Corrections

Every book we publish is corrected when an error is found, and every correction is recorded here, book by book. The dates are when the corrected text went out. Each book's copyright page links to its own section below.

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Title	Edition	Text revised
The Original Douay-Rheims Bible	Modern Spelling	2026-09-29 12:07
The Original Douay-Rheims Bible	Reader Edition	2026-09-29 12:07
The Original Douay-Rheims Bible	Original Spelling	2026-09-29 12:07
The Daily Bible, with the Manna of the Soul	Modern Spelling	2026-09-29 12:07
The Daily Bible, with the Manna of the Soul	Reader Edition	2026-09-29 12:07
A Catechism of St. Alphonsus Liguori	Kindle	2026-10-04 11:32
The Truth of the Faith	Kindle	2026-10-04 10:49
Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year	Kindle	2026-10-05 08:41
The Life and Glories of St. Joseph	Kindle	(no revision line)
The Manna of the Soul	Kindle	(no revision line)
The Problem with Protestant Bibles	Kindle	(no revision line)
The Liturgical Year: Advent	Kindle	2026-10-02 23:24

If your copy shows an earlier date, everything listed below with a later date has not reached you yet.

The Original Douay-Rheims Bible

All editions, and the Daily Bible with the Manna of the Soul

This edition is transcribed from the 1582 Rheims and 1609–1610 Douay printings, letter by letter. Transcription at that scale produces errors, and the honest thing to do with an error is to fix it and say so. Everything below has been corrected. The dates are when the corrected text went out.

5 October 2026

Saint Paul’s “I”, missing from the opening of two epistles

Ephesians 4 and 2 Timothy 4 both begin with the Apostle speaking in his own voice: “I therefore prisoner in our Lord, beseech you…” and “I testify before God and Jesus Christ…” In the Modern Spelling text the word “I” was absent from both, so the sentences began “Therefore prisoner…” and “Testify before God…”
The cause was a misread initial. Both chapters open with a large decorated letter, and in these two the decorated letter is itself the word: a woodcut “I”, with the next word set beside it in ordinary type. It had been taken for a “T”, which absorbed the pronoun. The Original Spelling text was never affected and has carried the word all along.
Every chapter was then checked for the same fault. Seven others open with a single letter standing apart from what follows, but in those the letter is the first stroke of the word itself (And, In, Arphaxad), and they were already right.
This is on the website now. It reaches the Kindle editions at the next release, so the revision dates in the table above do not move for it yet.

30 September 2026

792 of the printers’ margin keys, which had never reached the page

The 1582 and 1609 printers tie each margin note to one particular word by setting a small letter beside it. 792 of those letters had been recorded when the page was transcribed but never placed in the verse, across 59 chapters — mostly the Psalms. A reader saw a note in the margin with nothing to say which word it was about. They are now set where the print sets them.
20 more were deliberately left alone. They are in the New Testament, and the evidence for them turned out to be an artefact: the letters had come from a scholarly transcription’s own numbering rather than from the printed page. Genuine keys run through the alphabet and thin out — a, b, c, d, e. These did not; 143 of them were the letter c. Setting them would have claimed a key the printers never set.
This is on the website now. It reaches the Kindle editions at the next release, so the revision dates in the table above do not move for it yet.

29 September 2026

Ten more printed leaves, and a verse division put back where the page has it

108 further readings were corrected, every one checked against a photograph of the printed leaf. Four chapters were read straight through rather than looked up: Psalms 17, 21 and 67, and Proverbs 14. Reading a whole page finds what a worklist cannot — the verses themselves came back clean, and every one of the 108 was in the apparatus around them.
90 more of the printers’ margin keys were restored, in Psalms 17 and 21. The letters had been recorded but never set beside the words they mark, so those chapters measured as having no keys at all when in fact the print sets one against every gloss.
A verse division was corrected. In Psalm 67 the words “Behold he wil giue to his voice the voice of strength” had been run on into verse 34; the printed numeral stands at the head of that line, so they open verse 35. The Latin Vulgate divides it the other way, which is how the error survived — a transcription that knows the Latin will quietly follow it where the English print disagrees.
26 passages had words missing from the margin notes, found by comparing our text against an independent transcription of the same edition. A note at Psalm 3:2 read “that al Israel with al their Absalom” where the page reads “with al their hart foloweth Absalom”. Two words had dropped out and the sentence still scanned, so nothing had flagged it. Among the rest, Romans 4:11 had lost the phrase “ex opere operato”.
Three faults of setting rather than of text. Two note markers standing at the same point were printed flush, so notes 19 and 20 read as a single note numbered 1920; they are now separated. Verse numbers that link to an annotation were taking the colour of a footnote link and became indistinguishable from one. And a verse number sat closer to the verse it ends than to the one it opens.

