Back to Sunday School for US Catholics

(29 July 08 - RV) Catholics in the United States will be heading back to Sunday school to learn the new English Translation of the Order of Mass approved by the Vatican yesterday.


The United States Bishops Conference announced that it received the go ahead from the Holy See’s Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments to the first section of the translation of the third edition of the Roman Missal.


It includes most of the texts used in every celebration of the Mass, and involves new translations of the penitential rite, Gloria, creed, Eucharistic prayers, Eucharistic acclamations and Our Father.


We spoke to Rev. Denis Gill Director of the Office for Divine Worship in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia about why these changes were made and how they are being received: