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  • Not to be used in Catholic worship ( Holy See lays down law on use of ‘Yaweh’ and ‘Jehovah’ )

    09/22/2008 7:40:02 AM PDT · by kellynla · 35 replies · 365+ views
    California Catholic Daily ^ | September 22, 2008 | staff
    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...