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The New Zealand solution to Missal translation

Published on September 3, 2010 in liturgy. 0 Comments Tags: advent, catholic, eucharist, Mass, new zealand, roman catholic.

From New Zealand’s Roman Catholic National Liturgy Office:

On 30 April 2010 the major English-speaking countries were informed that Rome had granted the recognitio (approval) for the new Mass texts of the universal edition of the Roman Missal (Third Edition). The Conferences of Bishops in those countries have been awaiting delivery of these texts, so that they could in turn complete the process of seeking approval for their respective national editions of the Roman Missal.

On 20 August 2010 we received a digital copy of these universal texts, but still await approval for the local amendments to the Missal that will enable us to go ahead and publish the Roman Missal for use in New Zealand.

Originally we had hoped to launch our national edition of the Roman Missal on the First Sunday of Advent this year (28 November 2010). Rome’s unforeseen delay now makes this impossible. While, for the present, we are unable to publish the complete Roman Missal on the First Sunday of Advent as hoped, we nonetheless recognise the pastoral importance of implementing some of the new texts on that date.

Accordingly, the New Zealand Catholic Bishops’ Conference has decided to introduce the new translations of the following parts of the Mass:
‣ the greetings and responses at the beginning of Mass.
‣ the texts of the Penitential Act.
‣ the Gloria.
‣ the Creed.
‣ the prayers and responses during the Liturgy of the Word.
‣ all the dialogues between the Priest and the Assembly during the Liturgy of the Eucharist.
‣ the Holy,Holy.
‣ the Memorial Acclamations.
‣ the Doxology.
‣ all the prayers and responses of the Priest, Deacon and Assembly from the Communion Rite to the Concluding Rites.
‣ those gestures and postures required by the accompanying rubrics and/or the relevant sections of the General Instruction of the Roman Missal.

To assist in a smooth transition, the Conference will be making available, free of charge, an interim missalette containing those texts mentioned above. Also, a music resource will be available at the end of September 2010 offering two musical settings for the Mass: the setting of the Missal chants and a new composition by Douglas Mews.

The current Propers of the Mass, the Prefaces and the Eucharistic Prayers as provided for in the present Missal will still be in force until such time as the complete New Zealand edition of the Roman Missal can be published. In the meantime, we recommend that priests use either the present Missal or the current CPC “Prayers of the Mass”.

Start here for further reflections, on this site, in relation to the Missal translation.

English Mass translation launch

Published on June 24, 2010 in liturgy. 8 Comments Tags: advent, Mass, roman catholic.

Latest hopes are that the new English translation of the Roman Missal will be officially launched on the First Sunday of Advent, 28 November 2010.

As soon as the text becomes available it will be online at www.nlo.org.nz

An interactive resource to introduce this English translation will be available at http://becomeonebodyonespiritinchrist.org That beautifully-constructed website is advertising for a DVD. Amazingly, there is no mention where one can obtain the DVD, that this information is coming later, or approximate price as far as I can see.

But I contacted the organisation. I will “be advised when the release date is confirmed which will be in June. We will also advise about where to order from. This will be country specific. Details will also be posted on the website so please continue to check in there.”

“The cost in Australia will be AUD$32.95 so pricing should be comparable elsewhere.”

Further delays in English Missal
pope gives approval to new English Mass translation

Resources for Advent 4

Published on December 18, 2009 in lectionary and liturgy. 4 Comments Tags: advent, badge, collect, facebook, images, lectio, opening prayer.

Advent 4 reflection from the collect/opening prayer.

The O antiphons have begun.

Don’t forget the Online Chapel with lots of resources of prayers and readings and reflections – many changing daily.

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Resources for Advent 3

Published on December 8, 2009 in lectionary and liturgy. 1 Comment Tags: advent, badge, facebook, images.

Advent 3 December 13 reflection from the collect/opening prayer (used by BCP TEC and others)
Advent 3 December 13 reflection from the collect/opening prayer (used by CofE Common Worship and others)

Don’t forget the Online Chapel with lots of resources of prayers and readings and reflections – many changing daily.

The HTML for adding this badge to your blog or website is:

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In the comments below, please continue adding quality Advent resources and ideas.

