59% of priests do not like the new translation, compared with 39% who do. An overwhelming 80% agree that some of the language is awkward and distracting. 61% think the translation needs urgently to be revised, and do not want to see the other liturgical books translated in a like manner.
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Now that’s one whopper of a claim!
“The lack of spectacular consequence is hardly surprising. Few people attend church services simply for the beauty of the language.”
The TLS and the New Missal
Dec 13
This week’s The Times Literary Supplement carries a vigorous review of the UK edition of the Roman Missal.
The complete report is now available to download as a PDF.
By James E. Frazier
Neither the Vatican II Hymnal nor the Adoremus Hymnal provides a listing of copyright permissions.
The Vatican II Hymnal is at once the most complete, the most limited, and in some ways the most traditional of all three hymnals reviewed in this series.
by James E. Frazier.
“Despite my reservations about St. Michael Hymnal, the hymnal will serve any parish well that wants a traditional hymnal of this sort, with a fair range of non-traditional options.”
by James E. Frazier.
“The several theological problems that I have noted in the Adoremus Hymnal were clearly not perceived as such by the editors.”
Whenever you change a complex system, things occur that you did not foresee.