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As we know, Liturgiam authenticam<\/em>\u2019s n. 51, “in the most exact manner,” has become, as Bishop Serratelli put it, \u201cfaithfully but not slavishly<\/a>.” But on certain days, like Trinity Sunday, it might have been good to be a bit more \u201cexact\u201d \u2013 and get the doctrine right\u2026<\/p>\n

Latin Missal:
\n Deus Pater,
\n<\/em> qui, Verbum verit\u00e1tis et Sp\u00edritum sanctificati\u00f3nis
\n<\/em> mittens in mundum,
\n<\/em> admir\u00e1bile myst\u00e9rium tuum hom\u00ednibus decl\u00e1rasti,
\n<\/em> da nobis, in confessi\u00f3ne verae f\u00eddei,
\n<\/em> aet\u00e9rnae gl\u00f3riam Trinit\u00e1tis agn\u00f3scere,
\n<\/em> et Unit\u00e1tem ador\u00e1re in pot\u00e9ntia maiest\u00e1tis.
\n<\/em> Per D\u00f3minum.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

2008 (approved by the bishops\u2019 conferences):
\nGod our Father,
\nby sending into the world the Word of truth
\nand the Spirit of sanctification
\nyou made known to humankind your awesome mystery;
\ngrant us, in professing the true faith,
\nto acknowledge the Trinity of eternal glory,
\nand adore the Unity, powerful in majesty.
\nThrough our Lord.<\/p>\n

2010 (after Vox Clara<\/em>\/CDW<\/a> redid what the bishops submitted):
\nGod our Father,
\nwho by sending into the world the Word of truth
\nand the Spirit of sanctification
\nmade known to the human race your wondrous mystery,
\ngrant us, we pray, that in professing the true faith,
\nwe may acknowledge the Trinity of eternal glory
\nand adore your Unity, powerful in majesty.
\nThrough our Lord.<\/p>\n

If you wanted to be a real stickler, you could say that 2008 is more exact in translating the two infinitives agnoscere<\/em> and adorare<\/em> as infinitives. But the 2010 text paraphrases them, after adding<\/strong> \u201cwe pray,\u201d which is not in the Latin. Hmm, paraphrase and additions: shades of the old ICEL, eh?<\/p>\n

But it seems that a bit of heresy occurs in the final line of the prayer: \u201cyour Unity.\u201d Note, there is not a \u201cyour\u201d in the Latin. And this for a very good doctrinal reason. The prayer is addressed to God the Father: it is not HIS Unity that we adore but the Unity of the TRINITY.<\/p>\n

Small point? Apparently not: see Catechism of the Catholic Church<\/em> no. 255<\/a> on the relationship between the divine persons. In fact, despite its paraphrase, the old ICEL got the doctrine right!<\/p>\n

Part of the presentation of the new translation emphasizes the lex orandi, lex credendi<\/em> dictum \u2013 as we pray, so we believe. If so, one of the first and easiest corrections is for priests to cross out \u201cyour\u201d in the last line and insert \u201cthe\u201d \u2013 as was approved in 2008 by all the conferences of English-speaking bishops, before Vox Clara\u2019<\/em>s\u00a0 7,000 consultants and experts fiddled with the decrees of Nicea and Constantinople.<\/p>\n

Xavier Rindfleisch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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