Bible Translations in Mass

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Is there any universally approved bible translation? I am looking for one to use in Canada that our Bishop would be able to approve the use of that is approved by the Church Universal. Nothing is published out here and our Gospel book is falling apart. Is there any documentation on such things that one can find?

Sincerely in Christ

Harrison Ayre
Victoria, BC
 
lindyholic said:
Is there any universally approved bible translation? I am looking for one to use in Canada that our Bishop would be able to approve the use of that is approved by the Church Universal. Nothing is published out here and our Gospel book is falling apart. Is there any documentation on such things that one can find?

Sincerely in Christ

Harrison Ayre
Victoria, BC
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We are only allowed to use the translation that is presently approved, the NRSV. Even in that, there are subtle differences between the Lectionary and the Bible of that translation.

Don’t rush to buy a Book of Gospels, we have a new Lectionary coming with a revised translation (only recently approved by Rome) and they will be printing a Gospel Book at that time. The only reason we don’t have one now is that the permission to use the NRSV translation that is in our Lectionaries was rescinded before they had published the Gospel Book.
 
lindyholic said:
Is there any universally approved bible translation? I am looking for one to use in Canada that our Bishop would be able to approve the use of that is approved by the Church Universal. Nothing is published out here and our Gospel book is falling apart. Is there any documentation on such things that one can find?

Sincerely in Christ

Harrison Ayre
Victoria, BC
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I thought that the Douay was always approved for English speaking countries.
 
USA has the NAB
Most other English countries use the 1966 Jerusalem Bible like the UK and Australia

I believe the Douay-Rheims was used before the Jerusalem Bible took over with it’s modern english.

The only unviersal bible is the Nova Vulgata avaialbe at the Vatican website if you know Latin

If it was in modern english then conceivably a Lectionary using the Douay Rheims could be used I would have thought.

All the best!
 
lindyholic said:
Is there any universally approved bible translation? I am looking for one to use in Canada that our Bishop would be able to approve the use of that is approved by the Church Universal. Nothing is published out here and our Gospel book is falling apart. Is there any documentation on such things that one can find?

Sincerely in Christ

Harrison Ayre
Victoria, BC
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You could try contacting the Canadian Council of Catholic Bishops. You don’t want the NAB since it’s USA-only & it isn’t something we’re proud of anyway. As has been mentioned, other countries use the Jerusalem but I think the Vatican uses the RSV-CE for official documents.

Btw, the French have a version called la Bible Liturgique, i.e., a translation used exclusively for the lectionary – it isn’t available as a Bible. It might not be a bad idea for Rome to commission something like that in English.
 
Each national council of bishops is responsible for approving a translation of scripture for its jurisdiction. Contact the appropriate council of bishops and ask there. You can also go to Canadian catholic church supply houses and purchase a new copy that way. Use the existing copy as a reference “We have so and so copy and want the latest printing” sort of thing. Your parish council liturgy committee probably has access to the records on what was purchased, when and where. Do some homework at the parish before you try doing something on your own.
If the parish hasn’t enough in the budget to purchase a new copy, offer to cover it yourself. But the best is to let the parish council handle it.

Matthew
 
drafdog said:
Each national council of bishops is responsible for approving a translation of scripture for its jurisdiction. Contact the appropriate council of bishops and ask there. You can also go to Canadian catholic church supply houses and purchase a new copy that way. Use the existing copy as a reference “We have so and so copy and want the latest printing” sort of thing. Your parish council liturgy committee probably has access to the records on what was purchased, when and where. Do some homework at the parish before you try doing something on your own.
If the parish hasn’t enough in the budget to purchase a new copy, offer to cover it yourself. But the best is to let the parish council handle it.

Matthew
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There is no Book of Gospels with the translation that Canadians use. When the CCCB published the latest Lectionary they didn’t know that Rome was going to rescind permission for use of the NRSV in Liturgy. The Book of Gospels hadn’t been published when the ban came down so it never was. They will be publishing one when they publish the next Lectionary, now that the revised NRSV translation has been approved by Rome.
 
Then the latest printing of the existing text is the approved text. Get one from the book store. This is something the parish council/liturgy committee should be handling.

Matthew
 
drafdog said:
Then the latest printing of the existing text is the approved text. Get one from the book store. This is something the parish council/liturgy committee should be handling.

Matthew
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But why would you do that when a new translation is coming this year?
 
Because the current copy at the parish, if you will carefully read the original post, is falling apart. Bindings do wear out and books are sometimes rebound to correct this. But it is usually easier and quicker to replace the book.

Matthew
 
drafdog said:
Because the current copy at the parish, if you will carefully read the original post, is falling apart. Bindings do wear out and books are sometimes rebound to correct this. But it is usually easier and quicker to replace the book.

Matthew
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Since it’s not a necessity to have a Book of Gospels, isn’t it wiser to wait for the proper translation? There is NO official Book of Gospels for Canada. The CCCB doesn’t offer any such thing. Any I’ve seen use the NAB text and in my own parish we insert a photocopy of the Lectionary Gospel so that what’s read matches what people have in their Missals.
 
Thanks everyone.

First off, we are a Cathedral parish. Money is not an issue in this matter, but our Rector demands good Liturgy (thanks be to God). We don’t let the Liturgy Committee or Pastoral Council handle such things because that is not in their authority (they are only canonical advisory committees).

What we have been doing to this point in time is simply photocopying them and putting them in the book of the Gospels we had. We have attempted contacting the CCCB and they have never gotten back to us about anything (unfortunately they are notorious for not really doing anything). So it’s a bit tough, we don’t know if one is coming out, and if it is, when, but we need one now because it is proper to the Cathedral Parish to have a book of the Gospels. Needless to say this has been quite the frustration.

Thanks, though, for letting me know other countries that use the Jerusalem translation. That translation is approved in Canada and so I may be able to hunt down and order a book of the Gospels from a Church supply store or something in those countries. I would prefer RSV, but unfortunately it isn’t approved for use in Canada, though I would think that if the Vatican uses it for its translations, it would always be ok…

-Harrison
 
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