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To: Al Hitan

The Episcopal Church doesn’t have a daily Mass Lectionary, but if you did Morning and Evening prayer you would do nearly all of Scripture, Old Testament and New, in two years. You’d get through the psalms every 7 weeks. The Sunday Eucharistic Lectionary would give you all of the Gospels (except, I think, the genealogies.)

The Sunday Lectionary of the Episcopal Church is so like that of the Catholics that I often referred to a commentary written by an Episcopalian but for Catholics.

I would guess that a lot of non-Catholic Churches don’t have an official prescribed lectionary. So a lot would depend on the pastor.


11,612 posted on 10/15/2010 7:10:38 AM PDT by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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To: Mad Dawg

When my husband was music director for the local Methodist church, I went to mass. Afterward we’d compare the readings for both services, and many times they were the same.


11,615 posted on 10/15/2010 7:24:32 AM PDT by Judith Anne (Holy Mary, Mother of God, please pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death.)
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To: Mad Dawg
I would guess that a lot of non-Catholic Churches don’t have an official prescribed lectionary. So a lot would depend on the pastor.

There appears to be a trend among some non-liturgical Protestants to follow the lectionary. A few years ago my extended family got together for a Sunday lunch and my parents and cousins were all talking about a great sermon they'd just heard on Mary and Martha and my wife and I laughed at how odd it was that their pastor had apparently randomly chosen the same Scripture as the lectionary. Then we started comparing notes and it turned out he'd been using the readings for some time (still is as far as I know).

I've stumbled across some of their denominational web sites from time to time since then and it looks like he's not alone. At the same time there are a lot of people who are absolutely furious about it. I bumped into a blog ranting against Nazarenes using the divine office because it was pure paganism (or something, good grief who knows).

11,619 posted on 10/15/2010 7:36:18 AM PDT by Legatus (Keep calm and carry on)
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