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by laura janning
How to refurbish your old Chaise Loungers
August 6, 2012
59 comments:
O.M.Goodness,I am picking my jaw up off the keyboard,this has blown me away,thanks for sharing,I must "pin" to my pinterest too.And I'm new follower visiting from BNOTP Met Monday.ReplyDelete
they look just fabulous!ReplyDelete
They look wonderful! You are a very creative lady.ReplyDelete
They look great and love the new fabric!ReplyDelete
Beautiful! I need to get busy and do the same thing. Thanks for the great inspiration!ReplyDelete
This just makes me want to learn to sew! Here's to lounging and chilling (and not falling through ratty old chaise lounges)!ReplyDelete
Now that is recycling. GREAT JOB!!!! They look fabulous. -Brenda-ReplyDelete
These look better now then new! Great job and it's good to know.ReplyDelete
Love them!!! Great job Laura!!ReplyDelete
They look even better than new :)ReplyDelete
Oh Wow! I love to see things reused and not thrown in the landfield! You did such a wonderful job! They're perfect!ReplyDelete
Wow! They look fabulous! Thanks for sharing this tip! Saw this no "My Uncommon slice of Suburbia"ReplyDelete
wow, thats awesome!ReplyDelete
These look fabulous!ReplyDelete
They look even better than the original when it was new!!..Love the colors you chose...You are good!!...ReplyDelete
happy summer wishes
Your lounges look prettier than they did before, love that fabric, so cheery. I'm a fan of stripes so ignore my opinion if you need to. Don't know how you figured out how to fix those up but you sure are a clever girl.ReplyDelete
You saved them! Great job! Love your fabric choice.ReplyDelete
The chairs look so much better than they did in their original state!ReplyDelete
Those look SO great! I never put much thought into jazzing up our lounge chairs, but you have inspired me!ReplyDelete
They look even better then the original. That is one of the best redo's I've seen in a long time. Great job!ReplyDelete
Gee whiz!! Is there ANYTHING you can't do??! I'm so impressed! They look amazing, Laura!ReplyDelete
xo Heidi
I am loving these chairs and all your DIY projects... in fact lovin your blog! So glad I dropped in.ReplyDelete
Bec x
Absolutely amazing! I love the fabric what a great project! MeganReplyDelete
Brilliant! Seriously. Brilliant! I'm so impressed ...ReplyDelete
Great idea! I think my chairs may be made the same way, I hope. They aren't ripping yet, but the AZ summer sun really makes them look shabby, & not in a "shabby chic" kind of way! Beautiful fabric you chose!ReplyDelete
Darned if you didn't pull it off! Yep, I'd have tossed them. Guess it takes a true artist to see through the holes and beyond!ReplyDelete
You just save yourself a whole lot of moolah and got an enviable pair of custom loungers! Love them! ~ MaureenReplyDelete
Wow! An amazing difference. Better than new - Beautiful!ReplyDelete
Well aren't you clever? I love how those turned out. I like the striped fabric you chose better than what they came with too. You saved yourself a ton of money by redoing these and I think they look great! Wish I could sew like you. I need to learn. I'm more of a glue girl. Ha!ReplyDelete
This is a fabulous project! The fabric you chose works so well with the frames and the whole thing is really attractive and chic!ReplyDelete
Great tutorial! I probably would have thrown the chairs away! Thanks to your instructions, I can see how easy it is to make new backs for them!
Your project would be perfect to share at TUTORIALS TIPS AND TIDBITS, my new weekly linky party! It is live every Wednesday evening at 8:00. Come on over and join in!
These look awesome! I'm not sure mine can come apart like that to recover. The frames need painted but currently the fabric is holding up.ReplyDelete
Looks great! I have some old chairs I was thinking about getting rid of....WRONG! Now that I've seen this, I think otherwise! Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
Oh hello I am totally envious! They are beautiful! Cme linkup to centerpiece Wednesday and share your idea with us!ReplyDelete
So glad you shared this!Thanks for sharing this great DYI with us at TUTORIALS TIPS AND TIDBITS!ReplyDelete
Awesome! It look much better for a brand new one.Thanks for the DIY tips.ReplyDelete
Great job, Laura! They look brand new! I love the fabric you chose.ReplyDelete
Great job! I love the colorful fabric that you used. Most people would have thrown these out and you made them fabulous.ReplyDelete
Fabulous job on the chairs. Great fabric colors.ReplyDelete
Beautiful! So inspiring how you made something old look better than new. Great job!ReplyDelete
I would love it if you would share this at the Smart Solutions linky party. You can link up here:
Have a great day!
