Could have been worse. Could have been minions.

(Repeated from the original location.)

Indeed, missalettes have done as much harm to the beauty and integrity of the mass as a number of missiles might do!

Irony, isn't it?, that Catholics, who are supposed, by virtue of enjoying the Whole Faith, The True Faith, Real Sacraments, the Magisterium, and so forth, to be the most divinely blessed and fortunate Christians of all, are the only ones who worship from periodical pulp booklets called missalettes. No other Christians are thought so little of, nor kept in such ignorance, and given such sleazy materials for the worship of the All Holy.

What is Catholic worship like? The answer to this is not unlike the old quip about the man who walked into a Paris bookshop back in the days of the Fourth Republic, before de Gaulle ushered in a more stable system, and asked for a book on French government. He was told ever so politely, 'oh, I am so sorry, m'sieur, but we do not carry periodicals'.

here was a cartoon i penned some months ago hinting at the same subject about the publishers 'reinventing the wheels' through publishing of missalettes

Jeffrey,

Sure, it's fun to imagine this sort of thing - and hence the joke: what's the difference between a liturgist and a terrorist? Seriously, though, consider the nearly incalculable damage which a group of translators did to the transmission of the faith.

Cheers,

Chris