Old Lectinary or New Lectionary

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In the Byzantine Churches, they go through the entire 4 Gospels every year. It can be done!!!
 
I remember when the same readings came around every year. I prefer spending an entire year in one of the synoptic Gospels, and each one comes up every third year. I am lucky, though; I have had a regular diet of homilists who refer backward and forward and to in-between readings not included, to more fully explain the Gospel of a particular Evangelist in its entirety over the course of the year.

I think when the homily explains the Scriptures in that way, it encourages additional time spent in the Scriptures. Since we are now literate and bound to be out there reading during the week (probably something far less edifying), this is a worthy goal.
bilop said:
I don’t view it as “dumbing down”. Most Catholics only get Catechesis once a week at Mass. The goal is that they learn as much as possible about the truths of the Faith in that one hour.

I, personally, think that people are more likely to retain what they hear if it is the same every year, and the Sundays are memorable.

People should know, today is the Feast of the Holy Cross, the Gospel reading will be XXX, the Espistle YYY, and father will likely preach on ZZZ.

Right now, I have no idea what Gospel to expect on a given Sunday (with the exception of Christmas and Easter).

God Bless
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Unless you are uncannily on the same wavelength, if you can reliably predict what the homilist is going to do with a particular set of Scriptures, I have to wonder if the homilist isn’t getting a little lazy. Of course, not so much when they only get a round of 50-60 different readings to do, and on an annual basis. That makes it more difficult to do, although with the riches of the Scriptures, it is still possible.
bilop said:
Right now, I have no idea what Gospel to expect on a given Sunday (with the exception of Christmas and Easter).

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Our pastor highly encourages that we read and reflect on the readings before coming to Mass, too. If you can get to this website, you can easily get to the USCCB website and look them up. It really helps a lot. Unfortunately, he is also quite aware that a large proportion of those present couldn’t answer questions about the readings five minutes after hearing them, let alone what he said in his homily!

Oh, well. You can lead a horse to water, but if you try to shove its nose in, you’ll just get kicked. 🤷

Nevertheless, I highly recommend it. CAF isn’t the only advantage of having an internet.
PS It also helps if you have are in a “homily-challenged” parish…lots of homilies are posted each week.
 
Neil_Anthony said:
I didn’t like how on the Marian feasts, the old lectionary had all of these readings about Mary that I had never heard of before.

It turned out those readings were taken from Judith. But if you never looked it up, it sounds like its talking about Mary. It seemed a bit fishy to me. :confused:
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I think you and I may be at a disadvantage here Neil…If I’m not mistaken, the Lectionary we are currently using up here (Canada) has yet to receive Rome’s approval, although it appears to have our bishops’ approval.

Maybe somebody could confirm that…?
 
Neil,

forgive me for interrupting, but I thought it might be wise to mention that your poll’s third choice may be quite misleading to someone who is not familiar with the Traditional Latin Mass. Both the Epistle and the Gospel are read or proclaimed in English. The collects, secrets, graduals, etc. all have the English translation conveniently right next to the Latin.

forgive the interruption.

maurin
 
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