Seriously - this looks way better than any I've seen in the store. I love it!ReplyDelete
Thanks for linking up to our Keep Calm & Link Up party - hope you join us again this Thursday :)
What an awesome tutorial. I will be featuring this tonight at my Sizzle into Summer party that opens at 8pm EST. Please stop by and pick up an I've Been Featured button. Thanks.ReplyDelete
Great fabric choice. They look chic.ReplyDelete
What perfect timing. I looked at my chairs yesterday and started to figure out how to replace the blah fabric that I begun to hate. So now I will be on the hunt for replacement fabric. Thank you, DawnaReplyDelete
I love this! I would've thrown them out, but you brought yours back to life, and make it look so easy! I'm pinning for sure! Would love it if you shared at the Keep Calm and Link Up party! http://chase-thestar.blogspot.com/2012/08/keep-calm-and-link-up-1.html going on right now!ReplyDelete
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Laura they look amazing! You did an awesome job!ReplyDelete
Terrific rescue! They look great.ReplyDelete
Thank you, thank you, thank you! Great work on extending the life of perfectly good bones! Terrific choice of fabric! When it comes time to repair mine, I have your wonderful example--and I will be making use of it!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 01, 2012
We have patio chairs with the same problem and I am wondering if you could share more info on how to secure the new fabric in that track-like system along the sides......?ReplyDelete
Hi Laura,ReplyDelete
You did a fantastic job. I found this website where you can get many quality chair fabrics for all kind of patio chairs and the fabric can even be purchased by the yard. Custom fabric cuts available. You can get free samples. Check out patiochairsupplies.com
Not only a great idea, fantastic execution!ReplyDelete
Totally in love! So happy you redid them - they look gorgeous!!! Stopping by from the Best DIY Project of 2012.ReplyDelete
I just found this - so timely because one of our chaises has fabric ripping like yours. So psyched, I can't wait to try this!ReplyDelete
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I have a couple of sad looking chairs just like this, now if I could just learn to sew! Love how they turned out.ReplyDelete
- StacyMarch 11, 2015
Could you give more details on how you attached the fabric to the frame? It is really cute, but I don't understand how you actually attach the fabric...ReplyDelete
- Whitney DumontMarch 14, 2015
How are they holding up? I'm about to do this project and the material I'm replacing is very different from outdoor canvas. It's just like the original material that was on your chairs. I'm worried the canvas won't last long before it starts to stretch and sag. My email address is firstname.lastname@example.com. Hope to hear from you. :) Thanks!ReplyDelete
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Simulink Verification and Validation
Historically, when linking requirements documents to Simulink objects, link information is stored with the model file. Model files are therefore modified every time you add, modify, or delete links to requirements documents. An alternative is to store link information in a separate file. Extra care is, of course, required to keep track of the separate files, but it becomes possible to manage requirements links while keeping Simulink model's timestamp and version number intact.
Open Example Model
This example will use the Power Window Controller model to demonstrate how to work with externally stored RMI links. Open the modelOpen the model by running the following command:
Loading RMI data from ...rwin_reqs/slvnvdemo_powerwindowOffice.req
Configure RMI to Store Links Externally
Select Analysis > Requirements Traceability > Settings to open the Settings dialog boxopen the Settings dialog box. Select the Storage tab and click Store externally option button.
The default file name for saving requirements links data is ModelName
.req. If the file is not present in the model folder, the model is assumed to have no links to requirements, as you can verify by highlighting the modelhighlighting the model.
rmidata.default('external'); rmi('highlightModel', 'slvnvdemo_powerwindowController');
Creating and Managing RMI Links
You create and manage links in exactly same way you do with internal storage. For the purpose of this example, please open the
PowerWindowSpecification.docx document that is used for this example, select the text passenger input consists of a vector with three elementspassenger input consists of a vector with three elements, right-click the corresponding Mux blockMux block, and click Requirements Traceability > Link to Selection in Word.
If the model is still highlighted, the Mux block highlights to indicate associated requirements data. Note that the title bar does not indicate unsaved changes. New link information is stored separately from the model.
testReqLink = rmi('createEmpty'); testReqLink.description = 'testReqLink'; testReqLink.doc = 'powerwin_reqs\PowerWindowSpecification.docx'; testReqLink.id = '?passenger input consists of a vector with three elements'; rmi('set', 'slvnvdemo_powerwindowController/Mux4', testReqLink);
Saving Requirements Links Data to External Files
While working with a model that stores RMI data externally, changes to requirement links are saved when you:
Save or Save As the Simulink model, even if the title bar does not indicate unsaved changes.
Close the model. You will be prompted to save links changes if any.
Use Save links or Save links as shortcuts near the top of Requirements Traceability submenu.
Close the modelClose the model. You will be prompted about the link that you just created. You may save the links file with the default ModelName
.req name in the model directory, or choose a different file name and/or location.
close_system('slvnvdemo_powerwindowController', 0);
Loading Requirements Links from External Files
When you open a model, RMI will try to load requirements links data from the recently used location for this model. You may also select Requirements Traceability > Load links to choose a different
.req file. This allows to use several sets of links with the same model, for example, links to design change descriptions that are different from links to original design specifications.
Reopen the modelReopen the model, select Requirements Traceability > Load links to open a file browser and point to
slvnvdemo_powerwindowRequirements.req in the
toolbox/slvnv/rmidemos/powerwin_reqs folder
toolbox/slvnv/rmidemos/powerwin_reqs folder.
Highlight requirements in the modelHighlight requirements in the model to confirm that an alternative set of links is now associated with the model. You can navigate and modify these links in the same way you would work with embedded (in-model) links.
open_system('slvnvdemo_powerwindowController'); otherReqFile = fullfile(matlabroot, 'toolbox', 'slvnv', 'rmidemos', 'powerwin_reqs', 'slvnvdemo_powerwindowRequirements.req'); rmimap.map('slvnvdemo_powerwindowController', otherReqFile); rmi('highlightModel', 'slvnvdemo_powerwindowController');
Loading RMI data from ...rwin_reqs/slvnvdemo_powerwindowOffice.req Mapping /mathworks/devel/bat/BR2015ad/build/matlab/toolbox/slvnv/rmidemos/slvnvdemo_powerwindowController.slx to /mathworks/devel/bat/BR2015ad/build/matlab/toolbox/slvnv/rmidemos/powerwin_reqs/slvnvdemo_powerwindowRequirements.req Loading RMI data from ...eqs/slvnvdemo_powerwindowRequirements.req
Moving RMI links from Internal to External Storage
A model with existing embedded requirements links can convert to external storage. References to documents get stripped from the model file and stored in a new
.req file. To try this out:
Open another modelOpen another model that has internally stored RMI data.
