The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-05-04
Cardinal Wiseman and the Freeman:
journal,

" the Lord is with thee"
Devoted as our pages are to our eve
Blessed Mother under the title of MORN
ING STAR, we cannot help feeling inter
ested in all that concerns Her, and He
service.
| we think the question is very far from
being concluded by what has been said il
the Freemdn's Journal, and that very sole
reasons can be given in favor of the NOR.
tender words Our Lord"
l. The Hail Mary is not q text Of Scrip
ture' but prayer. 1t is partly composed
OF two verses of the Gospel taken out of
their context and put together, and the two
most important words, Jesus" and
Mary " are inserted though not found in
either of the verses. Consequently it is to
be translated in the spirit of prayer, and
not with the rigor commonly used in a text
of Scripture.
2. A translation, even of Sacred Scrip-
ture, is necessarily not an exact copy of
the original. Every language can express
easily some idea, which other languages
can convey only imperfectly. Even in the
Apostles Creed-a rigid formulary of faith,
the English says, 81 believe in God the
Father" whereas the Latin does not ex-
press whether it is tho Father or q Father,
For expressing the affections, land pray.
ers are chiefly utterances of affection) Ian
guages differ not only in what they can
convey, but In what the dispositions of the
people incline them to convey. What &C.
'ording to tho Latin is the Greater
week" the modern languages commonly
'all Holy Week." and what some Ian
'uages call " Holy Friday" in English is
allied with more tenderness Good Fri
lay"
We do not know that the Church has ever
ondemned certain degree of freedom in ,
blowing the genius or dispositions of the l
eople in trans!ating the prayers even of 6
er liturgy. 4
In the beginning of the Litanies almost i
'erybody says in English " Lord, have 9
Grey on u.s." The Kyrie eleison of the b
hurch, expresses only "Lord have mer- o
=" >,
We have seen in the English Raccolta of
dulgences, decree of Rome, that those Il
no use the translations it contains, may II
In the same Irdulgences as those who re- il
% the prayers in the original tongue. And it
ls haccolta, in the Litany of the Blessed b,
rgln, translates Mater Creators, Ma al
Salvatoris,"-by " Mother of our Crea- OF
:, Mother of our Saviour" G.
Sd. In English usage "Me Lord" ia til
understood of the eternal God TO
nd and sour Lord " means, God made
IA for our redemption. The Angels so
rds to the Blessed Virgin, Dominus to- ar
NJ may be understood in either one of tr
se senses. The Fathers of the Church De
o both explanations. p,
The early English Catholics ONLY exer. hi,
cd the liberty which the Church vindicates Ca
her children, in adopting the sense and ha
phrase that seemed more tender.
Our Lord - is the old phrase in art
sllsh and " the Lord" is an innoya- to
]. cardinal Wiseman testifes, and we ella
g not seen him contradicted in this ra. Y
d, that the form "Our Lord is with que
:" was always used in England. ~ emf
before I've translation of the Tesla rea
It at Rheims-that is before a. D. 1895,
DO not know that it was ever changed anC
Q by any competent authority. The froi
Ilnaf writes A. d. 1887: 1--WE take it from rea'
freeman's JournaD chat he has observ- self
tie tendency to introduce this va. care
on and say "the Lord is with theen-"o of t
'Se that We strongly deprecate.n It dec
Is then to have been made by SOME ina
Vldual publisher or reviser, without an it is
lty, at least publicly known. If we but
any pleasure in imagining unworthy fine
YES in those who differ from ourselves erat
might say this new form "the Lord ,, ever
mated in the conceit of some over Bro
us purist, some " enlightened Catho- -0N'
eager to exhibit his superior bible So
ing over the simple faith of his fore eral
RS. But although we do not admire ety.
wisdom, we will not refuse him the chur'
t of good intentions INC ing p
ing t
len we read over the language which Der o
otemporary applies to those who frat from
the form sc Cur Lord is with thee.n- comp
INA goes back to the days when Eng show
'athoilcs said their beads SO habitu. the .
that men like Sir Tbor,, u being
sipn +boi, ,.. ~ AOle FebrI