Letters

Missal translation

Pastor David Buck

Contents - Aug 2004 - Buy a copy now Editorial: New challenges for Catholic education - Peter Westmore Pope's representative reminds Australian religious leaders on liturgy abuses - Archbishop Francesco Canalini News: The Church Around the World Getting serious about orthodoxy: an American bishop shows how - Michael Gilchrist Catholic politicians and informed conscience - Bishop Michael Sheridan Bioethics: Embryo stem-cell research: time for a moral benchmark - Christopher Pyne MP The morning after pill - Bishop Anthony Fisher History: Catholic education: triumph over adversity - Cardinal George Pell Carnivale Christi: Whatever happened to beauty in art? - Paul Fitzgerald The Catholic Church and the Greens: why? - Tony Kearney Letters: Missal translation - Pastor David Buck Letters: Hymn parody - Peter Hannigan Letters: Casual trend - Gina Voskulen Letters: Parish revitalised - Br Con Moloney CFC Letters: Threats to family - Gordon Southern Letters: Abortion - Anne Boyce Letters: Relearning needed - Anne Lastman Letters: Gospel dates - Jack R. Nyman Books: DANIEL MANNIX: Wit and Wisdom, by Michael Gilchrist - Hermann Kelly (reviewer) Books: A Guide To The Passion Of The Christ : 100 Questions - Fr Scot Armstrong STL (reviewer) Books: Interview with the author of 'The Da Vinci Hoax' - Carl E. Olsen Books: More new titles for 2004 from AD Books Reflection: Why teaching in a Catholic school is far more than a profession - Fr Dennis Byrnes

Thank you for your most interesting review of the new English translation of the Roman Missal. I merely comment on one matter here. You wrote that the Lectionary text will be taken from the NRSV, corrected. I wonder whether the Vox Clara Committee, and Cardinal Pell in particular, are aware of the English Standard Version? It is a conservative revision of the RSV, and was first pulished in 2001.

Here are two examples of NRSV and ESV renditions, taken almost at random:

John 19:5, NRSV: "So Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, 'Here is the man!'"

ESV: "So Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, "Behold the man!" (Greek: idou ho anthropos).

Romans 9:5, NRSV: "To them belong the patriarchs, and from them, according to the flesh, comes the Messiah, who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen."

ESV: "To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen."

(PASTOR) DAVID BUCK
Lutheran Parish,
Glandore-Underdale, SA

Reprinted from AD2000 Vol 17 No 7 (August 2004), p. 15