Resave with a new nameResave with a new name to create a writeable copy.
Select Analysis > Requirements Traceability > Move to file to open a file browser.
Choose a file name for the new external
.req file and click OK. Model is resaved with no embedded links and a new
.req file is created. Note the "Saving data to ..." message in the command window.
Your ability to use and manage links in this model now depend on the external file.
Reopen the modelReopen the model. Note the "Loading reqs from ..." message in the command window.
Highlight requirementsHighlight requirements to confirm that the data is available.
Now close the model againclose the model again and delete the external
.req filedelete the external
.req file.
Reopen the modelReopen the model and highlight linkshighlight links. Nothing is highlighted because the data is no longer available.
Delete the temporary copyDelete the temporary copy of the model.
Points to keep in mind before you move internally stored links to an external file:
You will need to carry an extra
.req file along with the model file.
Non-default file name and location associations are stored in user preferences. If you move or rename the
.req file outside MATLAB, you will have to manually point RMI to the new location when the model is reopened.
When one user has configured a non-default location or name for the
.req file associated with the model, other RMI users will need to manually select Load links when they open the model. The specified location will persist in each user's preferences and does not need to change unless files are moved or renamed again.
open_system('slvnvdemo_fuelsys_officereq') save_system('slvnvdemo_fuelsys_officereq', 'fuelsys_officereq_copy'); rmidata.export('fuelsys_officereq_copy'); rmi('highlightModel', 'fuelsys_officereq_copy');
Saving RMI data to ...4_89e118cda8cb/fuelsys_officereq_copy.req
Moving RMI links from External to Internal Storage
To embed RMI data with the Simulink model, so that all information is in one place and you do not need to track extra files, select Requirements Traceability > Copy to model. The model is modified and left dirty. You will have to explicitly Save the changes. The external
.req file still exists, but it is NOT read when you reopen the model that now has embedded RMI data. You can try this out with the
slvnvdemo_powerwindowController model
slvnvdemo_powerwindowController model.
Open the modelOpen the model. RMI data is loaded from last used
.req file.
Click Requirements Traceability > Copy to model to import the dataimport the data. Notice that the model window title bar now indicates unsaved changes.
The model file is not writeable, but you can save the model with a new name. The new model has RMI data embedded and does not depend on external
.req files.
Points to keep in mind before you embed RMI data with the model file:
Every change to RMI links will modify the model file.
You will not be able to switch between different sets of links: only one set of RMI links can be embedded in model file.
Steps in this example might have created files inside the examples folder and modified your stored mapping of
.req file names. Click to cleanupClick to cleanup.
close_system('slvnvdemo_powerwindowController', 0); % close demo model, discard changes tmpfilepath = fullfile(matlabroot, 'toolbox', 'slvnv', 'rmidemos', 'slvnvdemo_powerwindowController.mdl'); rmimap.map(tmpfilepath, 'clear'); % forget mdl-to-req mappings tmpfilepath = strrep(tmpfilepath, '.mdl', '.req'); if exist(tmpfilepath, 'file') == 2, delete(tmpfilepath); end % delete .req file we just saved close_system('fuelsys_officereq_copy', 0); tmpfilepath = which('fuelsys_officereq_copy'); if ~isempty(tmpfilepath) delete(tmpfilepath); % delete tmp .mdl or .slx we just created rmimap.map(tmpfilepath, 'clear'); % forget mdl-to-req mappings tmpfilepath = strrep(tmpfilepath, '.slx', '.req'); if exist(tmpfilepath, 'file') == 2, delete(tmpfilepath); end % delete .req file we just saved end clear tmpfilepath; rmidemo_callback('dlgkill', 'Highlight Objects with Requirements'); % close popup if still open
Nothing to clear for /mathworks/devel/bat/BR2015ad/build/matlab/toolbox/slvnv/rmidemos/slvnvdemo_powerwindowController.mdl Nothing to clear for /tmp/BR2015ad_189898_78091/tp41c86534_0baa_4d5b_a914_89e118cda8cb/fuelsys_officereq_copy.slx


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Well, way beyond my wildest expectations, are we gonna make the magic 100th registered member sometime this weekend...? let's hope so.
Thankyou everyone for you support... much appreciated...
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It is an interesting idea though - if the cost/effort/benefit ratio is right
Since we're talking points and prizes, I'll tell you about another forum I'm part of...
For a while they had a points structure. Basically, every post won you 5 points. Every post anybody made in a thread YOU had started earned you 3 points (I think). There was also the ability to "rate" posts. So if someone started posting lots of rubbish just to get more points, people could "disapprove" their posts, and they would lose a point for every disapproval. Anything significantly consructive could be "approved", and earned the poster another 10 points.
Points could be spent in the "store", where you could pay to change your avatar, your forum title, your nickname, someone elses forum title, purchase a "glow" for your nickname, and so on. You could also donate points to other users, and enter a "lottery" whereby you could win thousands of points.
Finally, if you had less than 0 points, you couldn't post at all.
Unfortunately, someone found a bug in the system, and they found they could rate posts more than once if they did it in a particular way. So, two people approved each others' posts multiple times, and they were suddenly the "richest" people on the forums. Then it all got tore down and put "back to basics" because it caused the webmaster lots problems with his SQL databases.
IMHO, I'd say that a forum should be a forum, and not a free for all points competition. Maybe it's a case of striking a balance.
