Why does the lectionary skip important stories?

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Unless I missed something, why do we not read stories from the Bible like, David and Goliath, and Jonah and the whale? I know dinne things are left out v of the 3 year cycle, but these are in my opinion important stories.
 
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They are in the Lectionary for weekdays. Jonah 1:1–2:1.11 is Monday of 27th week in Ordinary Time, Year I. On Wednesday of 2nd week in Ordinary Time, Year II there is about Goliath, (1 Samuel 17:32–33.37.40–51).

The General Introduction to the Lectionary has: “65. The course of readings in the Proper of Seasons is arranged as follows. Sundays and solemnities of the Lord present the more important biblical passages. In this way the more significant parts of God’s revealed word can be read to the assembly of the faithful within a reasonable period of time. Weekdays present a second series of texts from Scripture and in a sense these complement the message of salvation explained on Sundays and solemnities of the Lord.” There is further explanation in n. 64 to 77, which are under the heading “2. Principles Used in Drawing Up the Order of Readings for Mass”, which can be read at https://www.liturgyoffice.org.uk/Resources/Rites/Lectionary.pdf .

[Excerpt from the English translation of the Lectionary for Mass, © 1981, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved.]
 
I remember one year when the reading about Jonah came around on Sunday. The reader for some reason pronounced “Nineveh” as “Nivea”. I could just picture a sinful city who also suffered from dry skin!
 
TheLittleLady said:
remember one year when the reading about Jonah came around on Sunday. The reader for some reason pronounced “Nineveh” as “Nivea”. I could just picture a sinful city who also suffered from dry skin!
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🤣🤣🤣
 
Who knows. Read the Office of Readings if you want more Bible. Before the novus ordo there was much less bible read at mass, and the Church did just fine.
 
Thomasbradley312 said:
Who knows. Read the Office of Readings if you want more Bible. Before the novus ordo there was much less bible read at mass, and the Church did just fine.
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Though a few of the readings that were staples in the old Mass have removed or truncated in the new mass.

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dochawk said:
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TheLittleLady:
I could just picture a sinful city who also suffered from dry skin!
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Is dry skin a mortal or venial sin?

🤔🤔:roll_eyes:
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Depends on your profession… 😉
 
JohnLilburne said:
They are in the Lectionary for weekdays. Jonah 1:1–2:1.11 is Monday of 27th week in Ordinary Time, Year I. On Wednesday of 2nd week in Ordinary Time, Year II there is about Goliath, (1 Samuel 17:32–33.37.40–51).
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Some lectionaries include, at the back, a list of all the readings in the canonical order of the books in the Bible, with the date for each one, e.g. in this case,

Jonah 1:1–2:1.11, Ordinary Time, 27th week, Monday
(possibly abbreviated to something like OT27 Mon.)

For people like me, who don’t own a lectionary and don’t wish to buy one, it would be useful to be able to look these things up on the internet. Do you know of any online resource of this kind?

Thanks!
 
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Thank you, @JulianN! Fr. Felix Just’s website was the first place I looked. Evidently I wasn’t looking carefully enough.
 
TheLittleLady said:
I remember one year when the reading about Jonah came around on Sunday. The reader for some reason pronounced “Nineveh” as “Nivea”. I could just picture a sinful city who also suffered from dry skin!
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😂🤣😅

It has been a long time since I read something on the forum that literally made me laugh out loud! Thanks for that. I needed that laugh today.
 
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