In my Church they spent weeks preparing for the new language changes and explaining the reasons for them.
If “consubstantial” is that difficult, one could seek out assistance. Or simply based on dead reckoning of its placement in the creed figure out it is a more elegant word for “one in being”.
That doesn't make the Trinity an easy doctrine, but basically you understand that love tends toward unity, and if your ARE absolute love ("God is love") -- your Trinity-Unity is absolute --- goes beyond anything a human mind can fathom.
They can spell "encyclopedia," too, and find Chattanooga on a map of Tennessee.
Not that hard, really.
But you need to be taught.
I have several Catholic apps on my iPad and my parish has a website, what more does one need?
” The Vatican is full of people who are REALLY out of touch on this. You must speak to the people in the language that they understand. Christ did not arrive in Israel speaking Mandarin Chinese (although he could have).”
What you’re saying is complete nonsense. Once, you knew the meaning of exactly ZERO words. None at all. Every word you know you were taught by another person, a dictionary you used, or by the context in which it was used. The people in the Vatican are not out of touch with people. They are IN TOUCH with God and His teachings. They should do a better job of teaching, yes, but people in the pews have to do a MUCH BETTER JOB of growing up, stopping the whining and using a dictionary. I understand all of the words used in the Mass. Why? Because I’m literate and know how to use dictionaries. It’s just that simple. The problem is that those people with the “puzzled, quizzical looks” are poorly catechized - and even worse - too darn lazy to crack open a book. They have no more intelligence and self-initiative than they do real faith.
In 2011 I went to a training session on the new Roman Missal, There was an idiot there, a man who had the gall to be a catechist for children, who whined that he couldn’t find the word “consubstantial” in his dictionary at home and so he was upset that it was even being used. I had to retrain my disgust with this lazy piece of useless debris and point out it was in my dictionary. I explained what it meant. I then told him - very politely - to get a better dictionary. These people with the “puzzled, quizzical looks” are useless parasites. If they had any real faith they would have prepared for the new Missal, used a dictionary or simply asked their pastor. They did none of those things.
Good grief....the word consubstantial was in the old latin Mass....there's nothing new about it at all......when we sang the "Credo" in Latin...."consubstantianum Patri" was a line in the song...