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There are many excellent resources available for clergy, musicians, and other liturgical ministers. Come to this summer’s NPM Annual Convention in Louisville (July 18–22) for practical workshops, in-depth lectures, publisher showcases, and exhibits of ministry resources. Visit the USCCB’s Roman From the Missal web pages at www.usccb.org/romanmissal for news and resources. You’ll find helpful books President and resources from a number of other sources as well, including NPM, the Federation of Diocesan The countdown has begun to implementation of Liturgical Commissions, Liturgy Training the new English translation of the Roman Missal on Publications, and World Library Publications. November 27, 2011. That’s not just a metaphor: The 3. Have a plan for your community. Form a team to United States Conference of Catholic Bishops actually develop a comprehensive parish plan that includes has a counter on its website marking the number of catechesis, training of ministers, obtaining resources days before the new translation will officially begin to for assembly participation, and many other issues be used in the United States. Ironically, in the Gospel necessary for successful implementation. for Sunday, November 27, the First Sunday of Advent, Jesus tells his disciples: “You do not know when the 4. Don’t peak too early. The ritual edition of the missal time will come.” No countdown clock for Christ’s won’t be available until October 1, less than two return in glory! months before the implementation date. That Musicians, clergy, liturgists, and other pastoral will be the time for immediate preparation of leaders clearly have an important role to play in assemblies, choirs, and other ministers to sing and preparing for the new translation. With a little less pray the new translation. Use the months between than nine months remaining before the countdown now and October to lay the groundwork, studying clock reaches zero, it’s probably a good idea to the many options for new musical settings of Mass reflect on how we will prepare ourselves and our texts, examining other ways that Sunday liturgy can communities. be improved in your community, offering people In the Parish Guide to Implementing the Roman Missal, access to the new texts, and providing educational Third Edition from USCCB Publishing, there is a opportunities for liturgical ministers and interested comprehensive calendar of activities for each month. parishioners to learn about the new missal. This book is an excellent resource, and I recommend Be neither grumpy nor glib. it highly. From my own perspective as a parish music 5. The new English director and from my experience of speaking about translation of the Mass is neither a triumph nor a the new missal to diocesan groups, NPM chapters, defeat. It exists to serve the worship and prayer of and parish gatherings, I’ve been developing a set of the Church, and someday this translation will also principles to use alongside the published resources. be revised or replaced by another. Scholars will be reflecting on these texts for years to come, and 1. Keep things in perspective. Let’s be clear about what’s we hope that the next round of translations will changing and what’s not. The Latin edition of the benefit from our experience and their research. new missal is the same as the previous edition In the meantime, pastoral leaders owe it to their but with some slight revisions and a lot of new communities to lead confidently and humbly, material. It’s the same Mass with the same ritual keeping their eye on what’s really important—the structure: rites for gathering and preparing; liturgy mysteries we celebrate and the mission with which of the Word; liturgy of the Eucharist; and brief we have been entrusted. rites for concluding and sending forth. Yes, the new English translation will require some careful Even as preparations for the new missal loom preparation and a period of adjustment, but it’s a before us, we are during this month and next called to lot less change than many of us experienced with the observance of Lent. May this Lenten Season bring the introduction of the vernacular in 1964 or the new life to you and the communities you serve as you implementation of a whole new Order of Mass and prepare to celebrate the great Paschal Feast. a new translation of that Order in 1970. J. Michael McMahon 2. Listen and learn. 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