For His Friends…and for us

Bishop Robert Lynch of the Diocese of St. Petersburg hosted Bishop Blase Cupich of Spokane for a study day with the clergy of the Florida diocese. Bishop Lynch, who keeps a blog called For His Friends, has graciously shared three videos and a download of Bishop Cupich’s presentations. I know several other dioceses in the United States have already had Bishop Cupich speak to their clergy about the Roman Missal. And the most often-made comment I’ve heard from these dioceses is that their clergy came to the day resistant and angry but left hopeful and with more understanding. I had the same kind of experience with him when he was a main speaker at the Federation of Diocesan Liturgical Commissions national gathering a few years back.

Diana Macalintal

Diana Macalintal is the Director of Worship for the Diocese of San Jose in California and holds a Master of Arts in Theology, cum laude, from Saint John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota. She has served as a liturgist, music, and catechumenate director in campus, parish, and diocesan ministries for over 25 years and has authored numerous articles on liturgy, music, and the catechumenate. She was a contributing author for <em>The Catholic Connections Handbook for Middle Schoolers</em> and wrote <em>The Eucharist Catechist's Guide</em> (both Saint Mary's Press, 2009). She is an adjunct faculty member of the Institute in Pastoral Ministries of Saint Mary's University of Minnesota (Winona) and serves as a team member of the North American Forum on the Catechumenate. She founded and maintains a blog for the Diocese of San Jose called "Work of the People" and is a co-founder of TeamRCIA.com.

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  1. Jonathan Day

    I have only listened to the first of his presentations. It contained one passing comment that I found very worrying.

    Apparently for a number of “lesser” languages, the editio typica of the new Roman Missal will not be the Latin, but the new English translation! So (choosing a smaller langauge at random) the new missal in Slovenia could be the 2010 English translated into Slovene. I can just imagine the resulting word salad…

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  2. Todd Flowerday

    From what I’ve heard, the German and English versions of MR3 will be used as aids to Rome where it lacks competence in translating some world languages. I don’t know the specifics–and likely the CDWDS isn’t telling–but the German MR3 would be used to assist in translating Eastern European languages and English for other continents’ tongues.

    For that, I can appreciate a need for an “accurate” transliteration of MR3. But it further erodes the stance of the CDWDS to think that the English MR3 can be a one-stop shopping place for both translators and worshipers.

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      Anthony Ruff, OSB

      It makes sense to me that a very literal English or German (or Spanish or whatever) translation would be helpful to any number of language groups whose translators aren’t highly competent in Latin. Make a very literal translation and hand it out to everyone. Just don’t use it for worship, since language for worship has so many other requirements – according to Liturgiam authenticam – besides literal faithfulness. Don’t hold our worship hostage to the needs of other language groups! It shouldn’t be difficult to have two versions of English – one a pony, the other a liturgical text.
      awr

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      1. Karl Liam Saur

        That “literal” version would best be like those interlinear Hebrew or Greek tets, where there is no attempt to render the language idiomatically.

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