Thanks, that helps.

MLW+

-----Original Message-----
From: Rodney Longmire [mailto:rec.dean.va@...] 
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 11:27 PM
To: faithandlife@...
Subject: Re: [FaithandLife] REC Holy Communion - Lesson/Psalm

I really don't know. The rubrical option to use OT Lesson & Psalm (or 
canticle) before the epistle is new with the 2003 edition. I do know that 
practice in the past (dating to a time when most REC parishes were MP 
w/Communion 1st Sunday of the month) was that the lectionary was very 
flexible. Lessons were often selected according to sermon content. My 
personal practice has mostly been to preach from the lessons in the 
lectionary. For the past 17 years, I have served a parish with weekly 
Eucharist. Sermons mostly based on Gospel or Epistle, but regularly from OT.

Frequently I added an OT lesson. Mostly, but not always from the lectionary.

My guess (and it is only a guess) is that as more and more parishes moved to

weekly Eucharist there was a recognized need for an OT lesson in the 
service. Clergy & People both were accostomed to OT lessons on Sunday 
morning. But getting back to your question: I see no rubric or even a 
specific intruction to use a certain OT lesson or psalter from the 
lectionary. Flexibilty seems to be implied. But we see what we want to 
see...
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Ward" <mward@...>
To: <faithandlife@...>
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 5:35 PM
Subject: RE: [FaithandLife] REC Holy Communion - Lesson/Psalm


> Thanks.  So in actual liturgical use the OT lesson and Psalm are a bit 
> more
> fluid.  Is that more or less correct?  Also, is that fluidity standard
> amongst the rest of the REC who use the OT and Psalm?
>
> Again, thanks.
>
> MLW+
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rodney Longmire [mailto:rec.dean.va@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 11:25 AM
> To: faithandlife@...
> Subject: Re: [FaithandLife] REC Holy Communion - Lesson/Psalm
>
> From Rodney Longmire+ Covenant REC Roanoke, VA
> To Michael Ward
>
> Generally, yes, I used the Old Testament Lesson marked with "*".
> However, this is not an absolute rule. Sometime sermon content or other
> considerations motivate the reading of another OT text and perhaps an
> alternate psalter.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Michael Ward" <mward@...>
> To: <faithandlife@...>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 10:45 AM
> Subject: [FaithandLife] REC Holy Communion - Lesson/Psalm
>
>
>> Brothers in the REC:
>>
>>
>>
>> Those of you who read an Old Testament lesson and Psalm during the Holy
>> Communion service (before the Epistle and Gospel), do you use the
>> "starred"
>> OT lesson from the Morning Prayer lectionary?  Do you also use the Psalm
>> appointed for that day from the same lectionary?  Just wondering.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>>
>> MLW+
>>
>>
>>
>>
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