Order of Mass

• Letter Accompanying the Recognitio from Francis Cardinal Arinze
  Prefect, Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments
• COMPLETE TEXT (PDF)
• COMPLETE TEXT (Scripturally annotated) (PDF)
• Eucharistic Prayer I (Roman Canon) (PDF)
• Eucharistic Prayer II (PDF)
• Eucharistic Prayer III (PDF)
• Eucharistic Prayer IV (PDF)

English translation of The Order of Mass I
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News

• Address - Bishop Serratelli to Diocesan Liturgical Commissions (October 2008)
• Pro Multis - Letter from Cardinal Francis Arinze on the Translation
• Pro Multis - Questions on the Translation
• Translation - Roman Missal - Principles of Translating
• Translation - And With Your Spirit
• Roman Missal - Holy See to Facilitate Expeditious Approval


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Catechetical Resources (English)

• Questions on the Revised Translation of the Order of Mass
  
• Changes in the Parts of the Priest in the Revised Order of Mass
  
• Changes in the Parts of the People in the Revised Order of Mass
• “Consubstantialem Patri” in the Roman Missal
• Resources on the Eucharistic Prayer
• ICEL - Introduction to the Music of the Roman Missal
  

Catechetical Resources (Spanish)

• Apart from the materials available here, catechetical materials on the forthcoming changes in the Roman Missal are not as urgent in Spanish as in English.  Since Spanish is a Romance language derived from Latin, the present Mass texts in Spanish more easily follow the Latin typical edition with a literal translation and a closer grammatical structure.
   
• Two examples illustrate this point.  When the priest says, “El Señor esté con vosotros” (“The Lord be with you”), Spanish speakers respond, “Y con tu espíritu” (“And with your spirit”).  At Communion, the response to “Éste es el Cordero de Dios...” (“Behold the Lamb of God…”) is “Señor, no soy digno de que entres en mi casa, pero una palabra tuya bastará para sanarme” (“Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof, but only say the word and my soul shall be healed”).
   
• As the Spanish translation of the third typical edition of the Roman Missal for the dioceses of the United States of America nears completion, more resources will become available for Spanish-speaking Catholics.

 

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