[Frank Sheed]

Here it is kids. Gerald Augustinus has posted the changes recommended by the US Bishops. Please read the comments. Some are extremely poignant.

[Frank Sheed]

USCCB PING! Amendments recommended by the US Bishops over the ICEL approved translation.

Frank

[Dionysiusdecordealcis]

Thank you very much. A couple of these are actually improvements in rhetoric over the ICEL revisions, most are petty and some just plain wrongheaded. What a bunch of pedants.

Overall, it looks like the new translations will be a vast improvement but then what ICEL started from was so awful that it doesn't take much to improve it.

[vladimir998]

My Mass is not changing at all. My Mass hasn't changed one bit in 44 years and has barely changed since just before 1600. I'll still have to put up with the New Mass on occasion, but such is life.

[Salvation]

**A single word was then added to a line in the next paragraph (OM, no. 88) ICEL: that it become for us the Body and Blood… USCCB: that it may become for us the Body and Blood… **

I don't like this. By the insertion of the word "may" it makes it seem as though belief in the Real Presence is a choice when it is NOT!

[Salvation]

I am so disappointed that the American bishops did not choose to intone the REAL words: Et cum spiritu tuo.

Priest: The Lord be with you,

Congregation: And with your spirit.

[Salvation]

I don't know if it will help or not, because I think the decisions have been made, but _______

 

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