I will look at one psalm from the Revised Grail Psalter. I tire of the circular groove worn around whether Psalm 1 loses its messianic “intention” when “the man” is abandoned, so I will choose to look at Psalm 2. The Revised Grail has: 1 Why do the nations conspire,and the peoples plot in vain?
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Since the Vatican’s approval (recognitio) of a significantly different text of the English Roman Catholic Missal than that which left the desks of the English-speaking Bishops’ Conferences, there has been substantial astonishment by many, including the bishops, at the poor quality of so much of the Vatican’s “Received Text” (the term used for the now-approved
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Some Christian spirituality pointers from the movie ”We have nothing if not belief.” There are many lessons in the story, such as Lucy Pevensie’s desire to be different to who she is. [I thought Will Poulter as Eustace Scrubb was astonishing.] “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.” C.S.
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The full text of the Revised Grail Psalter can be found here. Its publication explains some of the astonishing “translations” in the new RC English Missal that are completely contrary to Liturgiam authenticam – I will deal with that in my next post with this title. The Revised Grail Psalter is a translation from the
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textweek resources scripture readings • collect/opening prayer reflection for January 16 and week following (Common Worship CofE) • collect/opening prayer reflection for January 16 and week following (NZPB) BCP (TEC): Almighty God, whose Son our Savior Jesus Christ is the light of the world: Grant that your people, illumined by your Word and Sacraments, may
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This is the seventh in a series attempting to nuance the statement, “The Bible says…” I encourage you to read the story so far: Textual Criticism The Septuagint (LXX) Hebrew vowel pointing The canon Translation Continuity problems There’s also been a related post, “the pope says…” Social Cultural Historical Geographic context If someone in New
I recently encouraged communities to produce videos. Here is a wonderful example from a group of ten and eleven year olds. With the video is written: Hallelujah Chorus -Kuinerrarmiut Elitnaurviat 5th Grade – Quinhagak, Alaska Wow!! Thank you for all for the wonderful comments. The village of Quinhagak is glowing because of them. The amount
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Many will be aware this year is 400 years since the publication of the King James or Authorised version of the Bible. To kick off that year I note three excellent BBC radio broadcasts by James Naughtie. NB – these broadcasts are only online for a week and I cannot see a way to download
