Special Section on the New Liturgy: Mass changes ahead

Incoming Missal [1]
Get ready for changes to your Sunday Mass.

Learn your Lines: How parish are preparing for the new Mass [2]
It’s dress rehearsal time as parishes prepare for the new Mass.

Mass changes coming to a parish near you [3]
What will be different about the Mass come Advent 2011?

Sing a new song: New music for the new mass [4]
Anyone who’s seen The King’s Speech, about King George VI and his speech therapist, knows people don’t stutter when they sing. So will singing similarly help Mass-goers with the words of the new missal translation?

To change or not to change: How will you respond to the new Mass? [5]
American Catholics who still strongly dislike the new liturgical texts once they are implemented this Advent season will have three options:

Mixed Messages: The new Mass and ecumenical relations [6]
The new Catholic translations of the Mass pose a stumbling block to ecumenical relations, says a Lutheran liturgy scholar.

Lost in Translation [7]
Why the new Mass prayers may be confusing.

Mass disruption [8]
The new translation of the liturgy will speak volumes about the church that prays it.

Poorly worded [9]
The translators of the new Mass prayers have neglected one cardinal rule: Consider your audience.

Where did the new Mass translations come from? [10]
How did we arrive at this translation of the Mass?

Mass instruction [11]
Opponents of the modern liturgy could use a history lesson, says this scholar of the church's prayer. Overall, the liturgical reform has been a great success.

Mass in the balance [12]
Bishop Donald Trautman explains in this 2005 interview some of the changes in the liturgy that we're seeing now, along with the reasons behind them.

What a difference Mass makes [13]
A good liturgy draws people in, challenges them, allows them to pariticpate, and gives a sense of awe, Father Keith Pecklers, S.J. says in this interview from May 2007.

(Image above adapted [14] from Flickr user Catholic Church (England and Wales) [15])