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<p>The <b>Revised Common Lectionary</b> (<b>RCL</b>) is a <a href="Lectionary" title="Lectionary">lectionary</a> of <a href="Lection" title="Lection">readings</a> or <a href="Pericope" title="Pericope">pericopes</a> from the Bible for use in <a href="Christian_worship" title="Christian worship">Christian worship</a>, making provision for the <a href="Liturgical_year" title="Liturgical year">liturgical year</a> with its pattern of observances of festivals and seasons. It was preceded by the <b>Common Lectionary</b>, assembled in 1983, itself preceded by the <b>COCU Lectionary</b>, published in 1974 by the <a href="Consultation_on_Church_Union" title="Consultation on Church Union">Consultation on Church Union</a> (COCU). This lectionary was derived from <a href="Protestant" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestant">Protestant</a> lectionaries in use, which in turn were based on the 1969 <i><a href="Ordo_Lectionum_Missae" title="Ordo Lectionum Missae">Ordo Lectionum Missae</a></i>, a three-year lectionary produced by the <a href="Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic Church</a> following the reforms of the <a href="Second_Vatican_Council" title="Second Vatican Council">Second Vatican Council</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAugsburg_Fortress_Publishers20057_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAugsburg_Fortress_Publishers20057-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Origin">Origin</h2></div>

<p>The Revised Common Lectionary was the product of a collaboration between the North American <a href="Consultation_on_Common_Texts" title="Consultation on Common Texts">Consultation on Common Texts</a> (CCT) and the International <a href="English_Language_Liturgical_Consultation" title="English Language Liturgical Consultation">English Language Liturgical Consultation</a> (ELLC). After a nine-year trial period, it was publicly released in 1994. The CCT membership includes the <a href="United_States_Conference_of_Catholic_Bishops" title="United States Conference of Catholic Bishops">United States Conference of Catholic Bishops</a> and the <a href="Canadian_Conference_of_Catholic_Bishops" title="Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops">Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops</a> as well as many traditionally liturgical American and Canadian <a href="Protestant" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestant">Protestant</a> churches, including <a href="Evangelical_Lutheran_Church_of_America" class="mw-redirect" title="Evangelical Lutheran Church of America">Lutherans</a>, <a href="Episcopal_Church_(United_States)" title="Episcopal Church (United States)">Anglicans</a>, <a href="Presbyterian_Church_(USA)" title="Presbyterian Church (USA)">Presbyterians</a>, <a href="American_Baptist_Churches_USA" title="American Baptist Churches USA">Baptists</a>, <a href="United_Methodist_Church" title="United Methodist Church">Methodists</a>, and <a href="United_Church_of_Christ" title="United Church of Christ">Congregationalists</a>. The CCT thereby represents the majority of American and Canadian Christians and has been widely adopted in Great Britain and in other countries such as Australia. Various churches, however, have made some changes to the form of the RCL that they use. It has been further adapted for Sunday school and children's church use.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>As in its predecessors, readings are prescribed for each Sunday: a passage typically from the <a href="Old_Testament" title="Old Testament">Old Testament</a> (including in Catholic, Lutheran and Anglican churches those books sometimes referred to as the <a href="Biblical_apocrypha" title="Biblical apocrypha">Apocrypha</a> or <a href="Deuterocanonical_books" title="Deuterocanonical books">deuterocanonical books</a>), or the <a href="Acts_of_the_Apostles" title="Acts of the Apostles">Acts of the Apostles</a>; a passage from one of the <a href="Psalm" class="mw-redirect" title="Psalm">Psalms</a>; another from either the <a href="Epistle" title="Epistle">Epistles</a> or the <a href="Book_of_Revelation" title="Book of Revelation">Book of Revelation</a>; and finally a passage from one of the four <a href="Gospel" title="Gospel">Gospels</a>.

