Word: prayers
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...revisions will put nearly half the Mass and all the sacraments, except holy orders, into English. In both low and solemn Masses, Latin will be retained for the beginning prayers at the foot of the altar and for the canon, the central prayer of the celebration. But the Epistle and Gospel and all the chants of the Mass - the introit, gradual, offertory and communion verses -will be in English, and so will a number of prayers that will be recited by priest and congregation together: the Kyrie eleison (Lord, have mercy on us), the Gloria, the Creed, the Sanctus...
...amount of English approved by the bishops was considerably more than many lay Catholics expected; the quality of the language, however, will be considerably below what Episcopalians have in their stately Book of Common Prayer. All Bible readings will be taken from the still-incomplete Confraternity version, a reliable but sometimes leaden-footed translation begun in 1945 by scholars of the Catholic Biblical Association of America. Other parts of the Mass will be in a version that synthesizes various translations found in Catholic missals. The Gloria, for example, begins: "Glory to God in the highest. And on earth peace...
...against the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and a rejection of Jesus the Jew, directed upon his people." And in Florence, European representatives of an international society for Christian-Jewish cooperation met to discuss their latest efforts to combat antiSemitism. There, Catholics and Protestants attended a service of prayer at the city's Jewish temple in honor of "Jules Isaac...
...popular debate about prayer in the public schools continues to be marked by "glaring misunderstandings" and "unreasoning emotions," Paul A. Freund, Carl M. Loeb University Professor, told the House Judiciary Committee Friday...
...school prayer at best could only be "so bland as to be meaningless" or "so sectarian as to be divisive," Freund stated. He emphasized that the most important effect of the Supreme Court's decision should be "a serious and basic inquiry into the moral component of public education...