English and Welsh Bishops to
discuss Bible, Youth and Eucharist.
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| The Holy Bible. |
The November plenary session of the English and Welsh
Bishops’ Conference will meet to plan a year for studying the Bible, as well as
hearing feedback from events both at home and in the Vatican.
By John Waters
The Catholic Bishops Conference of England and
Wales on Monday began its November plenary assembly with bishops
gathered in Leeds, in the North East of England, for the four-day meeting.
‘The year of the God who speaks’
A number of subjects will be on the agenda for the bishops.
Firstly the planning and arrangements for 2020 as “The year of the God who
speaks.” This is an initiative planned by the Bishops’ Conference with the aim
of helping Catholics realise and rediscover a love for scripture and biblical
studies. The initiative is timed to coincide with the tenth anniversary of the
publication of Pope Benedict XVI’s Apostolic Exhortation “Verbum Domini”
which he wrote to help Catholics understand the importance of the Bible in the
life of the Church.
The plenary session will also feature a report on
“Adoremus,” the National Eucharistic Congress which was held in Liverpool
during September and a feedback session following the Synod on Youth and
Discernment which was held in October in the Vatican.
Plenary Assembly
The Catholic Bishop’s conference of England and Wales holds
two plenary sessions per year, one in November and a second in April. All men
serving as Diocesan and Auxiliary Bishops are invited to attend the meetings
and cast their votes in debates. A few other priests who are not Bishops can
also take part in the meetings. One such example is the Ordinary of the
Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, a structure set up by Pope Benedict XVI
in 2010 to allow former Anglican clergy to become Catholics and bring with them
certain Anglican liturgical practices. The present Ordinary, a former Anglican
Bishop, is married and therefore cannot be a Catholic Bishop but, as head of
the Ordinariate, he may exercise many of the same powers as a Bishop.
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