</p><p>Also like its predecessors, it runs in three-year cycles; the gospel readings in the first year (Year A) are taken from the <a href="Gospel_of_Matthew" title="Gospel of Matthew">Gospel of Matthew</a>, those in the second year (or Year B) from the <a href="Gospel_of_Mark" title="Gospel of Mark">Gospel of Mark</a>, and in the third year (or Year C) come from the <a href="Gospel_of_Luke" title="Gospel of Luke">Gospel of Luke</a>. Portions of the <a href="Gospel_of_John" title="Gospel of John">Gospel of John</a> are read throughout <a href="Eastertide" title="Eastertide">Eastertide</a>, and are also used for other liturgical seasons including <a href="Advent" title="Advent">Advent</a>, <a href="Christmastide" title="Christmastide">Christmastide</a>, and <a href="Lent" title="Lent">Lent</a> where appropriate.

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<ul><li>Year A begins on the first Sunday of Advent in 2019, 2022, 2025, etc.</li>

<li>Year B begins on the first Sunday of Advent in 2020, 2023, 2026, etc.</li>

<li>Year C begins on the first Sunday of Advent in 2021, 2024, 2027, etc.</li></ul>

<p>It differs from its Latin predecessor, however, in that—as a result of feedback collected from the participating churches during the trial period—a greater emphasis is given to Old Testament passages and to <a href="Wisdom_literature" title="Wisdom literature">Wisdom literature</a>.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Scripture_usage">Scripture usage</h2></div>

<p>The major principle behind the lectionary is that on a Sunday members of congregations should be able to hear the voice of each writer week by week, rather than readings being selected according to a theme. Thus, in any given year the writer of one of the first three gospels will be heard from beginning to end. Likewise the rest of the New Testament is heard, in some cases, virtually in total, in others in large part.

</p><p>This principle is subject to a number of exceptions. Firstly, different principles apply during the special seasons of the year: Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, and Easter. Here appropriate lections relevant to the season are chosen. The rest of the year, called <a href="Ordinary_Time" title="Ordinary Time">Ordinary Time</a>, begins in February (after <a href="Candlemas" title="Candlemas">Candlemas</a>) and runs until the second Sunday before <a href="Lent" title="Lent">Lent</a>. It then resumes after <a href="Pentecost" title="Pentecost">Pentecost</a> until the Sunday before Advent which is kept as the Feast of <a href="Christ_the_King" title="Christ the King">Christ the King</a>.

</p><p>Secondly, because the cycle is three years long, only three of the Gospel writers are given a year. <a href="Gospel_of_John" title="Gospel of John">St. John's Gospel</a>, whose form and character is very different from the three <a href="Synoptic_gospels" class="mw-redirect" title="Synoptic gospels">synoptic gospels</a> is treated differently and is inserted into all three years. Thus passages from St. John appear in the special seasons of Advent and Lent, on Passion (Palm) Sunday in all three years, throughout Holy Week, including Good Friday, on Easter Day as the first alternative Gospel, during most of the Easter season, on Pentecost and during the year in which St. Mark's gospel is in use. A practical reason for this is that Mark is considerably shorter than either St. Matthew or St. Luke.

