The Douay-Rheims Bible

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👍 👍 Fantastic Bible!! I have the hardcover leather, and it is the most beautiful Bible I have ever owned…Excellent quality.
And the Douay Rheims is as close as you are going to get to the Latin Vulgate without learning Latin; my mother was a Latin teacher. I studied Latin. I can sit down with the Vulgate & my Baronius Douay-Rheims, and read a word for word, literal translation of the text.
The Douay Rheims Bible from Baronius and my RSV-CE (a more modern version, from Ignatius) are my favorites.
 
I just ordered the Haydock Douay-Rheims…I’m very excited.

I checked out some of the commentary online, and found it to be a revelation…this is what I have been searching for to help my Bible study…I hadn’t known that the Church Fathers are referenced everywhere in the commentary.
 
Todd_Winkels said:
I just ordered the Haydock Douay-Rheims…I’m very excited.

I checked out some of the commentary online, and found it to be a revelation…this is what I have been searching for to help my Bible study…I hadn’t known that the Church Fathers are referenced everywhere in the commentary.
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I think you’ll love it, Todd–on many of the pages, the commentary takes up more space that the actual Bible…👍
 
NMJenny said:
I think you’ll love it, Todd–on many of the pages, the commentary takes up more space that the actual Bible…👍
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Yes…I finally recieved this yesterday…this is what I have been yearning for…notes that are orthodox and help my growing faith like never before!!!

I’m suprised that modern notes/commentaries (such as in the NAB or NJB) are not really as orthodox as I expected. I’m still in RCIA by the way…and very happy to find this Haydock DR.

No commentary will be perfect, but this Haydock DR is a HUGE help in every way.
 
Holly3278 said:
Yes, the Douay-Rheims (also known as the Challoner-Rheims) Bible is a good translation of the Bible. In fact, I’d venture to say that it is one of the best if not the best. 👍
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When my beloved paternal grandma died, I inherited her Bible. It was a HUGE Douay-Rheims. In fact, it was dog-eared and had inserts from her old parish bulletins. It turns out that my grandma used to pray every day at 3PM and read her bible. What she was reading were the readings for the Mass of the day and she used her bulletin as a guide. Whenever she couldn’t get to daily Mass, she’d whip out her bible.

The bulletin pages were yellow, but she had dates and notes scribbled as to who she would pray for and when. I kid y’all not in that each page of that bible was read and re-read. It made me really appreciate my grandma all that more. Her old DR is, in my opinon, the platinum/titanium standard of bibles. Of course, my gold standard is the Ignatius RSV-CE 2nd edition. Both, though, are far superior to the NAB and the RNAB. I am with Fr. Richard Neuhaus on the notion that the current Lectionary has got to go. The language is not beautiful nor, in my opinion, is it fitting for proclamation. The way that the Epistles are translated makes them sound like huge sentences that go on for lines and lines. As a lector, I find this very hard and try my best to not make the words sound like run-on sentences.
 
benedictgal said:
When my beloved paternal grandma died, I inherited her Bible. It was a HUGE Douay-Rheims. In fact, it was dog-eared and had inserts from her old parish bulletins. It turns out that my grandma used to pray every day at 3PM and read her bible. What she was reading were the readings for the Mass of the day and she used her bulletin as a guide. Whenever she couldn’t get to daily Mass, she’d whip out her bible.

The bulletin pages were yellow, but she had dates and notes scribbled as to who she would pray for and when. I kid y’all not in that each page of that bible was read and re-read. It made me really appreciate my grandma all that more. Her old DR is, in my opinon, the platinum/titanium standard of bibles. Of course, my gold standard is the Ignatius RSV-CE 2nd edition. Both, though, are far superior to the NAB and the RNAB. I am with Fr. Richard Neuhaus on the notion that the current Lectionary has got to go. The language is not beautiful nor, in my opinion, is it fitting for proclamation. The way that the Epistles are translated makes them sound like huge sentences that go on for lines and lines. As a lector, I find this very hard and try my best to not make the words sound like run-on sentences.
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Unfortunately, given that the Holy See, notwithstanding the guidelines of Liturgiam Authenticam, recently gave its approval for the NRSV in Canada, gives me no hope that the NAB/RNAB will ever be toppled from its undeserved position of “pre-eminence” (HA!) in the US. :nope:
 
Manfred said:
Unfortunately, given that the Holy See, notwithstanding the guidelines of Liturgiam Authenticam, recently gave its approval for the NRSV in Canada, gives me no hope that the NAB/RNAB will ever be toppled from its undeserved position of “pre-eminence” (HA!) in the US. :nope:
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There’s always hope. I like to fantasize that some day Catholic scholars will come together and put together a new translation (with orthodox notes) that’s so obviously superior that they’ll be facing popular uproar to get it in the Lectionary. If I saw such a project on the horizon, I would support it as generously as I could, and think if others are willing to do the same that it *will *happen.
 
benedictgal said:
I am with Fr. Richard Neuhaus on the notion that the current Lectionary has got to go. The language is not beautiful nor, in my opinion, is it fitting for proclamation. The way that the Epistles are translated makes them sound like huge sentences that go on for lines and lines. As a lector, I find this very hard and try my best to not make the words sound like run-on sentences.
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I have some lector friends from my parish. They say the same thing. Paul’s epistles are particularly awkward to read.
 
TheOneTrueFred said:
There’s always hope. I like to fantasize that some day Catholic scholars will come together and put together a new translation (with orthodox notes) that’s so obviously superior that they’ll be facing popular uproar to get it in the Lectionary. If I saw such a project on the horizon, I would support it as generously as I could, and think if others are willing to do the same that it *will *happen.
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See this site:
sacredbible.org/
with the new translation in progress:
sacredbible.org/catholic/index.htm

This is a conservative fairly literal translation of the Latin, using the Challoner Douay Rheims version as a guide. It is public domain.
 
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