IMPORTANT NOTE: THE NAME OF GOD “YAHVE” appears in many Catholic Bibles and it is read from the pulpit at mass. Saying the contrary is a lie.
¿JEHOVÁ O YAHVÉ? El increíble error histórico sobre el Nombre de Dios. El Tetragrámaton.
Yahweh – The personal name of God
https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/yahweh
“Did the Catholic Church prohibit the use of the name Jehovah and removed it from its Bibles?”
I discovered to my great surprise that the name “Yahve” or “Yahweh” appears in many Catholic Bibles and this name is read during the Catholic mass in the reading of the Liturgy of the Word or the Liturgy of the Holy Scriptures from the pulpit! It is the case in my very own church!!
“To avoid taking the Holy Name of God in vain and therefore break the 2nd Commandment”, the Catholic Church has taken the same approach as devout Jews who preferred an alternative not to sully the Holy name of God. No one is sure of the exact pronunciation of the original Tetragrammaton YHWH. The scribes “wrote the consonants YHWH using the vowel points for Adonai as a reminder to Jewish lectors to say “Adonai” instead of “Yahweh.” This custom of writing the consonants of one word with the vowels of another is where we get the English word “Jehovah.” In Latin, “YHWH” had become “JHWH,” and when combined with the vowels of Adonai—a, o, and a—it became “Jahowah,” which then became the English “Jehovah.” Some have argued that this usage began in the Christian community as early as the twelfth century, though it is often traced to 1518, when Petrus Galantinus, O.F.M. [a Catholic Franciscan Friar]—the confessor of Pope Leo X—published a book that popularized it.”
If one travels a little around the world, actually many evangelist denominations commonly use the very same name “Jehovah” while the Catholic Liturgy prefers to use “Yahweh” or “THE LORD” for the aforementioned reasons. The JWs are neither the inventors nor the keepers nor the only users of the name Jehovah or Yahweh as most of them proudly believe. For more see https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/yahweh.
Also, JWs love to pride themselves in believing and promoting that they have some kind of primacy on God’s name and that they are the ones who restored it where it was originally in the Bible “7000 times” and therefore give due glory to God. Where the biggest fallacy resides is that they fail to realize that not only the Catholic Church, as the Jews did, always had at heart the First Commandment never to take the Holy Name of God in vain, but also that true worship and giving glory to God start with recognizing Who He is and What He says He is. Rejecting what God Himself explains of Him being a Holy Trinity, God The Father, God The Son and God The Holy Spirit and relegating the Second Person of the Holy Trinity The Logos to the mere status of an angelic creature (JWs have no idea that they are actually. recycling an old Third Century heresy from Arianism) and demoting the Third Person of the Holy Trinity to the rank of a mere force instead of a Person is nothing less than a purely demonic blasphemy and their teachings sully the very Name that they claim to glorify, not to mention the other blasphemies they spread against the Holy Virgin Mary, Mother of God The Son!
Why Yahweh Isn’t Used in Catholic Liturgy
https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/why-yahweh-isnt-used-in-catholic-liturgy-4986
The Name of God in the Liturgy
Jehovah (Yahweh)
Catholic Encyclopedia
https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08329a.htm
Is God’s Name Yahweh or Jehovah?
https://www.catholic.com/qa/is-gods-name-yahweh-or-jehovah
How Can We Name God? The Triplex Viae (Aquinas 101)
THE NAME OF GOD
MINUTE 25′
https://www.youtube.com/live/URI5T0Fs8QA