New Mass Translation

Last Saturday evening I attended the Oxford Ordinariate Group Mass at Holy Rood and it was my first opportunity to experience the new translation of the Roman Missal, the use of which has already been accorded to the Ordinariate.

Image from the Catholic Truth Society

I was fully prepared for changes such as "And with your spirit" replacing ( at long last) the dreadful "And also with you", but had not realised how different the new, and much more accurate, translation of the Roman Canon would sound. I am very happy that we shall have this new and more accurate translation, but do forsee that it will require the autumn to accustom many people to the new wording

Last Friday Fr Blake drew his readers' attention to a post by Father Simon Henry on how the CTS have, in his word, misrepresented the rubrics of the Mass in their material for the new translations in so far as they describle current practice rather than what the missala ctually says in the Latin original.

Both in getting congregations used to more elevated language and by fidelity to the rubrics that intriguing thing known as Anglican patrimony may well be able to assist all Catholics in the country.

A quiet Saturday in Oxford

Following my perusal of the Gough Map in the Bodleian I went off to meet my good friend The Last Knight ( The Noise of the Crusade) for a leisurely two stage Italian lunch with plenty of Frascati and Chianti, and a thoroughly enjoyable discussion putting all manner of things in the world to rights. 

We then went on to the Novena at the Oxford Oratory  preparing for the feast of St Philip Neri next Thursday, before going to the Ordinariate Mass at Pusey House (an old haunt of ours), and then with other acquaintances to the Eagle and Child (aka the Bird and Baby) for a drink before he had to depart.  A very civilised way to spend a May Saturday in Oxford.