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A Lectionary is a book or listing that contains a collection of scripture readings for Christian worship. Many religions and spiritual movements hold certain written texts (or series of spoken legends not traditionally written down) to be sacred. ...
History
The ancient Hebrews/Jews created pre-assigned lectionary-like scripture reading schedules for the Old Testament Torah, even before Jesus’ time. Jesus likely read from one of these pre-assigned readings when he read from Isaiah 61:1-2, as recorded in Luke 4:16-21, when he claimed his Divinity in public. Both Hebrew and Christian lectionaries hop and skip through the Torah/Bible and include verses which are generally favored by the bureaucracy of the religious community that designed each individual lectionary over the centuries. Pre-assigned/scheduled scripture readings are traceable back to parts of the early church during the first few centuries after Jesus’ earthly ministry. Not all of the Christian Church used lectionaries, but some parts did, including those that ultimately formed the Roman Catholic Church. The roots and history of the Revised Common Lectionary (RCL) and the Roman Catholic Lectionary originated in the Roman Catholic Church, where it generally goes by the Latin name Ordo Lectionum Missae.
Throughout history, many varying lectionaries have been used in different parts of the Christian world. Until the Second Vatican Council, most Western Christians (Roman Catholics, Old Catholics, Anglicans, Lutherans, and Methodists who employed the Lectionary of Wesley) used a lectionary that repeated on a one year basis. This lectionary provided readings for Sundays and, in those Churches that celebrated the festivals of saints, feast-day readings. The Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, or Vatican II, was an Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church opened under Pope John XXIII in 1962 and closed under Pope Paul VI in 1965. ...
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The Lutheran movement is a group of denominations of Protestant Christianity by the original definition. ...
The Methodist movement is a group of denominations of Protestant Christianity. ...
Since the Second Vatican Council in the early 1960s, the revised lectionary of the Roman Catholic Church has been a foundation block upon which many contemporary lectionaries have been based, most notably the Revised Common Lectionary (RCL), and its derivitives, as organized by the Consultation on Common Texts (CCT) organization located in Nashville, TN. The National Conference of Catholic Bishops of the United States and many traditional mainline American Protestant denominations are members. The CCT thereby represents the majority of American Christians. The Revised Common Lectionary is a lectionary of the liturgical year put together in 1983. ...
Pattern of the Roman Lectionary and Revised Common Lectionary (RCL) Most of the current lectionaries used by western Christian denominations organize the scripture passages to be read in worship services for each week of the year. The listing for a given week includes: A denomination, in the Christian sense of the word, is an identifiable religious body under a common name, structure, and/or doctrine. ...
Note: Judaism commonly uses the term Tanakh. ...
Psalms (Tehilim תהילי×, in Hebrew) is a book of the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh, and of the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. ...
The word epistle is from the Greek word epistolos which means a written letter addressed to a recipient or recipients, perhaps part of exchanged correspondence. ...
For other uses, see Gospel (disambiguation). ...
The 3 year cycle The Lectionary (both Roman and RCL versions) is organized into a three-year cycle of readings. The reading cycle is denoted by letter as A, B, or C. The year A cycle begins at the Advent and Christmas near the end of those years whose number is evenly divisible by 3, e.g., 2001, 2004, 2007. Year B follows year A, and year C follows year B. Advent (from the Latin Adventus, implicitly coupled with Redemptoris, the coming of the Saviour) is a holy season of the Christian church, the period of expectant waiting and preparation for the celebration of the Nativity of Christ, also known as the season of Christmas. ...
The Christmas season is a term that covers the time when two interconnected periods of celebration are held. ...
The Gospel of John is always read for Easter, and is utilized for other liturgical seasons including Advent, Christmas, and Lent where appropriate. The Gospel of Matthew (literally, according to Matthew; Greek, Κατά Μαθθαίον or Κατά Ματθαίον) is one of the four Gospel accounts of the New Testament. ...
The Gospel of Mark, ascribed to Mark the Evangelist, is traditionally the second Gospel of the New Testament. ...
The Gospel of Luke is the third and longest of the four canonical Gospels of the New Testament, which tell the story of Jesus life, death, and resurrection. ...
The Gospel of John is the fourth gospel in the canon of the New Testament, traditionally ascribed to John the Evangelist. ...
Easter, also known as Pascha (Greek Πάσχα: Passover), the Feast of the Resurrection, the Sunday of the Resurrection, or Resurrection Day, is the most important religious feast of the Christian liturgical year, observed between late March and late April (early April to early May in Eastern Christianity). ...
Advent (from the Latin Adventus, implicitly coupled with Redemptoris, the coming of the Saviour) is a holy season of the Christian church, the period of expectant waiting and preparation for the celebration of the Nativity of Christ, also known as the season of Christmas. ...
Christmas is an annual holiday that marks the birth of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. ...
In Western Christianity, Lent is the forty-day period (or season) preceding Easter lasting from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday (Easter Even). ...
Other lectionary information For churches that hold weekday services, the Lectionary provides a two-year cycle of shorter readings: These readings are generally much shorter than the weekend readings. Note: Judaism commonly uses the term Tanakh. ...
The word epistle is from the Greek word epistolos which means a written letter addressed to a recipient or recipients, perhaps part of exchanged correspondence. ...
Psalms (Tehilim תהילי×, in Hebrew) is a book of the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh, and of the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. ...
For other uses, see Gospel (disambiguation). ...
In the Eastern Churches (those united with Rome, the Eastern Orthodox, the Oriental Orthodox, and those bodies not in communion with either but still practicing eastern liturgical customs) tend to retain the use of a one year lectionary in their liturgy, and follow a different liturgical calendar (to an extent) than the western Churches. Most Eastern Lectionaries provide for an Epistle and a Gospel to be read on each day of the year.
In some churches, the Lectionary is carried in the entrance procession by a lector. In the Roman Catholic Church, it is prohibited to process with the Lectionary, but a Gospel Book may be carried by a deacon or instituted lector (but not a lay reader deputed to read in the place of a lector.) When a Gospel Book is used, the first three readings are read from the Lectionary, while the Gospel Book is used for the final reading. Lector is a fictional character from Yugioh. ...
A Gospel Book is a codex or bound volume, containing one or more of the four Gospels of the Christian New Testament. ...
Deacon is a role in the Christian Church which is generally associated with service of some kind, but which varies among theological and denominational traditions. ...
The Lectionary is not to be confused with a missal or sacramentary; while the Lectionary contains scripture readings, the others contain the appropriate prayers for the service. Missal, in the Roman Catholic Church, is a liturgical book containing all instructions and texts necessary for the celebration of Masses throughout the year. ...
Sacramentary was a musical service book, containing the prayers that were recited by the celebrant during the mass. ...
See also Look up Lectionary in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...
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The Revised Common Lectionary is a lectionary of the liturgical year put together in 1983. ...
A Medieval Low Mass by a bishop. ...
The liturgical year, also known as the Christian year, consists of the cycle of liturgical seasons in some Christian churches which determines when Feasts, Memorials, Commemorations, and Solemnities are to be observed and which portions of Scripture are to be read. ...
A Gospel Book is a codex or bound volume, containing one or more of the four Gospels of the Christian New Testament. ...
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