Catholics Adjust to New Mass Translation

Published on: Nov 28, 2011Updated on: Nov 28, 2011

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.

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Don Chapman

A prolific arranger and songwriter, Don has had songs published by Word, Integrity Music, G3worship and Worship Today, and has orchestrated music for Christian artists Chris Sligh and Jeremy Camp. He’s been featured on the 700 Club, has been quoted in USAToday and is a guest lecturer at Liberty University.