Wrong Question!

A number of commentators are wringing their hands over what they perceive to be another unfairness that will flow from the revised translations to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. How, they lament, will the Catholics who attend Mass only twice a year, be able to participate in a liturgy whose words will be so different from those they last heard?

Wrong question!

The correct one to ask is why are all those Catholics who attend Mass only twice a year not fearful of spending eternity in hell for failing to obey God's commandment? This query should be quickly followed up with two others: Why won't this issue be discussed with these infrequent Mass attendees and why will so few of them be reminded not to approach our Lord in the Holy Eucharist if they have not been fulfilling their obligation to actively participate in weekly Sunday Mass without first bathing themselves in the healing and forgiving waters of a sacramental confession?

Musing on Missions

My wife is Pentecostal, and this past Sunday evening was her church's annual Christmas program, put on by the children.  Out 17-year-old daughter made all the costumes (so says the button-popping-proud father).
The program was, as might be expected, evangelistic and oriented towards Christmas, but with an interesting twist.  The focus was on Missionary Kids - MKs - with several actual MKs involved.

One of the features was a video of the denomination's missionaries in Okinawa, whose primary focus of ministry is not the Okinawan natives, but the American Military members and their families.

And it got me thinking about missions. 
Read the New Testament.  St. Paul had helpers who traveled with him, helpers who were not necessarily clergy.
Protestants do it.  And, yes, Catholics do it to.  But to what extent?  Do Catechists accompany missionary priests?  Do cantors?
Perhaps we as Catholics could consider such a possibility.
I'm a Lay Dominican.  Perhaps my order could send out Lay Dominicans as helpers to the Friars, who could help establish missions, learn the culture.  It could be a small community similar to the old Celtic monasteries, composed of clergy, celibate, and married members.

Just a thought.