I think promotional material is a great idea, though!
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Rita Ferrone May 21, 2013 - 3:33pm
The closer you get, the worse it looks.That seems to be the takeaway from a collection of surveys over the past year intended to gauge the response of Catholics to the new English translation of the Roman Missal. The controversial new English translation of the Roman Missal had its debut at the end of 2011, amid doubts of its ability to gain wide appeal. Give it a chance its advocates advised, youll get used to it.
A year later, when a CARA survey reported that 70% of lay Catholics in America agreed with the statement that The new translation is a good thing, it seemed these predictions were justified. To say that the translation is a good thing might seem to be a rather lukewarm endorsement, but these results were positive enough to be encouraging. Online polls conducted around the same time however revealed a more troubling picture, showing considerably more negative opinion, especially among priests, who arguably have the greatest investment in the new translation because of their role in the daily celebration of the liturgy. They use the Missal every day, and know its pluses and minuses better than anyone.
- The Tablet found that clergy gave the new translation very negative marks. Of the 1189 clergy who participated, 70% were unhappy with the translation and wished to see it revised. In a strange twist, considerable numbers of respondents who preferred the Extraordinary Form (which is in Latin) took the survey. 94% of them approved of the new translation. But 57% of those who preferred the Ordinary Form disliked it.
- US Catholic polled more than 1200 priests in a reader survey, and found that 58% agreed with the statement: I dislike the new translations and still cant believe Ill have to use them for the foreseeable future. 49% of Catholics in the pews also registered unhappiness with the translation whereas only 17% said they enjoy them as much as or more than the old translation.
Observers have taken the more critical Tablet and US Catholic results with a grain of salt. Yes, they indicate dissatisfaction, and especially strong dissatisfaction among clergy, but how reliable are these polls?
The results of a new study, released today, sets our knowledge of the opinions of priests on a firmer footing.
The survey is narrowly focused on the opinion of priests in the United States. It shows that priests are sharply divided, with a clear majority disliking the new translation and calling for its revision.
The specific findings are striking. 59% of priests do not like the new translation, compared with 39% who do. An overwhelming 80% agree that some of the language is awkward and distracting. 61% think the translation needs urgently to be revised. In what is perhaps the most timely element, 61% of priests do not want the rest of the liturgical books to be translated in the same manner. The process of retranslating the Liturgy of the Hours and the rites of the Sacraments is currently underway.
Jeffrey Tucker of Chant Caf, who likes the new texts and was initially surprised by the results, speculated that a generational split might account for the negative opinions: "They came to terms with one way, received vast amounts of catechesis along these lines, and developed a more casual liturgical style to go along with it, and now they are told to do it another way. This creates a real tension: am I supposed to speak in the language of the people or not?"
Other commenters, however, felt that the negative evaluation was not so much fueled by resistance to change as by resistance to making the prayers of the Mass more awkward. Fr. Michael Ryan of Seattle, founder of the website What if we just said wait? noted that the proportion of discontent revealed in the Diekmann survey contrasts sharply with reactions to the introduction of English into the Mass following Vatican II. "These results are a far cry from the way priests and people reacted when the Mass in English was first introduced in the late 1960s," Ryan said, A survey taken at that time indicated that 85-87% of Catholics (and especially parish priests) preferred the new Mass to the old (Mark Massa, SJ, Worship 81 (2007), p. 122).
A preconceived bias against the texts also would not account for another interesting finding: 15% of those who had looked forward to the new Missal ended up disliking it. By comparison, only 10% grew to like it through the process of using it.All 178 Latin Rite dioceses in the US were invited to participate in the survey and, of these, 32 from all geographical regions of the country chose to take part. A total of 1,536 priests (diocesan and religious) responded, a response rate of 42.5%.
The survey was conducted under the auspices of the Godfrey Diekmann, OSB, Center for Patristics and Liturgical Studies at St. Johns University School of Theology-Seminary, in Collegeville MN. The project manager was Chase Becker, assisted by Audrey Seah and Christine Condyles, and advised by Fr. Anthony Ruff, OSB, with the aid of Dr. Pamela Bacon, a professional consultant.
More than half of the respondents submitted written comments, a total of 799 comments. These covered a wide variety of subjects, including aesthetics, grammar and syntax, reception by their people, translation principles, ecclesiastical process, vocabulary, theological content, book format, and music. In these comments, critique of the Missal outweighed affirmation by a four to one margin. The full text of the comments can be found here.
Two questions about process, unique to this survey, also showed sobering results. More than half (55%) of the respondents are not confident that priests views of the translation will be taken seriously. Nearly half (49%) do not approve of the role of the Holy See in bringing the new translation about, compared with 39% who do.
Fr. Edward Foley, Capuchin, professor at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, said, "The most disappointing result of this survey for me is that most priests doubt that their views about the translation will be seriously addressed; on the other hand, this too is not surprising since they were never consulted in the first place." Peter Jeffery, professor of medieval studies and theology at Notre Dame, asked: "Why did 82.1% of dioceses decide not to forward this survey to their priests? Do they think it is better not to know what priests think?" Msgr. Andrew Wadsworth, executive director of ICEL questioned the representative value of the responses, pointing out that the respondents constitute less than 3.7% of priests in the US. Without some indication of selection bias, however, the sample size would not seem to indicate that the survey is weak. The CARA survey concerning the Missal, for example, had 1,239 participants, a much smaller fraction of the total Catholic population which the survey is presumed to represent.
