The Lectionary

[Will_S]

I suspect your prejudices are firmly in place on this issue, but for whatever it’s worth your conception on this is pretty well exploded by the following

None of those refer to Christ being the “ruler of nations”. Bowing down to God on a personal, private level and the concept of Christ as King in an unspecified, perhaps eschatological, sense aren’t the same thing as Christ being the ruler of nations at the same time that Catholic countries were being asked/encouraged/ordered to remove the Church from any privileged position in their societies and governments.

Still, I wasn’t there when the decision was being made, so I don’t know what specific reason the committee had for its decision. But it is very obvious that there was an overall agenda in the way texts were edited and I think it is a safe assumption that most such decisions were agenda driven.

 

[Phemie]

Thanks for the clarification. I’ll have to combine that with my other complaint about psalm substitution under the “legal, but not a good idea in my opinion” category – I say this because when the wording of the psalm used in a Mass doesn’t match the psalm of the day as printed in the missalette, I find it distracting. Maybe I’m being too fastidious, but I’m sure I’m not the only one who finds a disconnect between what we’re reading in the missalette and what we’re hearing from the cantor jarring.

That’s my main reason for not using a missal. It’s going to be a pain to have to use one come Advent. I’ll have to learn those new responses really quickly to be able to put away the missal.

 

[MarkThompson]

None of those refer to Christ being the “ruler of nations”. Bowing down to God on a personal, private level and the concept of Christ as King in an unspecified, perhaps eschatological, sense aren’t the same thing as Christ being the ruler of nations at the same time that Catholic countries were being asked/encouraged/ordered to remove the Church from any privileged position in their societies and governments.

Still, I wasn’t there when the decision was being made, so I don’t know what specific reason the committee had for its decision. But it is very obvious that there was an overall agenda in the way texts were edited and I think it is a safe assumption that most such decisions were agenda driven.

It took me a little while to find a searchable compilation of the Lectionary, I can now announce that although Tuesday in the 4th week of Ordinary Time of Year I – the Mass mentioned in the OP, lists the psalm as:
Ps 22:26b-27, 28+30, 31-32
by contrast on Tuesday of Week 31 of Ordinary Time of Year II we do, indeed, have
Ps 22:26b-27, 28-30ab, 30e, 31-32.
So there it is. You can see it listed here for Tuesday, November 4, 2008 – the date, in point of fact, of the United States presidential election. That little conjunction might actually be by design. “For dominion belongs to the LORD, and he rules over the nations,” indeed.

Crisis averted, I think. I suppose an apology to the editors of the Lectionary might be in order here for prejudiced and incorrect borderline calumnies about their intent and motivations, but maybe that’s just me.