**”The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God the Father and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with all of you.”**
That is beautiful.
“That is beautiful.”
Indeed it is, chanted out over the People of God. It was especially beautiful today. Our Metropolitan visited so we had a concelebrated hierarchial liturgy which is really speacial and impressive. The Met. prayed specially for our troops in Afganistan and Iraq and then prayed for “The non Chrisitian, Mohammedan people of Iran who are fearlessly asserting their right to that Freedom which is the birthright of all children of God.”
That is beautiful.
That is the opening Greeting of the Eucharistic liturgy of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America; first introduced in the 1978 Lutheran Book of Worship and continued in the 2007 Evangelical Luthean Worship.
Salvation: That is beautiful.
Straight out of 2 Cor 13:13 (could be 13:14 in some modern Bibles).
As regards the text you posted I found the following somewhat weak: "Recent scholarship has recognized the need for a more precise translation capable of expressing the full meaning of the Latin text."
Recent scholarship? The Church has been using this for at least 1800 years. Recent scholarship, i.e. post-Vatican II activists in America decided to ditch the tradition and re-invent the wheel. The only thing that's really difficult to believe is that it took 39 years to try to correct this. How come JPII did nothing about it?