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Fr. Paul Turner is pastor of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Kansas City, Mo. He is the author of Ars Celebrandi: Celebrating and Concelebrating Mass (Liturgical Press, 2021).
FaithFaith in Focus
The way a presider celebrates Mass can illuminate the congregation's experience of liturgy.
Here are samples of new wording for passages from the greeting, the Glory to God, the Creed and the memorial acclamations. (These texts have not received final official approval.) The Lord be with you. And with your spirit. Glory to God in the highest, and on earth to p[eople of good will. We praise
Catholics expect some changes to the words in the liturgy from time to time. But they will soon be using the first Mass texts since the Second Vatican Council that have been created according to a different theory of translation. The revision will have a noticeable effect on the style and sound of t