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2022 Birthday Perspective: Sister Carol Thresher, SDS
By Carol Thresher, SDS
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
For their birthdays, we asked Salvatorian Sisters to recommend a piece of media (book, poem, movie, etc.) that changed their perspective.
Sister Carol Thresher, SDS shares about the bible translation that changed her relationship with Jesus’s message.
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During the early 1960s, shortly after I entered the Salvatorian Sisters, I discovered a translation of the New Testament that I could really understand. Instead of the old-fashioned biblical language with its “thee-s and thou-s,” I found a version that actually sounded like the English I knew. From that point on, I began to understand the words and the message of Jesus in a way I never had before. This experience opened up a new world for me. My love for the Bible and its message has continued to grow since those days. I am grateful to James Kleist and Joseph Lilly as well as the Milwaukee Catholic-based Bruce Publishing Company for putting that modern translation into my hands. They set me on a path of love of Sacred Scripture as well as a deep respect for translations that truly communicate and make real sense to the reader. Both of these learnings have made a remarkable difference in my life.