One of the most important patterns of liturgical prayer is the periodic return to certain texts and actions—for example, the slow turning of the three-year lectionary cycle, or the genuflections and signs of the cross that mark our crossing the threshold between sacred and ordinary space and time. At the heart of these patterns is our faith that the words and actions of tradition are inexhaustible…
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The scandalous (but true) story behind ICEL’s 1969 Lectionary for Mass
The untold story of how the ICEL 1969 Lectionary for Mass was put together so quickly.
Read moreRachel Held Evans is blogging the lectionary
“I discovered this whole world of online collaboration happening among clergy from Methodist, Presbyterian, Episcopal, Baptist, and Lutheran churches (and more!) all working through the same few passages…. This is exactly how the Bible is meant to be engaged—collaboratively, in community, with a diversity of people and perspectives represented.”
Read moreDid the pre-Vatican II Mass really have more Scripture than now?
I thought it’d be interesting once to do the math. So I made a little chart with the 1962 Scripture readings (including the propers) on the left and the reformed lectionary readings (presuming no propers) on the right for the coming Sunday, July 7.
Read moreMore about SC 24, Sacred Scripture, and the Lectionaries
All readers of this blog are grateful to Father Joncas for his series on re-reading of the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy [SC]. But do
Read moreHymn of the Day for Advent 3C
I find the text surprisingly appropriate in the light of this past week’s events in Newtown.
Read moreHear, O Israel!
Deuteronomy 6:4-6 is the first part of the Shema Yisra’el, the text that has formed the centerpiece of Jewish daily prayer in the evening and morning from the time of Jesus until today. The first commandment he gives in this week’s gospel, therefore, was as familiar and everyday and fundamental to his audience as the Lord’s Prayer is for Christians today.
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