Readings August 30
Prof. Barber introduces the readings for Sunday August 2 Sunday, August 30, 2009: Liturgy Reflection from JP Catholic University on Vimeo.
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Readings August 9
Prof. Barber introduces the readings for Sunday August 9 Liturgy Reflection: Sunday, August 9, 2009 from JP Catholic University on Vimeo.
Readings August 2
Prof. Barber introduces the readings for Sunday August 2 Liturgy Reflection: Sunday, August 2, 2009 from JP Catholic University on Vimeo. The RSS feed for that video series.
Readings July 26
Prof. Barber introduces the readings for Sunday July 26 Liturgy Reflection: Sunday, July 26, 2009 from JP Catholic University on Vimeo.
The Lectionary (part 1)
I consider the Revised Common Lectionary (RCL) as a gift from the Holy Spirit to the church. Although at the grass-roots level relationships between people of different denominations are healthy, at the power levels of institutional Christianity ecumenism has pretty much, in spite of innumerable meetings and reports, come to …. nought. Yet, Sunday by
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Revised Common Lectionary
There is a helpful discussion on beliefnet.com about the Revised Common Lectionary. This includes a comment from Taylor Burton-Edwards, the secretary of The Consultation on Common Texts which did the work on this lectionary. Two points are worth highlighting: 1) A lectionary “is a selection of readings intended to be read, sung, heard, and proclaimed
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Reflect on readings March 15
2nd Sunday in Lent Text of the readings All reflections at Category: Lectionary Exodus 20:1-17 Exodus 34:28 indicates that the terms of the covenant is literally “ten words” (hence, better “decalogue”). We translate this as the “Ten Commandments”, but of course there are four different numbering systems of where the divisions of the commandments in
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Reflect on readings March 8
2nd Sunday in Lent Text of the readings All reflections at Category: Lectionary Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16 This is from the P(riestly) version of the covenant with Abraham. The J version is Genesis Chapter 15 [hence the lack of acknowledgement that the covenant has already been established two chapters earlier]. Today’s reading skips the innovation of
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