Then, in February, 2000, a further-revised Lord’s Prayer was issued in common with the Anglican Episcopal Church in Japan ( Nippon Sei Ko Kai), and it is this version that is used officially today.

Those versions supplanted prayers written in a classical literary style which had been used previously. The bishops first published a prayer book with colloquial translations of the Lord’s Prayer and the Hail Mary in September, 1993.

The prayer is offered for general use through Mathe Solemnity of the Annunciation - and the feedback collected will be considered until the conference makes a final decision on the prayer’s adoption during its ordinary plenary assembly in June. The provisional translation, known as the “ Ave Maria prayer” for its inclusion of the Latin phrase at the beginning, was approved during the CBCJ extraordinary plenary assembly this October. The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Japan (CBCJ) yesterday published a new, colloquial translation of the Hail Mary for trial use throughout Japan.

Hail mary in latin words