On the First Sunday of Advent churches in England and Wales welcomed a new edition of the Lectionary, the book which contains the readings which are proclaimed at Mass. 

The new lectionaries are intended to make the biblical translations more faithful to the original languages, to reflect current biblical scholarship, and to provide a text for use in liturgical setting that is easier to proclaim and, where appropriate, more inclusive.

St Mary’s PTFA generously donated a new set of lectionaries for our school. On Friday 6^th Dec, the feast day of St Nicholas, Fr Andrew came to celebrate Mass for us in our chapel. This was the first opportunity for us to use the new lectionaries and at the start of Mass we had a special Blessing of new Lectionaries.

Maksim Polovvy and Pawel Mychalski had the honour of being the first to read from the lectionary during Mass. Both boys read with clarity and confidence and it was a lovely way to introduce the new lectionary into our school worship.