(30 May 08 - RV) In liturgical news connected to the Pauline Jubilee Year,
The
Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments today issued
a decree allowing local Churches to celebrate Mass according to the proper of the
Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul, which this coming year falls on the 3rd
Sunday in Ordinary time.
The exception is made only for the coming year of
2009, and with the provision that the Second Reading be that of the 3rd
Sunday of Ordinary Time.