"All I said was that this fish was good enough for Yahweh."
Posted on 09/22/2008 7:40:02 AM PDT by kellynla
The Holy See has ruled that the tetragrammaton, the Old Testament’s name for God and rendered “Yahweh” or “Jehovah,” may not be used in Catholic worship.
[[Serratelli092208.jpg]]The Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments issued the ruling earlier this summer, and Bishop Arthur Serratelli of Paterson, N.J., chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Divine Worship, informed the U.S. bishops of it last month.
Though the ruling does not affect in any way the official liturgy of the Mass, it will require the editing of some general intercessions used in the Mass and the celebration of other sacraments. Also affected will be some popular songs used in the Church in the United States, such as “I Will Bless Yahweh,” “Rise, O Yahweh,” and “You Are Near,” which opens with “Yahweh, I know you are near.”
“You Are Near” is among the more popular songs used in Catholic worship in the U.S., said John Limb of Oregon Catholic Press, according a Catholic News Service article in the Sept. 8 Catholic Voice, the newspaper of the Oakland diocese. The article said the Oregon Catholic Press web site lists about 12 songs that feature the tetragrammaton.
Oregon Catholic Press has already printed its throwaway songbooks for 2009, so the changes will not be apparent until 2010 at the earliest. Another major publisher, GIA Publications in Chicago, has long had a policy against using the tetragrammaton. For instance, in GIA songbooks, the song “Thanks Be to Yahweh” appears as “Thanks Be to God.”
(Excerpt) Read more at calcatholic.com ...
ping
One would think that the Holy See would be more concerned with dealing with the Communist infiltration of the Roman Catholic Church with their "Liberation Theology"!
Everything that comes out of OCP is a throwaway, IMO.
They dealt with that years ago. It’s condemned.
Excuse me, are you a Catholic?
We “Bible Churchers” worship from the heart, not a book.
Actually by your own words you worship from the Bible, a book, an inspired book but a book, nonetheless. Catholics, on the other hand, worship from the whole deposit of faith led by the Holy Spirit.
Sales of Whiteout have tripled
Is spiritual pride a sin?
Your post would be absolutely correct if The Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments dealt with Liberation Theology but it doesn't. So your post is invalid.
God's answer to Moses is thus at once a refusal and a pledge. He says of himself simply, "I am who I am"--he is without any qualification. This pledge is a name and a non-name at one and the same time. The Israelites were therefore perfectly right in refusing to utter this self-designation of God, expressed in the YHWH, so as to avoid degrading it to the level of names of pagan deities. By the same token, recent Bible translations were wrong to write out this name--which Israel always regarded as mysterious and unutterable--as if it were just any old name. By doing so, they have dragged the mystery of God, which cannot be captured in images or in names lips can utter, down to the level of some familiar item within a common history of religions. ---Pope Benedict XVI, Jesus of Nazareth, p. 143.
We should call God by the title "Father," as Jesus teaches us.
Thanks for the quote! :)
I read the book (twice, actually — so far), but I had forgotten that.
Good - lay down the law on hand holding during the Lord’s Prayer too. It creeps me out.
"All I said was that this fish was good enough for Yahweh."
(1) You clearly don't know what a first century Jew meant by the term kodesh ("hallowed").
(2) It is interesting that nowhere in the New Testament is the Tetragrammaton used.
Why would that be?
QUOTE:It is interesting that nowhere in the New Testament is the Tetragrammaton used.
Why would that be?
END QUOTE
The same reason ‘mass’ ‘transubstantiation’ ‘eucharist’ are not used perhaps?
I don’t even care about this issue- I just think your argument is specious
will wallace
A horrible hymn imo. Plodding and annoying.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.