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‘Yahweh’ not to be used in liturgy, songs and prayers, Cardinal Arinze says

Vatican City, Sep 3, 2008 / 05:30 am (CNA).-
The Hebrew name for God is not to be used or pronounced in liturgical celebrations, songs and prayers, Cardinal Francis Arinze, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, has said in a letter addressed to the bishops’ conferences of the world.
The letter concerns the use of the “Tetragrammaton,� the name which uses the four Hebrew letters YHWH. In English the name is pronounced “Yahweh.�

Cardinal Arinze, citing the instruction Liturgiam Authenticam, explains that translators must use the “greatest faithfulness and respect� regarding the name of God.
He describes the YHWH as “an expression of the infinite greatness and majesty of God,� which he says “was held to be unpronounceable and hence was replaced during the reading of sacred Scripture by means of the use of an alternate name: Adonai, which means Lord.� ............................

This translation tradition has importance for understanding Christ, the cardinal explains, since the title “Lord� in fact “becomes interchangeable between the God of Israel and the Messiah of the Christian faith.�
Cardinal Arinze particularly cites St. Paul’s writings in the Letter to the Philippians, in which he wrote: “God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name which is above every name… every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.�[/quote