For those priests who are well satisfied with the new translation, its daily use has been rewarding. For the majority, however, it has been a burden and a source of discouragement. On an even deeper level, the conflict they experience has serious ramifications. As Fr. Anthony Cutcher, president of the National Federation of Priests Councils observed: "The Eucharistic liturgy and the ability to celebrate it well is at the core of a priest's identity. With the promulgation of the Third Roman Missal, we priests have been placed in an untenable position, forced to choose between fidelity to the magisterium and feeding our people."
When a majority of priests are unhappy about something as important as the Missal, the situation calls for creative leadership and constructive responses. It is not clear, however, whether those in positions of authority are either ready or willing to respond. Msgr. Rick Hilgartner, director of the office of the BCDW at the USCCB, declined to comment for this story, as did Bishop Gregory Aymond, chair of the BCDW, and Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, incoming chair of the BCDW. Not replying to a request for comment were: Bishop Arthur Seratelli, former chair of the BCDW and current chair of ICEL; Cardinal Timothy Dolan, president of the USCCB; Cardinal Francis George, former USCCB president under whom the implementation date was set; Cardinal George Pell, chair of Vox Clara; Msgr. Jim Moroney, executive secretary of Vox Clara; and Fr. Dennis McManus, advisor to Vox Clara. Reactions to the survey were provided by Bishop Robert Brom of San Diego, Father Anthony Cutcher of the National Federation of Priests' Councils, Fr. Edward Foley, Capuchin of Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, Peter Jeffery of Notre Dame, Fr. Michael Ryan of Seattle, Jeffery Tucker of Chant Cafe, Msgr. Andrew Wadsworth of ICEL, Fr. Mark Wedig OP of Barry University, And Bishop Donald Trautman, retired bishop of Erie. The full text of their comments is available here.
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I am also surprised that such a large minority is satisfied with the new missal.Every English-speaking Catholic who has a chance to approach pope Francis should think it their duty to mention the problems with the new missal. Imagine that he decides to give more power to conferences of bishops. Can that be applied retroactively, say, back to 1998?
Speaking as a layman, I like the new translation. And there is a scientific poll showing that most other Catholic laymen like it, too: http://nineteensixty-four.blogspot.com/2012/11/tracking-changes-accepted... parish is fortunate enough to have a Benedictine come to say Mass on the weekends. Not only does Father say the new translation with aplomb, he sings much of it. And he regularly prays the First Eucharistic Prayer, beautifully. (Our pastor also does a fine job with the new translation, but he does not sing it).
Off topic, with apologies.On the Whispers in the Loggia blog site Rocco has posted the audio feed of the talk that Pope Francis gave on the vigil of Pentecost. It's 38+ minutes long, but worth every second of your time. Don't miss it if at all possible.
Fr. Imbelli, Your last paragraph captures my point. Using whatever resources available, including Latin liturgical texts, why should the USCCB, or some other appropriate agency, appoint a committee of competent liturgical scholars to produce, in English, a set of liturgical texts for the American Catholic use? The committee would have much to learn from relevant predecessor texts, but would not be charged with confining itself to making translations.
I'm surprised that so many priests are happy with the new translation.
Rita,thanks for the post and the links.One clarification: you speak of those who "declined to comment for this story."Does that refer to this post, and did you seek comments from the people in question?
On the other hand half of those who are satisfied believe it needs revision. Clearly, the bishops have a crisis of confidence among their clergy. Just as clearly, it hasn't been a good decade for them at all. They have Bill Donohue in their court. Maybe that's enough.
The fundamental split seems to be between priests (the Diekmann/St. John's survey) and the laity, i.e. the vast preponderance of the church (the CARA study).Naturally, the priests are much more intensively immersed in the missal than the people are. But is the Roman Missal the priests' book, or the entire church's book? Suppose, for the sake of conversation, the people's parts were left intact, and the parts that belong to the priest - the collects and other propers, the Eucharistic Prayers, and so on, were re-translated (yet again). Would the people care? I expect the answer, by and large, would be, No.
Joe -- ha! I'm with you, that's the real surprise here.Bob -- You are welcome. Hmm, I guess "this story" is a bit ambiguous. I didn't mean this particular blog post but rather the whole event of publication of the data. The results of the survey were sent (pre-publication) to all the people listed, with a request for comment. Those who sent responses (some of which I have quoted here in part) are all posted at the Diekmann website in full. Some declined. Some did not respond. I did not personally contact these people. My source, however, is reliable. :)Claire -- Pope Francis seems to evince a strong appreciation for the vernacular; what his thoughts are on translation, however, is anybody's guess.
Was the question asked whether the priests "edited" the prayers in some way -- even as simple as putting a period in place of "and" and starting a new sentence?Perhaps the greater satisfaction among the laity is also the fruit of discreet editing of what in some cases is decidedly awkward syntax.
"But is the Roman Missal the priests book, or the entire churchs book?"I am not sure what that question means. When I go to Mass, the Missal is the book with which I am praying, whether I am actually speaking the prayer or the presider is speaking it for us. But at home, before I
Sorry, computer jump back there. What I was saying is:But at home, before I go to Mass, I have stopped saying the Collect out loud because I usually can't do it on a first reading. Do priests practice it before Mass? At home, then, the priest's part is still "the entire church's book" or would be if I could make it work. Finally, I still have some doctrinal problems with the "people's" parts that could be cleared up simply by a return to English.
Rita--Were any of those involved in conducting the survey sympathetic to the new missal? I see Fr. Anthony Ruff was an advisor. Based on his comments in here, I imagine he was decidedly not sympathetic.
Tell them to stand in line!
