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| A T-shirt sold by the Catholic humor group Popple that emphasizes the change. |
Recently the Catholic world has been shaken up. This is the truth at least in America, and by recent I mean that it happened a few weeks ago. There are a couple of different things that the overall change to the American Catholic mass system has resulted on, but there is one that I particularly noticed during last week's Christmas Mass.
1) Those who know to use the new wording.
2) Those who forget to the new wording then quickly try to correct themselves.
3) Those who choose not to use the new wording.
In addition, there are also sub-types. There are those that know to use the new wording, but they grumble through it with dissatisfaction which in turn is basically like them choosing to not use the new wording. I am a member of the second group. I remember that there is new wording, I know that there is a card in my pew that contains the exact wording, but I sometimes just go with the flow and forget.
Regardless, this has opened my eyes to how accustomed I have gotten to certain expectations of mass. I got so used to saying the words that I became content. In retrospect I was merely repeating a process that I had been used to performing for years. This change has allowed me to focus more on what I was saying. It allowed me to focus more on the wording and process and in turn the mass has become so much more for me.
There are those who wish things wouldn't have changed, but I am not one of them. This change has highlighted how ingrained the wording was previously, and has allowed me to appreciate the mass even more.