More compassion less consumption?

Published on December 2, 2009 in liturgy. 0 Comments Tags: advent, christmas, movie.

What can we do this Advent?
Be more about compassion and less about consumption.
Be more about presence and less about presents.

Incarnation isn’t about escaping from our human stresses – quite the opposite – incarnation is entering our ordinary, messy human lives more deeply…

Set up a wreath with the four Advent candles, lighting one a week.
Read an Advent scripture daily.

Give a goat, chickens, books, a well to those in need and send a card about this to the friend or family member you would normally have given a Christmas present to. You end up giving twice!

Add your comments and ideas below…

Resources for Advent 2

Published on December 2, 2009 in liturgy. 1 Comment Tags: advent, badge, collect, facebook, images, opening prayer.

Advent 2 December 6 reflection from the collect/opening prayer (used by BCP TEC and others)
Advent 2 December 6 reflection from the collect/opening prayer (used by CofE Common Worship and others)

Don’t forget the Online Chapel with lots of resources of prayers and readings and reflections – many changing daily.

The HTML for adding this badge to your blog or website is:

Please do let me know if this is, or is not working – one little letter wrong in the coding and all falls apart

If you are on Facebook, you can send these badges to your friends there using church stuff

In the comments below, please continue adding quality Advent resources and ideas.

Advent resources

Published on November 24, 2009 in liturgy. 13 Comments Tags: advent, badge, collect, opening prayer.

Please add good quality Advent resources, and especially links to online resources in the comments section.

Advent collect November 29 reflection from the collect/opening prayer

Advent badges to put on your blog or website

Original, Southern Hemisphere Advent collects
An outline example and resources for an Advent Eucharist
Advent in the Southern Hemisphere

Advent
Advent wreath blessing

Advent penitence

O Antiphons chants

Website and blog badges for Advent

Advent blog & site badge

Published on November 22, 2009 in liturgy. 7 Comments Tags: advent, badge, blogging, images, webmasters.

Today the messages have started arriving asking for Advent badges to put on your website or blog. So I promised that I would work on that this afternoon. Many people like, from time to time, to add a badge to their website or blog. If you like the idea – send your friends the URL of this blog post.

The HTML for adding this badge to your blog or website is:

Please do let me know if this is, or is not working – one little letter wrong in the coding and all falls apart

If you are on Facebook, you can send these badges to your friends there using church stuff

Ordinary Time

Published on June 1, 2009 in liturgy. 3 Comments Tags: advent, christmas, collect, Easter, lectionary, Lent, new zealand, ordinary time, Pentecost.

May your Ordinary Time be extraordinary!

There are normally fifty-two weeks in a year. These are made up of the Advent, Christmas, Lent, and Easter Seasons. Normally that leaves thirty-four weeks of “Ordinary Time”. Those weeks start from The Baptism of the Lord up to Lent, and start again at the Day of Pentecost.

There is nothing “ordinary” about “Ordinary Time”. Ordinary Time is not about common, regular, mundane, or run of the mill. Ordinary Time comes from the word “ordinal” as in “ordinal numbers”. Remember your Maths: Cardinal numbers answer “how many?” “Ordinal Numbers” tell the rank, they answer “what position?” Ordinal Numbers are first, second, third, fourth, etc.

Ordinary weeks count forward from The Baptism of the Lord. After the Day of Pentecost, however, they are checked backwards from the last week of the Church’s Year which is always the 34th week of Ordinary Time. So sometimes a week is dropped out – as again in 2009. In 2009 the week prior to Lent was the 7th week in Ordinary Time. The week following the Day of Pentecost is the 9th week in Ordinary Time. Next week (following Trinity Sunday) is the 10th week in Ordinary Time. Hence, one can see why Sunday 14 June is the 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time (actually technically the Sunday in the 11th week of Ordinary Time).

The Sunday after Trinity Sunday is often celebrated as Corpus Christi, and in our church as Te Pouhere Sunday. The Baptism of the Lord, the Day of Pentecost, and Trinity Sunday always replace the “Ordinary Sunday”, other “bold letter” Sundays might also. Each Ordinary Sunday is limited to a particular week in the year. Eg. the 5th Ordinary Sunday is always the Sunday between 4 February and10 February, the 11th Ordinary Sunday is always the Sunday between 12 and18 June.

