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The new translation of the Mass is now up and running, and, in his parish, its launch seems to have passed off without any awkwardness at all according to Dr William Oddie.
He wonders how many priests said for the first time that the people’s response in that opening exchange between priest and congregation does not mean “and the same to you, Father”. “‘And also with you’ can’t really mean much more: indeed, it was the perfect example of how the old translation, from the off, consistently reduced (ah, wondrous past tense) theological meaning in the movement from Latin to English,” Oddie says.
Read Oddie’s Column: Catholic Herald.co.uk
Dr William Oddie is a leading English Catholic writer and broadcaster. He edited The Catholic Herald from 1998 to 2004 and is the author of The Roman Option and Chesterton and the Romance of Orthodoxy.
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