I find I have to read the collects over before Mass, which isn't a bad thing in any case. Some of them, if read properly, can be effective; but most of them are poorly done. Years ago I started making and using my own translations of the collects and the prefaces--thought I owed it to the Church not to use the banalities produced by the first ICEL.
It has been my experience that the coming of this new missal has once again occasioned the law of unintended consequences. Because of the awkward translations (and some of the over the top imagery and vocabulary), I have found some priests who never would have changed the words in the old translation now do it all the time. So an effort to tighten things up has actually led to opposite results
Rita, is it true that this project was headed by a liturgy student at Collegeville?
With a 42.5% response rate, it seems very possible that the priests who responded were those who felt most strongly about the issue. It is therefore irresponsible to make statements such as this:
59% of priests do not like the new translation, compared with 39% who do.
That sort of statement should be amended to read:
59% of priests who were motivated to respond to a well-known malcontent's survey disliked the new translation.
Oh wait, I forgot: only 32 out of the 178 dioceses in the United States even participated in the first place, and it is also likely that this is not just happening at random (such that you can assume the 32 represent the rest of the 178).So the statement above should really read:
Out of the 18% of dioceses who were willing to participate in a well-known malcontent's survey, and out of the 42.5% of priests in those dioceses who were motivated enough to respond, 59% of them disliked the new translation. In other words, about 906 priests out of 39,000 nationwide, or a mere 2.3%, said they disliked the new translation.
The collect for next sunday contains a glaring heresy. But it's in the priest's part so the people need not worry. After all, "Suppose, for the sake of conversation, the peoples parts were left intact, and the parts that belong to the priest the collects and other propers, the Eucharistic Prayers, and so on, were re-translated (yet again). Would the people care? I expect the answer, by and large, would be, No."
I heard a conservative priest alter the ungrammatical "acclaim" at the end of the preface. Yes, it's the law of unintended consequences.
"Perhaps the greater satisfaction among the laity is also the fruit of discreet editing of what in some cases is decidedly awkward syntax." Surely.
"Wasting Time," like Msgr. Wadsworth, betrays poor knowledge of polling techniques. We confidently assert what "Americans" think about intervention in Syria, abortion or gun regulation on the basis of smaller samples than the Diekmann Center's. And those assertions seem to play out in the real world.I am intrigued, though, by Wasting Time's implication that some dioceses are so different than others that vastly different results may be obtained there. What are the criteria? Are some Catholic and some not? Who appointed their bishops?
Here are the credentials of the Project Manager, according to the PrayTell website:Chase M. Becker is a Nebraska native and current editorial assistant for Pray Tell. Chase holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Saint Gregory the Great Seminary in Seward, Nebraska and is currently pursuing an M.A. in Liturgical Studies from Saint John's School of TheologySeminary in Collegeville, Minnesota. Chase currently serves as a Liturgical Designer and Consultant and has earned awards in historic preservation from Heritage Nebraska and Preservation North Dakota.The sympathetic-leaning PrayTell commentariat have already weighed in on the likelihood of sampling errors, particularly considering the enormous amount of self-selection that occurred. Self-selecting dioceses participated. Self-selecting clergy from these dioceses participated. And as Jeffrey mentions below, we are given very little of the data.Before we take this survey with any seriousness, why don't we stop and ask for a little transparency.What did the surveys look like? Did they indicate Collegeville as their source or destination, thus influencing participation? Which dioceses were involved and why? Where there any outside scientists involved in the process? Was any outside social scientist consulted for independent evaluation of the procedures?What degree of professionally credible skill was involved in producing this survey? How involved was the in-house scientific consultant? Did she design the survey? Did she evaluate the results or train the liturgy students to a high level of analytical skill before they processed the results? What corrections were made to the raw data?
I would just like the Creed to say that Jesus came down from heaven for us men "and women".
In a better world, 178 of our Dioceses would seriously ask their clergy and laity for their reactions to the new translation and ask for advice about how to go forward from here. The real question to be pondered is why they haven't done exactly that.
"The collect for next sunday contains a glaring heresy. But its in the priests part so the people need not worry. After all, Suppose, for the sake of conversation, the peoples parts were left intact, and the parts that belong to the priest the collects and other propers, the Eucharistic Prayers, and so on, were re-translated (yet again). Would the people care? I expect the answer, by and large, would be, No."So, to follow your logic here, the Collect contains a glaring heresy, but you *don't* want it to be re-translated, unless the people care?
But is the Roman Missal the priests book, or the entire churchs book?"I am not sure what that question means."I think it's pretty straightforward: CARA, whose survey methodology is pretty impeccable, has published survey results indicating that the church, by a strong majority, is happy with the new translation. And now the Diekmann Center has published the results of a survey (whose methodology may be open to question, but let's set that aside; personally, I haven't met a priest yet who has expressed enthusiasm for the translation) indicating that priests, a rather tiny sliver of the church, and by a lesser majority, are dissatisfied. I take the entire thrust of Rita's post to be, 'This is powerful evidence that the translation was poorly done; after all, what could be more damning than that the primary audience for the Missal - priests - are unhappy with it? Therefore, the obvious thing to do is to go back and do it again.'Rita didn't explicitly say that the primary audience for the missal is priests, but it's a reasonable inference from her post. And that assumption is what I'm questioning. And I'm questioning it in a spirit of open inquiry. It seems clear, as I stated in the comment to which you responded, that priests are more intensively immersed in the missal than the average Catholic in the pews (to say nothing of the average Catholic, period, who may not even be in the pews at all). Perhaps priests' opinions should be decisive in this matter.But as Fr. O'Leary pointed out, just because the people don't actually recite the collect aloud during mass, doesn't mean that the collect isn't "for them", too. But the people - the church - according to the best evidence we have (the CARA survey), don't seem particularly dissatisfied with the translation of the collects. What do we make of that? The CARA survey is a big problem for the tear-up-the-translation-and-try-again movement.
