Jollyblogger shares my love of Latin (and C.S. Lewis). 🙂
"When I was in college I took a couple of years of Latin. I don't remember much except to say that very often I hear a word and intuitively know its meaning because of past memories of Latin. My wife and I homeschool our kids and try to teach as close as we can to the Classical Model. Latin is the foundation of the classical education model"
Here’s a (sadly) brief article about the art of preserving Latin and keeping it in step with the times. The Latin-English dictionary mentioned is here.
So people have gotten used to a bad translation. So what? Granted, the draft of the new mass needs some work to overcome some "clunky" wording, but that’s the not the point. The mass needs to be translationally and theologically correct before it is "comfortable".
Priests predict possible backlash against new Mass text
"A forum of priests on a national radio program has suggested the draft text of changes to the Mass creates a distance between the priest and the people, and it could alienate Catholics who have grown up with liturgy in the vernacular."
The second article presents a pretty thorough, if biased, chronology of the development of the new mass.
British Bishops comment on new English Mass draft
" The liturgy office of the Bishops of England and Wales has praised the International Committee for English (ICEL) for its preference for the use of inclusive language in the ‘green book’ new English Mass translation draft currently circulating among bishops in English-speaking countries."
A war of words
Austen Ivereigh
"Translation of the new Missal into English from the Latin text is the fruit of a long and bitter struggle – one that mirrors the battle over authority in the Church"
Translation is not the appropriate forum for progressive theological revision of the Mass. If anti-traditionalists want to butcher the liturgy and fill it with nonsense, they’ll have to work toward amending the official Latin version of the Novus Ordo. The only faults that should be pointed out in the new translation are those of grammar, style, and semantics, not theology.
Former ICEL official faults new Mass translation
"Sydney, Apr. 29 (CWNews.com) – Speaking on an Australian radio program, the former executive secretary of the International Committee for English in the Liturgy (ICEL) sharply criticized new procedures for liturgical translations, charging that the Vatican has endorsed ‘a more secretive process and definitely a process that seems to be less open to the wider Church.’"