The suggestion in the New Zealand Lectionary that the collect for the Day of Pentecost be used during the week following is confused and confusing. I cannot locate the formulary that would have this as advised by the lectionary. Nor can I see any logic in this. Nor can I understand the liturgical purpose of following its suggestion to have two collects.

The Day of Pentecost ends the fifty day season of Easter (that’s what the Greek word “Pentecost” means!) It does not begin a “Pentecost Season”. In the Nicene canons we are forbidden to kneel on Sundays and the Bishops at the Council of Nicaea were horrified to hear of people kneeling during Pentecost – by which they meant the fifty days of what we now call the Easter Season (Council of Nicaea, Canon 20).

During the week following the Day of Pentecost, the collect is that of the ninth week in Ordinary Time. During the week following Trinity Sunday the collect is that of the tenth week in Ordinary Time. Trinity Sunday also is a feast, not the start of a season.

“God” in 140 characters

Published on February 27, 2009 in liturgy and spirituality. 2 Comments Tags: advent, hope, Jesus, Lent, liturgy, spirituality, twitter.

Regulars here will know I recently became active on twitter. Last night I asked: “What does the word “God” mean to you? Yes – you only have 140 characters.” This morning I awake to answers that are profound, thought-provoking, encouraging, delightful. And also the excellent suggestion that I collate them here on my site. Even if you are not on twitter, you can add your version if it enhances this list (no anonymous posting please – same as on twitter) – and remember, twitter rules apply in this case: no more than 140 characters – including spaces. If more arrive on twitter, I will update this post.

God is the only one who loves me with no strings attached for all of my worthlessness

what does the word God mean to me? He is my “Everything”

Father, Saviour, love, purpose, love, power, love, mercy, love, regeneration, love, adventure, love, authority, love, compassion

God is the source and ground of all that is; in all and beyond all;truth;love;without beginning or end

God is the creator of all that is, and the sure and loving guide of its development

God is love; God is; God is being.

To me God means conscience – thinking before you act and feeling guilty if you get it wrong.

God is the Present Moment. All in All. God is Good. God is.

God is a deity in theistic and deistic religions, representing the sole deity in monotheism or a principal deity in polytheism…

One, Transcendent, unknowable, yet closer to me than my own life

Grace, Omnipresence, Divine

“in him whom we live and move and have our being.”

The Centre of my being and the Being at every Centre

1 word……. GOD = LOVE
God IS!
God is love”. Everything else is commentary
God is Beloved, Essence that fills all, Source of everything past, present and future
“God is; he is as he is in Jesus, so there is hope.” + David Jenkins, former Bishop of Durham and excellent theologian.
What can one say of Him? All our words are flawed attempts to describe what it is beyond us to describe.

O Emmanuel – December 23

Published on December 23, 2008 in liturgy and liturgy of the hours. Closed Tags: advent, emmanuel, magnificat, o adonai, o antiphon, o antiphons, o come o come emmanuel.

O Emmanuel, our King and Lawgiver, hope of the nations and their saviour: come and save us, O Lord our God.
Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.

O Emmanuel,
Rex et legifer noster,
expectatio gentium,
et Salvator earum:
veni ad salvandum nos,
Domine, Deus noster.

Isaiah 7:14; 8:8; Matthew 1:23; Haggai 2:7

O come, o come, Emmanuel!
Redeem thy captive Israel,
that into exile drear is gone
far from the face of God’s dear Son.

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
shall come to thee, O Israel.
O come, o come, Emmanuel,
And ransom captive Israel,
That mourns in lonely exile here,
Until the Son of God appear.

O Antiphons reflection 1
O Antiphons reflection 2
Visual reflection on these beautiful prayers from New Mellleray abbey in Iowa

From at least the eighth century the antiphon before and after the Magnificat at Vespers (Evening Prayer), for the seven days leading up to Christmas Eve, has greeted Christ with a title starting with “O”. These became the basis of the popular carol “O come, O come, Emmanuel”. The initials, when read backwards, form the Latin “Ero Cras” which means “Tomorrow I come.”

