Tag: “International Commission on English in the Liturgy (ICEL)” (12 posts)
Two comment-box contributions
July 30, 2009 by — 2 comments.
US Catholic’s website has an article by J. Peter Nixon on the upcoming ICEL Mass translation titled “Incoming Missal.” Many of the familiar names on the liturgy front are mentioned, such as Fr. Jeffrey Keyes, CPPS, Jeffrey Tucker, Helen Hull Hitchcock, and John Baldovin, SJ. Read the whole piece; if you wish, read the comments [...]
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Music for the English Language Roman Missal: The Sung Epistle (with audio)
May 19, 2009 by — 0 comments.
Following up on my initial post on ICEL’s release of selections of Music for the English Language Roman Missal, I decided to provide an illustration of how to point and deliver the sung Epistle according to the formula provided by ICEL. The text chosen is the Revised Standard Version of Ephesians 4:1–13 — the Second [...]
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Spirituality; Uncategorized.
Music for the English Language Roman Missal: An Introduction (Sung Readings)
May 15, 2009 by — 2 comments.
This morning, the International Committee on English in the Liturgy released on their website “Music for the English Language Roman Missal: An Introduction,” which outlines the processes used to adapt the Roman-rite melodies and melodic formulas of the Mass to the new English translations. While those who are familiar with chanted English in the Ordinary [...]
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Gray-area physical reproduction of copyrighted ritual texts and attendant royalty issues
April 20, 2009 by — 1 comment.
Jeffrey Tucker has received some updates on the ICEL text copyright issue, yet he cannot disclose any details or sources. Read the entire piece on NLM; it deserves attention. Here, however, I wish to highlight this following passage (links, footnotes, and emphasis added): Now, in what seems to be a new policy, ICEL has been [...]
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Fr. Andrew Wadsworth to ICEL
April 2, 2009 by — 1 comment.
From Fr. Tim Finigan at the Hermeneutic of Continuity (links and emphases added): Fr. Andrew Wadsworth has been appointed by the Holy See as General Secretary of the International Commission on English in the Liturgy and Executive Director of the ICEL Secretariat in Washington, D.C., to take up post from September 2009. This is very [...]
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Liturgical Reform.
Plainsong settings of the New ICEL English translation of the Mass Ordinary
February 13, 2009 by — 2 comments.
As reported on MusicaSacra.com and The New Liturgical Movement, plainsong settings of the new ICEL translation of the Mass Ordinary are now available via e-mail. I have included a banner on the right sidebar for people to sign up to receive these settings, as well as any updates, additions, and announcements pertaining to them. At [...]
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Announcements; Liturgical Reform; Publications; Vernacular Plainsong.
“The Ark and Sacred Music”
August 16, 2008 by — 0 comments.
In light of the homily he heard for yesterday’s Feast of the Assumption, Dad29, assisted by Pope Benedict and the wisdom of the crowd, makes the connection between the Ark of the Covenant, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and sacred music. Mary and the Ark were not merely ‘functional.’ They were beautiful, as well. The Ark, [...]
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Liturgical Reform.
“Why (Modern) Roman Catholic Music Sucks so Much”
August 16, 2008 by — 0 comments.
Bernard Brandt, who long-time readers will recall fled the worship wars of the Roman Church for the calmer liturgical waters of Russian Catholicism, makes a number of pointed observations about the custodians of the official English translations of the ordinary form Latin liturgy (my emphases in bold) – specifically, their transparency: [T]ry finding any online [...]
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Liturgical Reform.
ICEL responds, or not
August 7, 2008 by — 1 comment.
Jeffrey Tucker has chronicled his exchange with ICEL regarding his question of posting musical settings of the new English translation of the Ordinary of the Mass: I know of 10 composers who have already worked on new settings of the new Mass text. In doing this, they are responding to Cardinal Arinze’s hope that having [...]
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Liturgical Reform.
The new ICEL translation and Creative Commons options
August 5, 2008 by — 0 comments.
The USCCB has made available the final ICEL translation of much of the Ordinary of the Mass on their website in PDF format, along with a letter from the Congregation of Divine Worship signed by Cardinal Arinze and Archbishop Ranjith. (Fr. Zuhlsdorf has commented on this letter on his site.) Readers who have viewed the [...]
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Liturgical Reform; Publications.
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