Posted on 12/25/2007 9:16:03 AM PST by bboop
Thanks! We’ll work up “Noche de Paz,” which I remember from Spanish class in high school, for Sunday. I’m sure my husband can play it on the guitar. People liked our “O Ven, Emanuel” last week!
As for a missal, I’m looking for something I can use. I’m willing to order from Spain, if necessary, except that I don’t know whether their standard liturgy is a direct translation of ours in the U.S. It’s for my own use; I don’t care about the age group, as long as it has the Creed, Gloria, Cordero de Dios, etc., in clear text. I’m having a very hard time focussing! This gives me a lot of empathy for our pastor, who is 70 years old, has Parkinson’s Disease, and hadn’t tried Spanish at all until earlier this year!
Thanks for any help you can give! If you have a source for a nice Spanish Missal, I’ll get one for our Hispanic Ministry coordinator, a lovely old lady from Spain.
Thanks, I will try their website.
Well, I mean, where ARE you? Here in California, every Missal has Spanish on one side and English on the other. See OCP.
Oh, Salvation, thanks for the welcome. We could not be happier. Such fullness. We had been pining for some time now, looking for something, we knew not what. We have not had that yearning since Coming Home. Amazing.
I watched the Vatican’s Midnight Mass, too, and did not see candles. I wonder if it is not an old German, Latin Mass thing. I seem to remember having read about it in a Volga German Christmas Mass remembrance/ doing genealogy. Could have been part of the carols before mass started.
** Such fullness.**
So true.
I look at all the readings for Christmas, from the Vigil, Midnight, Dawn and Day Masses and think exactly that.
In fact, I was relishing that exact thought earlier today.
Such fullness of faith!
I’ve never seen it done at Mass. Our masses have always been beautiful without such things. Usually, the lights are turned out and the priest processes in lead by altar boys carrying the crucifix and candles, then the creche is blessed and then the lights are turned on. I’ve seen this at both our local Ordinary Form mass and the Latin Masses (Extraordinary Form) masses that I’ve attended.
I’m in North Carolina.
Well, see, I would have loved that — the lights turned out as the Baby Jesus was brought in. Perhaps they had done that at the 5pm Mass. I think that the lights were ON was what was not quite right. It was a little glaring when I was hoping for wonderment and mystery. The priest had mentioned that ‘when I brought Baby Jesus up,’ but that did not happen when we were there.
hmmmmmmmm
“Silent Night” — The legend/history of the song is that the organ was damaged in a church and the priest wanted a song that could be sung accompanied by a guitar for his Christmas mass in the early 1800’s. So . . . the origin of the song and its use at Christmas services is not Protestant . . .
I dug around, hoping I had a Spanish missal I could send you, but I can’t seem to find the one I thought I had.
The Spanish translation would be from the Latin, and it is much more accurate than the English translation (highly manipulated by the ICEL). So there probably would be differences between the English and Spanish versions, but that’s simply because there are differences between the English and Latin versions.
I don’t know if there’s a difference between the Spanish missals used in Spain and those used in Latin America, however. I’ve never looked at those used here, so I’d have to check.
Good luck with Noche de Paz!
Thanks for looking! I’ll try Oregon Catholic Press. Maybe the parish could get real Spanish missals. We don’t use them for our regular Masses.
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