KUCHING — At the recent July 2023 Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Malaysia-Singapore-Brunei (CBCMSB), the bishops affirmed the continuation of the use of the current Jerusalem Bible translation of the scripture for the Lectionary.
The CBCMSB will not launch the English Standard Version Catholic Edition (ESVCE) Lectionary which is adapted by the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales and Scotland, because the local congregations in our region are familiar with the language used in the present Jerusalem Bible Lectionary.
In a press release dated 18 August, the CBCMSB says that the New Zealand and Australian Conference of Bishops have undertaken to draft a new Lectionary based on the New Jerusalem Bible. Therefore, until this endeavour is completed, the CBCMSB is appealing to all parishes in the region not to unilaterally switch to the ESVCE lectionary but to wait patiently for the NZ-AUSTRALIA version.
Further to this, the Catholic Truth Society is no longer reprinting the present lectionaries. The CBCMSB has entrusted the Episcopal Regional Liturgy Commission (ERLC) to explore the possibility of obtaining the copyright to print them locally.
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