Later today or tomorrow I will also post an electronic version (PDF) that can be accessed at no cost. I am hoping this helps us to reach as many people as possible so that God willing it might help open the way for a deeper form of participation in Holy Mass just as the Council Fathers intended.

The whole question of restoring the way of expressing the introductory rites begs the question, why was the original dropped? I do believe it was because there has been a jihad against certain truths of the faith, based perhaps on some popular modern theological ideas, to rid us of the notion of the human soul by simply dropping any reference to it. (In case anyone wonders about the status of soul in our teachings, I commend the passage from “Deus Caritas Est” which says, “It is the whole person, body and soul, who loves.”)

There are other truths of the faith under similar “stealth attack” in the changing of wording in both liturgy and hymns. Even sin and redemption have been denied this way. (Must be important to deny heaven, because it happens at the cost of turning a meaningful passage into unintelligible mush.) Remember the original hymn passage “…guide us in distress/ and free us from all sin/ ’til heaven we possess”? In our hymnal, this has become “…guide us when perplexed/ and free us from all fear/ in this world and the next.” Perplexed?? Gimme a break!

Another coming attraction is “I believe…” instead of “We believe…” at the opening of the Credo. How dare they change our Credo, some may ask. Until they realize that credo means “I believe”, and is the real opening to this prayer. And rightly so. We all know that “we believe.” But for each of us the telling question is “yes, but do I believe?” We’ll soon have the opportunity (again) to answer this question in public each week.

I must apologize… My webmaster is working to get the necessary links up on harvestingthefruit.com ASAP. I’m sorry to say it’s way beyond my ability. I anticipated it being on the site sooner. Sorry about that. I will post a message here when he’s finished. I appreciate the interest very much.