[Snuffington]

Sacred language should be in classical form.

That is an interesting concept, and one I have not heard previously. Do you think classical forms of English (or any other language for that matter) would sufficiently satisfy the desire for the vernacular? Or would this also be condemned?

[RobbyS]

My off-hand judgement that it is no accident that the banal text of the new mass appeared during the time that deconstruction of language in general gained such a following. A valid criticism is the translation often seems empty of meaning.ee nothing "protestant" about it. Nothing Lutherans or Calvinist or Zwinglian. It does seem language that one would use if he were trying to demythologize the mass.