As I was reading the newspaper this morning, I found that some universal changes will be made in the Catholic church (which will be fully integrated by November at the beginning of Advent, the season when we prepare to celebrate the birth of Christ). As an area priest noted, these changes will not be as dramatic as those that took place in the late 1960s. Most of these new changes will be seen in the responses spoken after blessings and some of the words spoken in prayers. From what I gather, these changes are meant to reflect the translation from Latin.
I have noticed a lot of word changes in our hymnals. Our organist has two humongous binders which are held together by duct tape that must date back 20 years. For every season, we get new song books and sure enough there are a handful of songs which have words changed. Most are little things such as a “man” changed to “all.”
OLD:
We are the light of the world. May our light shine before man.
NEW:
We are the light of the world. May our light shine before all.
May not seem like much, but we must follow what is in the new book or the congregation might choose to not join in song… those who do choose to join 😉 BRAINSTORM! Why not have a screen in front of the church display the words? Not sure if I have ever seen a Catholic church use audio/visuals in quite this way but I often find that the book gets in the way at times… esp. when I lead which is why I like to memorize the pieces as much as possible. WAIT! The church we visited when we spent the weekend visiting my oldest brother while he was in college used such a display.
By the way… i know that no one is infallible, but the local newspaper has made two big goofs in the last week. Last week, our sectional champion boys’ basketball team was honored with a picture of LAST YEAR’S TEAM. The caption was for the current team but the photo included players who graduated last year. Today’s paper included a photo of the interior of “Sacred Heart Church” when it was clearly “St. Mary’s.” Unless of course, the churches are identical in every way. I’m sure I have been inside Sacred Heart at least once but that was 20 something years ago.
I wondered why they ran the picture of the boys’ basketball team twice!!
Makes me wonder about a clipping I ran across today when I was cleaning out my junk. It showed a Humane Society worker holding two puppies, it was taken right around the time we got Gizmo, and one of the puppies looks JUST like him. But, the caption says that the puppies are Akita mixes, and one of them clearly is. The other one (Gizmo?) does not look like a littermate of the other at all. Knowing the local paper’s tendency toward error, I am glad I saved the clipping and will do so as a picture of Gizmo!