- New names for some things... new to us, at any rate: Roman Missal (Sacramentary); Collect (Opening Prayer); Communion Chant (seems to be interchangeable with Antiphon)
- New Saints since 1975 (St. Katharine Drexel, St. Pio, Bl. John XXIII, St. Josephine Bakhita...)
- New Prefaces (the lengthy thanksgiving prayer that culminates in the "Holy, Holy, Holy")
- New Masses (e.g. Vigil of Epiphany, Vigil of Ascension; new Masses in honor of BVM; Masses for special needs like times of war, of storm, of drought; Mass of Thanksgiving for the Gift of Human Life...)
- "New" Prayers for every day of Lent (some of them date to the 600's); this is an old tradition being restored. The prayers come just before the final blessing.
- Brand new Pentecost Vigil service, along the lines of the Easter Vigil (this is from Pope Benedict, just in 2008)
- New Dismissals: The new options for the dismissal came as a fruit of the Synod on the Eucharist; Pope Benedict strongly recommended them in his document "Sacrament of Charity" (which was his summary of the Synod). The dismissals are so good, I'm going to do a separate post just on them!
Friday, April 15, 2011
Roman Missal: What's new?
Even though the Roman Missal we will be getting in Advent is largely the same old, same old (but with a new translation), it is bringing some new things to the Eucharistic table. A quick list:
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What are some of the new Prefaces? Are these for votive Masses, or throughout the liturgical year?
I don't have a list (or a complete copy of the full Missal text--just the parts on wikispooks), but I see that there is a new Preface for Martyrs. I suspect that most of the new Prefaces come as part of a full Mass package!
Ah, okay. I've got the leaked texts too (sigh), but I was feeling unusually liturgically lazy. ;) I'll just compare the 2010 text with the English Sacramentary I have at home.
I'm doing research for my third volume on the new Missal, a commentary on the Eucharistic Prayers (I-IV, Reconciliation, and Various Needs). I wonder if there'd be interest in a fourth volume on the prefaces... that's a lot of prayers, though!
Sister, to be frank, these don't sem like new names to me, they seem like the proper names for things that were re-labeled justfor the sake of relabeling them, and perhaps, changing their significance. Except for "Communion chant"--that does seem different.
perhaps that change is an attempt to improve the musical elements of the Holy Mass and to promote the use of more scripture based communal responses.
I think all the prefaces have been revisited, as the solemn blessings and the prayers over the people. I dont know how "new" they are but they are included in the new missal.
For the vigil of Pentecost, from what I understand the reading of the Old Testament options that are in our missals now (at least in the UK) are being encouraged.
These are the readings for the VIGIL: Gen 11:1-9; Ex 19:3-8.16-20; Ezek 37:1-14; Joel 3:1-5; Ps:103; Rom 8:22-27; Jn 7:37-39. I am not 100% sure but I think the neocatechumenal communities already celebrate the vigil of Pentecost in this way — similar to the Easter Vigil.
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