Catholics Adjust to New Mass Translation

Published on: Nov 28, 2011Updated on: Nov 28, 2011

Talk about worship wars! In case you haven’t heard, the Catholics have made extensive changes to the wording of their Mass and it went into effect this past weekend.

I have friends who are Catholic composers and while some of their songs can be “revised” to fit the new wordings, other songs have to be scrapped because the new texts are changed drastically.

Here’s an article reporting on people’s reactions to the changes this past weekend.

Here’s an article about the how and why the Mass has been revised.

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Don Chapman‘s passion is for the Church, music and technology, and he blends all three into resource websites devoted to contemporary worship: Hymncharts.com and Worshipflow.com. He’s the editor of the weekly Worshipideas.com newsletter that’s read by over 30,000 worship leaders across the world.