The Venerable Servant of God, Pope John Paul II wrote in Inaestimabile donum: "The Second Vatican Council's admonition in this regard must be remembered: "No person, even if he be a priest, may add, remove or change anything in the Liturgy on his own authority."[Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, Sacrosanctum Concilium, nos. 22, 3] And Paul VI of venerable memory stated that: "Anyone who takes advantage of the reform to indulge in arbitrary experiments is wasting energy and offending the ecclesial sense" [Address of August 22, 1973: L'Osservatore Romano, August 23, 1973].
Further, Art. 59 states: "The reprobated practice by which priests, deacons or the faithful here and there alter or vary at will the texts of the Sacred Liturgy that they are charged to pronounce, must cease. For in doing thus, they render the celebration of the Sacred Liturgy unstable, and not infrequently distort the authentic meaning of the Liturgy".
General Instruction of the Roman Missal (2002)
No. 24. "Nevertheless, the priest must remember that he is the servant of the Sacred Liturgy and that he himself is not permitted, on his own initiative, to add, to remove, or to change anything in the celebration of Mass".
No. 24. "Nevertheless, the priest must remember that he is the servant of the Sacred Liturgy and that he himself is not permitted, on his own initiative, to add, to remove, or to change anything in the celebration of Mass".
Three examples:
1. March 12, 2011 posted on Youtube (see 17:50 onwards)
The celebrant: "Let us pray that our offering of Eucharist today may be acceptable to God our Almighty Father"
2. March 20, 2010 posted on Youtube
The celebrant: "Let us pray that our offering of this eucharist may be acceptable to God our Almighty Father"
3. November 28, 2009 posted on Youtube
The celebrant: "Let us pray that our offering of eucharist today may be acceptable to God our Almighty Father".
