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New Versions Of Epistles,
Gospels In Modem English
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START OF ADVENT
English Texts For Gospel,
Epistle For November 29
WASHINGTON (NC) — Fol
lowing are the texts of the new
translations of the Lesson and
Gospel of the First Sunday of
Advent, Nov. 29, when the new
English usage for the Mass is
adopted throughout the United
States. The texts, from the new
lectionary for the whole liturgi
cal year, published by the Na
tional Center of the Confratern
ity of Christian Doctrine here,
are the same as those in the
new altar missals.
The Lesson is from St. Paul’s
Epistle to the Romans, chapter
13, verses 11-14.
BRETHREN: It is now the
hour for you to wake up from
sleep, because our salvation is
closer than when we first ac
cepted the faith. The night is far
gone; the day is drawing near.
Let us cast aside deeds of dark-
neiss 1 and put on the armor of
light. Let us live honorably, as
in daylight: not in carousing
and drunkenness, not in sexual
excess and lust, not in quar
relling and jealousy. Instead,
put on the Lord Jesus Christ.
The Gospel passage for the
First Sunday of Advent is from
the 21st chapter of St. Luke,
verses 25-33:
AT THAT time Jesus said to
his disciples: ‘There will be
signs in the sun, the-moon, and
the stars. On the earth nations
will be in anguish, distraught at
the roaring of the sea and the
waves. Men will die of fright
in anticipation of what is coming
over the earth; for the hosts of
heaven will be shaken loose. And
then men will see the Son of Man
coming on a cloud with great
power and glory. When these
things begin to happen, stand up
straight and raise your heads,
llli
for your redemption is near at
hand.”
THEN HE told them a parable:
‘ *Notice the fig-tree and trees in
general. When they are budding,
you see them and know for your-
selves that summer is near.
Likewise, when you see things
happening, you know that the
kingdom of God is near. Let me
tell you this: the present gen
eration will not pass away until
all these things happen. Heaven
and’earth will pass away; my
words will never pass away.”
NEW YORK (NC)—The Epis
tles and Gospels of the Mass be
ginning Nov. 29 will be in an
English * 'far more easily un
derstood by the people” than
the English translations pre
viously available, according to
a top Scripture scholar.
Father Raymond Brown, S.S.,
professor of New Testament
studies at St. Mary's Seminary
in Baltimore, noted that the
English versions of the Epistles
and Gospels are taken from the
new translation of theNewTes-
tament sponsored by the Epis
copal Committee of the Con
fraternity of Christian Doc
trine. This translation is still
unfinished.
BUT, said Father Brown,
writing on "Our New Transla
tion of the Bible” in the weekly
review, America (Nov. 14), the
scholars working on the new
versions have been able to pro
vide the U.S. bishops with all the
Scripture readings of the Mass.
He said that since the New
Testament as a whole will prob
ably not be ready for publica
tion view of coming attrac
tions.”
The New Confraternity edi
tion is not a revision of earlier
translations. It is instead a
wholly new translation from the
original Hebrew and Greek,
Father Brown pointed out that
previous official Catholic ver
sions in English have been
translations of the Latin Vul
gate of St. Jerome, and that the
new edition is therefore "the
first officially sponsored Cath
olic translation into English
from the original languages.”
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by the American bishops with
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IS AN ASIDE
Gospel Reference To John
WASHINGTON (NC) — The
reference to the "man named
John” in the prologue to St.
John's Gospel is an aside, a
parenthetical explanation, the
new official Catholic translation
of that Gospel makes clear.
This is brought out in the
presentation of the passage in
the new English altar missals,
which serve as the forerunner
for the new Confraternity New
Testament due for publication in
two to three years.
THE prologue to the fourth
Gospel is one of the Scriptural
passages most familiar to Cath
olics, as it is the traditional
last Gospel of every Mass.
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dropped from the Mass by the
beginning of next Lent, the pass
age will remain in the liturgy
as the Gospel of the third Mass
of Christmas.
In the new presentation, whose
format is poetic, it reads as
follows:
A Reading from the holy Gospel
according to John:
In the beginning was the Word;
The Word was in God's pres
ence,
And the Word was God.
He was present with God in
the beginning.
Through him all things came
into being,
and apart from him not a thing
came to be.
Government
To Aid Convent
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (NC)
—The communist government
has consented to pay one-third
of the expenses for restoration
of the cloister of the Benedic
tine Sisters in the town of Zara.
It is planned to finish the work
by 1966, the year in which the
medieval cloister will cele
brate the 900th year of its ex
istence, The committee form
ed to complete the restoration
includes members of the com
munist government and mem
bers of the Catholic hierarchy.
That which came to be, found
life in him,
and this life was the light of
men.
The light shines on in the
darkness,
for the darkness did not over
come it.
(Now there was sent by God a
man named John who came as
a witness to testify to the light,
so that through him all men
might believe—but only to tes
tify to the light, for he himself
was not the light.)
