text: Perhaps a merry dance (nothing wrong with a merry dance, is there?).
  
  A quick point on the language of the prayers: the Our Father could certainly have been updated to 20th century language when the Mass of Paul VI was promulgated. I suppose that the liturgists deferred to common usage. But truthfully, if a new translation had been incorporated into the Mass, I highly doubt that those who are very tradition-minded would be using it today. Likewise the Hail Mary. The Glory Be, however, absolutely changed from "Ghost" to "Spirit" in translations of the Missal.
  
  I certainly have never read that liturgists ever entertained replacing "Amen," and don't see why they would. My point, I guess, is that while all shades of Catholics use the same words on our common prayers, there seems to be a political obstinacy in the use of "Ghost." My sister and brother-in-law, who grew up with "Spirit," are now in the TLM crowd and only use "Ghost," so that wasn't a matter of "what they were used to."