July 3, 2011
In a parish in New South Wales, a public reading of the new translation of the Confiteor was met with “gales of laughter” by the congregation, according to Melanie Lately, who posted her report and reaction on the website of the Association of Catholic priests.
There may be a funny side to it all (she envisions a scene out of Monty Python) but there’s a serious side, too. This educator and mother of children in Catholic schools wonders if anyone’s thought through the implications of teaching youngsters to repeatedly beat their breasts and utter “through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault,” essentially, in her view, pronouncing themselves “inwardly filthy.”
Read the entire post here .