</p><p>The treatment given to the <a href="Old_Testament" title="Old Testament">Old Testament</a> provides a further qualification to the first principle. Because it is so much longer than the New, it is inevitable that a smaller proportion of the material will be included, unless readings are to be very long. Readings are much more selective both in terms of the books included: little appears from the books of <a href="Leviticus" class="mw-redirect" title="Leviticus">Leviticus</a> and <a href="Book_of_Numbers" title="Book of Numbers">Numbers</a> and almost none from <a href="Books_of_Chronicles" title="Books of Chronicles">1 and 2 Chronicles</a>. Moreover, it was decided that churches could choose between two tracks in their use of the Old Testament. "Track 1" adheres to the principle of giving the Biblical writer their own voice, thus following week by week from a portion of a book, or, in the case of some books, the whole. "Track 2", on the other hand, designated the "Related Track", is intended to relate in some way to the Gospel for the day. Provision is made for the use of a <a href="Responsorial_psalm" class="mw-redirect" title="Responsorial psalm">responsorial psalm</a> each Sunday.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECallaham2013_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECallaham2013-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>Lastly, there has been a certain amount of editing so that some verses of most books are omitted. Sometimes the omission is simply an introduction to a book; sometimes more substantial material has been excluded, but the overall intention, that of allowing, say, the substance of a biblical writer's thoughts to be read and heard in church, has arguably been achieved at least more substantially than before. There have been arguments over individual editorial judgements and the <a href="Church_of_England" title="Church of England">Church of England</a>, in its use of the RCL, has re-inserted verses, in brackets, which were felt by its Liturgical Commission to be more properly included.

</p><p>Such is the length of the Scriptural canon that no Sunday lectionary can cover the whole of Scripture without the necessity of very long readings on a Sunday or a longer cycle of years. Sometimes there has to be a choice between telling a long story or omitting it entirely. However, the daily lectionary, devised by the Catholic Church and adopted by the Church of England (among others), provides more material. The <a href="Consultation_on_Common_Texts" title="Consultation on Common Texts">CCT</a> has also produced a volume of daily readings.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAugsburg_Fortress_Publishers20057_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAugsburg_Fortress_Publishers20057-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>The Church of England has augmented the RCL by the provision of readings for second and third services. Thus the RCL lectionary is used for the "Principal Service", which often takes the form of a Eucharist, while allowing for additional material at other services which may be Morning and Evening Prayer (though provision is made for either being a Eucharist). Minimal changes to the "Principal Service" have been made in order to preserve its use as an ecumenical lectionary; the most significant of these is in Year B where in Epiphany for three Sundays readings from Revelation replace readings from 1 Corinthians.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Denominational_practices">Denominational practices</h2></div>

<p>The Revised Common Lectionary is used in its original or an adapted form by churches around the world. The <i><a href="Ordo_Lectionum_Missae" title="Ordo Lectionum Missae">Ordo Lectionum Missae</a></i>, on which it is based, is used in the <a href="Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic Church</a> in local translations as the standard lectionary. Various other churches have also adopted (and sometimes adapted) the RCL; some may consider its use optional. These include:

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<ul><li>United States

<ul><li><a href="American_Baptist_Churches%2C_USA" class="mw-redirect" title="American Baptist Churches, USA">American Baptist Churches, USA</a></li>

<li><a href="Church_of_the_Nazarene" title="Church of the Nazarene">Church of the Nazarene</a></li>

<li><a href="Christian_Reformed_Church_in_North_America" title="Christian Reformed Church in North America">Christian Reformed Church in North America</a></li>

<li><a href="Communion_of_Evangelical_Episcopal_Churches" title="Communion of Evangelical Episcopal Churches">Communion of Evangelical Episcopal Churches</a></li>

<li><a href="Communion_of_Reformed_Evangelical_Churches" title="Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches">Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches</a></li>

<li><a href="Community_of_Christ" title="Community of Christ">Community of Christ</a></li>

<li><a href="Christian_Church_(Disciples_of_Christ)" title="Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)">Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)</a></li>

<li><a href="Episcopal_Church_in_the_United_States_of_America" class="mw-redirect" title="Episcopal Church in the United States of America">Episcopal Church in the United States of America</a></li>

<li><a href="Evangelical_Lutheran_Church_in_America" title="Evangelical Lutheran Church in America">Evangelical Lutheran Church in America</a></li>

<li><a href="Free_Methodist_Church" title="Free Methodist Church">Free Methodist Church</a></li>

<li><a href="Grace_Communion_International" title="Grace Communion International">Grace Communion International</a></li>

