Ooooh, am I mad about this.

I have two favorite lines in the Catholic mass: before Communion, when we kneel and say "Lord, I am not worthy to receive you, but only say the word and I shall be healed" and during Communion, when we say "It is right to give Him thanks and praise" (which relates to how we always say this, during regular mass, during funeral mass, and during wedding mass).

And now they're changing my favorite words to "Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof." What? What does that mean? I HATE that.

Going from nice English iambic pentameter to some sort of 15 syllable crap. What is the world coming to? Arrrg.

"A Changing Mass for U.S. Catholics" (NYT June 16th 2006)