Day: May 5, 2011
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New Mass translation is ecumenically harmful, Anglican says
The Rev. David Holeton said other Christians were “both stunned and dismayed” when the Vatican abandoned the English texts of prayers Catholics had developed with them since the Second Vatican Council and when the Vatican discouraged Catholics from consulting ecumenically on the new translations.
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Give me a literary, not a literal translation
“A literal translation of Latin liturgical texts into English is a literary tragedy, for beauty captured in Latin is not transmittable literally into any other language. It takes English literary genius to capture Latin literary genius. When ICEL (International Committee on English in the Liturgy) was kidnapped from trained liturgists, the literary disasters with which…