<li><a href="King's_Chapel" title="King's Chapel">King's Chapel, Boston</a>, an autonomous Unitarian Universalist church in the <a href="Anglican" class="mw-redirect" title="Anglican">Anglican</a> tradition</li>

<li><a href="Lutheran_Church%E2%80%93Missouri_Synod" class="mw-redirect" title="Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod">Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod</a></li>

<li><a href="Moravian_Church_in_America" class="mw-redirect" title="Moravian Church in America">Moravian Church in America</a></li>

<li><a href="Presbyterian_Church_USA" class="mw-redirect" title="Presbyterian Church USA">Presbyterian Church USA</a></li>

<li><a href="Reformed_Church_in_America" title="Reformed Church in America">Reformed Church in America</a></li>

<li><a href="United_Church_of_Christ" title="United Church of Christ">United Church of Christ</a></li>

<li><a href="United_Methodist_Church" title="United Methodist Church">United Methodist Church</a></li>

<li><a href="Unitarian_Universalist_Christian_Fellowship" title="Unitarian Universalist Christian Fellowship">Unitarian Universalist Christian Fellowship</a></li></ul></li>

<li>Canada

<ul><li><a href="Anglican_Church_of_Canada" title="Anglican Church of Canada">Anglican Church of Canada</a></li>

<li><a href="Canadian_Baptists_of_Western_Canada" title="Canadian Baptists of Western Canada">Canadian Baptists of Western Canada</a></li>

<li><a href="Evangelical_Lutheran_Church_in_Canada" title="Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada">Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada</a></li>

<li><a href="Grace_Communion_International" title="Grace Communion International">Grace Communion International Canada</a></li>

<li><a href="Lutheran_Church%E2%80%93Canada" class="mw-redirect" title="Lutheran Church–Canada">Lutheran Church–Canada</a></li>

<li><a href="Mennonite_Church_Canada" title="Mennonite Church Canada">Mennonite Church Canada</a></li>

<li><a href="Presbyterian_Church_in_Canada" title="Presbyterian Church in Canada">Presbyterian Church in Canada</a></li>

<li><a href="United_Church_of_Canada" title="United Church of Canada">United Church of Canada</a></li></ul></li>

<li>United Kingdom and Ireland

<ul><li><a href="Church_of_England" title="Church of England">Church of England</a><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>

<li><a href="Church_of_Scotland" title="Church of Scotland">Church of Scotland</a></li>

<li><a href="Church_in_Wales" title="Church in Wales">Church in Wales</a></li>

<li><a href="Church_of_Ireland" title="Church of Ireland">Church of Ireland</a></li>

<li><a href="Methodist_Church_of_Great_Britain" title="Methodist Church of Great Britain">Methodist Church of Great Britain</a></li>

<li><a href="Scottish_Episcopal_Church" title="Scottish Episcopal Church">Scottish Episcopal Church</a></li>

<li><a href="United_Reformed_Church" title="United Reformed Church">United Reformed Church</a></li></ul></li>

<li>Philippines

<ul><li><a href="Apostolic_Catholic_Church_(Philippines)" title="Apostolic Catholic Church (Philippines)">Apostolic Catholic Church</a></li>

<li><a href="Convention_of_Philippine_Baptist_Churches" title="Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches">Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches</a></li>

<li><a href="Episcopal_Church_of_the_Philippines" class="mw-redirect" title="Episcopal Church of the Philippines">Episcopal Church of the Philippines</a></li>

<li><a href="Philippine_Independent_Church" title="Philippine Independent Church">Philippine Independent Church</a></li>

<li><a href="United_Church_of_Christ_in_the_Philippines" title="United Church of Christ in the Philippines">United Church of Christ in the Philippines</a></li>

<li><a href="United_Methodist_Church_in_the_Philippines" class="mw-redirect" title="United Methodist Church in the Philippines">United Methodist Church in the Philippines</a></li></ul></li>

<li>Australia

<ul><li><a href="Anglican_Church_of_Australia" title="Anglican Church of Australia">Anglican Church of Australia</a></li>

