The translators of the new Mass prayers have neglected one cardinal rule: Consider your audience. As the days dwindled before their triumphal entry, the new liturgical changes had not yet risen to even an underwhelming response. “One in being” in the creed pretty much satisfied the mass of still-loyal Catholics, since they neither understood what it meant nor cared enough to Google it.

Offering Christ's Body and Blood to fellow parishioners helps this Catholic find a fuller Communion. "The eyes have it!" Spelled a bit differently, this phrase is a standard for reporting a positive outcome of a debate.

  It’s dress rehearsal time as parishes prepare for the new Mass.It was last Advent season when Andy Hentz first heard his pastor talk about the new Latin-to-English translations coming to the Mass.

American Catholics who still strongly dislike the new liturgical texts once they are implemented this Advent season will have three options: 1. Stop going to church. 2. Keep attending but stop participating fully in Mass. 3. Attend, participate, and learn to live with them. Church leaders say they are confident most people will choose that third alternative.