Companion to the Revised Common Lectionary: Mining the Meaning Year B

by Townsend, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780716205609
• ISBN10: 0716205602
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-09-01
• Publisher: Presbyterian Pub Corp

Summary

The purpose of this book is to help preachers, lay and ordained, to prepare sermons which take seriously the lectionary readings for Year B. The author has two aims in mind. The first is to offer the kinds of comments which might provoke a train of creative thought for a reader and thus provide a 'way into' a sermon based on a reading. The second is to try to gather for busy preachers some of the fruits of the best current biblical scholarship.

The author has deliberately written his comments in a variety of styles. Some of them make brief but direct suggestions about how a sermon might be preached from a lection. Others begin from contemporary life and, as it were, move into the lectionary reading. Yet others offer a kind of 'running exposition' of the main thrust of the reading, leaving it to the reader to pick up ideas and engage in his of her own reflection on how to use the material in preaching. All the comments try to take the biblical text seriously. Preaching which aims to lead its hearers to a transformative encounter with God, and to build up the C

Table of Contents

General Introduction	ix
Introduction	xi
First Sunday of Advent	2	(2)
Second Sunday of Advent	4	(2)
Third Sunday of Advent	6	(2)
Fourth Sunday of Advent	8	(2)
Christmas Day: Set I	10	(2)
Christmas Day: Set II	12	(2)
Christmas Day: Set III	14	(2)
First Sunday of Christmas	16	(2)
Second Sunday of Christmas	18	(4)
The Epiphany	22	(18)
Sunday between 7 and 13 January
Sunday after Epiphany
First Sunday in Ordinary Time (The Baptism of Christ)	24	(2)
Sunday between 14 and 20 January
Second Sunday in Ordinary Time (The Second Sunday of Epiphany)	26	(2)
Sunday between 21 and 27 January
Third Sunday in Ordinary Time (The Third Sunday of Epiphany)	28	(2)
Sunday between 28 January and 3 February
Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time (The Fourth Sunday of Epiphany)	30	(2)
Sunday between 4 and 10 February
Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Proper 1)	32	(2)
Sunday between 11 and 17 February
Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Proper 2)	34	(2)
Sunday between 18 and 24 February
Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time (Proper 3)	36	(2)
Sunday between 25 and 29 February
Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Second Sunday before Lent)	38	(2)
Sunday before Lent	40	(2)
Ash Wednesday	42	(4)
First Sunday in Lent	46	(2)
Second Sunday in Lent	48	(2)
Third Sunday in Lent	50	(2)
Fourth Sunday in Lent	52	(2)
Mothering Sunday	54	(4)
Fifth Sunday in Lent	58	(2)
First Sunday of the Passion	60	(1)
Sixth Sunday in Lent	60	(6)
Second Sunday of the Passion or Palm Sunday Entry into Jerusalem	60	(2)
Sixth Sunday in Lent
Second Sunday of the Passion or Palm Sunday
The Passion	62	(4)
Monday in Holy Week	66	(2)
Tuesday in Holy Week	68	(2)
Wednesday in Holy Week	70	(2)
Maundy Thursday	72	(2)
Good Friday	74	(4)
Holy Saturday	78	(4)
Easter Day	82	(4)
Second Sunday of Easter	86	(2)
Third Sunday of Easter	88	(2)
Fourth Sunday of Easter	90	(2)
Fifth Sunday of Easter	92	(2)
Sixth Sunday of Easter	94	(2)
Ascension Day	96	(2)
Seventh Sunday of Easter	98	(2)
Pentecost	100	(4)
Trinity Sunday	104	(88)
Sunday between 29 May and 4 June
Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Proper 4)	106	(2)
Sunday between 5 and 11 June
Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Proper 5)	108	(4)
Sunday between 12 and 18 June
Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time (Proper 6)	112	(4)
Sunday between 19 and 25 June
Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Proper 7)	116	(4)
Sunday between 26 June and 2 July
Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Proper 8)	120	(4)
Sunday between 3 and 9 July
Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Proper 9)	124	(4)
Sunday between 10 and 16 July
Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Proper 10)	128	(4)
Sunday between 17 and 23 July
Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Proper 11)	132	(4)
Sunday between 24 and 30 July
Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Proper 12)	136	(4)
Sunday between 31 July and 6 August
Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Proper 13)	140	(4)
Sunday between 7 and 13 August
Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Proper 14)	144	(4)
Sunday between 14 and 20 August
Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Proper 15)	148	(4)
Sunday between 21 and 27 August
Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time (Proper 16)	152	(4)
Sunday between 28 August and 6 September
Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time (Proper 17)	156	(4)
Sunday between 4 and 10 September
Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time (Proper 18)	160	(4)
Sunday between 11 and 17 September
Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Proper 19)	164	(4)
Sunday between 18 and 24 September
Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Proper 20)	168	(4)
Sunday between 25 September and 1 October
Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Proper 21)	172	(4)
Sunday between 2 and 8 October
Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time (Proper 22)	176	(4)
Sunday between 9 and 15 October
Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Proper 23)	180	(4)
Sunday between 16 and 22 October
Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Proper 24)	184	(4)
Sunday between 23 and 29 October
Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Proper 25)	188	(4)
All Saints	192	(20)
Sunday between 30 October and 5 November
Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time (Fourth Sunday before Advent)	196	(4)
Sunday between 6 and 12 November
Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time (Third Sunday before Advent)	200	(4)
Sunday between 13 and 19 November
Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time (Second Sunday before Advent)	204	(4)
Sunday between 20 and 26 November
Sunday before Advent (Christ the King)	208	(4)
Church Anniversary	212	(4)
Covenant	216	(4)
Harvest Thanksgiving	220	(5)
John and Charles Wesley	225	(5)
New Year: Watchnight	230	(5)
Remembrance Sunday	235