Hi There! I followed the link from Sam's Radio Free Monday.
I really enjoyed reading this- I'm a practicing Catholic and the first time I went to a catholic Mass that was based on the old format I found it very weird- I was in the plainchant choir for it and thought I would find it beautiful what with the universal language etc etc instead I found it to be what my Mum (who was very young when the changes occurred) described- very off putting because it was so hard to understand and follow- even to someone like me who could -at that time- recite the whole Mass in English. It made me realise how much I prefer Mass as it is now, and how lucky I am to have grown up with a Mass that I don't just have to hear I can actually understand.
You might be aware but I find it interesting- depending upon where the church is the church's records were kept in Latin decades after- I used to do the baptism and death records for our parish and even well into the 80s the books were still in Latin but, as the priests changed and moved on, the actual filled-out parts migrated slowly from latin to English.
Oh I've noticed someone mentioned altar girls not universal- it was a slow change, but Vatican II made it possible. In the 90s the first of my contemporaries were able to become servers regardless of sex, but the priest at the time did write for dispensation to do so from the Archbishop before it got the okay and other churches in the area were Much Slower to catch on. We used to have the letter framed in the room where the Altar servers say our prayers.
I was just wondering what you/your dad thought about the new changes in the Mass and the changes in language that have occured owing to the new translation?
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Date: 2012-04-30 05:22 pm (UTC)I really enjoyed reading this- I'm a practicing Catholic and the first time I went to a catholic Mass that was based on the old format I found it very weird- I was in the plainchant choir for it and thought I would find it beautiful what with the universal language etc etc instead I found it to be what my Mum (who was very young when the changes occurred) described- very off putting because it was so hard to understand and follow- even to someone like me who could -at that time- recite the whole Mass in English. It made me realise how much I prefer Mass as it is now, and how lucky I am to have grown up with a Mass that I don't just have to hear I can actually understand.
You might be aware but I find it interesting- depending upon where the church is the church's records were kept in Latin decades after- I used to do the baptism and death records for our parish and even well into the 80s the books were still in Latin but, as the priests changed and moved on, the actual filled-out parts migrated slowly from latin to English.
Oh I've noticed someone mentioned altar girls not universal- it was a slow change, but Vatican II made it possible. In the 90s the first of my contemporaries were able to become servers regardless of sex, but the priest at the time did write for dispensation to do so from the Archbishop before it got the okay and other churches in the area were Much Slower to catch on. We used to have the letter framed in the room where the Altar servers say our prayers.
I was just wondering what you/your dad thought about the new changes in the Mass and the changes in language that have occured owing to the new translation?