28 September 2026

The printers’ own margin keys, and 805 readings checked against the page

The 1582 and 1609 printers keyed a margin note to a particular word by setting a small letter beside it — an a, b or c standing just before the word the note is about. 2,146 of these had never appeared in the books at all. They are now set as superscripts in the Original Spelling edition, so a note in the margin can be traced to the word it belongs to, as it can on the printed page.
805 readings were corrected. Each one was checked against a photograph of the printed leaf itself, not against another transcription — which matters, because the scholarly transcription we had been comparing against turns out to be wrong more often than we are. Among them: 2 Kings 15:18 read “the legion of Cerethi” where the page reads “the legions Cerethi”; Acts 20:16 had lost the word “had”; 2 Peter 2:6 had lost “of”.
155 margin notes were showing the text of a DIFFERENT note. At Matthew 1:1 the Modern Spelling edition gave a block of cross-references as the modern wording of a note about the Christmas Matins Gospel. Both were real notes from that page, which is why nothing had caught it.
Where the printers themselves slipped, the Modern Spelling and Reader editions now say so on the word. Ecclesiasticus 7:1 is set “they shal nor apprehend thee” in 1582 — the Latin has non, and nor is a compositor’s error. The editions read “not” and carry a note recording what the page actually sets.
Seven words that the printers broke across a line — bat- tel, king- dom, Alexan- der — had been captured with the break still in them, so the hyphen appeared in the middle of a sentence wherever the text happened to wrap. They are joined.

25 September 2026

The head of each book was printed in the wrong spelling

In the Modern Spelling and Reader editions, the printed title standing at the head of each book was still in 1609 spelling. Proverbs opened “THE BOOKE OF PROVERBES, WHICH THE HEBREWES CAL MISLE.” directly above a summary written in modern English. 71 of the 75 books were affected. The Original Spelling edition was correct throughout and is unchanged.
Three books had never had their title read at all — 1 Kings, 2 Kings and Nahum. The pages were photographed and read: “THE FIRST BOOKE OF SAMVEL, WHICH WE CAL THE FIRST OF KINGES.” and its second book, and “THE PROPHECIE OF NAHVM.” Nahum’s had been missed because the printers set it at the foot of the previous page, below the end of Micheas, rather than at the head of its own.
The printed page headings — the theme word the 1609 printers set in the top margin, such as “Dauid. Goliath.” over 1 Kings 17 — now appear on 128 more chapters. They had been captured all along but not read by the software that builds the book.
Six books were missing the translators’ own introduction to them. The 1609 printers set an Argument at the head of most books, summarising what the book contains and how it divides; Numbers, Deuteronomy, Josue and Judges had it only in modern spelling, so the Original Spelling edition opened them in modern English, and Lamentations and 3 Esdras had it in neither. All six are now in both editions. Lamentations turned out to carry a full Argument and then a separate opening verse which the printers’ own margin note says is not Jeremias’ but was added by the Septuagint translators. 3 Esdras has no Argument: in its place the translators explain that they made no notes on it, “because the text it self is but as a Commentarie to the Canonical bookes”.
Four books also have no Argument at all, and that is the printers’ doing, not an omission here: 2 Paralipomenon, 2 Esdras, 2 Machabees and 4 Esdras each continue a book that came before, and the 1609 print gives a continuation book none. Each page was photographed and read to be sure.
A marginal note sometimes began with the words of the note beside it. Thirty-five notes were affected; thirty-one are fixed. The four that remain are listed in the edition’s own notes. The 1609 wording was correct in every case — only the modern rendering was wrong, which is why no automatic check had caught it.

