Collect · Sep 2, 2010 · Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill, Throwing a Nutty, WDTPRS

NCR’s latest Magical Liturgical Mystery Tour

Ecclesiae tuae, Domine, munera placatus assume, quae et misericors offerenda tribuisti, et in nostrae salutis potenter efficis transire mysterium.
Fr. Z’s literal rendering

O Lord, having been appeased take unto yourself the gifts of your Church which you both mercifully bestowed as things to be offered as sacrifices and you mightily are causing to transform into the mysterious sacrament of our salvation.

On the site of the National Catholic Fishwrap, Eugene Kennedy, ex-priest and humanistic psychologist, attacks the "reform of the reform". He is actually attacking the new translation of the Roman Missal. His piece is so turgid that it is hard to know just what he is driving at.

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The same prayer, discussed elsewhere