Patristic readings for Advent, Christmas, Lent and Easter?

I just tagged a number of books with 'Advent', 'Christmas', 'Lent' and 'Easter', but the Church Fathers' writings tend to be hidden in larger collections, and I don't have the energy right now to look through all the TOC's. Any suggestions for what I should include?

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Ken McGuire

Sounds like a good idea for a reading list...

fgh

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/550095#Comment_550095

Feel free to create one.[:D]

Rosie Perera

The Centre for Catholic Studies at Durham University has produced a Two-Year Patristic Lectionary, available for free download here. It includes readings from the Church Fathers for all those seasons, and ordinary time.

fgh

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/550123#Comment_550123

The Centre for Catholic Studies at Durham University has produced a Two-Year Patristic Lectionary, available for free download here. It includes readings from the Church Fathers for all those seasons, and ordinary time.

Thanks, but I already have access to at least one Patristic lectionary. What I wanted now was help to tag the ECF and other Patristic books including multiple titles.

But I guess I'll have to take the time to read through those TOC's some day.

Jesse Blevins

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/552315#Comment_552315

I have downloaded the file and am interested in using it as a part of my daily reading.

I come from a protestant background and am used to using the standard 3 year common lectionary. How would one make use of this readings with the standard lectionary or can you?

I am just asking for some help in the best way that I could make use of this resource without sounding too dumb : )

Thank You.

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/552349#Comment_552349

The Sunday lectionary is on a 3 year cycle; the Catholic daily lectionary is on an independent 2 year cycle while the RCL daily lectionary is on a 3 year cycle built off the Sunday lectionary. The Office of Readings in the Divine Office was built as an independent 2 year cycle but for cost reasons was only published as a single year cycle. This Patristic Lectionary is, I believe, intended to go with the two year cycle of Office of Readings readings.

Now if that is clear as mud, there are those who try to add a 4th year to the RCL to muddy the waters[:D] Because the major seasons are always marked in any of the cycles, I would suggest:

that you choose to follow the 2 year cycle of Office of Readings for you Bible reading (basically the entire Bible except the Gospels which are read elsewhere in the day)
OR
that you follow any reading plan you wish and don't expect the Patristic readings to relate.

Jesse Blevins

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/552439#Comment_552439

Thank you M.J. [:D] I truly appreciated the reply.

I did a google search and the information that I found was harder to understand than the answer that you have provided.

Thanks again!