24 September 2026

Twenty-six verses had a word wrong or missing

Thirteen verses were missing a word that the printed page has. Numbers 30:4 lacked the “she” in “if she vow”; Judges 6:20 the “them” in “lay them upon that rock”; Numbers 10:26 the words “of the sonnes”. Others had the wrong word: Leviticus 18:17 read “The daughter” for “Her daughter”, Wisdom 17:3 “be hidden” for “lie hidden”, Josue 10:1 “had” for “were”.
Leviticus 9:13 and 9:14 had the division between them in the wrong place. “All which he burnt with fire upon the altar” had been printed at the end of verse 13; it opens verse 14.
These were found by treating the two editions as witnesses against each other. Original Spelling and Modern Spelling are transcribed separately, so wherever they disagree about a word, one of them is wrong. Fifty such disagreements were outstanding; the printed leaf was photographed and read for each, and all fifty are now settled. On eight of sixteen pages the flagged word was not the only fault on the page — the method only points to where the two disagree, so a mistake they share stays invisible.
One verse could not be settled that way, and the edition says so. Judges 19:25 falls on a page carrying an ink blot across the disputed words, and every surviving scan shows the same blot — they are all the same copy. The Latin the translators worked from does not decide it either. The word “he” has been restored there on the agreement of two independent keyed transcriptions rather than on the page itself, which is a weaker warrant than this edition normally uses for a word.
Luke 2:51 read “his mothet kept all these words”, Mark 4:37 “the waves beatt into the boat”, and Luke 6:11 “they commened one with another”, which is communed. All three now read correctly.
These three books are transcribed from a different copy of the 1582 than the rest, so the keyed transcription this edition usually checks against does not describe them. They were checked a different way instead: a word used once in the Gospels, nowhere else in the Bible, and one letter from a word the Bible uses constantly. Seventy-four words were flagged and seventy-one were correct — “anise”, “tiles”, “draught” and “waiters” simply occur nowhere else. Rarity is not error.
103 misread words have been corrected elsewhere — in the chapter summaries, the marginal notes and the annotations, which had been checked less closely than the Scripture itself. Among them “ininstice” for injustice and “ouertbrow” for overthrow.
The marginal notes now read as modern English in the modern editions. Several hundred were showing a half-modernised form: Psalms 118 read “Perfect justice is in keping Gods law”, which is neither 1609 nor modern. “Keping” is correct for 1609 and still stands in the Original Spelling edition. 150 editorial labels — “(head)”, “(lectionary)” — have also been removed from the notes; they were notes to ourselves.

23 September 2026

Thirty-two verses were cut short, and fifty-nine words were misread

Ezechiel 16:33 read, in its entirety, “To”. The verse runs thirty-three words in the print. Thirty-one others were cut short the same way — 2 Esdras 12:10 held only “And”, 4 Kings 12:9 eight words of sixty — in Ezechiel 16, 4 Kings 11–13, Jeremias 3 and 14, 1 Kings 23, 2 Esdras 12, 1 Machabees 11 and Proverbs. All are restored.
They were invisible because the Modern Spelling text was complete in every one. Only the Original Spelling file had lost the words, so the two editions never disagreed anywhere a check was looking, and the checks counted verses rather than measuring them. Every verse is now measured against its twin, and a book whose two editions disagree in length will not build.
Three verses had lost the word “a”: Zacharias 5:1 read “behold volume flying”, Micheas 1:2 “for witnes”, Psalms 37:1 “in recordation”. The printers key their marginal notes with single letters, and where a key fell beside the article the article was read as the key. Three English words are a single letter, and all three are now protected.
Three chapters had their verse numbers in the wrong places. In 1 Machabees 11, Daniel 2 and Job 28 the number stood one clause too early, so each verse opened with the tail of the one before. In Job 28 the break fell mid-word: verse 8 ended “he hath stret” and verse 9 began “ched forth his hand”. The transcription had followed the printed page’s line breaks instead of the printers’ own division marks.
796 crosses have been removed from St Matthew, St Mark and St Luke, which come from a different setting that uses none. 1,343 stray letters have gone from the text: Psalms 109:4 read “Our Lord i sware … a Priest k for euer”, where those letters are the printers’ keys to the margin and belong there. Three words the software had deleted are restored — Psalms 50:16 read “my tongue shall exult thy justice”, where the printers set “exult [for] thy iustice”, brackets and all, because “for” is supplied by the translators.
Fifty-nine misread words have been corrected, including “blond” for “bloud” at Genesis 4:10 and 4:11 and “commandinentes” at Psalms 118:172. An ordinary spellchecker is useless on a 1609 book — “keping” and “togeather” are correct here. What marks a real error is that the word is rare in this text, appears nowhere in an independent keyed transcription of the same printing, and is one letter from a word that transcription uses constantly. Every one was then checked against the same verse in that transcription.
Fifteen words the method flagged have deliberately been left alone, because they are right. Josue 8:20 has “the pursewers”, which is pursuers; Micheas 3:3 “haue flead their skinne”, which is flayed. The 1609 also genuinely prints “the citie of of Dauid” and “great thinges, and and firme thinges”; correcting a compositor is not transcribing him.

