Posted on 09/30/2014 5:13:53 PM PDT by Maudeen
the goal is hearts changed by God and disciples equipped to lead others to Christ.
.................In the years since Cam first started Wycliffe, 518 language groups have received the entire Bible and 1,275 have the New Testament in the language they understand best. Additionally, over 1,500 Bible translation projects are currently in process........
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Well how fascinating. I didn’t know that. Thanks for this post!
In 1966, President Lyndon Johnson said that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until the War there against Communism was won.
My copy of JH Hertz “The Pentateuch and Haftorahs” includes the King James Version, 1611 under “Modern Versions In English”.
“Of unsurpassed literary beauty,” it says.
The reason being that it is the Memorial of St. Jerome, who translated the Bible from Hebrew and Greek to Latin. He also translated many other documents.
Daily Readings for:September 30, 2014
(Readings on USCCB website)
Collect: O God, who gave the Priest Saint Jerome a living and tender love for Sacred Scripture, grant that your people may be ever more fruitfully nourished by your Word and find in it the fount of life. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.
RECIPES
ACTIVITIES
o Namedays
PRAYERS
o September Devotion: Our Lady of Sorrows
o A Prayer of Saint Jerome for Christ's Mercy
LIBRARY
o On St. Jerome (Spiritus Paraclitus) | Pope Benedict XV
o Saint Jerome (1) | Pope Benedict XVI
o Saint Jerome (2) | Pope Benedict XVI
o The Literary Influence of St. Jerome | Rev. William P. H.
· Ordinary Time: September 30th
· Memorial of St. Jerome, priest and Doctor of the Church
Old Calendar: St. Jerome, Priest, Confessor, Doctor
Born in Dalmatia of a Christian, Jerome (345-420) was baptized in Rome, while taking his classical courses. He then studied under the best masters in foreign cities. But the Church had need of this extraordinarily gifted man. Jerome heard and obeyed the divine call, made a vow of celibacy, and withdrew for four years to a hermitage in the Syrian desert. The Holy Father soon summoned Jerome to Rome and entrusted him with the enormous task of revising the Latin Bible. This work, which took 30 years to complete, is the Vulgate version of the Scriptures. He also wrote many other works, mostly commentaries on the books of the Bible.
St. Jerome
One of the greatest Biblical scholars of Christendom, Saint Jerome was born of Christian parents at Stridon in Dalmatia around the year 345. Educated at the local school, he then studied rhetoric in Rome for eight years, before returning to Aquilea to set up a community of ascetics. When that community broke up after three years Jerome went to the east. He met an old hermit named Malchus, who inspired the saint to live in a bare cell, dressed in sackcloth, studying the Scriptures.
He learned Hebrew from a rabbi. Then he returned to Antioch and was reluctantly ordained priest. With his bishop he visited Constantinople and became friendly with Saints Gregory Nazianzen and Gregory of Nyssa. And then in 382 he went again to Rome, to become the personal secretary of Pope Damasus. Here he met his dearest friends, a wealthy woman called Paula, her daughter Eustochium and another wealthy woman named Marcella.
Here too he began his finest work. Commissioned by the pope, he began to revise the Latin version of the psalms and the New Testament, with immense care and scholarship. Jerome eventually translated the whole of the Bible into the Latin version which is known as the Vulgate. But when Damasus died, his enemies forced the saint to leave Rome.
Accompanied by Paula and Eustochium, Jerome went to Bethlehem. There he lived for thirty-four years till his death in 420, building a monastery over which he presided and a convent headed first by Paula and after her death by Eustochium. The saint set up a hospice for the countless pilgrims to that place. His scholarship, his polemics, his treatises and letters often provoked anger and always stimulated those who read them. 'Plato located the soul of man in the head,' he wrote, 'Christ located it in the heart.'
Excerpted from A Calendar of Saints by James Bentley
Patron: Archeologists; archivists; Bible scholars; librarians; libraries; schoolchildren; students; translators.
Symbols: Cardinal's hat; lion; aged monk in desert; aged monk with Bible.
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