Page "Mass of Paul VI" Paragraph 87

Most episcopal conferences set the first Sunday in Advent ( 27 November ) 2011 as the date when the new translation would come into use.

However, the Southern African Catholic Bishops ' Conference ( Botswana, South Africa, Swaziland ) put into effect the changes in the people's parts of the revised English translation of the Order of Mass from 28 November 2008, when the Missal as a whole was not yet available.

Protests were voiced on grounds of content and because it meant that Southern Africa was thus out of line with other English-speaking areas.

One bishop claimed that the English-speaking conferences should have withstood the Holy See's insistence on a more literal translation.

However, when in February 2009 the Holy See declared that the change should have waited until the whole of the Missal had been translated, the bishops conference appealed, with the result that those parishes that had adopted the new translation of the Order of Mass were directed to continue using it, while those that had not were told to await further instructions before doing so.