Vatican approves new Mass endings

BY STAFF REPORTER
THE VATICAN has prepared a choice of three new endings for the priest's words of dismissal at Mass, to emphasise the missionary spirit of the Liturgy.
Pope Benedict XVI personally chose the three. options from suggestions presented to him after a two-year study, Cardinal Francis Arinze told the Synod of Bishops.
The Vatican newspaper,
L'Osservatore Romano, quoted Cardinal Arinze, head of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments, as saying that along with "Ite, missa est", the Latin phrase now translated as "Mass is ended, go in peace", the new Options are "he ad Evcmgelium Domini annuntiandion" (Go and announce the Gospel of the Lord); "Ite in pace, glorificando vita yesIra Dominum" (Go in peace, glorifying the Lord by your life), and "Ite in pace" (Go in peace).
The idea for new words at the end of Mass was raised at the 2005 Synod of Bishops on the Eucharist.