Dare we hope?

In the periphery (Peru) there are over 4000 varieties of potato.

Dare we hope that some day we will have an equal number of eucharistic prayers?

I am old enough to remember when we had an offertory and described it as an offertory instead of ditching it for what we call an Institution narrative.

Of course, now that Vatican Two stressed how all share in the priesthood, a narrative could be said by anyone gathered in the worship space to have a memorial meal; that is, there may come a time (it is arriving faster than most are aware) when any Tom, Dick or Shari could become presider at the memorial meal and say the narrative and the vast majority of Catholics (having become inured to women in the sanctuary) would think that is jake; Well, it is about time for there is no reason a woman can't be a presider.

Back in the day (as the kids say) everyone knew only an ordained priest could confect the Eucharist and only he could make the offertory but things change and, as we have been told, continuity includes rupture, so there is no objection to us having blowed-up the Offertory and replaced it with a Jewish meal prayer from The Talmud because it makes no difference who influences/ controls/composes the prayers for Jesus' most sacred action on earth. The Holy Holocaust/Sacrifice of the Mass- Popes, Saints, Tradition, or Messias-Deniers.. 

Nothing says continuity like have destroyed the offertory.

But, remember, the Real Mass and The Lil' Licit Liturgy are the same per Pope Benedict XVI in Summorum Pontificum:

 The Roman Missal promulgated by Pope Paul VI is the ordinary expression of the lex orandi (rule of prayer) of the Catholic Church of the Latin rite.  The Roman Missal promulgated by Saint Pius V and revised by Blessed John XXIII is nonetheless to be considered an extraordinary expression of the same lex orandi of the Church and duly honoured for its venerable and ancient usage.  These two expressions of the Church’s lex orandi will in no way lead to a division in the Church’s lex credendi (rule of faith); for they are two usages of the one Roman rite.