[malakhi]

To work that hard to change Gods word cannot be good, no matter what you think of the Pope

And coming to her, he said, "Hail, favored one! The Lord is with you." (Luke 1:28 - NAB)

Better take this up, then, with the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Vatican, who approved the Lectionary based upon this translation in 1998.

[OLD REGGIE]

And coming to her, he said, "Hail, favored one! The Lord is with you." (Luke 1:28 - NAB) Better take this up, then, with the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Vatican, who approved the Lectionary based upon this translation in 1998.

It is decidedly unfair of you to mention this slight discrepancy. ventenna is pleased with the "political" motivation to re-translate the RSV "favored" to "grace" and will probably be equally unpleased with the "scholarly" motivation of the NAB translators.