Full Text of New English Missal Now Available Online

https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=2010+missal

Personally, I prefer it.

This new order of the mass will be implemented in the US in one year, starting with the beginning of the liturgical year in the Advent season, and probably in all other parts of the English-speaking world at about the same time.

As always, some folks are not going to like it. Changing the liturgy is always distressing, because it is changing a thing we all count on as the one eternal part of our lives. It should never be done lightly.

Still, from what I have seen, I like the new liturgy, and am looking forward to it.

The current English Mass, established in the early seventies, is kind of dumbed down. The concept seems to have been, in reaction to the general incomprehensibility of the old Latin, to go instead to the opposite extreme, and try to eliminate anything in the words of the Mass that might be even a little difficult to understand, even for the slowest slow learners in the congregation. What we have, as a result, is a kind of baby-talk mass, in which not only have the words been simplified into monotonously short, grammatically simple sentences, but any concepts that are a bit difficult or mysterious have been left out.

This might make sense for a technical manual, but it is probably not the best approach to a sacred liturgy. Liturgy is not the communicating of simple facts. It is an immersion in the good, the true, and—not incidentally—the beautiful. If some in the congregation do not fully understand what is going on... that is not the main consideration here. The mass is a sacrament, not a lesson. Not understanding is okay. Needing to understand is not.

So the new order of the mass has recovered such things as “through my fault, through my fault, through my most grevious fault,” “Lord, I am not worthy that you should come under my roof; but only say the word, and I shall be healed,” and “for many.”

You will no doubt be hearing more.