New Translations for the Mass Are Approved!

(AP) LOS ANGELES The nation's Roman Catholic bishops signed off Thursday on a new English translation for the Mass that would change prayers ingrained in the memories of millions of American parishioners.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops voted at its biannual meeting for a new translation after a brief but vigorous debate over several small changes in wording. The 173-29 vote on the Order of the Mass was aimed at satisfying Vatican calls for a translation that's closer to the Latin version.

Deo Gratias!!!

Of course, there are those who are incapable of seeing the good that will come from having translations which express the beauty significance of the proper and true English translations from the Latin.

"It's going to cause chaos and real problems and the people who are going to be at the brunt end of it are the poor priests in the parishes who don't need any more problems," said the Rev. Thomas Reese, a senior fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University and a Jesuit priest.

The only chaos that will result is that which is perpetrated by those who already refuse to follow the norms and rubrics. Reese must be thinking of them.

As I understand it, Bishop Trautman even recommended that the translation be approved...Miracles DO happen!