What makes the Consecration valid?

[Monica4316]

Hi, I’m sorry if this has been asked before, but what words must the priest use in order for the Consecration to be valid?

Someone is trying to tell me that the Consecration is no longer valid because of the mistranslation from “many” to “all”. I know they’re working on a new translation now, which is good. But I don’t think this would prevent the Consecration from happening, as long as the priest says “This is My Body…” and “This is My Blood”; intends to consecrate the Eucharist, and uses the proper bread and wine?

I’ve always been certain that it’s Jesus that i receive in the Eucharist both in the Novus Ordo and in the Tridentine Mass, but I just wanted to check what the Church teaching is on this.

Thanks!

 

[japhy]

Someone is trying to tell me that the Consecration is no longer valid because of the mistranslation from “many” to “all”.

That person is wrong.

I don’t think this would prevent the Consecration from happening, as long as the priest says “This is My Body…” and “This is My Blood”; intends to consecrate the Eucharist, and uses the proper bread and wine?

Right.

 

[stuart12]

The mistranslation (deliberate?) does not invalidate the consecration. Yet this should not be an issue. Why did Rome allow things like this to happen? I pleased that the English version is finally being rectified.

 

[tee_eff_em]

From Letter On Amending the Translation of “Pro Multis” of Francis Cardinal Arinze

There is no doubt whatsoever regarding the validity of Masses celebrated with the use of a duly approved formula containing a formula equivalent to “for all”, as the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has already declared (cf. Sacra Congregatio pro Doctrina Fidei, Declaratio de sensu tribuendo adprobationi versionum formularum sacramentalium, 25 Ianuarii 1974, AAS 66 [1974], 661). Indeed, the formula “for all” would undoubtedly correspond to a correct interpretation of the Lord’s intention expressed in the text. It is a dogma of faith that Christ died on the Cross for all men and women (cf. John 11:52; 2 Corinthians 5,14-15; Titus 2,11; 1 John 2,2).

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