The 2006 General Convention resolved that “the Revised Common Lectionary shall be the Lectionary of this Church, amending the Lectionary on pp. 889-921 of the Book of Common Prayer,” but did not deal with the resultant inconsistencies of pages within the Book of Common Prayer itself.
In anticipation of Holy Week 2011, the first year that the Revised Common Lectionary (RCL) is required for use in The Episcopal Church, the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music recommends that congregations use the RCL lections during Holy Week 2011. In our report to the 77th General Convention, the SCLM will formally propose a resolution to remove the inconsistencies between the RCL and BCP.
I hope you will fill us in with more details regarding this. Keep up the good work!
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Didn’t a post at T19 predict this would happen? What am I thinking of?
Something is going to trigger a final devolution of the TEC BCP, and this is inocuous enough to be the thing they’re looking for.
A lot of this is simply twiddling around the ends of the verses. But although there’s only one wholesale change (at the vigil the reading from Isaiah 4 is replaced by the passage from Baruch) but there are lots of substantial changes to the psalms. The worst one, in my opinion, is the change on Maundy Thursday, where reference to manna as a type of the eucharist is replaced by a more prosaic reference to a cup of salvation.