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Back in January 2011, when somebody leaked the final Missal text at WikiSpooks, Pray Tell<\/em> commented on the bungling of the Prayer after Communion<\/a> for the First Sunday of Advent. The word order is so messed up that the prayer seems to say we learn to love the things of heaven from the passing things of this world – but the Latin prays that it be from the mysteries celebrated in the liturgy! The final text of the prayer runs like this:<\/p>\n

May these mysteries, O Lord,
\nin which we have participated, profit us, we pray,
\nfor even now, as we walk amid passing things<\/em>,
\nyou teach us by them<\/span><\/em> to love the things of heaven
\nand hold fast to what endures.<\/p>\n

In this week’s Tablet<\/em>, Fr. Alan Griffiths comments<\/a> on this very prayer. Canon Griffiths writes:<\/p>\n

What can explain such a glaring howler?<\/div>\n
Why was it not spotted early on, rather than<\/div>\n
left to appear in a lavishly produced final text?<\/div>\n
Are priests expected to read the prayer as<\/div>\n
printed? It would be truer to the \u201csubstantial<\/div>\n
unity of the Roman Rite\u201d if they said:<\/div>\n
Lord, may the celebration of these mysteries<\/div>\n
profit us, we pray,<\/div>\n
since through them you teach us, on our journey<\/div>\n
through this passing world,<\/div>\n
to love the things of heaven and hold fast to<\/div>\n
what endures.<\/div>\n
To concretise praetereuntia as \u201cthis passing<\/div>\n
world\u201d in the singular makes it clearer that<\/div>\n
it is the plural \u201cmysteries\u201d that teach.<\/div>\n
This prayer comes right at the beginning<\/div>\n
of the liturgical cycle. What a way to start.<\/div>\n
\n

…What can explain such a glaring howler? Why was it not spotted early on, rather than left to appear in a lavishly produced final text?<\/p>\n

Are priests expected to read the prayer as printed? It would be truer to the \u201csubstantial unity of the Roman Rite\u201d if they said:
\n
\nLord, may the celebration of these mysteries
\nprofit us, we pray,
\nsince through them you teach us,
\non our journey through this passing world,
\nto love the things of heaven
\nand hold fast to what endures.<\/em><\/p>\n

To concretize <\/span>praetereuntia <\/em>as \u201cthis passing world\u201d in the singular makes it clearer that it is the plural \u201cmysteries\u201d that teach.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em><\/em>This prayer comes right at the beginning of the liturgical cycle. What a way to start.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I would only add that it wasn’t “spotted early on” because the problem wasn’t there until the last minute. ICEL and the bishops of the English-speaking world got it right in the text approved by national conferences in 2008 and 2009. Then somebody on Vox Clara<\/em> or in the Congregation for Divine Worship messed it up.<\/p>\n

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