[AnAmericanMother]

Mostly because the old translation was sooooo bad. Neither accurate, nor poetic, nor transcendent. One of the major stumbling blocks to our conversion, coming as we did from the majestic English of Cranmer and Coverdale.

Lex orandi, lex credendi -- we believe as we pray. Moreover, the concept of a "catholic"/universal Church is undermined when the United States is praying a different Mass than those prayed in the rest of the world (which got far more accurate translations of the Latin).

So yes, the words are important.

[cloudmountain]

Words are DEFINITELY important, as that is part of what Jesus used, but no one REALLY worried about words when they were all in Latin. Well, I didn't. Maybe I am unique.

My point is that going to Communion is WHY we really go there, to actually eat and drink the Body and Blood of God, as Jesus TOLD us to do. The rest OUGHT to be simply bells and whistles. I know, though, what you mean.

Do you really think that more or less people will attend Mass because of the re-direction of a few words in the Mass? I dunno.

[bobjam]

The 1928 BCP is the finest English language liturgy ever written.