Having a pastorally friendly liturgical translation is one of my favourite hobby horses. I hope American and Canadian readers will forgive me if I make
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Category: Translation / New Missal
Revised New Jerusalem Bible Lectionary for Sundays of Easter
What if the Revised New Jerusalem Bible were to be used in a new lectionary? Here’s how that could look.
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Lead Us Not Into Translation!
English speakers need to start reflecting on whether we should advocate for a change in the translation.
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Forthcoming Italian Missal
The forthcoming Italian missal has received confirmatio from the Vatican’s liturgy office, the CDW.
Read moreHorace T. Allen, Jr. Rest in Peace
The Presbyterian News Service reports that the Rev. Dr. Horace T. Allen, Jr. died on February 5, 2019. Professor Allen, described as “a fierce advocate
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Running Toward Advent
Should the Church give up any pretense of an “Advent” and just give-in to the “holiday season,” and leave it at that?
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Update on the French and Italian Missal Translations
The French Missal translation will be the first significant test of Francis’s re-calibration of the translation process.
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Man, I’m Tired of Inclusive Language
Inclusive language appears to be dead, and those of us who continue to demand it appear obsolete and out-of-touch.
Read moreArchbishop Gregory: Time to Review Missal Translation
In an interview just published in America, Archbishop Wilton Gregory, chair of the US bishops’ committee on liturgy, said this about a reexamination of the
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How to Translate Conversatio Morum?
In a recent liturgy, a candidate for simple profession to a Benedictine abbey promised stability (in English), obedience (in English), and conversatio morum (in Latin). Why couldn’t that third promise be rendered in English? And how best to do so?
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