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I remember the 62 Missal, because when I started going to mass before I converted 5 years ago I was shocked that so much had changed from what I remembered from my youth (when I would go to mass with friends).

Currently we say “Lord, I am not worthy to receive you. Only say the word and I shall be healed.”

The 62 Missal said, “Lord I am not worthy to have you come under my roof. Speak but the word and my soul shall be healed.”

It’s obviously a direct quote from the centurion in the Gospel. It is my understanding that much of the ‘62 language will be incorporated again, although not completely.

I will be glad if there is an elevated tone. Of course, the people who have grown up with the later changes are going to be upset that they have to learn something new. My opinion is that they should be glad they aren’t going to be required to learn Latin. (When the Latin mass was approved, you should have heard the caterwauling from some of the older people in our parish, even though we don’t even have a Latin mass at our parish. One woman told me if they brought in Latin she would leave the parish. Good grief!)


10 posted on 05/05/2010 4:24:41 AM PDT by Miss Marple
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To: Miss Marple
Really the language never changed -- in the original Latin of the Roman Missal: Domine, non sum dignus ut intres sub tectum meum: sed tantum dic verbo, et sanibitur anima mea. "Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof, but only say the word, and my soul shall be healed". Word-for-word the same in the 1962 (Tridentine) and 1970 (current) missals.

What we're getting soon is a translation that actually translates what the Latin missal says, instead of paraphasing it. The new version will say "under my roof".

11 posted on 05/05/2010 5:38:28 AM PDT by Campion ("President Barack Obama" is an anagram for "An Arab-backed imposter")
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