Revised Church Year

This paragraph is the one that I latched onto. Arland Hultgren writes, "The lectionary proposed by the Liturgical Commission of the Church of England sets forth the history of salvation in each of two years in conjunction with a radical revision of the church year. The church year in its revised form begins nine Sundays before Christmas, and there is a controlling lesson—not necessarily or even usually the Gospel—for each Sunday throughout the year. During the nine Sundays before Christmas the controlling Lessons are the Old Testament texts, which set forth in sequence the Creation, Fall, Noah, Abraham, and Moses, followed by readings from the prophets up to Christmas. Then from Christmas to Pentecost the Gospel for the Day is the controlling lesson. And during the Sundays after Pentecost the controlling lessons are from Acts and the Epistles."

He makes a point of the controlling lesson. The change of the controlling lesson from the Gospel lesson is an important change. This commission also desires to Change the Church Year. But realistically this is not much of a change to the Church Year. The main part of the Church Year remains the Same Advent through Trinity Sunday. These changes only effect the Last Sundays of the Church Year. This will also allow more time to review the Epistles of St Paul.

This two year thought makes for a simple format. If reflects for us the Salvation History. God did not start his work in Advent with John the Baptist and Mary the Mother of our Lord. The History of our Salvation begins with Adam and Creation. Thus, this new format would help spend more time filling in other or new dates to the Church year.

Again I will remind people the controlling lesson is the lesson by which the other lessons are supposed to relate. In the Historic Lectionary it was the Gospel lesson which controlled what other passages would be read as well as the theme for that Sunday. The idea of having other lessons become the controlling text would still allow for the Gospel to relate to this text. Thank you.

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