Exploring the Lectionary

CHAPTER 3 (excerpt)

Exploring the Lectionary

In addition to Lowry’s earlier work and the work of the Consultation on Common Texts itself, several recent books are helpful guides for living with the lectionary, including Gail Ramshaw’s Treasures Old and New: Images in the Lectionary and A Three Year Banquet: The Lectionary for the Assembly, Gail R. O’Day and Charles Hackett’s Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary, and O. Wesley Allen’s Preaching and Reading the Lectionary: a Three-Dimensional Approach to the Liturgical Year.  These works will serve as our basis for understanding the history, structure, and use of the RCL.  We will then examine the possibilities and limitations for semicontinuous preaching in the lectionary…