The Mission
Reclaim our Christian heritage by preserving the original meanings of sacred texts in Scripture, liturgy, prayers, and songs—and by rediscovering the timeless truths that guided our ancestors.
What our ancestors once understood clearly—Scripture verses, liturgy, prayers, and sacred music—has, in many cases, been reinterpreted or rewritten to convey something entirely different to modern readers.
When words long regarded as sacred and true are “updated” in ways that alter their core meaning, the result is more than confusion—it severs us from the wisdom of past generations. This phenomenon is a major cause of the generation gap.
If the edits made were simply to help modern readers better understand timeless truths, they might be welcomed. If changes corrected substantial errors or clarified misunderstood meaning, that would promote healthy discourse.
Website Posts
To accomplish our mission, we have created a website that provides a platform for participants to easily create and edit posts that shed light on the subtle and not-so-subtle changes in language and wording—many of which appear to serve dark or divisive purposes—to sacred Scripture, liturgy (including Mass, Divine Office, etc.), prayers, and music.
Through posts contributed by various participants, we also examine the significance of these alterations and attempt to rank them accordingly. Rankings may range from egregious—significantly altering the meaning of the text—to innocuous, where changes appear minor—or somewhere in between.
The changes we highlight here are not isolated incidents. They represent a long train of abuses—systematic revisions with the devastating effect of creating deep divisions. Chief among these is the generational divide.
“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them…”
—United States Declaration of Independence
A Parable for Our Time
The words of Jesus in the Parable of the Weeds Among the Wheat (Matthew 13:24–30) offer a powerful analogy for our modern condition:
“Another parable he proposed to them, saying: The kingdom of heaven is likened to a man that sowed good seeds in his field. But while men were asleep, his enemy came and oversowed cockle among the wheat and went his way. And when the blade was sprung up, and had brought forth fruit, then appeared also the cockle. And the servants of the goodman of the house coming said to him: Sir, didst thou not sow good seed in thy field? whence then hath it cockle? And he said to them: An enemy hath done this. And the servants said to him: Wilt thou that we go and gather it up? And he said: No, lest perhaps gathering up the cockle, you root up the wheat also together with it. Suffer both to grow until the harvest, and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers: Gather up first the cockle, and bind it into bundles to burn, but the wheat gather ye into my barn. ”
—Matthew 13:24–30 DRV
We believe this parable illustrates what has happened in our time: the planting of confusion, division, and distraction among the good seeds of tradition and truth.
May this website serve as a guide and a resource for those seeking to pursue what is true, good, and beautiful.