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Think you know all about the Roman Missal changes?

Maybe you do and maybe you don't. The Dec. 11 issue of OSV Newsweekly has a story about a few revisions that seem to have been overlooked in the "hoopla" over wording changes to the priest's and people's parts. Here's what writer Barry Hudock has to say:

Though questions about “dynamic equivalence” or “formal equivalence” are important and interesting, other changes — arguably more important ones — have barely been mentioned.

Here’s one: There’s a eucharistic prayer in the new Missal that simply wasn’t in the old Sacramentary.

Here’s another: Three eucharistic prayers that were in the old books are now absent from the new one. Given the Church’s conviction that the eucharistic prayer (or anaphora, as it is also known) is the heart and high point of the entire Mass, these are no small changes.

Read more about the newly added “Eucharistic Prayer for Use in Masses for Various Needs" and about the prayers that were dropped.