21 September 2026

A verse of St John was missing, and a stray mark stood in 923 verses

John 18:8 was absent from this edition and from every ebook made of it. The verse reads “IESVS answered, haue told you, that I am he: if therfore you seeke me, let these goe their wayes”. The 1582 prints that chapter’s verse figures as 6, 7, 18, 9, 10 — verse 8 is set as “18” — so the chapter carried two verses numbered 18 and the software kept only the second. The slip is the compositor’s; the verse is numbered 8 here and the printers’ error recorded in the chapter note. It is the only chapter in the Bible with the fault.
A chapter one verse short looks like any other chapter, and both checks then in place compared the finished ebook against the same build the verse had already fallen out of. It surfaced from a count instead: source verse-lines against verses built, which left one unexplained.
923 verses across 64 books showed a bare asterisk in the Original Spelling edition, as at 1 Corinthians 12:28, “And *some verily God hath set in the Church first Apostles”. It is the printers’ mark keying a margin reference that already stands beside the verse as a note. It could not simply be deleted, because the same character carries the passages the printers set in italic: those 178 are untouched, and the marks were told apart one at a time.
613 ampersands have been spelled out in the Modern Spelling and Reader editions, which is what Modern Spelling has always promised. The Original Spelling edition keeps all 4,061 as printed. Three are kept in the modern editions too, at Psalms 13:3, 53:2 and 59:2, where they stand inside a reference rather than a sentence.
Luke 16:6 read “But he said: An hundred pipes of oile”. The leaf sets “But he saith”, and the second verb in the same verse really is “said”. Four chapters of 2 Machabees opened “BVt” where the printers set “BVT”, the small capital T read as an ordinary t. The files gave that one away before the leaf did: the same word stood eleven times as BVT and four as BVt within one book, and an inconsistency like that is ours, not the printers’.

20 September 2026

Three verses of Isaias were showing a note instead of the verse

Isaias 63:16 read “Abraham hath not knowne vs.] The faithful people considering their owne great, frequent, & inueterate sinnes…” — the translators’ annotation standing where the verse should be. The verse reads “For thou art our father, and Abraham hath not knowen vs, and Israel hath bene ignorant of vs”. Isaias 66:1 and 66:21 were the same. The right text had been in our files throughout.
Chapter-end annotations are marked off by a heading, and five chapters in the whole Bible write that heading in a different style. The build did not recognise those five and read their annotations as verses, so an annotation numbered 16 overwrote verse 16. The same five were also losing their annotations altogether; Apocalypse 19 has eight marginal notes restored by the same fix.
134 verses across eighteen books were printing editorial markup in the middle of the Scripture, visible as “⟦right-margin (at 9:2)⟧” or the like.
A new check now opens each finished book and compares it against the text it was built from, verse by verse and note by note, and refuses to release a book that disagrees. It was tested by deliberately building a broken book to confirm it says so.
Baruch carries the translators’ marginal notes for the first time — all 32, read from the 1610 leaves. Reading those leaves also corrected a reference in our own text: the note at Baruch 6:6 cites Exodus 12:33, where we had printed Exodus 11:3.

