The parishes have been getting used to the Revised Standard Version 2nd Catholic Edition since the New Year and it is certainly proving to be a much richer translation than the 1966 Jerusalem Bible - though it must be admitted that it has served the English speaking members of the Church well for over forty years.
We have given people the opportunity to buy copies at a reduced cost of £12 each (normal price is about £25 now with the exchange rate going against us - but still a very good reduction). Family Publications based in Oxford kindly give us this reduction if we order at least 100 copies.
41 people ordered their own copy and 60 copies each year will go to those pupils leaving our Church Aided Junior School. When the Bibles were delivered this morning I mentioned that 60 were going to school leavers this summer and his response was "Well, Father, that's very good - far better than some of the rubbish they will be getting!"
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