The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has posted a side by side comparison of the new English translation of the Novus Ordo1 Mass. The hope for this translation is that it will be truer to the original Latin. This is a very good thing as it brings the English words closer to those being said in the many other local languages of the Church. There will, however, be a great deal of kicking and screaming over this. Some will scream that this doesn’t go far enough. Some will see this as going backward, and some will simply oppose change from anything to which they have grown accustomed. Like seemingly everything in the Church today, there will no doubt be a loud debate once these changes start getting implemented, but in the long run I hope people will cool down after they get used to it. (h/t American Papist)
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1Fancy Latin phrase for “New Order” referring to the liturgical changes to the Mass introduced by Pope Paul VI in 1969 after the Second Vatican Council.
