The real question lies with the Episcopal orders , yes?
Unfortunately, no. There's enough there to constitute positive doubt even about the NO rite for ordaining priests, not only the removal of the "ut" but removal throughout the entire rite of anything related to the priest's power to offer sacrifice, forgive sins, etc. (the same reasons that Pope Leo XIII stated that the Anglican Rite was invalid even after they attempted to "fix" the essential form).
But the removal of "ut" is very significant in that it severs the link between the Holy Ghost and the Sacramental effect, and no longer explicitly invokes the Holy Ghost in order to produce said effect. Rather, it's broken up into two pieces, 1) invoking the Holy Ghost (who can be invoked for myriad reasons, including just sanctifying souls), and 2) praying that (God?) would make the man a priest. One can try to argue that there's an "implicit" link there, but that's IMO only due to reading into it the previous version. If you saw this rite and were not familiar with the earlier version, would you read into this that the Holy Ghost is being asked to make the person a priest? That link is not necessarily there in the text.
Why did these people BOTHER to take out a single two-letter word? Was this somehow "improving" or making more "modern" the essential form? This leads to a strong suspicion that it was doen on purpose to delibertely invalidate the rite.
"ut" indicates causality, that the Holy Ghost causes or effects the ordination, but that explicit causal link between the Holy Ghost and the Sacramental effect is missing in the new rite.
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