Catholics Adjust to New Mass Translation

Talk about worship wars! In case you haven’t heard, the Catholics have made extensive changes to the wording of their Mass and it went into effect this past weekend.

I have friends who are Catholic composers and while some of their songs can be “revised” to fit the new wordings, other songs have to be scrapped because the new texts are changed drastically.

Here’s an article reporting on people’s reactions to the changes this past weekend.

Here’s an article about the how and why the Mass has been revised.