RE: [DL] Becoming Blessed

["Jeff Yates" <jyates@poboxes.com>]

The funny thing is (on my end), I'm not Catholic.  My wife is.  Anyway,
yeah, mass was in Latin for the longest time.  But that doesn't mean that
the Bible wasn't available in English.  I have an excerpt from the History
Channel web site:

"The greatest English translation (and one of the most influential English
prose works) is the Authorized Version (AV), or King James Version (KJV), of
1611, made by a group of churchmen and scholars led by Lancelot Andrewes.
The Rheims-Douay Version was produced by Roman Catholic scholars at Rheims
(New Testament, 1582) and Douai (Old Testament, 1610), France. In the 19th
cent., the Authorized Version was revised as the English Revised Version and
the American Revised Version (pub. 1880-90)."

So there are a couple of versions available in a language near you =)

Besides, all those old family Bibles, with births and deaths of generations
of a family recorded therein, are going to be printed in a language the
family can read.  That's why every family had one.  "Pa'd read Scripture
every night, while Ma did the sewin', so'n us kids would grow up all
spiritual-like."

Jeff "It seems like I'm smart, but really I just know where all the good
search engines are" Y.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-deadlands@gamerz.net [mailto:owner-deadlands@gamerz.net]On
> Behalf Of Martha Frey
> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 4:11 PM
> To: deadlands@gamerz.net
> Subject: RE: [DL] Becoming Blessed
>
>
> BWAHAHA!!  I'm sorry, the thought of Maggie as a nun
> just cracked me up...  No offense intended, I just
> could not resist!
>
> *snicker*  "Young lady put those guns down!"
>
> And just one more point to clarify; I don't think
> Bibles are printed in English in 1876/77.  Heck they
> weren't printed in English in the 50's!  You'd need to
> learn Latin first.  Although I'm sure you can get
> small prayer books in English; Maggie got one so she'd
> have a copy of the Last Rites.
>
> Marguerite of EMGB, otherwise known as Maggie Jensen
>
> --- Jeff Yates <jyates@poboxes.com> wrote:
> > Well, if staying Catholic then she could be a nun,
> > right?  'Course, readin'
> > the Good Book should be enough for a couple o'
> > points o' Theology, so
> > technically a Blessed don't need the whole Church
> > organization.  Besides,
> > where's the fun in roleplaying your way thru the
> > seminary, or the nun's
> > equivalent?  OK, so a good GM could make it fun...
> >
> > (Sorry about the male assumption, but in Real
> > Life(tm) Catholic priests are
> > men.  And I just blanked on the fact that there were
> > quite a few Sisters
> > braving the dangers of the west.  Being female
> > didn't keep Joan of Arc from
> > being Blessed.  Anyone know which of the Protestant
> > flavors didn't keep
> > women out of the pulpit, if any, during the 1800's?
> > It doesn't happen much
> > even today, so I'd guess it was even more
> > restrictive gender-wise 100+ years
> > ago.)
> >
> > Jeff Y.
>
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