<li><a href="Uniting_Church_in_Australia" title="Uniting Church in Australia">Uniting Church in Australia</a></li></ul></li>

<li>Italy

<ul><li><a href="Waldensian_Evangelical_Church" title="Waldensian Evangelical Church">Waldensian Evangelical Church</a></li>

<li><a href="Italian_Methodist_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Italian Methodist Church">Italian Methodist Church</a></li>

<li><a href="Baptist_Evangelical_Christian_Union_of_Italy" title="Baptist Evangelical Christian Union of Italy">Baptist Evangelical Christian Union of Italy</a> (UCEBI)</li>

<li><a href="Evangelical_Reformed_Baptist_Churches_in_Italy" title="Evangelical Reformed Baptist Churches in Italy">Evangelical Reformed Baptist Churches in Italy</a></li></ul></li>

<li>Hong Kong

<ul><li><a href="Evangelical_Lutheran_Church_of_Hong_Kong" title="Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hong Kong">Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hong Kong</a> (基督教香港信義會)</li>

<li><a href="Lutheran_Church-Hong_Kong_Synod" title="Lutheran Church-Hong Kong Synod">Lutheran Church-Hong Kong Synod</a> (香港路德會)</li>

<li><a href="Hong_Kong_Sheng_Kung_Hui" title="Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui">Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui</a> (香港聖公會)</li></ul></li>

<li>Ghana

<ul><li><a href="Presbyterian_Church_of_Ghana" title="Presbyterian Church of Ghana">Presbyterian Church of Ghana</a></li>

<li><a href="Methodist_Church_Ghana" title="Methodist Church Ghana">Methodist Church Ghana</a></li></ul></li>

<li>Bolivia

<ul><li><a href="Bolivian_Evangelical_Lutheran_Church" title="Bolivian Evangelical Lutheran Church">Bolivian Evangelical Lutheran Church</a></li></ul></li>

<li>Indonesia

<ul><li><a href="Gereja_Kristen_Indonesia" class="mw-redirect" title="Gereja Kristen Indonesia">Indonesian Christian Church (GKI)</a></li></ul></li></ul>

<ul><li><a href="Mass_(liturgy)" title="Mass (liturgy)">Mass (liturgy)</a></li>

<li><a href="Gospel_Book" title="Gospel Book">Gospel Book</a></li></ul>

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<li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEAugsburg_Fortress_Publishers20057-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAugsburg_Fortress_Publishers20057_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAugsburg_Fortress_Publishers20057_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFAugsburg_Fortress_Publishers2005">Augsburg Fortress Publishers 2005</a>, p. 7.</span>

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<div style="margin-left: 10px;"><b><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/en:Book_of_Common_Prayer_(ECUSA)/The_Lectionary" class="extiw external" title="s:en:Book of Common Prayer (ECUSA)/The Lectionary">Revised Common Lectionary</a></b></div></div></div>

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<ul><li>Online copy at <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/">Vanderbilt University</a></li>

<li>Online copy, organized by the calendar, maintained by <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.lectionarypage.net/">The Episcopal Church</a></li>

<li>Online copy at <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://lezionario.org/">CBI Facoltà Battista di Teologia</a> (Italian) (dead link, not fully archived in the Internet Archive, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130320023607/http://www.lezionario.org/lectio/giornaliera/">see</a> )</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cofe.anglican.org/worship/liturgy/commonworship/texts/lect/lectfront1.html">Church of England RCL</a> with readings for second and third services</li>

<li><a href="New_Revised_Standard_Version" title="New Revised Standard Version">New Revised Standard Version</a> RCL passages and resources at <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ucc.org/worship/samuel/">United Church of Christ SAMUEL site</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.textweek.com/scripture.htm">TextWeek.com</a> is a site that lists actual lectionary scripture assignments for several denominations.</li></ul></div><div><div class="zim-footer">

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