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For roughly one thousand years, it was the Bible of Western Christendom. It was the version to which European Christians turned to compose their prayers and liturgies, that great saints consulted in their meditations, and that the greatest scholars quoted in their treatises.ItÂ’s harder to think of a translation of the Bible that has had more staying power than St. JeromeÂ’s Latin version, known as the Vulgate, which was completed late in the fourth century and held sway over the Church through the Council of Trent, in the mid-1500s. Of course, the Vulgate is not the work of Jerome...

"Therefore, just as the Church also reads the books of Judith, Tobias, and the Maccabees, but does not receive them among the the canonical Scriptures, so also one may read these two scrolls for the strengthening of the people, (but) not for confirming the authority of ecclesiastical dogmas." St. Jerome's preface to the Books of Wisdom. I long ago read where St. Jerome calls anyone who claims he disdains the canon of the Septuagint, "a fool or a slanderer." He says he was merely representing the opinions of the Jews. For me, that always settled the matter of St. Jerome's...

St. Jerome on the Bible "Love Sacred Scripture and Wisdom Shall Love You" VATICAN CITY, NOV. 14, 2007 (Zenit.org).- Here is a translation of the address Benedict XVI delivered today at the general audience in St. Peter's Square. The reflection focused on St. Jerome. * * * Dear brothers and sisters! Today we continue with the presentation of St. Jerome. As we said last Wednesday, he devoted his life to the study of the Bible, for which he was acknowledged as "eminent doctor in the interpretation of sacred Scripture" by one of my predecessors, Pope Benedict XV. Jerome underlined the...

On St. Jerome "To Ignore Scripture is to Ignore Christ" VATICAN CITY, NOV. 7, 2007 (Zenit.org).- Here is a translation of the address Benedict XVI delivered today at the general audience in St. Peter's Square on St. Jerome. * * * Dear brothers and sisters! We will turn our attention today to St. Jerome, a Father of the Church who placed the Bible at the center of his life: He translated it into Latin, he commented on it in his writings, and above all he committed to live it concretely in his long earthly existence, despite his naturally difficult and...

by Br. Ezra Sullivan, O.P Other Articles by Br. Ezra Sullivan, O.P St. Jerome — Feminist? 09/30/06 Some saints seem made for controversy. It is not that they enjoyed arguing. Rather, their holy daring was foolishness to some and a stumbling block to others. And if they were intellectuals, the saints defended their folly of the Cross. One could say that Saint Jerome is the patron saint of controversialists. In This Article...The Monk and His Lady FriendsTake That, You GuysThose Brainy Female Saints The Monk and His Lady Friends His two most famous sayings are both negative: “Ignorance of the Scriptures...

September 30, 2006 Memorial of Saint Jerome, priest and doctor of the Church Psalm: Saturday 40 Reading 1Eccl 11:9—12:8 Rejoice, O young man, while you are young and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth.Follow the ways of your heart,the vision of your eyes;Yet understand that as regards all thisGod will bring you to judgment.Ward off grief from your heartand put away trouble from your presence,though the dawn of youth is fleeting. Remember your Creator in the days of your youth,before the evil days comeAnd the years approach of which you will say,I have no pleasure...

Catholic Online SaintsSt. Jerome Doctor of the Church d. b.331 d.420 Feastday: September 30 Patron of Librarians St. Jerome, who was born Eusebius Hieronymous Sophronius, was the most learned of the Fathers of the Western Church. He was born about the year 342 at Stridonius, a small town at the head of the Adriatic, near the episcopal city of Aquileia. His father, a Christian, took care that his son was well instructed at home, then sent him to Rome, where the young man's teachers were the famous pagan grammarian Donatus and Victorinus, a Christian rhetorician. Jerome's native tongue was...

September 30, 2004 Memorial of Saint Jerome, priest and doctor of the Church Psalm: Thursday 42 Reading I Responsorial Psalm Gospel Reading IJb 19:21-27 Job said: Pity me, pity me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has struck me! Why do you hound me as though you were divine, and insatiably prey upon me? Oh, would that my words were written down! Would that they were inscribed in a record: That with an iron chisel and with lead they were cut in the rock forever! But as for me, I know that my Vindicator lives, and...

September 30, 2003Memorial of Saint Jerome, priest and doctor of the Church Psalm: Tuesday 42 Reading I Responsorial Psalm Gospel Reading IZec 8:20-23 Thus says the LORD of hosts:There shall yet come peoples,the inhabitants of many cities;and the inhabitants of one city shall approach those of another,and say, "Come! let us go to implore the favor of the LORD";and, "I too will go to seek the LORD."Many peoples and strong nations shall cometo seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalemand to implore the favor of the LORD.Thus says the LORD of hosts:In those days ten men of every nationality, speaking...

September 30, 2002Memorial of Saint Jerome, priest and doctor of the Church Psalm: Monday 43 Reading I Responsorial Psalm Gospel Reading IJob 1:6-22 One day, when the angels of God came to present themselves before the Lord,Satan also came among them.And the Lord said to Satan, "Whence do you come?"Then Satan answered the Lord and said,"From roaming the earth and patrolling it." And the Lord said to Satan, "Have you noticed my servant Job,and that there is no one on earth like him,blameless and upright, fearing God and avoiding evil?"But Satan answered the Lord and said,"Is it for nothing that...