Their
acclamation fueled his sense of indispensability, and he allowed himself to become
more and
more identified with their concerns and increasingly alienated from the Weld administration, which resulted in his eventual failure as an appointee.
Nonetheless, the mindset that led the original ICEL «translators» to interpret «Mysterium Fidei» ■ in terms of a theological narrative to be recited, rather than as an
acclamation addressed to a living person, does touch on some deeper theological and philosophical issues which have wider relevance and
more far reaching implications.