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In this Sunday's highly edited Gospel selection, Mark 7:1-8,14-15,21-23 we miss a very important point because verse 19 (among oth...

Have you ever dropped your communion wafer, or has your priest ever dropped one or a whole plate full onto the floor? I remember the proc...

Talking about gruesome stories, in 1 Samuel we are brought face to face with some of those difficult verses we seldom hear preached on Sund...

In this Sunday's lectionary reading (and next week's as well) , it is the Gospel of Matthew that draws the blade of the editor'...

Oh God, who from the family of your servant David raised up Joseph to be the guardian of your incarnate Son and the spouse of his virgin...

From ReverendFun.com Today's lectionary readings contained another two of those curious gaps which I have labelled as "missi...

T'was the Sunday before Christmas, and all through the church, not a creature was stirred by an imprecatory verse ( Ps 80:16 ). The c...

http://www.reverendfun.com/?date=20010510 Did anyone notice what the RC L does to All Saints' Day in Year C?  Astute observers f...

While this Sunday's worship included the following nice anthem, Today's Gospel reading gave another illustration of how, in an...

I posted on this 3 years ago, and this week I see that I am not alone in sensing a problem with today's suggested reading from Revelati...

In my previous post , I mentioned an article that got me to thinking about the mass murder of Newtown's school children and teachers i...

On this Christ the King Sunday we had a chance to visit the NRSV's version of Daniel's vision. Daniel 7:9-10,13-14 9 As I watche...

One recurring issue that I have been documenting here is the way the Sunday scripture readings get shortened by our lectionary. All too con...

It has been a while since I have featured "missing verses", or those Bible verses that mysteriously get deleted from the Sund...

In studying the lectionary edits, this lowly pewster has noticed a tendency for the editors to cut verses from the psalms that teach us a...

Today's supply priest gave a very good sermon on the subject of "Pride" based on Matthew 23:1-12 . I was thinking about h...

Most folks I talk to are glad that the readings from the Psalter that we are given each Sunday are shortened. I, on the other hand, am a f...

Today's lectionary reading from Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23 contained, or should I say did not contain, yet another one of those curious lecti...

Today's readings from using the Lectionary raise some interesting questions about the rationale behind the lectionary edits that we have...