19 September 2026

The pointing review closed, and 16 words settled at the leaf

Every one of the 99 remaining questions about the printers’ punctuation has been decided by reading the 1582 or 1609 leaf. Of the last sixteen, thirteen confirmed what was already printed here and three did not: Jeremias 37:10 and Philemon 1:15 end with a full stop, not a colon, and Jeremias 38:4 sets a semicolon where this edition had a question mark.
Micheas 3:9 is recorded as settled but unchanged. The leaf sets no mark at all after “peruert al right thinges”, on two independent scans. The comma here is ours and is kept, because a clause left unpointed across a verse break reads as an error rather than as fidelity; the fact that the printers set nothing is recorded instead of being quietly absorbed.
Sixteen word corrections were settled the same way. Matthew 13:44 had four faults in one line: the printers set “is like a treasure hidden in a field wich a man hauing found”, where this edition had added a “to”, raised two capitals and made a sentence break the leaf does not make. The “wich” is the compositor’s own and is kept.
That “to” is the instructive one. The same leaf sets “like to a” three times, at 13:31, 13:33 and 13:45, and “like a” only at 13:44. A formula that holds on both sides of a verse is not evidence about that verse.
Luke 23:35 had the verse and its margin the wrong way round: the printers set “expecting” in the text and “beholding” in the margin, and this edition had them reversed. Luke 11:2 restores the Our Father to italic as the 1582 sets it, and supplies a word dropped at 11:4.
Four questions were decided in favour of the text as it already stood, where the keyed transcription lacked a word the leaf plainly has: “of” at 1 Paralipomenon 4:16, “both” at 2 Paralipomenon 18:9, “to” at 2 Paralipomenon 34:10, “and” at Acts 26:24. Where a transcription is silent and the leaf is not, the leaf decides.

18 September 2026

Text from the wrong edition: 16 verses of Challoner removed

This edition is the original Douay-Rheims of 1582 and 1609. Sixteen verses were carrying readings from Challoner’s 1749 revision instead — a different fault from a mistyped word: it is text from the edition this one exists not to be.
Romans 11:5 read “there is a remaines saued”, which is not English: it is Challoner’s “remnant” welded onto the 1582 noun, where the leaf reads “there are remaines saued”. Leviticus 26:1 read “an idol or thing grauen” where the 1609 sets “and”, as does the Latin.
Each was found by comparing our reading against Challoner and against two independent keyed transcriptions of the original printings, then reading the leaf under magnification. Agreement between transcriptions was never taken as sufficient; the leaf decided every one.
Five were missed on a first pass because they had been set aside as mere spelling — to and into, on and upon, no and none, said and saith. Those are precisely the words a reviser changes, so the filter had been excluding the likeliest evidence.
One correction reverses an earlier reading of our own. Leviticus 26:1 had been examined on the leaf before and recorded, deliberately, as printing “or”. Read again at higher magnification it prints “and”. The earlier note has been marked as wrong rather than quietly replaced.
Eleven further verses carried a word the printings do not set at all: “so” in Acts 10:10, “out” in Genesis 2:9, “had” in Luke 19:15 among them. Exodus 32:28 had read twenty-three thousand where the 1609 reads three thousand. 35 verses in all, and no note, gloss or heading was altered to fit any of it.

15 September 2026

The pointing: 432 marks restored to what the printers set

Matthew 13:13 read “neither do they understand.” and verse 14 began, in lower case, “and the Prophecy of Isaias is fulfilled”. The 1582 leaf sets a colon there. 29 verses carried a full stop where the original prints a colon (21) or a comma (8), so a sentence broke in the middle and resumed in lower case.
All 341 places where a verse ends in a full stop before a lower-case word were checked against keyed transcriptions of the 1582 and 1609 printings. 311 are the printers’ own pointing: this translation ends a verse with a full stop and carries straight on in lower case all the time.
The same fault runs inside verses, where the first check could not see it. Romans 14:4 read “he standeth or falleth. and he shall stand. for God is able”, where the 1582 sets “falleth, and he shal stand:” — two marks lost in one verse. In all, 432 marks have been brought to what the printers set, across 421 verses. Not one letter of the text was changed.
Nearly a hundred were then read on the original leaves, each mark compared against a known example of the same mark printed on the same page. Of 105 places read, the transcriptions were right 98 times and our own reading 7.
None was taken on one transcription’s word. Every position was put to a second, independent transcription — the hand-set s-dismas edition — and only positions where both agreed against us were changed. That test rejected 82 per cent of the candidates: inside a verse the keyed text is wrong more often than we are.

