Revised Common Lectionary Sunday and Daily Readings

[Michael Hunt]

Is there any plans to make the Revised Common Lectionary and the additional volume of daily readings available? I would happily part with money to have a copy as a devotional module

 

I have found some modules for the RCL on accordance exchange but unfortunately these do not include the daily readings.

[ukfraser]

I will let accordance answer as to their plans.

 

But in the meantime and to get you started if you havent come across it before, i downloaded mine from here into whatever you use as a calendar, eg iCal or outlook (and i just copy the references each day into accordance which is a relatively quick workaround).

 

http://almanac.oremus.org/lectionary/

 

Fraser

Edited April 23, 2015 by ukfraser

[Helen Brown]

The lectionary is available on the Accordance exchange.

[Michael Hunt]

ukfraser: I have been doing something similar with the official RCL calendar from http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu. Unfortunately they only supply the Sunday and other holy day readings, not the daily readings. I'll take look at  http://almanac.oremus.org/lectionary/ for the daily readings. Do they have an option for the RCL or is it just the BCP?

 

Helen Brown: Thanks for the link to the Accordance exchange modules. I have already downloaded these and while they are useful they do not include the daily readings. It would also be great to have the lectionary as an official module as there is further information in the lectionary that is beneficial that I suspect for copyright reasons is not in the exchange modules.

 

Side note: There is something to be said for using only hard copies of lectionaries and bibles but that is not enough of a reason not to want them in Accordance.

[ukfraser]

Hi, i'm just using RCL, Misread your response and thought you were after BCP. they have a lot of BCP stuff so i suggest you just look round the site. Here is the main page link http://oremus.org.

 

it certainly has BCP in daily office.

 

I like their options for RCL, you can even download the collects and i especially including the liturgical colour!

 

Not sure how you work, but i have also downloaded all the texts as pdf and have them on all my devices.

 

https://www.churchofengland.org/prayer-worship/worship/texts/common-worship-pdf-files.aspx

Edited April 26, 2015 by ukfraser

[Michael Hunt]

Thanks ukfraser. I took a look around http://oremus.org but couldn't find the RCL options you were talking about. But this just may be that I'm fairly new to the lectionary as a non-conformist (i.e. firstly as a Baptist member/minister who is now happens to be serving in a Congregational church).

 

I did have a connection with the Anglican church growing up (my granny used to take my brother and I to a traditional prayer book service at 8am when we stayed with her during school holidays).  In fact I remember once my brother and I acting out the Eucharist according to the Australian Prayer book with him in his dressing gown as the priest and me as the parishioner. I even recall him using one of granny's goblet as the cup and some biscuits as the wafer.

 

My more recent encounter with a more formal liturgy/lectionary was as a result of reading Bryan Chapell's Christ centred worship. His book was the starting point to my thinking about the service as being more than just the warm up act for the sermon. We started using the RCL readings in our church services about two years though not rigidly or in a legislative way. For a non-conformist church it has been well received probably in part because of the predominately older age of the congregation and the church of england heritage of our people.

 

Recently I started to use the daily readings as part of my personal devotions and as preparation for our Sunday services (I really like the three days of reading preparing for Sunday/followed by three days of reflection). I hope to soon purchase the Ancient Christian Devotional module (http://www.accordancebible.com/store/details/?pid=Ancient%20Devotional) to incorporate into my workflow. An RCL daily readings devotional module would be the icing on the cake.

 

Thank you for the links to the Common Worship PDF files. I took look at the Planning Worship PDF and had a bit of a chuckle over the following:-

 

<snipped from https://www.churchofengland.org/media/41136/npwnotes1-53.pdf>

 

St Dodo’s is a church where worship is simply not one of the most important things the church does. It comes low on most people’s agenda, though there are occasional heated discussions at the PCC. The demands of different factions and rival views in the church mean that the worship is very bitty, and there is a different kind of service each Sunday in the month, with very few people going every week. The vicar finds little time for preparation and feels it is impossible to involve others in preparing or helping to lead because of the need to keep the balance between the different factions.

 

Note: There really was a St Dodo. He was the abbot of a monastery in Belgium who died in ad 750. We’ve chosen him partly because there are no churches dedicated to him in Britain, partly because of the other overtones of his name. But if you find yourself identifying with some of the stories of
St Dodo’s (and many of them are true) don’t despair: you’re not extinct yet, and the fact that you are using this book shows that you are well on the way to recovering from deadness. 

Edited April 29, 2015 by oddsocks

[ukfraser]

Hi, if you use the link in my first response, it willl take you directly to the rcl. From the home page in the second link , you have two options, i use common worship, which i believe is rcl apart from a couple of specific sundays which are usually noted.

 

The bit you have quoted from is from new patterns of worship which was written to encourage churchs to be creative with the liturgy. My favourite liturgical reference is times and seasons which has good resources for the christian festivals.

 

There are lots of resources out there, and this forum frequently posts useful links.

 

I always liked it when my daughters played church and got to the blessing which they had heard as 'may the lord press you' as the vicar places his hands on their head

 

;o)