They are now also used , in shorted form, in the Alleluia verses before the days’ Gospel readings.

Each day an O Antiphon could be used for prayer and reflection. These could form the basis of an Advent service with readings, music, and singing. Or of art, banners, or other ways of enhancing the worship environment symbolically. The carol “O come, O come, Emmanuel” and the Magnificat could form significant features in this.

O Rex Gentium – O sovereign of the nations – December 22

Published on December 22, 2008 in liturgy and liturgy of the hours. Closed Tags: advent, king nations, magnificat, o adonai, o antiphon, o antiphons, o come o come emmanuel.

O king of the nations, you alone can fulfil their desires: cornerstone, binding all together: come and save the creature you fashioned from the dust of the earth.
Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.

O Rex Gentium,
et desideratus earum,
lapisque angularis,
qui facis utraque unum:
veni, et salva hominem,
quem de limo formasti.

Jeremiah 30.7-11a; Revelation 15:3; Psalm 118:22; Isaiah 28:16; Matthew 21:42; Mark 12:10; Luke 20:17; Acts 4:11; Ephesians 2:20; I Peter 2:6

O come, desire of nations! Show
thy kingly reign on earth below;
thou cornerstone, uniting all, restore the ruin of our fall.

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
shall come to thee, O Israel.

O come, thou Key of David, come,
And open wide our heavenly home;
Make safe the way that leads on high,
And close the path to misery.

O Antiphons reflection 1
O Antiphons reflection 2
Visual reflection on these beautiful prayers from New Mellleray abbey in Iowa

They are now also used , in shorted form, in the Alleluia verses before the days’ Gospel readings.

O Oriens – O Dawn – December 21

Published on December 21, 2008 in liturgy and liturgy of the hours. Closed Tags: advent, magnificat, o adonai, o antiphon, o antiphons, o come o come emmanuel, o dawn.

O morning star, splendour of the light eternal and bright sun of righteousness: come and bring light to those who dwell in darkness and walk in the shadow of death.
Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.

O Oriens,
splendor lucis aeternae,
et sol justitiae:
veni, et illumina
sedentes in tenebris,
et umbra mortis.

Numbers 24.15b-17; Luke 1:78, 79; Malachi 4:2

O come, O come, thou dayspring bright!
Pour on our souls thy healing light;
dispel the long night’s lingering gloom,
and pierce the shadows of the tomb.

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
shall come to thee, O Israel.

O come, Thou Dayspring, come and cheer,
Our spirits by Thine advent here;
Disperse the gloomy clouds of night,
And death’s dark shadows put to flight.

O Antiphons reflection 1
O Antiphons reflection 2
Visual reflection on these beautiful prayers from New Mellleray abbey in Iowa

They are now also used , in shorted form, in the Alleluia verses before the days’ Gospel readings.

Advent 4 wreath badge

Published on December 20, 2008 in liturgy. Closed Tags: advent, advent sundays, advent wreath, badge, blogging, images.

Many people like, from time to time, to add a badge to their website or blog. There has been positive interest and a lot of use of the Advent 1 , 2 & 3 wreath images – so here is Advent 4. If you like the idea – send your friends the URL of this blog post.

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O Clavis David – O Key of David – December 20

Published on December 20, 2008 in liturgy and liturgy of the hours. Closed Tags: advent, magnificat, o adonai, o antiphon, o antiphons, o come o come emmanuel, o key of david.

O key of David and sceptre of the House of Israel; you open and none can shut; you shut and none can open: come and free the captives from prison, and break down the walls of death.
Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.

[...come, and lead the prisoner
from jail.
seated in darkness
and in the shadow of death.]

O Clavis David,
et sceptrum domus Israël,
qui aperis, et nemo claudit,
claudis, et nemo aperuit:
veni, et educ vinctum
de domo carceris,
sedentem in tenebris,
et umbra mortis.

Isaiah 22:22; Revelation 3:7

O come, thou Lord of David’s key!
The royal door fling wide and free;
safeguard for us the heavenward road,
and bar the way to death’s abode.

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
shall come to thee, O Israel.

O come, thou Key of David, come,
And open wide our heavenly home;
Make safe the way that leads on high,
And close the path to misery.