English-speaking liturgists design multimedia education project

Published: 2007-03-01

ROME (CNS) -- Although a new translation of the Mass probably is a couple years away from parish use, a group of liturgy specialists from the United States, England and Australia is designing a multimedia package to help Catholics prepare. Msgr. James P. Moroney, executive director of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Secretariat for the Liturgy, said the liturgy offices of other English-speaking bishops' conferences will be invited to participate in the education project, which could be ready by late 2008. He said the project flowed from informal discussions about how little was done to prepare people for the Mass in English after the Second Vatican Council; many people felt efforts to get the original English Mass into use were "very hurried." As the International Commission on English in the Liturgy continues to prepare new English translations of the Mass prayers and as bishops' conferences await Vatican permission to use the translations they have approved, the group met in Rome in late February to continue outlining what it believes an education package should include.

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