Hmmm. Tablet Poll on the New Missal

The Tablet has a poll you can take on the new missal here.

Non-scientific, so I expect it’ll be about like the USCath survey – rather negative toward the missal. Meanwhile, polls like CARA show that Catholics will get used to any langauge, whether it’s very good or not. (Hey, they got used to the 1973 text just fine, so that tells us something about how ritual language works.)

The Tablet survey asks whether you’ve “got [sic] used to and are…happy saying” responses such as

  • And with thy spirit.
  • shed for you and for all for the forgiveness of sins.
  • Lord, I am not worthy to receive you under my roof.

Hmmm… haven’t the folks at The Tablet been going to Mass this past year??

awr

 

Anthony Ruff, OSB

Fr. Anthony Ruff, OSB, is a monk of St. John's Abbey. He teaches liturgy, liturgical music, and Gregorian chant at St. John's University School of Theology-Seminary. He is widely published and frequently presents across the country on liturgy and music. He is the author of Sacred Music and Liturgical Reform: Treasures and Transformations, and of Responsorial Psalms for Weekday Mass: Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter. He does priestly ministry at the neighboring community of Benedictine sisters in St. Joseph.

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9 responses to “Hmmm. Tablet Poll on the New Missal”

  1. Adam Mindenki

    “With thy spirit” is very curious. Thy? Do they say that in England? Or just at the Tablet?

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    1. Ben Whitworth

      @Adam Mindenki – comment #1:
      The Tablet is read chiefly by Anglican clergy.

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  2. Adam Mindenki

    I am not Anglican. Do they say, With thy spirit?

    I don’t got to Mass much in English, but now and again. I am almost sure the response is: “With your spirit.” Is that right?

    In any way, does it matter?

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  3. Paul Inwood

    Ben Whitworth : @Adam Mindenki – comment #1: The Tablet is read chiefly by Anglican clergy.

    Sheer nonsense, I’m afraid.

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    1. Ben Whitworth

      @Paul Inwood – comment #4:
      My comment was of course tongue-in-cheek, but if the Letters pages are at all representative of the (shrinking) readership at large, then our separated brethren do make up a surprisingly large proportion of the Tablet’s constituency.

      I left a message on the Tablet article pointing out two serious factual errors in the article itself, six errors in the poll that rendered it entirely useless, and one typo. They have not printed my comment or corrected the errors of fact, but they did correct the typo. Priorities!

      OK, off to hibernate now: a blessed Advent to all PTB readers, and I look forward to further lively discussions in 2013, if we are all spared.

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  4. Dwayne Bartles

    “3. Have you got used to saying and are you happy saying . . . shed for you and for all for the forgiveness of sins.”

    Beg pardon?

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  5. Matthew Hazell

    Hmmm… haven’t the folks at The Tablet been going to Mass this past year??

    Wouldn’t surprise me. The Tablet doesn’t exactly have a reputation for fidelity to the Church and her teachings.

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  6. Mary Wood

    Whatever the deficiencies of online surveys about religion, this particular one has been publicised by Fr Z’s blog. His predominantly trad readership may well make the results seriously unrepresentative if they participate.

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  7. Mark Coley

    The Tablet took the first version of the survey down last Wednesday citing technical difficulties. The questions have now been corrected. If you completed it before Wednesday you’ll have to resubmit it as they have not kept the previous responses. Members of my family have been independently encouraged to submit their responses by priests of their diocese. There are a lot of people who are not happy about what Rome has imposed.

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