Word Choice After the Our Father

[MattCon]

After the Our Father during Mass, the priest says:

“Deliver us, Lord, from every evil, and grant us peace in our day. In your mercy keep us free from sin and protect us from all anxiety as we wait in joyful hope for the coming of our Savior, Jesus Christ.”

I attended a parish for several years where the pastor always said: “…and protect us from all harm…”

I have never heard this in any other parish I have attended. I was just curious if anyone knew anything about this substitution.

Thank you very much!

 

[MarkThompson]

After the Our Father during Mass, the priest says:

“Deliver us, Lord, from every evil, and grant us peace in our day. In your mercy keep us free from sin and protect us from all anxiety as we wait in joyful hope for the coming of our Savior, Jesus Christ.”

I attended a parish for several years where the pastor always said: “…and protect us from all harm…”

I have never heard this in any other parish I have attended. I was just curious if anyone knew anything about this substitution.

Thank you very much!

Sometimes priests like to go off the rails and make things up on their own. This sounds like such a case.

 

[FrDavid96]

After the Our Father during Mass, the priest says:

“Deliver us, Lord, from every evil, and grant us peace in our day. In your mercy keep us free from sin and protect us from all anxiety as we wait in joyful hope for the coming of our Savior, Jesus Christ.”

I attended a parish for several years where the pastor always said: “…and protect us from all harm…”

I have never heard this in any other parish I have attended. I was just curious if anyone knew anything about this substitution.

Thank you very much!

The Church addresses that issue here:

[59.] The reprobated practice by which Priests, Deacons or the faithful here and there alter or vary at will the texts of the Sacred Liturgy that they are charged to pronounce, must cease. For in doing thus, they render the celebration of the Sacred Liturgy unstable, and not infrequently distort the authentic meaning of the Liturgy.

adoremus.org/RedemptionisSacramentum.html#anchor1186479

 

[Apollos]

“…and protect us from all harm…”

Occasionally a Bishops’ Conference will authorize certain departures from the official translation, as in the insertion of “…and sisters” in the expected places, but this does not seem to be the case here.

In my old parish, one of the priests invariably reworded the embolism as “from all **needless worry and **anxiety” - and it was always a little amusing to see him visibly flinch every time he said it. I imagined it was because he knew he was breaking the rules.

It seems to me the reason so many priests tend to reword this prayer is that the meaning of the word “anxiety” in English either fails to convey the sense of the underlying Latin, or that its meaning has shifted. Maybe the priest thought “anxiety” conveyed the sense of “worry”, which in some cases may be justifiable, and he wanted to distinguish justified from unjustified worry. You know, in case the wrong message would be sent to the faithful. Or something.

In any case, the underlying Latin “perturbatio” means “disturbance” or some variation thereof depending on your dictionary, and is of course cognate with the English word “perturbation”.

In any case, here are the Latin and English:*Latin. *"…ut, ope misericordiae tuae adiuti, et a peccato simus semper liberi et **ab omni perturbatione **securi…"

*English from some online 1962 missal. *"…that through the bounteous help of Thy mercy we may always be free from sin and safe from all disquiet…"

*English from the ICEL Novus Ordo. *“In your mercy keep us free from sin and protect us from all anxiety…”
So, in the end, it looks to me like the priest is incorrectly correcting a slight error on the part of the ICEL translation - if not simply rewording it to suit his preferences in ignorance of the underlying Latin.

 

[FrCorey]

The Church addresses that issue here:

[59.] The reprobated practice by which Priests, Deacons or the faithful here and there alter or vary at will the texts of the Sacred Liturgy that they are charged to pronounce, must cease. For in doing thus, they render the celebration of the Sacred Liturgy unstable, and not infrequently distort the authentic meaning of the Liturgy.

adoremus.org/RedemptionisSacramentum.html#anchor1186479

maybe they need to print NO ADLIBING in large letters in the rublics.
geez, If they forget the words, Look them up.
maybe we need pop quizes?

 

[rpp]

Here is my gut-level response when priests start fiddling with the wording of prayers or taking liberties with the liturgy. The Mass is not a form of entertainment and the priest is not an emcee or performer. The choir is not there to put on a show. Not at all. The Mass is the greatest prayer and form of worship. Except for the brief period of the homily which is there for edification and correction, that is the sole purpose of the Mass.

All the elements of the Mass must contribute to assisting each parishioner to contemplate the awesome mystery and miracle of God, Christ’s sacrifice and love, the True Presence of the Lord and helping to guide all present to seek greater personal holiness. Anything that distracts detracts from that. When the priest starts changing the unchangeable, that is distracting, and, therefore, offensive. When the priest is puts on a performance, rather than simply celebrating the Mass as directed, when the Choir puts on on a show, rather than supporting the prist and liturgy, that is distracting, and, therefore, offensive. When the liturgist, who plans the celeration of the Mass, considers how to keep people entertained, their motives are wrong-headed.

I want to worship at Mass. It does not matter whether it is the 8 Sunday after Pentecost, the 19th Sunday of Ordinary Time or the Christmas Mass; I am there to be worship, not be entertained!

 

[choy]

maybe ask the priest. perhaps he read it once, misread it, and stuck with it. it could be something unintentional that was left uncorrected