I am with you. The rewrite of the Roman Missal from a couple of years ago is horrible! Filled with incomprehensible, archaic, obsolete words like “consubstantial”. Actual participation at Mass has dropped tremendously as they scrapped prayers people knew by heart for decades, and the congregants are no longer confident that they are speaking the right words. Our biggest challenge is keeping the young engaged, which they sure as heck won’t be if we speak to them in undecipherable language.
The one that gets me is the last piece of the Eucharistic Prayer. “I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof, but only say the word and my soul shall be healed.” Not even biblical. In Matthew 8:8 the centurion was clearly asking fro a physical healing. In changing this the Church is trying to deny they take place. We must not monkey with the text of Scripture.
I vote for a return to Latin mass.
Looks like the RCC found their own Obama.
I still can’t get through the Creed without looking at the freaking card.
Go back to Vatican II already.
That is basically word for word what the priest has always said in the Latin Mass (in Latin of course). In fact, he would say it three times. So actually, in this case, the change was an attempt to return to some semblance of Tradition.
Oh, please, get over yourself. "I am not worthy ... soul shall be healed" is the correct, accurate, word-for-word translation of the Latin text of the missal, which is exactly the same text that has appeared, word for word, in the Roman Missal for at least 500 years, and probably more like 1500 years.
In the old rite, it was repeated three times; in the new, it's said only once. That's the only difference.
"Lord, not I am worthy"
"ut intres sub tectum meum:"
"such that you should come under roof mine"
"sed tantum dic verbo,"
"but only say [the] word
"et sanabitur anima mea"
"and shall be healed soul mine"
I wouldn’t worry about that bit, there’s not anything biblical about the entire RC religion.
Read your bible objectively and compare it with their teachings, you’ll see.
“The one that gets me is the last piece of the Eucharistic Prayer. “I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof, but only say the word and my soul shall be healed.” Not even biblical. In Matthew 8:8 the centurion was clearly asking fro a physical healing. In changing this the Church is trying to deny they take place. We must not monkey with the text of Scripture.”
Your comment is bizarre. Your body receives the Eucharist, but your soul receives the Grace! Do you even realize that the 1970 way of saying it...
“Lord, I am not worthy to receive you, but only say the word, and ****I**** shall be healed.”
...still includes the SOUL too?