Guide to Changes in the Mass

THE NEW ENGLISH TRANSLATION of the Roman Missal involved hundreds of scholars and Church leaders. But the changes in the Mass prayers will be felt at the grassroots, by individual priests and parishes. Accepting this new translation will depend in part on good formation during and after its implementation.

Catholic Update Video Guide to Changes in the Mass is a series of brief video spots, developed by a working pastor and veteran Catholic communicator in a popular style, suitable for parish worship commissions, liturgy planners and musicians, Sunday Mass audiences, and junior and senior Catholic high school students.

This program offers a short, easy-to-understand set of explanations, based on how Catholics pray and how they understand the central prayer of our faith, the Eucharist. With down-to-earth examples, frequent illustrations, and brief glimpses of the new texts, pastors, parish worship commissions, musicians, planners and parishioners can deepen their understanding of the Mass and of the new translation of the Roman Missal.

These short segments take the viewer from the basics of liturgy as the official, public prayer of the Church, to the specifics of the newly translated texts of the Roman Missal, Third Edition. The segments include the following topics: How Do We Pray? · What Is Liturgy? · Why Are There Texts and Rubrics? · Why a Missal? · Why a Roman Missal? · Who’s in Charge of Change? · The Fine Art of Translating · Presider and People · Participation · The Structure of the Mass · Reflections on Specific New Texts