Posted on 08/05/2010 12:09:36 PM PDT by NYer
Milwaukee priests quoted in a local newspaper article on the third edition of the Roman Missal are lamenting the revised translations, which more closely reflect the content and majesty of the original Latin.
“The bottom line for me is why,” said Father Alan Jurkus. “Why, with everything else that's going on in the Church, do we have to rub salt in the wounds?”
“For some people this will be very unsettling,” added Father Ken Smits. “The real concern is among the parish priests, who will have to explain something many of them are not in favor of.”
“You can call it whatever you like, but it's not English,” said Father David Cooper, president of the Milwaukee Archdiocese Priests Alliance. “The language of prayer is supposed to be evocative, graceful, uplifting. This reads like clunk-clunk-clunk-bang-boom.”
“Anytime there are changes, people go through the process of being angry and sad,” responded Dean Daniels, who leads the archdiocese’s office of worship. “But the Church has been changing forever. It’s a dynamic, living organism.”
Right?
What's a "trad"?
All I know about are Catholics. Some assist at Mass according to the Ordinary Form, some according to the Extraordinary Form, some according to the Anglican Usage, and some according to various Eastern Liturgies.
But we're all Catholic.
I am very excited about it. Guess you might call me disobedient because I am already saying many of the new responses softly.
Boohoohoo. These liberals have been rubbing salt in the wounds for too long. It is time to heal the wounds.
“...said Father Alan Jurkus. “Why, with everything else that’s going on in the Church, do we have to rub salt in the wounds?”
“For some people this will be very unsettling,” added Father Ken Smits. “The real concern is among the parish priests, who will have to explain something many of them are not in favor of.””
These are only two of many priests who really need to be prayed for. Check out this priest in Nashville:
http://www.creativeminorityreport.com/2010/08/holy-heretic-batman.html#comments
Sad....very sad....
It would appear that that most embarrassed would be those who introduced or were silent with debut of the Novus Ordo in the 1960’s to the chagrin of the many. Apologies need to be addressed to those who had to endure this horrible translation for these many decades. Perhaps a show trial or two for the ones responsible for this atrocity.
The reformers sure didn’t hesitate to dump a liturgy that was familiar to and loved by hundreds of millions of Catholics and impose on them one that was to the taste of the reformers. As to the “English” that the Wisconsin priests is so attached to, It is on a par with the lyrics of the guitar songs of those days.
righto :-)
Out, damn’d heretic! out, I say!—One; two: why, then ‘tis time to do’t.—Hell is murky.—Fie, my lord, fie, a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it?
Will no-one rid Christianity of these troublesome heretics?
The progressives had no problem sticking it to the traditionalists 40 years ago, now that the beauty of the liturgy is to be restored, I’m supposed to feel bad?
Do they have a hymnal?
Actually, that's more like what we've been living with the for the last 30 years.
I miss the beauty in the Scriptures that was sacrificed for 'inclusive' language, and simplification.
I'm an interpreter for the deaf and yes, we sing.
I hope so.
Most (I’m not exaggerating) Milwaukee priests are working for the other side. Weakland is the gift that keeps on giving.
Through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault.
**“The language of prayer is supposed to be evocative, graceful, uplifting. **
And the new translation is graceful, uplifting and prayerful.
Just remember these three things and listen for them.
Longer sentences
Higher linguistic register
More accurate to the Latin from where it all came.
I think it’s beautiful.
It won’t be difficulot to adjust to. The prayers are so close to the older missals that we all grew up with.
Actually most of the changes are for the priest.
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