Liturgical Readings for United Methodist

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This Sunday happened to be a fundraiser for my sister-in-law at the Methodist church. (We attended Catholic Mass at another time that weekend). I have always noticed that they follow the same liturgical readings. This past Sunday, however, the 2nd reading in James with the passages on Faith and Works were changed to a different reading in James. (The other reading and Gospel were the same). I am trying not to jump to conclusions. Can anyone explain why on this particular Sunday the reading was different?
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I wish I could answer this. I know that when the Mass was revised after Vatican II, the sequence of readings was also revised, and the new sequence was worked out in conjunction with the major Protestant churches, so that people in the various churches would be hearing the same Scripture readings on the same day. However, the Catholic cycle of readings departs from the others for major feast days, so that the readings are pertinent to the feast.

There may be other reasons for the variation that I don’t know about.

You would probably get more responses if you post in a different forum. The Prayer Intentions forum is not a good place to get answers to things like this. Remember that not all the forums are read by the same people.
 
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This Sunday happened to be a fundraiser for my sister-in-law at the Methodist church. (We attended Catholic Mass at another time that weekend). I have always noticed that they follow the same liturgical readings. This past Sunday, however, the 2nd reading in James with the passages on Faith and Works were changed to a different reading in James. (The other reading and Gospel were the same). I am trying not to jump to conclusions. Can anyone explain why on this particular Sunday the reading was different?
Thank you!
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Much of my family is Methodist, and while occasionally I have experienced overlaps with the readings, I have never found them to be exactly the same. Often, their readings are longer passages in my experience. However, I’m pretty unfamiliar with the UMC lectionary.

Also, I wouldn’t look too much into them not using the ‘faith without works is dead’ passage from James, because Wesleyan Christianity actually holds the importance of works in high esteem in a way similar to Catholicism.

umc.org/site/c.lwL4KnN1LtH/b.2310047/

Scroll on down and you’ll find the insistence on the union of faith and works. Wesley was a pretty smart fellow.
 
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