Does any one remember

[pipper]

You know, I am probably going against the grain here, but I wish the church had chosen a middle way between the TLM, where I can only partially understand the ordinary, and the propers not at all.

And the casual English of Novus Ordo which is just outright pedestrian IMHO.

I think we could have to our profit have used more formal, reverent English. Like and with thy spirit instead of and also with you.

I read a few years ago about the Holy Father and a liturgical commision working on a new more reverent translation, what ever became of that?

By the way in the religious congregation I was in we did not use the Episcopal BCP, we used the modern Liturgy of the Hours, I am a Catholic of course.

But I have heard, that the Episcopal church does have religious communities.

 

[DavidHume]

I think we could have to our profit have used more formal, reverent English. Like and with thy spirit instead of and also with you.

Amusingly enough, “thy” is less reverent than “your.”

After the Norman Conquest, which marks the beginning of the French vocabulary influence that characterized the Middle English period, thou was gradually replaced by the plural ye as the form of address for a superior person and later for an equal. For a long time, however, thou remained the most common form for addressing an inferior person.