Tuesday, May 10, 2011

The new Missal

Thanks to the NLM for drawing attention to this CTS video about the new missal. While I`m not expecting the introduction of the new translation of the OF to bring about instant liturgical bliss I certainly warm to features of this missal. The colour illustrations are a welcome change and it is interesting to hear that they were added at the request of the bishops` conferences. Clearly the effort has been made to ensure that this missal is a thing of beauty. This in itself runs against the grain of much that we have been given over the last few decades (my 1962 altar missal is a rather disappointing affair compared to the 1959 one I have: I suppose they thought in 1962 that it might only be a temporary edition) and I hope will change the atmosphere surrounding the Mass. I got my order form yesterday from the CTS and will be sending it off today.

3 comments:

David O'Neill said...

Have you noticed in the Pater Noster (Latin version) the change in spelling for "quotidianum" to "cotidianum"?

Thomas More said...

Is this the final confirmation that any hopes that Pope Benedict might inaugurate a return to liturgical tradition or a 'reform of the reform' are now dead?

This surely is his statement that the Novus Ordo, unreformed, is here to stay.

Fr Michael Brown said...

Thomas, my 1959 altar missal is a lavish production.....

I don`t think you can expect the Pope to abloisih the Ordinary Form overnight. Look at the rompus just because of this new translation. This is however a step in the right direction.