lectionary
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Bring the bulletin from the 10 a.m. service with you, as lectionary readings will be used by the Revs.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 26, 2016
In the next room over, middle-aged women stuffed boxes with pamphlets on females in the lectionary to the tune of “Cracklin’ Rosie” on the radio.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2012
The N.C.C. book is the second installment of a three-part revision of Bible readings for Christian worship, known as a lectionary.
From Time Magazine Archive
The first step toward what some religious wags are already calling the "Unisex Bible" will be translation of a new lectionary, the series of Bible readings listed for worship each week in many denominations.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is no lectionary to determine a comprehensive and orderly reading of Scripture, not much sequence of thought or progress of devotion either in the read or the extempore prayers.
From Preaching and Paganism by Fitch, Albert Parker
Still, by the time it completes its next two lectionaries, Gold's panel will have renovated about 95% of the New Testament and 60% of the Old.
From Time Magazine Archive
He also completed a whole corpus of lectionaries, missals, gospels, &c.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various
Chancing one day to examine the Vulgate in the university library, he saw with astonishment that there were more gospels and epistles than in the lectionaries.
From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)
For further notices of these, as also of the lectionaries, containing selections for church readings, the reader may consult the works devoted to biblical criticism.
From Companion to the Bible by Barrows, E. P. (Elijah Porter)
