"Ite ad Evangelium Domini nuntiandum"
"go to announce the Gospel of the Lord"
"Ite in pace, glorificando vita vestra Dominum"
"go in peace, glorifying the Lord with your lives"; and simply,
"Ite in pace" with "alleluia, alleluia" added during Easter season.Fr Z comments acerbically "Because we really need more options." I agree with his take on this but would add the question I wrote about a year ago: Why choose a particular text?
"go in peace (alleluia, alleluia)."
What criteria will a priest use to choose which of the dismissals to use? Will he plan the choice with a Liturgy Committee? Will he assess the options in the light of the scripture readings for the day? Or will he simply decide along the lines of "We had that one yesterday."?
Michael Davies once pointed out that the number of options in the Novus Ordo mean that a priest could say Mass every day of his life without every using the same combinations twice. The CDW have now multiplied the number of permutations by four.
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In my opinion, it is sufficient that the Propers change each day, while the Ordinary of the Mass stays the same.
In the "old" Mass, there is a common theme running through the Propers which would only be disrupted by inserting various options here and there. Well, the same applies to the Ordinary of the Mass in either form.
Why have options ? Because people don't agree on which text should be used ? And, as Father asked in an earlier post, on what basis and by whom is a particular option chosen ?
Certain priests maintain certain default positions when celebrating the Novus Ordo, which seems the sensible thing to do. But other priests, or more probably
their liturgy committees, seem to vary their choice of options at whim.
But then it was probably inevitable that a Missal devised by a committee would contain options, and that the very existence of authorised options would encourage endless experimenation with unauthorised options.
If these new options are intended to reign in the number of "unofficial" dismissals, then I don't think they will succeed.
Anyway, what's wrong with "Ite, missa est" ?
As a deacon, I am obviously very interested in the words of the dismissal! You state that the double alleluia is to be used throughout the Easter Season - as against just during the Easter Octave and the Day of Pentecost as at present. Does this apply to all the alternatives?
I suppose they could have added the possibility of "Benedicamus Domino" or "Requiescant in Pace", but that would have been a daring step too far.
Peg me as one who hates all the "options" you now have churches where the confiteor is never heard - much less Canon I. Anything BUT what should be said.
Most likely there will also be a mish-mash version:
"Go in peace to announce the Gospel of the Lord, alleluia, alleluia."
The possibilities are endless. Just another disaster.
Peter (Simpson) I haven't seen the official text. The "through the Easter season" may just be a mistake in reporting rather than a change in the rubrics. We'll have to wait and see when the Missal is published. I'm in Rome next week so I will see whether it is in the Vatican bookshop yet.
Knowing the Novus Ordo, surely they must have made a mistake by forgetting to mention the option for "Conference of England and Wales" which is: Ta-ra for now!
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