My priest changed Jesus words today

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In the USA, the bishops conference decided we should stand while we all receive communion. This has been incorporated into the GIRM used in the USA since this is one of the things reserved to the bishops conference.

The USCCB website has a good handout about it on their website.
 
Dovekin said:
In the USA, the bishops conference decided we should stand while we all receive communion. This has been incorporated into the GIRM used in the USA since this is one of the things reserved to the bishops conference.

The USCCB website has a good handout about it on their website.
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I was referring to the posture AFTER receiving Holy Communion, once the person returns to their pew. That’s what can vary between diocese and is left up to the discretion of the local bishop.
 
Forgive me, ut this is the misunderstanding that plagues the discussion of this. Above I said “stand while we all receive communion” and not “while we each…”

The Reception of Holy Communion at Mass, from the USCCB,describes this time as the Communion Procession, when all are united in Christ. Unity in posture and song show this unity.

After Communion refers to the time after the Communion procession has finished, ie after all have received, not after each has received.

This is not a big deal, and no one should be rigidly enforcing this. Do what others are doing around you. That shows unity. But the norm in the USA is to stand until the distribution of Communion has finished, just like the norm is to say “fishers of men.”

If someone decides it is better to have a more accurate translation of the Greek, or to kneel while others are receiving, be forgiving for the sake of our unity. Know what the norm is, but do not make it a point of contention.
 
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HomeschoolDad:
My wife told me she really couldn’t understand Ukrainian or Czech (native Polish speaker and had studied Russian, as was compulsory at that time).
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I’m still not buying it. It smacks of politics. A native speaker of Polish who had studied Russian grammar, and who says “I don’t understand Ukrainian” is making a fairly incomprehensible statement. Now, if she said “I can’t read it”, then I’d get it. I still have a hard time reading Polish, even though it makes sense when I hear it. And I’m a native speaker of English. So… I dunno. I’m not buying it.
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That’s your choice.
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HomeschoolDad:
There are no “fences” around the TLM community, nor of the “reform of the reform” advocates of the newer liturgy. Nobody is excluded. It’s there for anyone who wants to partake of it.
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Sure. But still, it meets the criterion of a “ghettoized” community which you said that Catholics didn’t want.
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They didn’t want it during that halcyon period of the 1950s through 1970s, when pretty much everyone wanted to “break free” of the strictures of the past, and reimagine both the world and the Church anew per “the spirit of the times”, which was basically the “god” of that era. For many, it was like being let out of a prison. When strictures are relaxed and freedom is granted, you always have a frustrated faction that goes totally buck-wild. That’s just human nature. (I’m reminded here of the Queen song “I Want To Break Free”.)

There is no “ghetto factor” to the diocesan-authorized TLM structure in the present day. Everyone is welcome. There is, to be sure, a “siege mentality” among individual adherents, but that is in their own minds — the structure itself certainly doesn’t encourage that. I can’t speak so much for the SSPX, nor a fortiori for the various independent and/or sedevacantist fever swamps, many of whose adherents are so reactionary that they make the John Birch Society look liberal.
 
Heard the story broadcast over a decade ago. A Russian pre-Putin report IIRC.
 
Apparently there are three “updated” versions of Joy To The World. One is just bad English, but all are an insult to the writer of this beloved hymn. A similar situation with Let There Be Peace On Earth.
The feminist psalter working in obscurity there.
 
All eras in the history of Christianity/Catholicism have valued and made efforts to make all persons feel included, welcomed, and/or involved in the Mass. Which ‘era’ do you suppose does NOT?
 
Matthew 4:19 (2020 Revised Version)

“And he saith to them: Come ye after me, and I will make you to be fishers of he, him, his, himself, she, her, hers, herself, it, its, itself, they, them, their, theirs, and themselves.”
 
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