Just a few random thoughts before dashing off for the morning Masses.
Read moreTag: Exultet
Paragraphs reversed in Exsultet
Any deep theological significance to this, or just a simple error?
Read moreA pillar of wax?
It is very clear from the new, more literal rendering that this text is not really a Proclamation of Easter, but more a hymn to the candle itself.
Read moreReview: The Illuminated Easter Proclamation
Charles Rohrbacher, a deacon and iconographer from Alaska, was preparing to sing the exsultet at an Easter Vigil four years ago, when he looked down at his photocopied text and thought to himself “We can do better than this.”
Read moreLost in Translation: Part 2
Part 2 of Gabe Huck’s 4-part series.
“Once you get beyond “Push” or “Pull” on the shop door, translators must make judgments where right and wrong are probably not the best words to describe what happens. No translation will say exactly what the original says to one for whom the original language is the mother tongue.”
Ministers or Mysteries?
Has the forthcoming translation of the Exultet transformed divine mysteries into angel ministers?
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