faith for England? Let us find an "Extraordinary Rite" to attend and, if there isn't one near you, pray God to send you one.
Anonymous, you are obviously not familiar with the Sarum Use which was in widespread use in England prior to the Reformation Era and is actually OLDER than the Missal of St. Pius V (Tridentine, Extraordinary Form) used in the Traditional Latin Mass today. Cranmer drew upon this ancient Catholic liturgy, and its prayers, to maintain the allegiance of the English people after King Henry's shism/heresy. Anglo-Catholics continue to draw upon this liturgy today and have recently re-submitted a more traditional version of it to Rome for recognitio.
The current Anglican Use mass draws upon a Litirgical tradition that is older than the Tridentine mass, and the next generation of Anglican Use will do it even more so, resurrecting the ancient Use of Sarum.
Anonymous, there is more than one way to be fully Catholic, authentically orthodox and liturgically correct, outside of the Tridentine liturgy. There are many Eastern Rites that exemplify this, and they are much older than the Tridentine. There are some Western rites that exemplify this, of which Sarum is just one. I assert that the new Anglo Catholic liturgy recently submitted to Rome will be more ancient than the Tridentine in form and style, drawing upon prayers and rubrics older than the Missal of St. Pius V, and equally valid in every way to the Tridentine. This will not compete with the Tridentine mind you, on the contrary, it will complement it.
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