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That said, many of the changes restored long-standard English translations of things that the prior “Sacramentary” obviously mistranslated.

Examples are “Et cum spiritu tuo” never meant “and also with you.”  It always meant “and with your spirit,” and Latin/English Missals before the Council all translated it that way. 
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If these were "obviously" mistranslated (and I agree, based on my high school Latin), why wait so many years to fix it? That's what I don't get.[/quote]

The Church moves slowly, and tries to coordinate liturgy on a worldwide level to maintain the universality that is the hallmark of the Catholic (universal) Church. Much easier before 1962 when dealing with only one liturgical language. That said, it is sad that the faithful were deprived for decades of an accurate liturgical translation. [/quote]

or more likely pope john paul was trying to leave a legacy and that he did.[/quote]

Pope Saint John Paul II was going on six years dead by the time the revised Missal took effect.  The finer points of liturgical translation in one of the plethora of vernacular languages the Church uses was hardly a focus of his Pontificate. The Catechism and Revised Code of Canon Law, among other things, were far more important. [/quote]

Incorrect. It was JPII's instruction in 2001, Liturgical authenticam, that set the gears in motion for the current translation.[/quote]

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