The Historic One Year Lectionary

I would think you might be waiting a while unless there is much demand.

You could produce your own Lectionary Personal Book. There is a link to one that Gengis created https://community.logos.com/forums/t/194079.aspx which you may be able to workout how to modify for your own use.

You could also have a look through the Files subforum (https://community.logos.com/forums/66.aspx) to see if any other lectionaries that you could modify. I think I made one once using a spreadsheet to help create the docx file, I will see if I can find it which may aid producing your own one.

MJ. Smith said:

Raoul Comninos said:

I wonder if Logos also offers or has plans to the Classic Ancient Lectionary as it is presented at:

http://www.lectionarycentral.com/index.html

At this point, Faithlife only deals with lectionaries currently in use by "major" groups. I am working towards getting them interested in historical lectionaries.

Catholics still use the ancient one-year lectionary of the 1962 Missale Romanum... [;)]

Raoul Comninos said:

Thanks for bringing this to my attention. 

You're welcome.

Unfortunately, while FL's edition of this missal does include the lectionary readings, FL does not (yet) offer a separate lectionary resource.

I just discovered the Historic Lectionary yesterday. Are there any new updates to Logos/Verbum resources since this thread was last active?

I think a lot of people just do not know the historic calendar exists and that there are SOOOO many resources tied to it. Mostly, I only know enough to know how much I do not know about all this, but I suspect that a lot of money could be made by reintroducing the historic calendar to people.

The pandemic has made people hungry for rhythms and stable things. Churches are searching for ideas to support regular family worship. The bulk of the work is already done. We don't need to reinvent the wheel. We just need to tweak it slightly and package it.

MJ. Smith said:

The Lutheran one year lectionary is very similar to the historic lectionary - Lutheran, Anglican, and Catholic lectionaries remained quite close together.

I am still reading about the differences. There is a story in the historical church year? Do we have any good logos resources linked to the one-year lectionary that focus on the whole main story? Resources that help people see the main story of the Bible are popular now, but I don't know of anything similar available for the church year.

I am very interested in how the church year rhythms can be used as a therapy, for schools, and as a way to reduce the isolation of the pandemic. Pagan and Waldorf resources are increasingly being used this way, as people become less and less tied to the church.

Logos seems to be committed to offering lots of counseling resources. I think many of those same customers are being trained to use pagan one-year resources and would appreciate a Christian alternative.

When I do a quick Google, the Lutheran one-year liturgy comes up so much more often than any other.

Olli-Pekka Ylisuutari said:

Kathleen Marie said:

There is a story in the historical church year?

Definitely so! In the historical church year the church shares the crucial salvation historical events of the Christian religion, the three great events of Christmas, Easter and Pentecost. God becoming a human being, God suffering and conquering death and God sending the Holy Spirit.

Of these, Easter (at least theologically) forms the center of the Church year in many ways, though Christmas by popularity maybe the stronger one.

Can anyone recommend any good books to learn about this: beginner and advanced, layperson and priest. Visuals and charts?

Olli-Pekka Ylisuutari said:

Kathleen Marie said:

There is a story in the historical church year?

Speaking of schools I can say – as a Lutheran pastor of Christian education – that Christmas and Easter are in many ways the only remaining and thin-growing link between the church and the schools – in secularized Finland at least, that is. These are the merry times that many schools bring their schoolkids to churches voluntarily to celebrate these two great Christian feasts. In my childhood it used to be “obligatory”, but the peer-pressure has grown thinner and thinner because of secularization and also because of the shattering of the unified and integrative culture. We are no longer a monolith – religiously, nor culturally.

I like the following excerpt from the YouCat (Youth Catechism of the Catholic Church): “Following the Church year in faith makes us indeed contemporaries of Jesus. Not because we can imagine ourselves so precisely as part of his time and his life, but rather because he comes into my time and my life, if I make room for him in this way, with his healing and forgiving presence, with the explosive force of his Resurrection.”

So ἀνάμνησις, anamnesis, is not just stretching backwards in memory to history past – it is salvation history stretching forwards to our times – (much the same as in the Eucharist), becoming present, current, tangible...

In the USA, schools are not allowed to use Christian words to label the holidays. They must use secular titles and names and find a secular reason to celebrate a day. And there must also be no racial ties to the holiday.

Children thrive in a yearly rhythm. Schools have always decorated by the seasons and provided holiday-themed lessons. The new school year rhythms are hollow or non-existent and no one seems to love them.

The kids keep getting pulled out of schools. Children are becoming more and more placed under the authority of their parents. Schools cannot even find many of the students that were enrolled in them before the pandemic. There is opportunity here for the church to become the foundation of the education of some children.

A growing number of parents, tired of the reality of the piecemeal instruction being offered by the schools are puling out their children, with and without permission.

For scared, lonely, floundering families, what can Logos offer to provide some order and rhythm and healing?

Olli-Pekka Ylisuutari said:

Kathleen Marie said:

Can anyone recommend any good books to learn about this: beginner and advanced, layperson and priest. Visuals and charts?

My search string: “christmas" WITHIN 30 WORDS "easter" WITHIN 30 WORDS "pentecost”

brought these results:

It depends on your library, what you have. But these get the most hits in my library. It's a starting point, at least.

Thanks!!! That is really helpful!

Kathleen Marie said:

In the USA, schools are not allowed to use Christian words to label the holidays. They must use secular titles and names and find a secular reason to celebrate a day. And there must also be no racial ties to the holiday.

Maybe clarifying the Christian origins of certain festivals? Speaking, for example, of the near future:

We have Halloween coming up next, which is in many respects a secular festival with secular overtones – but has a deeply Christian background (All Saint’s Day --> All Hallow’s Day --> Halloween).

Many of these festivals have pagan traditions associated with them (many will claim that they were pagan festivals in the first place; I don't care, which was first, the chicken or the egg). As society grows more secular, these pagan backgrounds become more prominent and the Christian backgrounds fade to thin air.

How about this tip: Many Christian communities, trying to shift this emphasis back to its roots, have begun to encourage children to dress in imitation of their patron saints on or near All Saints’ Day, a feast with its own interesting history.

I guess only imagination is the limit in bringing the Christian background of these festivals to the foreground?

In Scandinavia we have this (I guess, rather peculiar) tradition of the First Sunday of Advent (coming up in less than 6 weeks) being one of the most populous Church attendance Sundays.

The historical one year lectionary ties this Sunday closely to the Palm Sunday, even in Gospel Reading. So many, many people and families (much more than normally) come to church to sing Hosanna and wave palm branches. A tip for contemporary education: Why not go to the Florist and buy a bunch of Palm Branches to the 1^st Advent Church?

MJ. Smith said:

We were always joking that we need to set up an experiment to see which was the bigger draw:

• ashes from the Christmas tree
• ashes from the previous year's palms from Palm Sunday
• commercial ashes - evenly fine and stick to the forehead best.

I must share a true anecdote regarding this topic: we have the exact same tradition in ELCF on Ash Wednesday. One year as the sacristian didn't think what he/she was doing, the ashes were of the wrong species of tree. It turned out that the species of the tree matters, a lot. I don't remember whether it was birch or pine or spruce that the "cocktail" of ash and water was made of. Nevertheless it burned the forehead of everyone attending the Ash Wednesday Service! Call that a visible witness of being a Christian - not just in Ash Wednesday Service, but everywhere: at work, at home, at shopping mall - everywhere with the Sign of Cross at your forehead! [:D] [8-)]