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The Bishops\u2019 Conference of England and Wales has announced<\/a> that \u201cthe Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments has confirmed the approval by the Bishops\u2019 Conference of England and Wales for the new Lectionary.\u201d Catholic Bishops\u2019 Conference of Scotland will also share this new edition of the Lectionary for Mass.<\/p>\n

Their new Lectionary is based on the English Standard Version of the Bible \u2013 Catholic Edition and will use the Psalm translation from the e Abbey Psalms and Canticles.\u00a0 In this sense the Lectionary will be similar to the edition recently published in India<\/a>. The new British edition of the Lectionary will be published by the Catholic Truth Society<\/a> (CTS) and is approved for use from Advent 2024.<\/p>\n

As a final note, and forgive me for being pedantic, but allow me to offer a correction to the press release, the new ESV edition of the Lectionary is approved for Great Britain but not the \u201cBritish Isles<\/a>.\u201d In other words, it is approved for the regions served by the Bishops\u2019 Conference of England and Wales and the Catholic Bishops\u2019 Conference of Scotland. However, it is not approved for use in Ireland, which is served by the Irish Catholic Bishops\u2019 Conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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