15 September 2026

The word-notes: one wording for one sense

The notes that explain a word had drifted into using many wordings for the same sense, which made them read as though the translators meant different things in different places. They are now grouped by the Latin word they translate, and each sense is explained the same way throughout.
“Host” had acquired thirty-eight different wordings; it now has seven, covering the five senses the word actually carries. “Bowels” had nine wordings for ten notes and now has two. “Ancients” is the elders in council, and says so once rather than several ways.
“Penance” was explained in 25 places and left bare in 42; it is now explained wherever it stands. The same was true of “thy faith hath made thee safe”.
Two words were being explained as though they had one sense when they have two. “Virtue” is power in 41 places and moral goodness in 13, and each note now says which. “Corn” is the sown field, the ear, the grain or the harvest according to the Latin behind it — and never maize, which is what a modern reader will otherwise picture.
No Scripture was touched by any of this. The notes are ours; the text is the translators’.

3 September 2026

The back-matter tables, and continuous scrolling

The reference tables in the back matter are now set as labelled prose rather than as tables. They were cramped and hard to read in a narrow column, and the lectionary in particular now reads plainly: “The 1. Sunday in Advent – Epistle 415 Romans 13 – Gospel 199 Luke 21.” No reference or reading was changed.
This also restores continuous scrolling in the Kindle app. Amazon turns off the feature that allows it for any book containing tables, which is why these editions would only turn pages while others scrolled.

30 August 2026

The translators' marginal notes, in modern spelling

82 marginal notes still printed 1582 spelling in the modern-spelling edition; one read “prefigured in Dauid” beside a verse reading “David”. Corrected, and the rule that produced them fixed so the class of fault cannot recur.
229 notes carried unmodernized citation abbreviations (“Ioan. 15.” for “John 15.”).
81 notes were showing a mechanical rendering where a fuller hand-checked one already existed; they now carry it, with the translators' own keyword in bold.
The Summe of the Evangelical Historie numbered its first part “The I Part”. The 1582 leaf sets an arabic 1, and the run is 1–6 throughout.

28 August 2026

The Table of Controversies, settled against the 1582 leaves

438 printed page-references were wrong, across 332 entries of the translators' index of controversies, so a reader following a reference arrived at an unrelated chapter. Every one was read off the original leaf under magnification and checked against the chapter the number resolves to. This completes an audit begun on 14 August.
The Historical Table cited “1. Paral. 36” at the fall of Jerusalem. 1 Paralipomenon ends at 29; the leaf reads 2. Paral. 36, which is the chapter that narrates it.
24 word-notes printed an internal category label to the reader: “machinas: false-friend: siege-engines” where it should read “machinas: siege-engines”.

12 August 2026

The lectionary, and a review of every gloss

The table of Epistles and Gospels was missing 34 of its 49 Old Testament Epistle readings. They have been supplied and checked against a missal; four further readings pointed at the wrong page.
All 8,781 word-notes were reviewed. Ten had gone beyond explaining a word, and one wording for “penance” now stands in all 25 places it is glossed.
Typography: annotation type size, marginal notes set too near the page edge, and a drop capital that fell into the gutter.

7 August 2026

Four verses of Scripture

Titus 1:13 read “rebuke them (sharply, that they may be sound in the faith”; a stray parenthesis inside the verse.
1 Kings 20:17 read “swear to David” where the 1609 reads “swear unto David”.
2 Kings 5:6 and Luke 2:23 each carried a misread long s.
Three of the four came from the long s of the original printing, which is the specific fault this edition exists to correct.

6 August 2026

Restored text, and the apparatus the first edition had lost

Passages omitted from the book introductions were restored: about 140 words in Acts, the closing paragraph of 1 Peter, eight words in Philippians. The introduction to Titus had never been transcribed at all.
Eleven passages in the introduction to Acts had been paraphrased rather than transcribed, one of them reversing the original's account of why St Peter came to Rome.
About seventy of the translators' printed marginal notes were absent.
In 2,221 word-notes the modern misreading was displayed before the actual meaning, which inverted the purpose of the note.
The Scripture is set in the paragraphs of the original printings rather than one line per verse, which changes how the text reads on every page.