Fr. O'Leary: What is the glaring heresy? I presume you're talking about the collect for Trinity Sunday?The translation was intended to be as literal as possible, but they turned "the glory of the eternal Trinity" into "the Trinity of eternal glory."
The collect for next sunday contains a glaring heresy"I'll bite: what is the glaring heresy?Here is the collect for Trinity Sunday, in the new translation:God our Father, who by sending into the worldthe Word of truth and the Spirit of sanctificationmade known to the human race your wondrous mystery,grant us, we pray, that in professing the true faith,we may acknowledge the Trinity of eternal gloryand adore your Unity, powerful in majesty.Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the HOly Spirit,one God, for ever and ever.Here is the same prayer according to the previous translation:Father,you sent your Word to bring us truthand your Spirit to make us holy.Through them we come to know the mystery of your life.Help us to worship you, one God in three Persons,by proclaiming and living our faith in you.Grant this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,one God, for ever and ever.Regarding the content, they both seem to cover more or less the same territory.
Father O'Leary will of course speak for himself. But I think the stumbling block may be the introduction of "your": "your Unity, powerful in majesty" which is not to be found in the Latin and may imply that the unity belongs to the Father alone.
A charitable though unlikely reading of the addition of Your: it might have been motivated by ecumenical sensitivity for Orthodox monarchism.
Reading the accounts above, in my mind the methodology seems sound. You can quibble about generalizability given the return sample size however all of that information was included and all of us can make a determination around the reliability of the results.I think a good way to judge the reliability is just by way of publication and whether it "rings true". Based on the comments posted here, it sounds like the results are, indeed, indicative of the majority of clergy's view of the missal translation.
I think a good way to judge the reliability is just by way of publication and whether it rings true. I don't understand. Are you saying that a survey is true, or scientific, when it "rings true"? That is, is a survey reliable when it confirms what we've already thought, and unreliable when it sheds light on aspects of reality that we hadn't yet considered?
Isn't it true that Francis did not accept the new translation in his diocese?
Re: the collect for Trinity Sunday, I popped over to the Pray Tell blog, where this analysis by Anscar Chapungco is posted:http://www.praytellblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Chupungco_Trinity... mistakes are made, they should be corrected. I recall reading once that in the early days of the 1970s translation, there was an error in Eucharistic Prayer IV that was theologically problematic, and it was corrected. Sounds like a good precedent for this collect.
For those who are interested, here is what I was recalling regarding the problem in the old translation of EPIV - it is somewhat similar to that of the Trinity collect under discussion. This is Rev. Edward McNamara, professor of liturgy at the Regina Apostolorum Pontifical University. as quoted by Felix Just, SJ:"A more delicate problem arose from an English reader who asks: "The difficulty that I, as a mere layman, have with this Preface [of Eucharistic Prayer IV] is that it clearly and most obviously, in English, denies the divinity of Our Blessed Lord and of the Holy Spirit. It starts: 'Father in heaven, it is right that we should give you thanks and glory: you alone are God, living and true.' Is not this heresy? I know good priests here in England who never use this Eucharistic prayer now. It has to be said, by the way, that all this kind of thing simply causes confusion among the poor laity. Priests and, indeed, bishops should remember the laity when they consider the liturgy. We do not all have degrees in theology; mine is in English and I can, therefore, understand the meaning of words in that language." "Far be it from me to accuse the liturgy of heresy. But our reader certainly has a point that we are before a less-than-adequate translation. "Indeed, if I am not mistaken, this translation was corrected in the missals used in the United States and now reads "you are the one God, living and true." "http://www.ewtn.com/library/liturgy/zlitur107.htm
As a priest I was never consulted to give my input, but over all I would say, "it is a bad translation" - collects are extremely difficult to read and the meaning of many of them is obscure and not elusive. Form the survey and from talking to other priests in my diocese, the new translation, putting all other issues aside, needs further improvement - and there is nothing wrong with that. And it is interesting that both those who like it and those who do not like it agree on awkwardness of the sacred texts of the mass.
Wasting Time, like Msgr. Wadsworth, betrays poor knowledge of polling techniques. We confidently assert what Americans think about intervention in Syria, abortion or gun regulation on the basis of smaller samples than the Diekmann Centers.Tom, the issue isn't the size of the sample. You're right about that. The issue, however, is something that you ignore: the sample is decidedly non-random. Only a few dioceses even participated, and then only some of the priests in those dioceses. That means it is simply not credible to maintain that these priests are really representative of all priests. Which in turn means that conclusions such as those stated in the post are irresponsible.
I mean "is elusive"
Jim,thanks for the link to the "Pray Tell" site.Father Anscar confirms my impression and spells out the issue in more detail:Somewhat more disturbing from a theological standpoint is the second petition and adore your Unity, powerful in majesty. How is the Latin text formulated? To begin with, it has no possessive pronoun (your). The inser-tion of your is what causes the problem in the English translation. The Latin text simply states adore the Unity in the power of majesty.It is useful to remember that the one addressed in this prayer is God the Father, not the holy Trinity. In the new English translation the phrase your Unity would seem to refer to the Father, unless by the application of some elliptical device we complete the statement so that it would read as follows: Father, we adore your Unity with the Word of truth and the Spirit of sanctification. As the English version stands, we are given the wrong impression that we adore the Unity of God the Father. This is certainly not an insignificant theological issue. The passage is inaccurate and should be rectified by deleting the possessive pronoun your. What the Latin text says is We adore the Unity [of the three Divine Persons] in the power of majesty.
