Roman Missal: One Year Later

"The New Evangelization calls each of us to deepen our faith, believe in the Gospel message and go forth to proclaim the Gospel...The New Evangelization invites each Catholic to renew their relationship with Jesus Christ and his Church." (taken from the USCCB website)

It's been a little more than a year since we began praying "and with your Spirit".

One day after Catholic News Service posted a news brief on the acceptance of the translation by majority of Catholics, I'm still left wondering if we have truly been inspired to "deepen our faith" and "believe in the Gospel message" as we are called to do in this Year of Faith, or are we simply playing monkey see monkey do? or in this case, monkey say?

Here is a link to a two-page survey that is being done at All Saints parish in Puyallup that might interest you, whether for personal or parish use. Thanks to Paula Schmitz, Pastoral Associate for Music and Liturgy at All Saints, for sharing this wonderful resource.

And just weeks after the assembly began saying "It is right and just," St. James Cathedral also conducted a parish survey on how the implementation was going. Here is a link to the questions they asked and their full report.

Not that I'm encouraging your parish to go out and do a survey of what your community thinks of the Roman Missal. But just wondering if anyone else is thinking more about the one year birthday of the 3rd Edition of the Roman Missal and how we can challenge the assembly to "proclaim the Gospel" message of Christ. Have we already grown nonchalant?

With the New Evangelization inviting us to learn more about Christ and as we enter into the second year of hearing prayers with no punctuation, let us invite others (and even ourselves) to articulate and live out our experience of the Paschal Mystery.