Dumbingthings down …

… No Fear Religion - The Catholic Thing. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

The Church has two thousand years of greatness in her possession: literature, music, the arts, philosophy, theology; and then there is Scripture, whose doors a child can enter with ease, but whose inner courts are filled with wonders that the cleverest among us can only begin to apprehend.  Yet in our schools and parishes we hardly avail ourselves of any of it.  We have “translated” it into the language of No Fear Catholicism.

I still wince during Mass when the Preface is said. I still remember the old version, which begins: "It is truly meet and just, right and availing unto salvation … " Now that has some poetry to it.