When did the catholic mass change from holy ghost to holy spirit?

Answer 1

The Holy Spirit is God. This means that He has no beginning or end. Thus, there is no point in time in which we can say that the Holy Spirit first came to be and there is no point in time in which we can say that the Holy Spirit did not exist.

Answer 2

It became the Holy Spirit the same day it became the Holy Ghost because ghosts and spirits are known as the same thing.

I think they mean, "When did the term 'Holy Ghost' give way to the term "Holy Spirit" in mainstream Christian usage?"

John Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament (1382) used "Holy Ghost" almost exclusively, and the major English translations between Wycliffe and the KJV (Tyndale, Coverdale, Bishop's Bible, Geneva Bible) do the same. The expression "Holy Ghost" was used in the Church of England's Book of Common Prayer (1559), but "Holy Spirit" was more frequent. In the Book of Common Order (1556) used by the expatriate English and Scottish Calvinists in Geneva, "Holy Spirit" is more common in the prayers and orders of worship, but in the confession of faith "Holy Ghost" is employed almost exclusively. It may or may not be significant that "spirit" is derived from the Latin "spiritus," while "ghost" is from Anglo-Saxon roots.

It's important to understand that in English of that era, "ghost" was not as limited in its meaning as it is in modern English, but meant generally the soul or spirit of a person or thing. It could also mean a "spirit" in the modern sense of a non-physical entity. The parallel German word "Geist," retains that broader meaning; it can mean a "ghost" in the modern English sense, but consider its use in the expression "Zeitgeist" = "spirit of the times". We still have a few expressions that show this used to be true in English as well: to "give up the ghost" means to die, but it only makes sense if the "ghost" is something that the living possess in them.

The KJV translators thus had two terms that were employed fairly interchangeably for a generation or two before them, but with an established tradition of "Holy Ghost" in the English translations of The Bible. The KJV uses "Holy Ghost" 89 times, all in the New Testament, and "Holy Spirit" 7 times, 3 in the Old Testament and 4 in the New Testament. In each case the terms translate various forms of the same Greek phraseology, and for the 4 uses of "Holy Spirit" in the New Testament one can find multiple other instances where "Holy Ghost" was used for the same, or virtually the same, Greek phrase.

The KJV became the most widely successful English translation and still exerts a huge influence, but it wasn't long before the word "ghost" in the general usage had begun to morph. Daniel Mace's controversial New Testament translation 1729 used "Holy Spirit" almost exclusively, as did Daniel Webster's 1833 translation. Webster's 1828 dictionary also noted that the old broader use of "ghost" was by then archaic. The last major translation to use "Holy Ghost" was the 1881 Revised Version (also known as the English Revised Version); when its Americanized counterpart came out, the American Standard Version (1901), "Holy Spirit" was one of the changes adopted.

Answer 3

it has always been both some people/churches will just say it differently mattering on there personal liking