Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Malaysia-Singapore-Brunei opt for RNJB Lectionary

PrayTell readers may know that Great Britain is introducing out a new Lectionary for Mass later this year on the First Sunday of Advent. This Lectionary is based on the English Standard Version (ESV) of the Bible and the Catholic Truth Society is publishing the different ritual editions of the Lectionary. The ambo edition runs at £695.00 (about $9115) and the chapel edition runs at £395.00 (about $ 520).

These new Lectionaries will replace the existing Jerusalem Bible (JB) edition that Great Britain shares (with some minor differences in the Psalm responses) with Ireland, Australia and New Zeeland, along with some other areas. These other countries are planning to work on their own edition of the Lectionary using the most up to date member of the JB family the Revised New Jerusalem Bible.  

In a related development, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Malaysia-Singapore-Brunei has asked their parishes not to purchase the new ESV Lectionary published in London and to wait for the forthcoming RNJB edition, that they will share with Ireland/Australia/New Zealand. 

Fr. Neil Xavier O'Donoghue

Neil Xavier O’Donoghue is originally from Cork, Ireland. He is a presbyter of the Archdiocese of Newark, NJ who has ministered in parishes on both sides of the Atlantic. He has spent many years as an academic mentor to seminarians. Neil currently serves as Programme Director for Liturgical Programmes at the Pontifical University and as Acting Director of the National Centre for Liturgy. Since 2020 he has also served as the Executive Secretary for Liturgy to the Irish Catholic Bishops Conference. He has studied at Seton Hall University (BA, MDiv), the University of Notre Dame (MA), and St Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary (MTh). He holds a Doctorate in Theology (Ph.D.) from St Patrick’s College, Maynooth and is in the process of completing a second doctorate (D.D) in the Pontifical Facultad de Teología Redemptoris Mater in Callao, Peru. Neil has published a translation of the Confessio of St. Patrick: St. Patrick: His Confession and Other Works (Totowa, NJ, 2009), as well editing the third edition of Fredrick Edward Warren’s The Liturgy and Ritual of the Celtic Church (Piscataway, NJ, 2010). In 2011 the University of Notre Dame Press published The Eucharist in Pre-Norman Ireland an adaptation of his doctoral thesis and in 2017 the Alcuin Club published his Liturgical Orientation: The Position of the President at the Eucharist. His articles have appeared in The Irish Theological Quarterly, New Blackfriars, The Furrow and Antiphon. He writes a monthly article on some aspect of the theology of Pope Francis in the Messenger of St. Anthony and blogs regularly at PrayTell.

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