The New English Missal for India to be Ready by October, 2011

July 05, 2011: The Latin rites bishops of India said that the New English Missal for India to be Ready by October, 2011.

Fr. Savio Rodrigues, Executive Secretary of the Commission for Liturgy of the Latin Bishops’ Conference known as CCBI is currently busy supervising the printing of the new Missal in Delhi. He said that he is confident that the Missal would be ready for use for the Advent season in India.

For the past several months he was working closely with the former CCBI Chairman of the Liturgy Commission, Archbishop Dominic Jala sdb, who has been entrusted with the task of the Indian edition of the Missal.

Archbishop Jala is a member of the International Commission in English for Liturgy. The Commission has organized several seminars across different dioceses in India to prepare the local Church to welcome the third edition of the English Missal in India which also contains a few additions specific to the Indian context, Fr.Savio stated.