Vox Clara advisers urge quick completion of English Mass translation

Published: 2007-03-16

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments and a committee of congregation advisers have urged the quick completion of the new English translation of the Mass. The Vox Clara Committee, a group of English-speaking bishops who advise the Vatican on English translations, met March 12-15 at the Vatican. A press release about the meeting repeatedly referred to hopes that the translation of the Roman Missal, promulgated by Pope John Paul II in 2002, would be completed quickly. The International Commission on English in the Liturgy, or ICEL, is preparing the translation in several sections. When individual bishops' conferences approve the texts translated into English from Latin, they request Vatican permission to use them. The new translation of the Order of the Mass, which contains the main prayers used at every Mass, has been approved by all the English-speaking bishops' conferences.

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