U-N-I-T-Y that’s a unity.
Okay, thats the first – and conceivably the only – Queen Latifah reference you will see on Be The Straw.
But that’s what we are talking about today: Unity. We’re talking about a mark of the Church – the Church is one. (Here’s all four: one, holy, catholic, apostolic).
Why are we talking about unity? Because that’s one of the reasons I’m excited for the New Translations of the Roman Missal coming out in less than 10 days.
Alright, let’s do this Aquinas style.
Objection 1. The new translation is changing things, and it expresses less unity and less universality. Look at the Creed, we are no longer saying “We believe” we are being individualistic and saying “I Believe.”
I answer that: Whaaaaaaa?! The new translations are chock full of beautiful expressions of unity.
Okay, I’m not the best Thomist.
But let’s look at some of the changes and see how they do, in fact, express great unity.
