Los Angeles, Calif., Aug 30, 2011 / 00:12 am
The new translation of the Mass promises to help Catholics “enter more deeply into the mystery of the faith” in a way that continues the Second Vatican Council’s liturgical renewal, Archbishop José H. Gomez has said.
“We become what we pray,” he wrote in his Aug. 20 column in the Los Angeles archdiocesan paper The Tidings. “The prayer of our Eucharistic worship is meant to make us become more like Jesus Christ.”
The words Christians pray, and how they pray, shape their beliefs and how they live out their beliefs, he explained.
Those words will now change in Catholic parishes across the United States with the implementation of the Third Edition of the Roman Missal, set to take place on Nov. 27, the first Sunday of Advent.