Based upon Roman Missal Formational
Materials provided by the Secretariat
for the Liturgy of the United States
Conference of Catholic Bishops, "2010.


HighLights: The Roman Missal, Third Edition


Insights Captured From IC's Sunday Bulletins

  • Feb 20 - Pope John Paul II announced a revised version of the Missale Romanum during the Jubilee Year 2000. Among other things, it contains prayers for the observances of recently canonized saints. Additional prefaces for Eucharistic Prayers and Votive Masses and some updated revised instructions of the celebration of the Mass.
     
  • Feb 27 - The texts of the revised translation of the Roman Missal are marked by a heightened style of English speech and a grammatical structure that closely follows the Latin text. In addition, many biblical and poetic images, such as "Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof." (communion rite) and . . . "From the rising of the sun to its setting" (Eucharistic Prayer III) have been restored. The Liturgy has always undergone modifications through the centuries, there is only one unchangeable text, the text of Sacred Scripture.
     
  • Mar 7 - The church has undertaken in every age to clothe the liturgy in words and rites which speak the ageless mysteries to their particular time; thus, in her prayer and in her teaching the church fulfills her responsibility as teacher of truth to guard things old, that is, the deposit of tradition; at the same time it fulfills another duty, that of examining and prudently bringing forth things new (see Matthew 13:52)
     
  • Mar 15 - It is indeed fitting that the work of the revision of the Roman missal should coincide with the beginning of the timeless truths which the church always seeks to make new for her children can be thrown into ever greater relief in the first years of the twenty-first century. Remember, change does not change tradition. It strengthens it.
     
  • Mar 20 - Sometimes when we attend mass at other churches in Pennsylvania, another state or even country, there are differences in things that are said. With the new revision, it is to be the same interpretation wherever we go to mass. May the implementation of the revised Roman Missal be a time of deepening, nurturing and celebrating the Sacred Liturgy.
     
  • Mar 27 - The Altar on which the sacrifice of the Cross is made present under sacramental signs is also the Lord's table which the people are invited to share when they gather together in His name. As the Eucharist is the center of the Church's life and worship, so the altar is a sign of the Church, and her two-fold activity of the worship of God and the sanctification of humankind. The altar is the sacred meeting place in the relationship between God and the people redeemed through the blood of Christ.