The Revised Grail Psalter by Conception Abbey, now owned by USCCB

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While visiting the USCCB site for something else, I saw that the USCCB was selling copies of the Revised Grail Psalter translated by the Benedictine monks of Conception Abbey. The USCCB apparently bought the rights to it last year. I searched for a recent thread on this, but did not find any threads that aren’t at least 3 years old. (At least one of the threads is complaining about a private company owning the rights to the Psalter that the USCCB said it wanted to use, which I guess is no longer an issue since the rights were sold to USCCB.)


Anyone know if these Revised Grail psalm translations are any good? I’m not keen on the current NABRE psalm translations, and as someone else from this forum pointed out to me, if you go read the Bible on the Vatican website, “the Psalms are missing” (dead link on the main English language Bible page) although they can be accessed from a different page that steps you through the books in order. I presume the difficulty in accessing them reflects that the Vatican also did not care for the translation, from what I read. In any event, I decided I didn’t want to bother with that translation and skipped over to the online Douay Rheims on a different website just to read the Psalms.

When do you think we wll start hearing these Revised Grail psalms at Mass?
 
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I own a copy (part of my Verbum Library)…I like it, but honestly just for liturgical prayer, I don’t find it dramatically different, and certainly not inferior to the translations currently read in the vernacular at Mass. However, from an academic comparison, there is much that probably could be said.

Was is just last year that USCCB received ownership…from the introduction, I thought it was 2010…but I could be wrong.

When will we see it read at Mass? No idea, but again, I’m not sure if that’s much of an issue.
 
Dlee said:
From the USCCB site. What us the significance of the Grail Psalm. As a former Baptist, I bad never heard this term. Thank you.
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It’s a translation of the psalms for use in the Liturgy of the Hours. I believe it’s translated in such a way for ease of singing in mind, since the LOTH is often sung.
 
redal said:
Was is just last year that USCCB received ownership…from the introduction, I thought it was 2010…but I could be wrong.
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It says on USCCB site that USCCB just bought the copyright in 2019.

There’s a past thread on here from 2014 in which someone complains that the USCCB announced their intention to use the Revised Grail Psalms but didn’t own them.
 
Thanks for the link. They look okay so far. I must confess I still prefer the KJV Psalms the best (sadly I can’t get an indulgence reading those), but these seem to be an improvement over both the NABRE and the Douay versions.
 
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