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The leaders of the U.S. bishops’ conference have requested immediate changes to the music used during the Catholic Mass in parishes across the country to align the texts of the English liturgy more closely to a strict translation of the Latin version. (There is no indication that similar changes are to take place in Canada.)
The changes, announced in the latest edition of a newsletter put out by the bishops’ Committee on Divine Worship, ask musicians and the faithful to stop referring to Jesus by any title but “Lamb of God” before they take Communion.
According to the bishops’ newsletter, the U.S. bishops’ Administrative Committee, a group of 36 American bishops, approved the changes to the music in September following a request by the Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.
The newsletter states that a document approved by the U.S. bishops in 2007 that granted permission for Catholics to use other titles for Jesus during the musical litany has been “altered to remove any further permission” for the use of those titles, sometimes referred to as tropes.
“This alteration is effective immediately, and affects all existing and future musical settings of the Lamb of God,” the newsletter states.
The changes affect the music Catholics use during the last part of the Mass before taking Communion when they sing or chant, “Lamb of God, you who take away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us.” [More]
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They have gone back to “for us MEN and for our salvation” so they don’t want me in there any more either
The Bishops have forgotten that the mass belongs to all. They don’t own it. When I was baptism I recieced the first priesthood, the priesthood of the faithful. From the laity men felt called into the ministerial priesthood. The bishops in their arrogance again felt that they knew what was best for the people of God and changed the words of the mass. The vast number of catholic do not like the change and are upset that they had no said in the decision to made the changes. Now the music is to be controlled. They still have the old mentality of, “Pray, pay, obay.
People are leaving the church left and right and it isn’t because of how we refer to the Lamb of God. The bishops are so afraid of losing their power and control they don’t know what to strike out at next.
The world is hungry for the Gospel not the edicts and proclamations of a bunch of old farts in Rome
At least the chorister monsignori of the CDW and the local singing bishops could have the courtesy of addressing the Lamb of God as ‘Mr Jesus Christ’, you…
The liturgical menu at Catholic parishes has long resembled, too closely, the McDonald’s management principle that “everything must always be the same, everywhere.”
That may be good for the fast food corporate bottom line, but does a lot of harm to the communion lines. Simply put, liturgy was never meant to be micromanaged from afar by clerics who are not physically present in a particular congregation, and have no intention of being present there.