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Why is the Catholic Our Father still said in Elizabethan English at Mass?
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When the Mass was put into the vernacular, for English, this was the most common form of the Our Father that every one knew. I believe that the Fathers who did the translation of the Mass thought that there would be a public exodus over this, which is a shame because of the Council Fathers (Vatican Council II) said that the Our Father is one of the prayers that should remain in Latin, see paragraph 54 in Sacrosanctum Concilium: .... Nevertheless care must be taken to ensure that the faithful may also be able to say or sing together in Latin those parts of the Ordinary of the Mass which pertain to them....
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