Two missing verses [ECUSA lectionary]

Lent & Beyond ^ | 6/27/2005 | Karen B.

[sionnsar]

Did any of you other faithful readers note the verses that were omitted from yesterday’s ECUSA lectionary? I was very startled when yesterday’s Epistle reading began with Romans 6:3. Romans 6 has been a very important chapter for me in my personal spiritual walk and I’ve memorized much of it. So I immediately realized what verses were missing:

Rom 6:1-2
1 What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase?
2 By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? (NIV)

(It turns out, these verses are NEVER heard in ECUSA churches on a Sunday morning! You can see what passages are read when here. )

Father, I pray today You would give us a hatred of sin in our lives. I pray that You would give us a fresh understanding of Your grace and a desire not to abuse it. In our own strength we are weak and still too often give sin power over us in spite of the fact that You have made us dead to sin through our baptism in Christ. Lord we pray the freedom You offer and Your power over sin would be proclaimed in our churches and throughout the Anglican Communion. By Your grace may we die more to sin today and live for You and Your glory. Through Christ our Lord, Amen.

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[Asphalt]

strange

[sionnsar]

I don't know. It's been remarked before that the 1979 prayer book seemed written to minimize sin.

[lightman]

Much as I despise the Revised Common Lectionary (RCL) for its anti-military, revisionist tendencies (such as removing Romans 13:1-10), on this one--and probably only on this one--the ecumenical committee got it right. The pericope will be Romans 6:1b-11, and, as I understand it, the RCL will soon be adopted by ECUSA.

What is really perplexing is how the 1978 Lutheran Book of Worship appointed the 6:1b-11 version of the pericope when the 1979 BCP did not. In many other aspects these two worship books are very parallel.

[Credo]

I think Romans 1:26-27 is missing too.

[lightman]

Actually Romans 1:26-27 does appear in the weekday lectionary (albeit as two "optional" verses preceding the prescribed passage of Romans 1:28-2:11) on the Wednesday of the Second week of Lent in odd numbered years. This weekday lectionary is shared by the Episcopal Church and (at least for now) the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

[r9etb]

Romans 1:26-27 is missing from the Daily Office readings. It's an interesting game to look at which verses were left out of the Daily Office -- a priest friend of mine once commented that the revisionist agenda is best revealed by a compilation of the gaps.

[Credo]

I am not familiar with the weekday lectionary. Is that in the 1979 BCP?

[lightman]

Pages 936 - 995 of the 1979 Prayer Book. We are in "Year One" (odd number = odd numbered calendar year, beginning with the First Monday in Advent of year preceding).

[Credo]

We're referring to the same thing. My reading of the Daily office is that it's omitted. What page shows them as optional? Thanks.

[lightman]

I was referring to the Daily Office/Daily Lectionary of the Lutheran Book of Worship (1978). Most of the time the readings are absolutely identical. This is one of the unfortunate exceptions.

[Honorary Serb]

I've heard that scripture read in my ELCA church, and am surprised that it is not included in the ECUSA lectionary. I thought that the two lectionaries were nearly identical. Leaving such things out results in a truncated Gospel, as is true for all things revisionist.

By the way, I was at my Serbian Orthodox congregation for the past two Sundays (Orthodox Pentecost and Vidovdan). So I have had a two-week vacation from the continuing tragedy of the ELCA.

[lightman]

Sorry to say for that the past two weeks the ELCA Titanic continues on course for the iceberg, Presiding Bishop "Bill Clinton-in-an-alb" Hanson gripping the wheel all the more tightly lest shipwreck be avoided.

[Honorary Serb]

Sorry to say for that the past two weeks the ELCA Titanic continues on course for the iceberg....

I am very much aware of that. It is becoming obvious to more and more people that it is best for an ELCA Lutheran to be an honorary Serb!!!!