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\u201cI don\u2019t think I said it the right way once,\u201d said Matthew Hoover, who attends St. Ann Catholic Church in Clayton, a growing town on the edge of the Raleigh suburbs. \u201cI kept forgetting, and saying the old words.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Mass itself \u2013 the central ritual of the Catholic faith \u2013 hasn\u2019t changed, but the English translation has, in the largest shakeup to the everyday faith of believers since the upheavals that followed the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s. A years-long process of revision and negotiation led to an updated version of the Roman Missal, the text of prayers and instructions for celebrating Mass, which originally was written in Latin. The new translation was rolled out across the English-speaking Catholic world on Sunday after months of preparation.
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