"Catholic approved" Bibles

[demerzel85]

Nope, in the ICET translation in the US edition it goes, “Now Lord, you let your servant go in peace/ your word has been fulfilled.”

Everyday Prayer includes the ICET translations at the back but from my understanding the Gospel Canticles used in the US read differently from what I see. Hence my initial assumption that its from the NAB. Hmm… now I wonder if there are different ICET translations.

So what did they say?

I do not care now bland-sounding the ICET translations are. Only one fact matters: these are the only ones approved for my country, and I submit to that approval. I will not turn the Liturgy of the Hours into my own private property.

Transliterated we would get “… he hath visited and wrought the redemption of his people…And hath raised up an horn of salvation to us, in the house of David his servant.” for the Benedictus which is of course very different from what one reads from the Grail or the ICET.

Even given that the Grail and ICET are simplified, more often than not the beauty and the context is removed from many modern translations. In good faith I find it increasingly difficult to use modern translations. And this is simple because the lex orandi, lex credendi is so obscured by modern ‘translations’.

That’s what I said. You can even pray the Our Father in Latin. What I’m saying is that if one is praying the English texts, they must use the English texts as printed for their territories. Good for you, that you have a dual-option there in Singapore. Here in the Philippines, we use the US edition only; the three-volume is not approved. Obedience dictates that I use the four-volume.

Hence we come to the entire issue about why for the same language group in the vernacular we can’t use the same liturgical books. The entire Psalter of the US LOTH is from the Grail. Why is it that for the Gospel Canticles and Invitatory Psalms a difference is imposed. And when all is said and done the translation is just terrible.

 

[porthos11]

Everyday Prayer includes the ICET translations at the back but from my understanding the Gospel Canticles used in the US read differently from what I see. Hence my initial assumption that its from the NAB. Hmm… now I wonder if there are different ICET translations.

Transliterated we would get “… he hath visited and wrought the redemption of his people…And hath raised up an horn of salvation to us, in the house of David his servant.” for the Benedictus which is of course very different from what one reads from the Grail or the ICET.

Even given that the Grail and ICET are simplified, more often than not the beauty and the context is removed from many modern translations. In good faith I find it increasingly difficult to use modern translations. And this is simple because the lex orandi, lex credendi is so obscured by modern ‘translations’.

Hence we come to the entire issue about why for the same language group in the vernacular we can’t use the same liturgical books. The entire Psalter of the US LOTH is from the Grail. Why is it that for the Gospel Canticles and Invitatory Psalms a difference is imposed. And when all is said and done the translation is just terrible.

Of all that I do not have the slightest idea.

I can only hope that when the new LOTH is translated, it will be along similar principles as the new Missal translation. But I don’t see that coming for a few years.

In the meantime, I consider it an opportunity to gain merit.