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

The N.C.C. book is the second installment of a three-part revision of Bible readings for Christian worship, known as a lectionary.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

He believed, of course, in the public reading of Scripture; but when the Brethren were planning a lectionary, he urged them to make a distinction between the Old and New Testaments.

From A History of the Moravian Church by Hutton, Joseph Edmund