The Missal is the priest's book at the altar and the Church's chief witness to how she prays. After the Second Vatican Council, Saint Paul VI promulgated a revised Roman Missal in 1970, with a second Latin edition in 1975. Saint John Paul II approved a third Latin typical edition in 2000, published in 2002 and reprinted with emendations in 2008. It is this third edition that governs the celebration of Mass in the ordinary form of the Roman Rite today. The English translation was prepared by the International Commission on English in the Liturgy according to the translation principles set out in the 2001 instruction Liturgiam authenticam, which called for a rendering closer to the structure and vocabulary of the Latin than the earlier translation had been. The conferences of bishops of the English-speaking world approved the text and the Congregation for Divine Worship confirmed it in 2010. It came into use in the dioceses of the United States on the First Sunday of Advent, November 27, 2011. The book opens with the General Instruction of the Roman Missal, which explains the structure and theology of the Mass and gives the norms for its celebration, and with the Universal Norms on the Liturgical Year and the General Roman Calendar. It then contains the Proper of Time, following the seasons from Advent to the last week of Ordinary Time; the Order of Mass with the prefaces and Eucharistic Prayers; the Proper of Saints, arranged by date; the Commons, for celebrations of the Blessed Virgin Mary, martyrs, pastors, doctors, virgins, and holy men and women; Ritual Masses connected with the sacraments; Masses and Prayers for Various Needs and Occasions; Votive Masses; and Masses for the Dead, with appendices of chants, blessings, and rites. Several texts of the people's parts changed in 2011 and are now familiar: the response "And with your spirit," the threefold "through my fault" in the Confiteor, "consubstantial with the Father" in the Creed, "for many" in the words over the chalice, and "Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof" before Communion. Editions for particular countries include the proper calendar of that territory; the Missal used in the dioceses of the United States, for example, contains the celebrations proper to the United States alongside those of the General Roman Calendar.

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