Really though, instead of having something so large that you can only us it at your mountain top monk retreat, don't you think that it would be useful to have something that you can take with you to Bible studies, marriage retreats, study and fellowship with other rcc at places that are not your home, and maybe even a mass....if expositional teaching was part of mass??
Thanks Mr. Gutenberg (no, not Steve).
Of course it would. I said I'm shopping around.
....if expositional teaching was part of mass??
It is and always has been.
If you mean the RCC, you are wrong.
...Anglicans are among the many today who laud Tyndale as the "father of the English Bible." But it was their own founder, King Henry VIII, who in 1531 declared that, "the translation of the Scripture corrupted by William Tyndale should be utterly expelled, rejected, and put away out of the hands of the people."
So troublesome did Tyndale's Bible prove to be that in 1543 — after his break with Rome — Henry VIII again decreed that "all manner of books of the Old and New Testament in English, being of the crafty, false, and untrue translation of Tyndale . . . shall be clearly and utterly abolished, extinguished, and forbidden to be kept or used in this realm."
Ultimately, it was the secular authorities who proved to be the end for Tyndale. He was arrested and tried (and sentenced to die) in the court of the Holy Roman Emperor in 1536. His translation of the Bible was heretical because it contained heretical ideas — not because the act of translation was heretical in and of itself. In fact, the Catholic Church would produce a translation of the Bible into English a few years later (the Douay-Rheims version, whose New Testament was released in 1582 and whose Old Testament was released in 1609).
http://www.catholicculture.org/library/view.cfm?recnum=4749
The only reason to thank Tyndale is to express gratitude for his flawed anti-Catholic mistranslation of Scripture.