Why are there so few Catholic "red-letter" Bibles?

[lak611]

Red letters are used for the intstructions. For example it might say “take this all of you and eat it, this is my body which will be given up for you” then in red it’d say priest genuflect.

But that would be of no real use to a layman, who probably would not own a Sacramentary.

 

[JamesDennisMark]

The NABRE I bought last year has the words of Jesus in red.
Dennis Boyle
redlettercatholic.blogspot.com

 

[ClayPots47]

The NABRE I bought last year has the words of Jesus in red.
Dennis Boyle
redlettercatholic.blogspot.com

The thread you are replying to is well over 4 years old. The mods kinda frown on resurrecting old threads, and suggest starting a new one should you wish to discuss the same subject.

Anywhoo… I own a nice Red Letter Bible. I bought it around 20 years ago, it is the NAB, but was published by a Protestant-run Bible Publishing company (Thomas Nelson Publishers in Nashville, TN). The Bible has a flexible black leather cover with gold lettering, and gilded pages. And the words of Jesus in the New Testament are printed in a bright scarlet red, on paper that is nearly translucent. The paper has a crisp texture, despite it’s thinness. It is very nicely bound, and the Protestant-run bookstore I purchased it from had a 40% Bible sale that made the price affordable. Perhaps the reason for being so few Catholic editions of Red Letter Bibles, is because most Catholic publishers do not print them. Thomas Nelson uses red letters regardless of the version being printed. Other than Thomas Nelson, I don’t know of any other Protestant Bible publishers printing Catholic Edition Bibles. My understanding for using the red letters, is many versions, KJV for example, do not use quotation marks around the words of Jesus; printing them in red made them easier to see that they were quotes. I like the red as it makes it easy to locate Jesus words when searching.