This page is meant as a collection of resources for those seeking information on the new English translation of the Roman Missal, implemented throughout the United States on the First Sunday of Advent in 2011.

Let us welcome this new text as a beautiful opportunity to increase reverence and understanding in the realm of the sacred liturgy.

The Final Pre-Implementation Diocesan Newsletter, November 2011
Offering guidance and preparatory notes

The USCCB’s Roman Missal Website
Includes sample texts, articles, and links to other resources


Printable Pew Cards

• Order of Mass Pew Card – This is a two-sided, single 8.5″x11″ sheet – the simplest option, which shows the essential parts for the assembly.
• Order of Mass Pew Card, Folded – The content is exactly the same as the first pew card, but is arranged to be folded in half, if so desired.
• Pew Booklet with ICEL Chants – This is a 12-page, three sheet (8.5″x11″) resource that is designed to be folded and stapled during printing. It includes the official ICEL chants for the people’s sung Mass parts, as well as chants for some of the important dialogues.

These resources are intended for free download, and may be printed in-house by any institution that wishes to use them.


Homiletic Resource

• Roman Missal Catechetical Homily Guide – This is a proposed homiletic guide, developed here in the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, which may be used to help catechize the faithful on the new translation of the Roman Missal. It offers homiletic notes for Sundays and Solemnities from September 25 through Christmas. This is simply a set of suggestions and potential options – it is not exhaustive, and the homiletic program at your parish should ultimately be tailored to the length, content, and sequence you find most appropriate. The homily at Mass is perhaps the most effective way to catechize on the new translation, and the days surrounding the implementation of the new Missal present an excellent opportunity to convey the richness of the new texts.

Teaching Resource

• Catechetical Lesson Plans – Catechetical Lesson Plans – The diocesan Office of Catechesis has developed a variety of lesson plans and catechetical program templates to assist in catechizing all age groups about the new translation of the Roman Missal and the beautiful gift of the sacred liturgy. These include a set of guidelines geared towards students in three different tracks: Kindergarten to Grade 2, Grades 3 to 5, and Grades 6 to 8.

Bulletin Inserts

• The following is a diocesan series of bulletin inserts, designed to be run every Sunday from October 9th up to and including Christmas.

  Four of these inserts are two pages in length (indicated below), but all of them will fit on a single sheet of paper.

• October 9 – Introduction
• October 16 – And with your spirit
• October 23 – The Confiteor
• October 30 – The Gloria (two pages)
• November 6 – The Creed (two pages)
• November 13 – The Liturgy of the Eucharist
• November 20 – The Sanctus and “Pro Multis” (two pages)
• November 27 – The First Sunday of Advent
• December 4 – The Mystery of Faith
• December 11 – The Invitation to Holy Communion
• December 18 – The Dismissal and the Use of Sacred Language (two pages)
• December 25 – Final Reflections at Christmas
• In addition, a detailed series of inserts is also available at http://www.op-stjoseph.org/blog/preparing_for_the_new_translation/. Prepared by the Eastern Province of Dominicans Friars, this comprehensive series is free to download as PDF files and to print as single sheet (front-and-back) inserts.

