Why the Catholic Church changed readings?

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Hello. I am fairly young, but I grew up knowing that when our Pastor (shepard) read “Peace be with you”, we were to respond with “And also with you”… This is one of many other examples; the hardest for me being the saying before Communion… come to think of it, I cant remember all of it right now (Prolly could if I thought about it).

I just want to know why we changed to these systematics?
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Because it is the more proper and correct translation from the original Latin.

For example, the original text in Latin is, “Et cum spiritu tuo”. The correct translation of that is, “And with your spirit”, not “and also with you”. The word ‘spiritu’ means ‘spirit’, the word ‘tuo’ means ‘your’.
The words spoken in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass have great significance, saying them correctly is very important, the words have deep meaning.
 
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Hello. I am fairly young, but I grew up knowing that when our Pastor (shepard) read “Peace be with you”, we were to respond with “And also with you”… This is one of many other examples; the hardest for me being the saying before Communion… come to think of it, I cant remember all of it right now (Prolly could if I thought about it).

I just want to know why we changed to these systematics?
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Interestingly – I know you just misspoke – the translation of the actual (Biblical) readings themselves is one thing that has not changed. It is the rest of the Mass itself that has been re-translated.

As you may know, after Vatican II the old Latin Mass was revised and a new version, the one we’re used to now, was issued. But it was issued in Latin, not English. Local bishops’ conferences were given the responsibility of translating the revised Mass into the various vernacular languages. In English, a translation was done very hastily and appeared in 1970; it is this translation that we had been using ever since then. Although the 1970 translation had some merits, it also had a lot of faults, and there had been plans ever since about the mid-1970s to revise it. Some work was done during the '80s, then some more during the '90s which culminated in a proposed 1998 missal which was not approved by the Holy See. Finally in 2001 the Vatican under John Paul II issued a document named Liturgiam Authenticam, which called for renewed efforts to ensure that the local translations of the Mass, not just in English but in all other languages, accurately reflect the authentic liturgy of the entire Church.

It took about ten years starting from Liturgiam Authenticam to produce a fully revised English translation from the Latin and send it through all the stages of approval and oversight. I thought I’d describe the history for you a little bit because there are a lot of people who wonder, “Out of everything the Church has on its plate, why do this now?” The answer is, it’s a process that started in the mid-'70s and really got kicked into gear in 2001 – and it just so happens that now is when it got finished!
 
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Interestingly – I know you just misspoke – the translation of the actual (Biblical) readings themselves is one thing that has not changed. It is the rest of the Mass itself that has been re-translated.

As you may know, after Vatican II the old Latin Mass was revised and a new version, the one we’re used to now, was issued. But it was issued in Latin, not English. Local bishops’ conferences were given the responsibility of translating the revised Mass into the various vernacular languages. In English, a translation was done very hastily and appeared in 1970; it is this translation that we had been using ever since then. Although the 1970 translation had some merits, it also had a lot of faults, and there had been plans ever since about the mid-1970s to revise it. Some work was done during the '80s, then some more during the '90s which culminated in a proposed 1998 missal which was not approved by the Holy See. Finally in 2001 the Vatican under John Paul II issued a document named Liturgiam Authenticam, which called for renewed efforts to ensure that the local translations of the Mass, not just in English but in all other languages, accurately reflect the authentic liturgy of the entire Church.

It took about ten years starting from Liturgiam Authenticam to produce a fully revised English translation from the Latin and send it through all the stages of approval and oversight. I thought I’d describe the history for you a little bit because there are a lot of people who wonder, “Out of everything the Church has on its plate, why do this now?” The answer is, it’s a process that started in the mid-'70s and really got kicked into gear in 2001 – and it just so happens that now is when it got finished!
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Lol… no biggie… just that I was so used to the other ones… got hard to re-adjust to the new ones. 😃
 
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