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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did the priest say why he chose to say "we."? It wasn't just a mistake or oversight I assume.  But it's not clear from the articles I read why he chose to do that.[/quote]

One of the dubious fruits of the Vatican II “New Mass” was the phrase “in these or similar words,” which, along with similar directions in other places, indicated that the priest was allowed to ad lib in those places as long as he kept to the same sense of things. Rather than being applied as written only to the specific places where improvisation was allowed, there arose and has persisted a culture of priests who think the Mass is their own to toy with as they wish. If the New Mass instructions had said “in these or worse words,” they would have been astoundingly accurate, because “styling” priests inevitably ad lib in a way inferior to the Mass text.

This priest chose those words to be “inclusive” and honor “the community,” rejecting his own unique role as a priest and the fact that the Roman Church is not Congregationalist. Sacramental power derives from God and is dispensed by his ministers. It does not flow from the community.[/quote]

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