The Sunday of September 8th will begin the Year of Luke. We will get to start back at the beginning with the Sunday of Creation. I have previously just been using Proper # to identify each week. But have realized that it may make more sense to offer a more systematic titling to these Sundays, such as the Twenty-Seventh Sunday after Pentecost or 5th Sunday after Creation.
In the Year of Luke, I would like to point out that the Epistle Lessons will take us through the Book of 2 Corinthians first then during Epiphany spend some time in Acts so that Lent will be devoted to Philippians and Easter to 1 Peter. When we get to the Time of the Church (after Trinity Sunday) we will go through the Book of James.
There have been many interesting things during the Year of Mark and the Year of Matthew, which we have already went through. The Year of Luke will have some nice changes of pace. One of the obvious things is spending time focused on the Nativity of John the Baptist and Nativity of Jesus Christ. Also the Joy of having some replacements for the Psalm of the Day with different texts.
This year I am going to offer more Collects and the Catechism with the Psalm instead of additional devotional material. This will act more as a culmination to the Theme for each Lord's Day. In addition, if I remember I will add in Special feast texts with a brief discussion of them all.
Thank you very much for reading these devotionals of the Four Year Lectionary. If you would like to have more information please contact me, through the comment section.
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