Father Bryan P. Babick

Editor’s Note: On the first Sunday of Advent 2011, Catholics will use a new translation of the Roman Missal. This column explains some of those changes. In the creed of the Mass all stand to […]

Editor’s Note: On the first Sunday of Advent 2011, Catholics will use a new translation of the Roman Missal. This column explains some of those changes. After the Introductory Rites of the Mass, collected, summarized, […]

Editor’s Note: On the first Sunday of Advent 2011, Catholics will use a new translation of the Roman Missal. This column helps explain some of those changes. One noticeable revision to the new English translation […]

Editor’s Note: On the first Sunday of Advent 2011, Catholics will use a new translation of the Roman Missal. This column helps explain some of those changes. One of the most ancient parts of the […]

One of the seemingly strangest parts of the Catholic Mass happens at the beginning. The priest says something like, “let us acknowledge our sins and so prepare ourselves to celebrate the sacred Mysteries.” It sounds […]

One of changes made to the responses we will use at Mass will be the new response given by the people when the celebrant says, “the Lord be with you.” The revised translation will use […]

The upcoming changes in Mass texts have given rise to the obvious question: “Have we been wrong all of this time?” Since the Mass was first translated into English by decree of the Second Vatican […]

For more than 10 years now experts have been working on revising the words we use at Mass and those texts will be changed at the start of Advent in 2011. As with any change, […]

Over the course of the last several months, I have been reflecting on the essence of what we do each time we gather at the altar. Now I would like to summarize all that has […]

In my last column I reflected on the meaning of an authentic Christian memorial. The early church adopted the belief that commemorating God’s life-giving actions in history involves an active re-presentation of those same events […]