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I thought about posting this in Traditional Theology, but we have some new members who I think are interested in liturgics, who I am not sure are familiar with that forum.
I would respectfully ask that if you aren’t familiar with lectionaries or are opposed to them, you post a separate thread and I would be happy to debate you there.
So moving on, I am somewhat of a lectionary geek, although I am not a huge fan of the 3 year lectionary from which the RCL, which I like even less, was derived. However, I think Year D, a proposed addition developed by a Protestant minister, fixes a lot of the problems, and think all could be solved by using each year for a different service, concurrently, changing each year (year A might be used for a mass on Satuday evening, or Vespers in a Protestant church, B for the first morning mass, or Protestant matins, C for the second morning mass, or the choral Eucharist in a liturgical Protestant setting, and D for Vespers or a Sunday evening mass). The next year this would change to D, A, B, C, and so on. This would introduce some variety to the services, particularly in a Protestant setting, like an Anglican church with Saturday and Sunday evensong, Mattins and Holy Communion, using Rite II of the 1979 BCP for example. Its also given me some ideas for the lectionary at my ministries, which constitute two proto-congregations, although I would bundle two of the lectionaries for each one and alternate every other year (six lessons sounds like a lot, but in the Coptic Church, if the Agpeya is read before the Morning Raising of Incense, and they do Prime, Terce, Sext and Noone, which is common, that’s four Gospel lessons, plus four epistles (one Pauline, one Catholic, one Pastoral, one from Acts) and another Gospel lesson, plus a reading from the Synaxarion. And the Syriac Orthodox Church is somewhat similiar, and the Assyrian church has four lessons (one from the Pentateuch, one from elsewhere in the OT, an epistle and a gospel). Of course, these are one year lectionaries, which I ultimately prefer to the three year lectionary; the only reason I am really considering this is the lessons Rev. Slemmons arranged for his proposed year D are really interesting, and the Schola Cantorum of Peter the Apostle did an excellent three CD recording of hymns, anthems and canticles for Years A, B and C.
I would respectfully ask that if you aren’t familiar with lectionaries or are opposed to them, you post a separate thread and I would be happy to debate you there.
So moving on, I am somewhat of a lectionary geek, although I am not a huge fan of the 3 year lectionary from which the RCL, which I like even less, was derived. However, I think Year D, a proposed addition developed by a Protestant minister, fixes a lot of the problems, and think all could be solved by using each year for a different service, concurrently, changing each year (year A might be used for a mass on Satuday evening, or Vespers in a Protestant church, B for the first morning mass, or Protestant matins, C for the second morning mass, or the choral Eucharist in a liturgical Protestant setting, and D for Vespers or a Sunday evening mass). The next year this would change to D, A, B, C, and so on. This would introduce some variety to the services, particularly in a Protestant setting, like an Anglican church with Saturday and Sunday evensong, Mattins and Holy Communion, using Rite II of the 1979 BCP for example. Its also given me some ideas for the lectionary at my ministries, which constitute two proto-congregations, although I would bundle two of the lectionaries for each one and alternate every other year (six lessons sounds like a lot, but in the Coptic Church, if the Agpeya is read before the Morning Raising of Incense, and they do Prime, Terce, Sext and Noone, which is common, that’s four Gospel lessons, plus four epistles (one Pauline, one Catholic, one Pastoral, one from Acts) and another Gospel lesson, plus a reading from the Synaxarion. And the Syriac Orthodox Church is somewhat similiar, and the Assyrian church has four lessons (one from the Pentateuch, one from elsewhere in the OT, an epistle and a gospel). Of course, these are one year lectionaries, which I ultimately prefer to the three year lectionary; the only reason I am really considering this is the lessons Rev. Slemmons arranged for his proposed year D are really interesting, and the Schola Cantorum of Peter the Apostle did an excellent three CD recording of hymns, anthems and canticles for Years A, B and C.