He was the real light
that gives light to every man;
he was coming into the world.
He was in the world,
and the world was made by
him;
yet the world did not recog
nize him.
To his own he came;
yet his own people did not ac
cept him.
But all those who did accept
him,
he empowered to become
God’s children —
those who believe in his name,
those who were begotten,
not by blood,
nor the flesh,
nor man's desire,
but by God.
And the Word became flesh
and made his dwelling among
us.
And we have seen his glory,
the glory of an only Son com
ing from the Father,
rich in kindness and fidelity.
the work of translating the Bible
are members of the Catholic
Biblical Association. Chairman
of the editorial board for the
New Testament is Msgr. Myles
M. Bourke, dean of studies at St.
Joseph's Seminary, Dunwoodie,
N. Y. Head of the editorial board
for the Old Testament transla
tion is Father Louis F. Hart
man, C.SS.R., of the Catholic
University of America.
Father Brown — himself the
translator of St. John’s Gospel
for the new work—said that a
main purpose of the new trans
lation is to put the Bible into
"correct American English.”
Some people regret the passing
of the highly literary "Bible
English” of former versions,
he said. But, he added, actually
"many parts of the Bible are
far from highly literary He
brew or Greek.”
THE new Confraternity ver
sion drops the old "thou” and
"thee” forms throughout. Gone
too are other "quaint and for
malized expressions,”
Father Brown predicted that
the NewTestament sections will
have the greatest impact on
hearers of the new liturgy, be
cause of the greater familiar
ity with them. 'There is no
doubt that because it is diffe
rent some will dislike it,” he
said. "Almost immediately the
differences between a transla
tion from the Latin will be ap
parent. If the Latin says that
Jesus rose from the dead, the
Greek often says that Jesus was
raised from the dead (i.e., by
the Father—no theological dif
ference implied, for the effi
ciency of the external actions of
the Trinity, such as the Resur
rection, is not distinguishable
as to Person).
'THE Greek will sometimes
necessitate translating as *a
Holy Spirit, instead of the more
precise 'the Holy Spirit,’ thus
showing New Testament lack of
precision in some trinitarian
formulations."
Father Brown said that future
generations will be able to im
prove on the new translation.
But he indicated that it is suc
cessful in being intelligible, lit
erate English.
He said:
"We desire beauty for the lit
urgy, but the primary purpose
of reading the Lessons and Gos
pels to the people is not to im
press them with literary ele
gance but to have them under
stood. The Confraternity has not
been careless about literary ef
fect: but it is written in the lit
erate English of today, and will
be far more easily understood
by the people than even the best
revision of the older tradition...
"AS WE have predicted, this
new translation will be heard at
Mass with different reactions. It
is always easy to criticize; and
since the New Testament is ap
pearing for the first time in the
liturgy, the scholars will not
haVe the customary notes ex
plaining the reasons for their
translation. The obscurity of the
original, which must be re
spected, the necessity of using
different English words to
translate different Greek words
(especially when thesamesense"
Beatify John?
VIENNA (RNS)— Betification
of John XXIII — "the greatest
Pope ever” — was urged in
an article appearing in Kato-
licke Noviny (Catholic News)
a weekly published in Prague.
BISHOP-ELECT Fremiot
Torres, named Bishop of
Ponce, Puerto Rico, by Pope
Paul VI (Nov. 5), succeeds
Archbishop Luis Aponte of
San Juan.
appears in different Gospels),
and & dozen other technical
motives will not occur to the
priest or layman who can very
glibly come up with a better
rendition.
"But from others who give
more careful consideration,
very constructive criticism will
be forthcoming. Whatever the
reaction, the Sunday Masses
should have a special interest
in the months to come.”
MINISTER of National Economy and Justice of the Repub
lic of the Congo, John Ebosiri, was recently received in audi
ence by Pope Paul VI
DRAMATIC GESTURE
Pope Paul Gives His Tiara
To Be Sold For The Poor
BY
(N.
FR. JOHN
C. W. C.
P. DONNELLY
News Service)
VATICAN CTY—Mindful of
the recent council discussions
of world poverty, Pope Paul
VI in a dramatic gesture laid
his precious tiara on the altar
of St. Peter's and announced
it would be sold and the money
given to the poor.
The Pope's act came at the
end of the celebration of the
Divine Liturgy (Mass) of the
Byzantine Rite in which the
Bishop of Rome had particip
ated together with almost all
the cardinals, more than 2,000
council Fathers , and many
priests and laity (Nov. 13).
THE impact of the gesture
was initially greeted by un
believing silence when Arch
bishop Pericle Felicia, the
council secretary general, an
nounced it. Then the whole con
gregation in St. Peter's burst
into wild applause.
