Faced with a Church in retreat throughout the developed world, rocked by sickening scandal after scandal, seeing its religious orders bankrupted and its very name become a byword for the most repulsive sort of perversion, the One Holy Roman and Apostolic Church has figured out a solution:
Making Mass sound more like a bad fantasy novel.
Because why would you say "Let your Spirit come upon these gifts and make them holy" when you could say, "Make holy, therefore, these gifts, we pray, by sending down your Spirit upon them like dewfall."
Supposedly the new translations are more faithful to the Latin. Had I turned in a translation that awkward in high school, Bro. Ray would have hit me with his yardstick. No, I mean an actual yardstick.
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