Dylan's lectionary blog

lectionary blog adopts the RCL

Dear All,

We've reached a blog milestone -- the biggest one thus far, I think! Dylan's Lectionary Blog started with Advent of 2003, so I have now blogged on every week of the lectionary cycle of the Book of Common Prayer (BCP). Thanks for making this journey with me. I've appreciated your support, feedback, and stories, which, along with the discipline of writing each week, have helped me to grow tremendously as a preacher, writer, and interpreter of scripture.

The Episcopal Church has this year reached a lectionary milestone as well; General Convention in 2006 directed the church to adopt the Revised Common Lectionary (RCL) effective a year from now, in the First Sunday of Advent in 2007.

The lectionary blog is moving over to the RCL effective this week, however. If your parish is still using the BCP lectionary, you should still find the lectionary blog useful even when it differs markedly from the RCL by making use of archives of previous entries from the BCP lectionary. The "search this site" box just below site navigation in the left-hand sidebar should allow you to find the passage you want. Just type in the biblical book and chapter (e.g., "John 3") or the first verse of the gospel for the week in question (e.g., "Luke 22:14"), and do it within quotation marks, as they are in the parenthetical examples above, and that will bring up everywhere on SarahLaughed.net where that exact phrase appears. That should let you find a reflection for that week in the BCP lectionary, and will also show you where else I've used that text over the last three years. The "category" links in the right-hand sidebar might also be useful to you; they've got entries categorized by biblical book and also selected topics (e.g., apocalyptic, the Cross, women), liturgical season, and lectionary year.

Thank you again for your encouragement, your generosity with feedback, your stories, and for your financial support as well. Advent will always be for me a time of hopeful anticipation of the consummation of Jesus' redeeming work in this world, but December is also a time when I anticipate rather less eagerly the arrival of my bill for seminary tuition for the next semester. If you feel moved to offset some of that, please remember that you can do so not only directly via the 'Make a Donation' button in the right-hand sidebar, but also by doing some of your Christmas shopping through SarahLaughed.net. When you click on any Amazon.com link in a post or in the sidebar and purchase any product, whether it's one I've recommended or something else, I get a percentage (usually 4% - 6%) of the sale.

I look forward to journeying through the RCL with y'all -- may God bless you richly in your ministries along the way!

Dylan

lectionary blog adopts the RCL

Dear All,

We've reached a blog milestone -- the biggest one thus far, I think! Dylan's Lectionary Blog started with Advent of 2003, so I have now blogged on every week of the lectionary cycle of the Book of Common Prayer (BCP). Thanks for making this journey with me. I've appreciated your support, feedback, and stories, which, along with the discipline of writing each week, have helped me to grow tremendously as a preacher, writer, and interpreter of scripture.

The Episcopal Church has this year reached a lectionary milestone as well; General Convention in 2006 directed the church to adopt the Revised Common Lectionary (RCL) effective a year from now, in the First Sunday of Advent in 2007.

The lectionary blog is moving over to the RCL effective this week, however. If your parish is still using the BCP lectionary, you should still find the lectionary blog useful even when it differs markedly from the RCL by making use of archives of previous entries from the BCP lectionary. The "search this site" box just below site navigation in the left-hand sidebar should allow you to find the passage you want. Just type in the biblical book and chapter (e.g., "John 3") or the first verse of the gospel for the week in question (e.g., "Luke 22:14"), and do it within quotation marks, as they are in the parenthetical examples above, and that will bring up everywhere on SarahLaughed.net where that exact phrase appears. That should let you find a reflection for that week in the BCP lectionary, and will also show you where else I've used that text over the last three years. The "category" links in the right-hand sidebar might also be useful to you; they've got entries categorized by biblical book and also selected topics (e.g., apocalyptic, the Cross, women), liturgical season, and lectionary year.

Thank you again for your encouragement, your generosity with feedback, your stories, and for your financial support as well. Advent will always be for me a time of hopeful anticipation of the consummation of Jesus' redeeming work in this world, but December is also a time when I anticipate rather less eagerly the arrival of my bill for seminary tuition for the next semester. If you feel moved to offset some of that, please remember that you can do so not only directly via the 'Make a Donation' button in the right-hand sidebar, but also by doing some of your Christmas shopping through SarahLaughed.net. When you click on any Amazon.com link in a post or in the sidebar and purchase any product, whether it's one I've recommended or something else, I get a percentage (usually 4% - 6%) of the sale.

I look forward to journeying through the RCL with y'all -- may God bless you richly in your ministries along the way!

Dylan

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lectionary blog adopts the RCL

Dear All,

We've reached a blog milestone -- the biggest one thus far, I think! Dylan's Lectionary Blog started with Advent of 2003, so I have now blogged on every week of the lectionary cycle of the Book of Common Prayer (BCP). Thanks for making this journey with me. I've appreciated your support, feedback, and stories, which, along with the discipline of writing each week, have helped me to grow tremendously as a preacher, writer, and interpreter of scripture.

The Episcopal Church has this year reached a lectionary milestone as well; General Convention in 2006 directed the church to adopt the Revised Common Lectionary (RCL) effective a year from now, in the First Sunday of Advent in 2007.

The lectionary blog is moving over to the RCL effective this week, however. If your parish is still using the BCP lectionary, you should still find the lectionary blog useful even when it differs markedly from the RCL by making use of archives of previous entries from the BCP lectionary. The "search this site" box just below site navigation in the left-hand sidebar should allow you to find the passage you want. Just type in the biblical book and chapter (e.g., "John 3") or the first verse of the gospel for the week in question (e.g., "Luke 22:14"), and do it within quotation marks, as they are in the parenthetical examples above, and that will bring up everywhere on SarahLaughed.net where that exact phrase appears. That should let you find a reflection for that week in the BCP lectionary, and will also show you where else I've used that text over the last three years. The "category" links in the right-hand sidebar might also be useful to you; they've got entries categorized by biblical book and also selected topics (e.g., apocalyptic, the Cross, women), liturgical season, and lectionary year.

Thank you again for your encouragement, your generosity with feedback, your stories, and for your financial support as well. Advent will always be for me a time of hopeful anticipation of the consummation of Jesus' redeeming work in this world, but December is also a time when I anticipate rather less eagerly the arrival of my bill for seminary tuition for the next semester. If you feel moved to offset some of that, please remember that you can do so not only directly via the 'Make a Donation' button in the right-hand sidebar, but also by doing some of your Christmas shopping through SarahLaughed.net. When you click on any Amazon.com link in a post or in the sidebar and purchase any product, whether it's one I've recommended or something else, I get a percentage (usually 4% - 6%) of the sale.

I look forward to journeying through the RCL with y'all -- may God bless you richly in your ministries along the way!

Dylan

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