A Catechism of St. Alphonsus Liguori

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4 October 2026

A second full readability review, checked against the Italian

About 500 further improvements to the English, each checked against St. Alphonsus’s Italian: word order made natural and Italian turns of phrase put plainly, keeping his direct, warm address to his hearers.
A few real errors of meaning corrected. In the Fourth Commandment it is now, as in the Italian, the young men who are bound to marry, not the daughters; a man in mortal sin is “barred from receiving” the sacraments rather than deprived of the ability; and Purgatory is described, as Alphonsus wrote, as the place “where those temporal pains are satisfied”.
The Points for Reflection now quote the revised text exactly.

2 October 2026

A full copy-edit of the translation, and a clearer opening

About 210 corrections to the wording and punctuation, each checked against St. Alphonsus’s Italian: Italianisms put into plain English, awkward phrasing smoothed, and over-long sentences divided, without changing what he says.
A half-title page now opens the main text, so it is clear where the editor’s introduction ends and the saint’s own Practical Introduction begins.
One editorial footnote was added, on equivocation in the Eighth Commandment, and the note on footnotes updated to match. The cover is the new one, with the thin gold frame.

The Truth of the Faith

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4 October 2026

A full readability review of the translation, and two editor’s notes

About 1,500 improvements to the English across the whole book, each checked against St. Alphonsus’s Italian: Italian word order made natural, calques such as “make use of” and “it is answered that” put plainly, and long sentences untangled, without changing what he says.
A number of real errors of meaning corrected. Among them: a letter in the chapter on councils is now rightly attributed to Eutychius of Constantinople writing to Pope Vigilius, not the reverse; “not err in all the declarations” now reads “in any”; and a footnote in Part Two that said the opposite of the Italian now says that God will always make clear the difference between true miracles and false prodigies.
Two short editor’s notes, marked [Ed.], in the chapter on Islam, where St. Alphonsus writes that Mohammed fled “from Medina” (it was from Mecca to Medina) and reads a verse of the Qur’an as affirming the Trinity. The Note on the Text explains them.

Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year

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5 October 2026

A full proofreading pass, checked against the Italian

Three Scripture references corrected (Ecclus. 9:20, Deut. 32:23, and a citation of St. Thomas), and two Douay–Rheims quotations restored word for word (1 Kings 15:9; Matt. 18:34).
A sentence on the love of Christ that could be misread now says, as the Italian does, that His love should move us even more than His sufferings; Pilate’s and the Father’s parts in the Passion sermon are made clear.
About 130 smaller corrections and clarifications, chiefly in the four feast-day sermons. Words whose meaning has shifted (“complacency” for sinful pleasure) are replaced, and the books of Samuel are cited by their Douay names (1–2 Kings).
The book now opens at the Sunday Sermons, and each sermon’s title links back to its place in the Table of Sermons.

The Life and Glories of St. Joseph

The file on sale predates the revision line.

No corrections since publication.

The Manna of the Soul

The file on sale predates the revision line.

8 October 2026

Three meditations that broke off in mid-sentence

The meditations for 28 February, 8 October and 27 December each stopped partway and resumed at the next day, losing the end of a point of consideration. 27 December was the worst: more than half the meditation was missing. All three were restored from the 1892 Benziger scan, and every one of the 366 was then measured against the printed page so that no other short day went unnoticed.
The quotation marks were collated against the same scan. Twelve looked unbalanced; ten of those are the printers’ own and have been left as they set them, and the two real faults were closed. A single stray apostrophe was removed.

The Problem with Protestant Bibles

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9 October 2026

Footnotes that opened the wrong note

Martin’s marginal notes are set as footnotes, and a tap on one could open a different note entirely. The book held twenty-four separate notes all called “note 1”, one per chapter, because the numbering restarts on every chapter: legal in an EPUB, where a name need only be unique within its own chapter, but Kindle joins the chapters into one stream and then has twenty-four notes answering to the same name. It resolved every one of them to the first. 170 names were affected; all are now distinct.
The same fault was found and fixed in the Bible, the New Testament and the Daily Bible on the same day. Nothing in the text changed.

The Liturgical Year: Advent

File on sale: Text revised 2026-10-02 23:24

No corrections since publication.

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