lectionary

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Bring the bulletin from the 10 a.m. service with you, as lectionary readings will be used by the Revs.

From Washington Post • Aug. 26, 2016

In the next room over, middle-aged women stuffed boxes with pamphlets on females in the lectionary to the tune of “Cracklin’ Rosie” on the radio.

From Salon • Sep. 6, 2012

Looking ahead, liturgists hope that eventually Catholics and Protestants will share a common lectionary and thus hear the same selections from Scripture on the same Sundays throughout the year.

From Time Magazine Archive

The first step toward what some religious wags are already calling the "Unisex Bible" will be translation of a new lectionary, the series of Bible readings listed for worship each week in many denominations.

From Time Magazine Archive

I am convinced, nevertheless, that the first occasion of the omission of those memorable verses was the lectionary practice of the primitive Church, which, on Whitsunday, read from S. John vii.

From The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark by Burgon, John William