Catholic lectionary misrepresentation

Sorry to be persnickety but ...

What Logos presents is not a copy of the official version. The official version is NAB [mine is displaying NRSV] and the official version may include incipits not in the standard translation. For example, the official version:

Reading II

Eph 1:3-6, 11-12

Brothers and sisters:

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

who has blessed us in Christ

Where the NAB has:

2 grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3 † Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavens,
Confraternity of Christian Doctrine. Board of Trustees, Catholic Church. National Conference of Catholic Bishops, & United States Catholic Conference. Administrative Board. (1996). The New American Bible : Translated from the original languages with critical use of all the ancient sources and the revised New Testament. Confraternity of Christian Doctrine.

The "Brothers and sisters" in the incipit.

Not to mention that the Logos version is incomplete. Logos provides a list of the reading passages in the Lectionary and supplies the text of those passages - which is exactly what Logos should do. But they need to show a bit more precision in their front materials.

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MJ. Smith

I'm not happy with the above post ... I had indented the quotations using the icons ... in the entry screen it looked fine but the formating was lost in the actual post.

Damian McGrath

What Logos presents is not a copy of the official version. The official version is NAB [mine is displaying NRSV] and the official version may include incipits not in the standard translation.

I know what you're getting at Martha. But, the copyright refers not to the texts but to the pericope borders. As you have noted elsewhere, the choice of pericope and the choice of biblical translation are two separate matters.

Further, as you know, the NAB used by the American Bishops is not the NAB found in Logos, just as the JB used in the rest of the English speaking world is not found in any print edition of the JB (all occurrences of the Divine Name have been replaced by Lord in the lectionary).

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/60912#Comment_60912

copyright refers not to the texts but to the pericope borders. As you have noted elsewhere, the choice of pericope and the choice of biblical translation are two separate matters.

Which is why I think Logos has to be more precise. I don't want my lectors/liturgical readers to think that if they practice it from Logos, they've got it right.

Louis St. Hilaire

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/60918#Comment_60918

This is some generic language that was carried over directly from the metadata of old 3.0 report where the chance of confusion with a real "book" was much smaller (and where this was hidden in metadata not easily accessible to the user anyway). In the Catholic case where the "official version" of the US Bishops it appears to refer to really specifies not just the pericope borders but the precise words (which don't even exactly match the RNAB), it isn't exactly true. We'll change it.

Thanks for catching this.