Good!
I have ever thought that plain 'Glory to...' was more than a tad presumptuous and off-the-cuff.

I've heard that Cardinal Sean of Boston made a special request that with the new LOH translation, "we could start saying the Gloria Patri like the rest of the English-speaking world."

Interesting to see note that the bishops initialy were inclined to rubber stamp starting work (217 - 3). But after one intervention to voice concern about the linguistic style of LA, many changed their minds and voted 189 - 41. (1 abstention each time)
Also 'it should take 3 to 5 years'.

I've got to say I'm sort of dreading the new translation, mainly because I have quite a few of the old Grail psalms, as well as the old ICEL Benedictus and Magnificat, committed to memory. Even if the translations are better, I guarantee I won't like them.

Another reason to sing a Te Deum for the Ordinariate.

in Latin.

(Even a lowly public school boy of an hundred years ago knew more Latin than a modern 'PhD', who isn't likely to know any.)

True, but the world has changed so the importance of that is much less than it was 100 years ago.

not likely to be implemented before 2020

Perhaps 2030? Or maybe 3030?

Liam, I accept your 'explanation'. The situation as you outline it is indeed 'the world we live in' and in which we must make our several contributions as how we may. So, it isn't, really, so much that the world has changed by the need to know Cantonese and Mandarin, Arabic and Russian, be computer literate and so on, but that there is no compulsion to, at the same time, jettison our own culture as if it were irrelevant and unimportant. We are fools if we think that in catering to new realities we must deny our own historic realities as if they were an embarrassment in the 'modern' world. We, The West, are, in fact, the ONLY civilisation and culture on the planet that is committing suicide in the foolish fever of blending in with new-old im-moralities, new world powers, etc. This, under the influence of our own misguided intellectual elites, has been going on for over a century, with roots, perhaps, in the Enlightenment. There is, it seems to me, a certain masochism in nurturing the conviction that we must relegate Latin and the Western canon of literature, music, and art to history's dustbin - all to fit the template devised for us by culturally bankrupt campus dons, and to please foreign cultures who respect us all the less for our cultural suicide.

As for the 'wind-down of the Ottoman Empire' which you mention - isn't it passing strange that the Semitic and Turcic races like to blame Britain and France, with the US as a late-comer, for all the ills of the Middle East, whilst blithely overlooking the reality that these ills are the residue of century upon century of Ottoman imperialism (and, we have today a Turkish would-be sultan who likely would like to restore it!). The Middle East is today what it has been since the dawn of history - city-state, tribe, nation, all alike in constant bloody warfare. The only 'peace' that this region has ever had was that enforced by the super-power of the day, whether it be Aegyptian, Persian, Greek, Roman, Ottoman, or European.

So should I hold the note before the quilisma or not?

In a few centuries the music of so-called Faustian Civilization has gone from a local phenomenon of Northwest Asia (as Lou Harrison always called it) to planetary dominion with exponents like Takemitsu, Yun, Saygün and Hakim. Assuming we're not using the term in the sense appropriated by swastika wavers, it would seem premature to speak of 'suicide'. I doubt too that one can date the beginning of a Decline and Fall to the Enlightenment; Gibbon places it quite a bit earlier, but why stop short of Eden?

Ted

True, but generation upon generation of popular use has sanctified it and, pace LA, accuracy is not the highest value.

The "age of the ages", like the "holy of holies" is an expression signifying a situation in extremis. -- or at least that's what I was told many moons ago.

What C G-Z said. It's a Hebraism that signifies a superlative: Song of songs, God of gods, etc. So it is the "greatest" age (saeculum)--i.e. the eighth day of eternity.

Oui.