PROPOSED LECTIONARY

The draft proposal would expand the weekday readings in the Lectionary for Mass in the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church. The goal is to provide a complete and continuous reading of all the books of the Bible. This would be accomplished primarily by increasing the two-year cycle of First Readings on weekdays in Ordinary Time to a ten-year cycle. Year 1 would be used during years ending with the numeral 1, Year 2 during years ending with the numeral 2, Year 10 during years ending with the numeral 0. The average length of those First Readings would be 14 verses. No changes are proposed to the liturgical calendar. Also, the structure of the Liturgy of the Word for weekdays would remain the same, namely, a Gospel passage every day, along with a First Reading and its Responsorial Psalm... Minor adjustments to the sequence of Gospel readings have been proposed, chiefly to restore those canonical verses that have been omitted in the current Lectionary. This required merging into one..