The Bishops of the International Commission on English in the Liturgy [ICEL] join me in welcoming the announcement of the approval by the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments of the definitive English text of the Third Edition of The Roman Missal. This news ushers in the final phase of preparation for the publication and implementation of the Missal in our eleven member Bishops’ Conferences and the many other territories where the sacred liturgy is habitually celebrated in English.
Archive for April, 2010
Recognitio Granted
Apr 30
Organic Development
Apr 29
What’s all this “organic development” stuff that people are talking about in the comments to Fr. Anthony’s post “What Can the Middle Ages Do For Me?”
The bewildering variety of the medieval liturgy need not scare us. It’s not necessarily a model for how things should be now.
Catholic Gambling
Apr 28
I asked Bruce Harbert how long he thought the new translation, the first effort to implement Liturgiam authenticam, might last.
Thought for the Day
Apr 28
After the opening collect the celebrant shouted to my friend, the other concelebrant, “Do you guys wanna go have coffee uptown after this?”
Fr. Hilgartner to head BCDW
Apr 28
Fr. Richard Hilgartner will succeed Msgr. Anthony Sherman at the head of the BCDW.
Approval of the new missal is now very close. The Holy Father said this to Vox Clara.
The pontifical Mass in pre-Vatican II form from the National Shrine, EWTN broadcast, is just nearing its end.
Missal Musings
Apr 24
A friend in a diocesan office muses about how the implementation will go.