Our Father, Who Messes With Protestants

Through Facebook, in response to my last post about the new translation of the Mass, reader Matthew Hogan gives us a couple of pitch-perfect paragraphs:

You young’un/convert, Mr. Lott. When I, and so many others, was a mere Roman-rite tyke, just after de-Latinization post Vatican 2, the new English mass was exactly pretty much the “new” one of today. “And with your spirti”, “under my roof”– a paraphrase of the centurion’s statement – etc. Though I don’t recall the the creed’s words exactly. Then about 1970ish it became the more moderny “Lord be with you”/”Right back atcha”.

The real fun of course is to attend a funeral or wedding with non-/never-Catholic Protestant who are confused by the dance and wait til they sorta relax a bit with the well-recognized Our Father and they start getting into it. Then at the crucial moment, “deliver us from evil”, the Catholics go quiet and the intruders continue with “for thine is the, uh, um, oh excuse me”. Then to really mess them up, the Catholics recite that en masse in Mass a few seconds later.