Innocuous
Egregious
| BEFORE TLM Roman Missal – September Ember Saturday – English Translation | AFTER Novus Order Roman Missal October 25, 2026 |
| May Your sacraments, O Lord, accomplish within us what they contain, so that what we now celebrate under a veil, we may grasp in the reality of the things themselves. | May your Sacraments, O Lord, we pray, perfect in us what lies within them, that what we now celebrate in signs we may one day possess in truth. |
Why is this change important?
This is another subtle change in language that undermines the substance of Catholic teaching. It panders to non-Catholics by using the term “signs” rather than “under a veil”. The reality of the Holy Eucharist remains to us “under a veil”, not just a “sign”. Also, we already “possess in truth” the reality of this sacrament, it is just our “grasp” of it that is deficient. This is consistent with 1 Corinthians 13:12 “We see now through a glass in a dark manner; but then face to face.”
Additional Notes
Here is actual latin version of the prayer in the 1962 missal: “Perfíciant in nobis, Dómine, qu’sumus, tua sacraménta quod cóntinent: ut, quæ nunc specie gerimus, rerum veritáte capiámus.”