Music for the New Missal

• The ICEL Chants – The official chants to accompany the new texts, with notation made available here for study purposes.  All parishes are highly encouraged to learn the ICEL people’s parts, so that we may have a universally-known Mass setting. Keyboard accompaniment is also available under “The Order of Mass.”
  • The Church Music Association of America (CMAA) has made recordings of the ICEL chants available, including scrolling video of the notation.
• Other Recommended Settings of the New Translation:
  • Mass in Honor of Saint Ralph Sherwin by Jeff Ostrowski (listen and download for free – see Gloria in particular)
  • Mass of the Most Sacred Heart by Jacob Bancks (listen and download for free)
  • English Chant Mass by Richard Rice (available for free download)
  • Missa pro editione tertia by Christopher Mueller – (listen and purchase online – see Gloria in particular)
  • Gloria from the Congregational Mass (Revised) by John Lee (GIA)
  • Belmont Mass by Christopher Walker (OCP)
  • Mass of the Resurrection by Randall DeBruyn (OCP)
  • Missa Simplex by Rev. Michael O’Connor, O.P. and Richard Proulx (WLP)
  • Mass of Charity and Love by Steven Warner (WLP)
  • Mass in Honor of St. Cecilia by David Hurd (Liturgical Press)
  • An Austrian Mass by Michael Haydn, arr. Rev. Anthony Ruff, OSB (Liturgical Press)
  • Mass for the City (Revised) by Richard Proulx (GIA)
• Other notes on music:
  • Chant-based settings will help to draw out and emphasize the new words themselves (rather than having the focus be primarily on the music) — something of utmost importance in this time of transition. Indeed, we must keep in mind that chant is the musical expression proper to our Roman Rite, and so strive to incorporate chant more frequently in our celebration of the Holy Mass.
  • Parishes are discouraged from using refrain-based settings of the new Gloria. Singing the Gloria straight through better preserves the content structure (the Gloria’s first half is addressed to the Father; the second half to the Son), while enabling the whole assembly to learn and sing the entirety of the hymn, thereby fostering greater participation.
  • Please consider not using any “revised” Mass settings (textual revisions of a musical setting that already exist) from September until Advent – the period during which permission has been given for the diocese to use sung settings of the retranslated people’s parts at Mass. Revised settings using the tunes we are currently familiar with can cause many in the assembly to recall the former wording, creating significant confusion during this time of transition.
• For Priests:
  • NPM has created a Chants of the Roman Missal website, where PDFs and recording of various chants from the new Missal (including the Eucharistic Prayers, many prefaces, and chants from the Appendix of the Mass) are gradually being added.
  • Priests wishing to chant the new Order of Mass or the proper presidential prayers starting in November may find Fr. J. Michael Joncas’s audio CD collection from LTP helpful:
    • Learning the Chants of the Missal, Part I: The Order of Mass
    • Learning the Chants of the Missal, Part II: Essential Presidential Prayers and Texts

Recommended Resources for Parishes

• A Guide to the New Translation of The Mass, by Edward Sri, S.T.D.  Published by Ascension Press, this catechetical booklet also includes a tear-out pew card.  Appropriate for anyone in the parish.
• “Understanding the Revised Mass Texts” is a fine resource, authored by Fr. Paul Turner and published by LTP.  Its systematic and accessible review of the major changes in the Mass texts makes it a good option to provide to people in the pews.
• Roman Missal Companion, a catechetical booklet produced by Magnificat, featuring spiritual reflections in the vein of the monthly Magnificat publication.
• The Pastoral Companion to the Roman Missal, by Fr. Paul Turner.  This book provides scholarly commentary on the newly translated prayers for Sundays and Solemnities throughout the liturgical year, examining historical and theological themes, while also making connections to the Lectionary.  A good resource for preparing catechetical homilies on the revised translation.
• A fascinating multimedia resource is the DVD entitled “Become One Body, One Spirit in Christ.” Incorporating video, text, and music, it is geared to a very broad audience, from clergy to families in the pews. This DVD is produced by the International Commission on English in the Liturgy (ICEL), and is available from USCCB Publishing.
• A CD with Recordings of revised Eucharistic Prayers I, II, III, & IV, as recited by Archbishop J. Peter Sartain of Seattle, is offered by WLP.
• Our Sunday Visitor is making several resources available:
  • Why Is the Translation of the Mass Changing?
  • The Mass at a Glance
• ONLINE:
  • The Notre Dame Center for Liturgy has made available a series of “Web Catecheses” (videos by high profile scholars) on the new translation.
  • Two addresses by Bishop Arthur Serratelli (Chairman of the USCCB Committee on Divine Worship) to the Federation of Diocesan Liturgical Commissions
    • 2008: Features a detailed look at the reasons for and benefits of the new translation
    • 2009: With an emphasis on the recovery of a sense of reverence

Articles

A series of articles on the reasons for and benefits of the new translation was printed in the diocesan newspaper, and is also available below:

• The New Translation of the Holy Mass: An Introduction
• The First Sunday of Advent
• “And with Your Spirit”
• The Confiteor
• The Fourth Sunday of Advent
• Christmas
• The Gloria, Part I
• The Gloria, Part II
• The Creed, Part I
• The Creed, Part II
• The Liturgy of the Eucharist
• The Eucharistic Prayer, Part I
• The Eucharistic Prayer, Part II
• The Communion Rite
• The Concluding Rites
• Final Reflections

This series may not be reproduced without the permission of the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend.

(Excerpts from the English translation of The Roman Missal © 2010, International Committee on English in the Liturgy, Inc. All rights reserved. Permission limited to the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend.)

A fine article series incorporating numerous theological and historical sources can also be read on Mr. Jake Tawney’s blog, Roma Locuta Est.

Mystical Body, Mystical Voice

An excellent workshop organized by Liturgical Institute at the University of St. Mary of the Lake in Mundelein, IL, Mystical Body, Mystical Voice was hosted in the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend in March of 2011.  The entire presentation can be ordered on DVD.