The Lectionary and Protestant services

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I know that the Lectionary we use runs on a three year cycle, and is planned ahead many years in advance.

Today I was at my girlfriend’s Protestant church, and they read the exact same passage from John 15 as was read at the vigil last evening. My question is this; WHO decides what readings appear in the Lectionary? Is it the Catholic Church, and the others follow along? Who publishes it? Are the Lectionaries exactly the same across the spectrum? I ask because I want to know if fome of these Protestant churches are aware that they are following us a little more closely than they’d care to admit.
 
The three year cycle is often very similar, but most Protestant Churches do not have some or all of our Catholic Feasts and solemnities. And some add their own, like “Reformation Day.”

And, as well, they don’t use the two-year weekday cycle.

Another difference I’ve heard of is that some churches object to the way the Old Testament reading is chosen to correspond to the Gospel, so they substitute a semi-continuous cycle comparable to that for the “Epistles” and Gospels. But I have noticed that, at least in the early part of Advent, the Old Testament prophecies are semi-continuous, with the Gospel to match–so this is not all one-way for Catholics.
 
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