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For Further Reference

The Lectionary: A collection of Lectionary resources for the Episcopal Church. Updated every Sunday night. http://www.satucket.com/lectionary/index.htm. From this Index you can go to readings from the Daily Office Lectionary of the Book of Common Prayer, or to Sunday Eucharistic Readings. An option is to use monthly calendars and choose the day or week. The Daily Office Lectionary references are given on a page for the week–Sunday through Saturday–with references for saints of that day and, in some seasons, weekday liturgical readings as well. Calendars for January, February and March 2005 are at these URLs:
Calendar for January:
http://www.satucket.com/lectionary/January05.htm
Calendar for February:
http://www.satucket.com/lectionary/February05.htm
Calendar for March:
http://www.satucket.com/lectionary/March05.htm

Webmaster: Charles Wohlers.

Daily Readings with the Daily Lectionary Online and an address for the Daily Lectionary Email List, Presbyterian Church (USA): http://www.pcusa.org/devotions/

Links to current biblical texts from the lectionary:
Today (current day)
http://www.pcusa.org/cgi-bin/lectiond.cgi?time=0
Next day
http://www.pcusa.org/cgi-bin/lectiond.cgi?time=86400
Day after tomorrow
http://www.pcusa.org/cgi-bfin/lectiond.cgi?time=172800Au

Sunday Readings: Thanks to the Revised Common Lectionary, five denominations have a common schedule of readings for Sunday: The Episcopal Church in the U.S.A., the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., the United Church of Christ, and the United Methodist Church (note the alphabetical order). Apparently, the first three also have a common lectionary (for the most part) for daily readings. For a UCC web site on the Sunday readings where you can choose the date (from a drop-down bar) see http://www.ucc.org/worship/samuel/. The Vanderbilt Divinity Library maintains a web site for the readings of the Revised Common Lectionary: http://divinity.lib.vanderbilt.edu/lectionary/

The Upper Room, a published daily devotional series not based on the Daily Office Lectionary, is now available by email: http://www.upperroom.org/devotional/email/.

Fruit of the Vine is a daily devotional series published by Barclay Press (a Quaker publishing company). Selected devotionals are posted weekly, one per week, at http://www.barclaypress.com/cafe/fv/index.php. A Daily Journal by Quaker writers from across the nation respond to Scripture, events of the day (from personal to international), or inner thoughts and leadings http://www.barclaypress.com/cafe/journal/index.php.

Ronald D. Worden, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor of Biblical Studies
Dean of Institutional Research and Effectiveness
Houston Graduate School of Theology
E-Mail:
rdworden@hgst.edu
Phone: 713-942-9505
Fax: 713-942-9506
School Web Site:
http://www.hgst.edu/