Archbishop Felici spoke on
the references to hunger and
misery in the world which
had been heard frequently dur
ing recent council speeches,
Th? Church has always demons
trated* its love for the poor
and underprivileged, he said,
and thus has followed die teach
ing and example of her divine
Founder, who "although being
rich, made Himself poor so that
from His poverty we might at
tain true riches. For this rea
son the Church is called the
mother of the poor, of the af
flicted, of the underprivileged,
of die needy and unhappy.
"PAUL VI, vicar of Christ
and head of the Church,"Arch
bishop Felici continued, "has
wished to give new witness of
this charity, offering his per
sonal tiara to the poor.”
Then Pope Paul himself plac
ed on the altar the bullet-shap
ed tiara which the people of
Milan had had made for him,
their former archbishop.
The Pope then embraced Mel-
kite Patriarch Maximos IV Sigh
of Antioch, who had led in the
concelebration of the just-con
cluded Eucharistic meal.
THE occasion was the cele
bration of the Eastern Church
es* main feast of St. John
Chrysostom, fifth-century bis
hop of Constantinople and a
doctor of the Church. (The Wes
tern Church celebrates his feast
on Jan. 27.) Because of the
length of the Liturgy, die Nov.
13 celebration displaced nor
mal daily session of the ecu
menical council.
Concelebrating the Liturgy
Pope To Beatify
Four Indians?
TRICHUR, India pJC)— Pope
Paul VI will probably beatify
four Indians whose beatifi
cation cause is still pending
on the occasion of his forth
coming trip to Bombay, the
Catholic daily Thozhilali (The
Worker) declared here.
The four Indians are Sister
Alphonsa, a Clarist nun of Ker
ala who died in 1946; Father
Kuriackos Elias Chavara -
(1805-1871), also from Kerals,
founder of the Malabar Rite con
gregation of the Carmelites of
Mary Immaculate; and two
priests of Goa, Father Agenlo
de Sousa, who died in 1927
and Father Joseph Vaz, who did
missionary work in Ceylon and
died in 1711.
with Patriarch Maxioms were
13 other Eastern rite prelates,
including Byzantine Rite Bishop
Nicholas T. Elko of Pittsburgh
and Ukrainian Rite Archbishop
Maxim Hermaniuk, C.SS.R.,
of Winnipeg, Man.
THE Pope, Patriarch of the
West, presided from his throne
in front of the basilica’s high
altar. He wore a miter. The
tiara, although carried as us
ual in the papal procession,-
was not worn in the course of
the ceremonies, as it is used
only during solemn papal fun
ctions of a nonliturgical na
ture. After the Liturgy, the
Pope carried the tiara from
his throne to place it on the
large temporary altar used for
the Byzantine Rite service.
Then after embracing 86-
year-old Patriarch Maximos,
IN INDIA
the Pope went in procession
to the basilica's chapel of St.
Wenceslaus, where he blessed
. two mosaics newly installed at
either side of the chapel altar.
Designed by Michelangelo Bed-
dini and made in the Vatican
mosaic studio, the new mosaics
depict the works of SS. Cyril
and Methodius, the ninth-
century apostles to the Slavs.
THE gift of Czechoslovak na
tionals living abroad, the mosa
ics were donated under the
patronage of the Czechoslovak
council Fathers to commemo
rate die 11th centenary of the
beginning of the saints' apos-
tolate in Greater Moravia. The
Czechoslovak council Fathers
were present in the chapel for
the ceremony along with other
bishops of Czech, Bohemian or
Slovak origin and representat
ives of the large Czechoslovak
colony in Rome,
Tribal Drummers
’ i '• 1 % W 4 j
Will Escort Pope
BOMBAY, India (NC)-Tri-
bal drums beating for 300
tribal dancers of India will
lead Pope Paul VI as he travels
a two-mile route to make his
appearance at the Internation
al Eucharistic Congress here
next month.
Drums of all sizes, up to ten
feet in diameter, will be
brought here by members of
India's tribes. The dancers
are expected to be accompan
ied by about 1,000 members of
their tribes.
A highlight of their partici
pation, in addition to the pa
rade appearance with the
Pope, will be a tribal dance by
performers from the Ranchi
district. This performance, at
a cultural program which is
part of the religious obser
vance, will mark the first time
the exotic dance has been wit
nessed in Bombay.
POPE Paul will be guest of
honor at a lavish Indian ballet
on the grounds of the Cricket
Club of India on Dec. 3. The
ballet portrays the spirit of
the Old and New Testaments,
its theme being 'The Eucha
rist and the New Man.”
About 1,000 young men and
women will sing songs in the
Hindi language while 300 will
participate in dances choreo
graphed by exponents of Kath-
akali, Bharata Natyam and
Manipur schools of dancing.
Father George Proksch, a
German Sanskrit scholar and
authority, has been active in
bringing the dancers and tribal
members to the congress.The
Netherlands consul general, J.
J. Van der Gaag, has also as
sisted in this project.
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