SJ Early on the morning of the eleventh Sunday of the year, I said Mass. Unfamiliar wording unexpectedly distracted me. I was using the new 1998 American Lectionary. After years of saying Mass and reading Scripture, one has a sixth sense about unaccustomed phrases. Surely I had never heard those words before.
Nothing is technically wrong with such words.
But for amusement after Mass, I consulted several other sources about this unrecognized passage. The chapel in which I said Mass also had the 1970 American Missal. That sounded only less odd than the 1998 version. It so happens that I have a book containing, in parallel columns, four other English translations of the Bible. These words evidently deal with whether the disciples should be paid for preaching.