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Brian Fahy asks priests to consider how well we speak to our gathered people at Mass. A former teacher of homiletics, he asks how important public speaking is in the training of priests today.

Rev. Michael G. Ryan, pastor of St. James Cathedral in Seattle since 1988, serves on the board of the national Cathedral Ministry Conference. 

This article was published in America magazine

By MIchael Commane This might well be the end of me as a priest in the Holy Roman Catholic Church. I sort of jest. Only ‘sort of’. I was ordained…

This is an interesting email that one of our members got from a parishioner in relation to the new responses at Mass.  Maybe it is something we priests might keep in mind.

If you’ve been at Mass anytime in the last six weeks you will most likely have noticed changes in many of the prayers. It’s often said that it is not…

This might give you a laugh for Christmas.

The new English translation of the Roman Missal has, understandably, been getting much attention.

The new Irish language translation was also introduced on the same day. The printed version of Ord an Aifrinn arrived in the Veritas store in Dublin just two days before that. Perhaps those who took part in celebrations in Irish (from any part of the congregation!) would offer their reflections.

Pádraig McCarthy

Some light pastoral adaptations of the new translation of the four regular Eucharistic Prayers to assist clarified proclamation. Unofficial! For personal study!

Bishop Maurice Taylor, in a wonderfully written booklet, It’s the Eucharist, Thank God, combines a beautiful teaching on the Eucharist with a unique personal view of that time period when…

The prayer after Communion seems to say we learn to love the things of heaven from the passing things of this world – but the Latin prays that it be from the mysteries celebrated in the liturgy. See letter in Tablet of 5 Nov: http://www.thetablet.co.uk/pdf/5298

Pádraig McCarthy

This article is taken from the July 15th issue of Commonweal

Interesting attack on us here by Vincent Twomey.  I wonder did any of our members know of this conference, or maybe even attended it.

Carl P. Daw, Jr., former Executive Director of the Hymn Society, priest of the Episcopal Church, is a widely recognized expert on the English language in worship, and himself an author of numerous very fine hymn texts. Pray Tell asked him to comment on the English of the revised Missal translation – not from the standpoint of how to translate from Latin, but from the standpoint of the quality of the final text.  See PDF document on http://www.praytellblog.com/index.php/2011/07/05/observations-on-the-language-of-the-revised-missal/

Posted by Melanie Lately, guest contributor , 1 July 2011, 9:00 At Mass we have cards in the pews so we can follow the revised translation of the Mass. The…

This is possibly the best article I have read on the problems related to the New Missal.  It is in the current issue of Commonweal

Just a note on today’s statement from the bishops after their Summer meeting this week: http://www.catholicbishops.ie/2011/06/16/june-general-meeting/ You may wish to put my comments on the website.   The statement from…

Some time ago we published here an open letter written by Fr. Mike Fallon to the Bishops of Scotland relating to the liturgical texts.  He received no reply from any of them, so he has decided to write a second letter.  We publish this here, and also the text of an interview he gave on the subject.  For those of us involved in the issue here, there is a ring of familiarity about his experience.

WHAT A MISTAKE ! Dear Editor, I am becoming more and more annoyed as expensive advertisements for the New Missal arrive in the mail. Having reviewed the text of this…

We have decided to put this letter on the website, since it gives a context and explains our Press Statement;  and members have been asking us for it.