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When did the roman Catholic church stop using the name Jehovah?
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EARLIEST EXAMPLE OF NON-USE OF HOLY NAME BY CHRISTENDOM:
EARLY in the second century, after the last of the apostles had died, the falling away from the Christian faith foretold by Jesus and his followers began in earnest. Pagan philosophies and doctrines infiltrated the congregation; sects and divisions arose, and the original purity of faith was corrupted. And God's name ceased to be used.
As this apostate Christianity spread, the need arose to translate The Bible from its original Hebrew and Greek into other languages. Usually, the translators rendered God's name in their translations as the equivalent of "Lord." A very influential version of that time was the Latin Vulgate, a translation of the Bible by Jerome, a Catholic priest and secretary to Pope Damasus I. Jerome rendered the Tetragrammaton (YHWH) by substituting Dominus, "Lord."
Eventually, new languages, such as French, English and Spanish, began to emerge in Europe. However, the Catholic Church discouraged the translating of the Bible into these new languages. Thus, while Jews, using the Bible in the original Hebrew language, refused to pronounce God's name when they saw it, most "Christians" heard the Bible read in Latin translations that did not use the name.
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The Douay Version, a 1610 Catholic translation, was basically a Latin Vulgate translated into English. It is no surprise, then, that this Bible did not include God's personal name at all. However, the Douay Version was not just another Bible translation. It became the only authorized Bible for English-speaking Catholics until the 1940's. Yes, for hundreds of years, the name of God was hidden from millions of devoted Catholics.
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Posted on Tue Aug 12 2008 15:40:53 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) by NYer
WASHINGTON (CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICES) -- In the not-too-distant future, songs such as "You Are Near," "I Will Bless Yahweh" and "Rise, O Yahweh" will no longer be part of the Catholic worship experience in the United States.
At the very least, the songs will be edited to remove the word "Yahweh" -- a name of God that the Vatican has ruled must not "be used or pronounced" in songs and prayers during Catholic Masses.
Bishop Arthur J. Serratelli of Paterson, N.J., chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Divine Worship, announced the new Vatican "directives on the use of 'the name of God' in the sacred liturgy" in an Aug. 8 letter to his fellow bishops.
He said the directives would not "force any changes to official liturgical texts" or to the bishops' current missal translation project but would likely have "some impact on the use of particular pieces of liturgical music in our country as well as in the composition of variable texts such as the general intercessions for the celebration of the Mass and the other sacraments."
John Limb, publisher of OCP in Portland, Ore., said the most popular hymn in the OCP repertoire that would be affected was Dan Schutte's "You Are Near," which begins, "Yahweh, I know you are near."
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