The blog Valle Adurni has released a draft of the new translation of the Mass as it currently stands. Most of it looks quite good, but I have a problem with the new Gloria translation. As everyone knows, this new translation is going to pose some issues for musicians, in terms of getting out new settings. In the case of the Gloria, the old Anglican tradition has provided us some wonderful settings by the likes of Healey Willan, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and George Oldroyd that could potentially be easily adapted to a new translation, since these old settings followed translations that literally translated the Latin and followed the same meter (as opposed to the meter of the translation currently in use, which is completely different and will require all settings to pass out of use whenever their license to be grandfathered in runs out). Thus, I show you the translation on Valle Adurni and my proposed changes to make it more musically flexible.

The current translation:

Glory to God in the highest,
and on earth peace to people of good will.
We praise you,
we bless you,
we adore you,
we glorify you,
we give you thanks for your great glory,
Lord God, heavenly King,
O God, almighty Father.
Lord Jesus Christ, Only-begotten Son,
Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father,
you take away the sins of the world,
have mercy on us;
you take away the sins of the world,
receive our prayer.
you are seated at the right hand of the Father,
have mercy on us.
For you alone are the Holy One,
you alone are the Lord,
you alone are the Most High,
Jesus Christ,
with the Holy Spirit,
in the glory of God the Father.
Amen.

My revision (changes in italics):

Glory to God in the highest,
and on earth peace to people of good will.
We praise you,
we bless you,
we worship you,
we glorify you,
we give thanks to you for your great glory,
O Lord God, heavenly King,
God the Father almighty.
Lord, the Only-begotten Son, Jesus Christ
Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father,
you take away the sins of the world,
have mercy on us;
you take away the sins of the world,
receive our prayer.
you are seated at the right hand of the Father,
have mercy on us.
For you alone are the Holy One,
you alone are the Lord,
you alone are the Most High,
Jesus Christ,
with the Holy Spirit,
in the glory of God the Father.
Amen.