following the guidelines of the second vatican council and the preliminary revisions of the ordinary of the mass of the roman rite, a new bilingual (latin and italian) edition of the ambrosian missal was issued in 1966, simplifying the 1955 missal, mainly in the prayers the priest said inaudibly and in the genuflections, and adding the prayer of the faithful. the eucharistic prayer continued to be said in latin until 1967. the altars were moved to face the people.