Who selects weekly readings?

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I was wondering who selects the Gospel and first and second readings each week? I always presumed it was a catholic group, probably from Rome who set this for the world church. The reason I’m asking is that I attended a baptism at a United Church of Christ church (UCC), and was shocked to hear them have the exact same 3 readings that I heard in the Catholic church that same day. I would not think that they could take their cues from the Catholics.

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I would not think that they could take their cues from the Catholics.
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Why not?

All heretical and schismatic forms of Christianity stole something from the Catholic Church; that’s why they are even Christian. This doesn’t only include doctrines, but liturgy and disciplines as well.

Non-Catholic Christianity is boot-legged all the way . . .

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The modern Lectionary covers a heck of a lot of scripture in 3 years. And this fact did not go unnoticed by some protestants. Some of them created a lectionary for use across multiple protestant denominations called the Revised Common Lectionary. They used the modern Catholic Lectionary as a base and made some changes to it. So there are many times when the protestant church that uses the RCL will have the same readings as the Catholic Church. Just Google Revised Common Lectionary for more info.

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I was wondering who selects the Gospel and first and second readings each week? I always presumed it was a catholic group, probably from Rome who set this for the world church. The reason I’m asking is that I attended a baptism at a United Church of Christ church (UCC), and was shocked to hear them have the exact same 3 readings that I heard in the Catholic church that same day. I would not think that they could take their cues from the Catholics.

Jon
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Many non-Catholic communities use the *Common Lectionary. *This is an adaption of the Roman Lectionary. There are some differences on certain Sundays. It is rooted in the fact the Ecumenism has common roots in the Scriptures.
 
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Many non-Catholic communities use the *Common Lectionary. *This is an adaption of the Roman Lectionary. There are some differences on certain Sundays. It is rooted in the fact the Ecumenism has common roots in the Scriptures.
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the Oxford Catholic Study Bible NAB has an excellent article on how the lectionary readings were chosen and arranged.
 
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