Traditional Latin Mass in Maryland

Shawn Tribe has posted a story on the New Liturgical Movement that first appeared on Zenit . The story concerns the progress of the translation of the Roman Missal. Here is some of the story: As a new English translation of the Roman Missal nears completion, translation experts and Vatican officials expressed their satisfaction with the achievement. In a press release from the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments, the progress of the Vox Clara Committee was explained. The committee, formed in 2001, is a panel of bishops who provide advice to the Holy See concerning English-language liturgical books. The committee's 15th meeting ended last month, and focused extensively on the Green Book draft translations of several Masses from the International Commission on English in the Liturgy (ICEL). ICEL sends its proposed translation to bishops and experts for study and comment (Green Book). After the comments are incorporated, the texts are proposed for canonical vote by th

There is an interesting post on the blog, McCarthyism UK , on the decline of Latin in the 60's and the effect it may have had on the Novus Ordo Missae. Here is just a small take: Where Jennings draws fire from Mr McIntyre, however, is in his (altogether too charitable, IMHO) interpretation of the history of the translation of the Novus Ordo Missae into English: he says the current Pope and others are said to believe that the 'initial translations from Latin were hastily done and consequently inadequate in so far as they fail to convey the sacred character of the Mass.' With thousands of liturgical texts to translate, ICEL appeared to show a predilection for chopping the rhetorical flow of the original Latin into shorter chunks of concise English. The 1973 ICEL Roman Missal was criticised for minimising the transcendence of God, and exalting the religious striving of man. To be honest, many of the modern Mass translations are so eye-wateringly wide of the mark that any av