Friday, February 19, 2010

New missal will address "serious theological problems"

The newly translated Roman Missal, to be issued in Australian parishes next year, will help address the serious theological problems found in the currently used 1973 missal, says Archbishop Mark Coleridge.

It will help more faithfully implement the liturgical vision of the Second Vatican Council and fulfill the reforms of the much-maligned 1570 Council of Trent, Archbishop Coleridge was quoted saying by The Catholic Weekly.

Archbishop Coleridge, of Canberra-Goulburn, is chairman of the Roman Missal Editorial Committee of the International Commission on English in the Liturgy and also chair of the Australian bishops' Liturgy Commission.

While Archbishop Coleridge acknowledged that the missal used since 1973 has made gains in accessibility, participation, Scripture, adaptation and inculturation, he said it also has "serious problems theologically" and "consistently bleaches out metaphor, which does scant justice to the highly metaphoric discourse" of Scripture and early Christian writers.

This is the result of a misunderstanding of Vatican II's reforms, he said.
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