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No. More is less in this case.

People always recalled feasts by the Gospel read on them, both in the Eastern and Western churches. The “Sunday of the Prodigal Son,” for example, meant the Sunday when that Gospel was read, and everybody knew it.

Also, we need fewer weird OT fragments. Back in the old days (pre-Vatican II) there weren’t a lot of OT readings, but when they appeared, they were relevant. However, the Psalms and many other OT books appeared throughout the liturgy.

And Vatican II virtually banished St Paul (the reason we talked about the “epistle” was because that reading was from the Epistles of the Apostles, usually St. Paul). But he wasn’t PC enough, I guess, so he disappeared except for a few readings that couldn’t be suppressed because they were so well known. Otherwise, the only thing we have to him now, is “say hi to my brethren here or there. Really nice guys.” But nothing of what Paul told them.

If there’s one thing I would love to see, it would be the restoration of the old calendar (with the addition of the new saints) and its readings and the old Liturgy of the Hours and its readings.