Commenting on changes in the liturgy introduced in Australia over the Pentecost weekend, Canberra Archbishop Mark Coleridge says that work remains to discern the successes and failures of Vatican II liturgical reform. Much has been achieved in the journey of liturgical renewal since Vatican II, but there is still much to be done, Archbishop Mark Coleridge said according to a Canberra-Goulburn Archdiocese news update.
Archbishop Coleridge wrote that the Spirit was saying to the Church "to discern as clearly as possible what has succeeded and what has failed, and to make adjustments in the light of that discernment."
Australia's bishops chose Pentecost Sunday to implement the new General Instruction of the Roman Missal in a provisional translation, which directs two changes for the people and a number for the celebrant in the Roman Rite Mass.
Archbishop Coleridge flagged the style of language used at Mass will change to "a more elevated and sacral idiom" when the new translation of the Roman Missal appears, perhaps late next year.
There are two immediate changes relating to the role of the people.
First, the congregation stands immediately after the celebrant has said "Pray, brothers and sisters, that our sacrifice will be pleasing and acceptable to God, the almighty Father" and before praying "May the Lord accept this sacrifice…".
Second, before receiving Holy Communion, "communicants bow to the One they are about to receive".
Bowing is the preferred gesture, but those who are accustomed to genuflect before receiving or to kneel to receive will be free to follow their custom, the news update concludes.
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