Inside baseball, Liturgy of the Hours style — liturgy nerds talk translation, texts, and sacred time
A Pillar interview
During and after the Second Vatican Council, when the Church allowed for the celebration of liturgies and parts of liturgies in vernacular languages, a global need for translations of liturgical texts was born nearly overnight.
But the translating itself couldn’t be done overnight. Good translation takes time. And in many places, the work is ongoing.