"Wasting Time," you seem to be saying that a) the dioceses that participated are different than the ones that didn't, and b) the priests that participated are different than the ones who didn't. As for the first point, do you mean that the Church is so different in different dioceses that her priests think differently about things as basic as the missal? I find that to be a stretch.On the second point, non-respondents are always a bit of a problem because we know, for openers, that they are different in one way from the ones who responded. But the participation rates in this study look to be reasonable for sampling purposes. It would be problematic if all the priests in one participating diocese responded and none of the priests in another did. That would make the investigators take a second look. But that's not what happened here.
I'm not surprised at these findings. The wording is awkward and stilted, difficult to follow in many instances. It reminds me a the "literal translations" I used to do in Spanish I or one of those translations you hear sometimes from the UN or elsewhere, where you know the translator is doing it on the spot, but it is very stilted and when you read the transcript it will be cleaned up. In the case of the Missal, my impression has been that they tried to be so literal in the Latin to English that they missed the actual meaning in some instances, and used awkward phasing in others. In our parish we have a joke that we know that Fr. Jim, a somewhat cantankerous, (but very good guy), retired priest uses the old version when nobody is around to complain...When I asked Fr. Jim, he just smiled and changed the subject...I have a suspicion that a few of the priest who post here might do the same...
Here's Lossky on monarchism, in an article arguing against the Filioque found here http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CDsQ...If the Father is the personal cause of the hypostases, He is also, for that very reason,the principle of their common possession of one and the same nature; and in that sense,He is the "source" of the common divinity of the Three. The revelation of this nature, theexternalization of the unknowable essence of the Three, is not a reality foreign to theThree hypostases. Every energy, every manifestation, comes from the Father, isexpressed in the Son, and goes forth in the Holy Spirit. This procession natural,"energetic," manifesting must be clearly distinguished from hypostatic procession,which is personal, internal, from the Father alone. The same monarchy of the Fatherconditions both the hypostatic procession of the Holy Spirit His personal existence ekmonou tou Patros and the manifesting, natural procession of the commonGodhead ad extra in the Holy Spirit, through the Son dia Huiou.I don't agree with all of this (I think the doctrine of the Filioque is beautiful and true) but what seems germane is Lossky's continued invocation of the Fathers as authorities on monarchism.
Tom -- yes, different priests in different dioceses may think differently. Do you think all of the priests in Lincoln Nebraska are identical in every way to the priests in San Francisco, for example? A commenter at the Pray Tell blog put it so well that I'll take the liberty of copying it here:
Let us say that an entity known for Reform of the Reform proclivities let us say Adoremus, or, more analogously, Kenrick-Glennon (at least under Archbp. Burke) had commissioned a research group to conduct a similar, voluntary survey of priests on their attitudes about the new Missal. Let us say that a limited number of dioceses chose to participate. Let us say that it included little to no background data on respondents. And let us say that its findings suggest that a large majority of priests very much approved of the new Missal.If that happened, I think you, and Fr. Ruff, would be quite skeptical and youd have a right to be. Youd wonder if a disproportionate number of participating dioceses might be ones like (say) Lincoln, perhaps because theyd be more at ease cooperating with the likes of Adoremus or Kenrick-Glennon because theyre liturgically sympatico. Youd want to see a lot more background on respondents. And youd be right to want that.
Medical statistical tests also rely on self-selected volunteers. To try to prevent self-selection bias, they ask them general questions and try to make sure that they have a representative sample in terms of what they think might be relevant. For example, here the person designing the test would eliminate some of the volunteers to make sure that, for example, the age distribution fits the age distribution of priests in general. They would similarly make sure that their sample has the right proportion of pastors of rich or of poor parishes, of associate pastors, etc. By restricting attention to such a "representative" sample, even though they have fewer data to work with, yet, they make it much more likely that the statistics they gather are meaningful.
Wasting Time, Lincoln, I hope, is sui generis. Including it might possibly be like including the New York chapter of the ACLU in a survey of tea party attitudes. But I've lived in such disparate places as Chicago, Kansas City, Trenton (NJ) and West Palm Beach (FL), and the priests (adjusted for age) have been pretty much the same the whole world over.
The new translation is not good. What does it mean that lay Catholics mostly find that the new translation is good? It reveals that they're not listening. That may be the takeaway message. Of course, at some level we knew that: it is when the priest speaks alone that people whisper to their neighbor, cough, take a kleenex from their purse, shift in their seat, check their kids's attitude and chide them if needed, look for change, pick up something fallen on the floor, discretely pick their nose or ear, rush straighten their clothes, tie their shoelace, etc. But this new translation reveals that the lack of attention is not occasional but systematic. In an assembly of 100 people one might be able to count on the fingers of one hand the number of people who are actively participating in the prayer of the presider.
When I saw NCROnline's report yesterday, I opined the Missal should be burned. However, since I don't like the idea of book-burning, I'm going to edit my comment and suggest the new missal should be tossed into a recycling bin: No need to waste the paper, after all!I've also forwarded this thread to "Joseph Kurtz", our AB in Louisville known for sucking up to the pope.
If, as reported, 70% of the laity thought the new missal "is a good thing", this may suggest as much about possibly new demographics of Catholic worshipers as about anything else. Or, as Claire suggests, perhaps worshipers are not listening. Maybe, too, they have "tuned out"???
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