I’ve been tagged by the Young Fogey:

1. How many Bibles are in your home?

Five full Bibles
Four children’s Bibles
Three partial ‘Bibles’

2. What rooms are they in?

The five full Bibles are in the family office.
One children’s Bible is in the dining room the others are in the children’s rooms.
Of the partial Bibles, one is in our office, and two are at our parish.

3. What translations do you have?

Whole Bibles

1. The New American Bible (paperback, 1970)
2. The New American Bible (1992 with revised New Testament)
3. Douay/Confraternity Bible (1955, Daughters of St. Paul)
4. The New English Bible with Apocrypha (1971, Oxford University Press)
5. The New International Version

Children’s Bibles

1. Read with me Bible (NIrV Children’s Bible, ZonderKidz, 2000)
2. The Children’s Bible (Golden Press, 1965)
3. The Beginners Bible (Zondervan, 1989)
4. The Book for Children (Tyndale, 2000)

Partial

1. The Lectionary for Mass, 1970 Edition
2. Book of Sung Gospels, 3rd Edition, CanticaNova
3. Christian Prayer, The Liturgy of the Hours, Helicon Press, 1976 (one volume edition)

4. Do you have a preference?

For beautiful reading I love the Douay/Confraternity edition. For study and homily preparation the NAB edition, since it is what is used at Holy Mass in the PNCC. For comparative I use online resources and generally refer to the Revised Standard Version and the NIV. The RSV with Apocrypha is the official study Bible of the PNCC.

5. Nominate an interesting verse:

1 John 4:18

Love has no room for fear;
rather, perfect love casts out all fear.

I pass this on to Edward Yong and Mr. and Mrs. Darwin.