Mother of God

For the most part, I think the various critiques of the Ordinary Form of the mass made by traditionalists are silly and overblown. But every once in a while, I encounter liturgical errors that are downright preposterous, and I start to wonder if there isn't something more to their argument. Today's solemnity supplies a good example:

From the concluding prayer at today's mass, the 1973 ICEL translation is as follows:

Father,
as we proclaim the Virgin Mary
to be the mother of Christ and the mother of the Church,
may our communion with her Son
bring us to salvation.


Now the entire purpose of today's mass was to celebrate the title "Mother of God," a theological formula explicitly affirmed in contradiction to the Nestorian title "Mother of Christ." Ending a mass dedicated to a specific orthodox theological formula by invoking the precise opposite of that formula is very, very bad liturgical form, to say the least. One's sympathies for the SSPX begin to warm ever so slightly....