tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6020471.post8967376091626151312..comments2023-06-10T11:47:43.132-04:00Comments on Reverend Ref +: Sermon; Proper 18C; Deut. 30:15-20, Luke 14:25-33Reverend Ref +http://www.blogger.com/profile/12608521436386973234noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6020471.post-36991660820496108442013-09-09T12:21:18.278-04:002013-09-09T12:21:18.278-04:00To answer your second question, the Sunday Lection...To answer your second question, the Sunday Lectionary is divided up into a three-year cycle: A, B & C. Page 888 of the BCP tells you how to figure out which year, but I always found that to be complicated. So here's how I do it:<br /><br />With the exception of Advent (and basically Christmas), take the year and divide it by three. If there is a remainder of 1, it's Year A; a remainder of 2, it's Year B; no remainder is Year C.<br /><br />2013 is evenly divisible by 3, so we are in Year C. We will change to Year A on 1 Advent (Dec. 1 this year).<br /><br />On a related note, the Daily Lectionary is a two-year cycle, Years 1 & 2. Again, except for Advent, if the year is odd, use Year 1; if the year is even, use Year 2.Reverend Ref +https://www.blogger.com/profile/12608521436386973234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6020471.post-28906342432235957392013-09-09T03:18:48.039-04:002013-09-09T03:18:48.039-04:00Ah! That does make sense - thank you muchly for th...Ah! That does make sense - thank you muchly for the explanation. (I'm still a bit fuzzy on Sunday Propers, but I suspect looking at a pen-and-ink calendar will fix that one.)<br /><br />...er, follow-up question, though, sorry. Why is this Year C?Patiencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01356616598776330524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6020471.post-38321784529886859942013-09-08T22:38:28.205-04:002013-09-08T22:38:28.205-04:00Thanks for your comment.
Let me see if I can give...Thanks for your comment.<br /><br />Let me see if I can give a succinct answer to your question (which is never certain when dealing with the calendar).<br /><br />Your bulletins were titled correctly: today is the 16th Sunday after Pentecost, and the 18th Proper. We are in Year C, so today is Proper 18C.<br /><br />The Sundays after Pentecost are numbered consecutively from, well, the first Sunday after Pentecost (which is also Trinity Sunday). Because Easter moves from year to year, Pentecost also moves from year to year, so the actual dates of the Sundays after Pentecost change.<br /><br />The Sunday Propers, though, are always fixed around a particular day. So Proper 18 is the Sunday closest to September 7. <br /><br />Regardless of what Sunday after Pentecost today would have been (14, 16, 15, 13), the Sunday closest to September 7 will always be Proper 18.<br /><br />Hope that clears it up for you.Reverend Ref +https://www.blogger.com/profile/12608521436386973234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6020471.post-58087360095345612272013-09-08T17:54:18.702-04:002013-09-08T17:54:18.702-04:00Amen indeed. A different direction than the sermon...Amen indeed. A different direction than the sermon here, but still a solid angle. (That's one of the awesome things about Episcopalians - there's so many different angles and approaches to Scripture, and none of them are seen as lesser. It's awesome.)<br /><br />Mostly though I'm commenting because I just noticed something, and was wondering if you could clear it up. You title your sermon here "Proper 18C," which I assume means the Eighteenth Sunday After Pentecost, because the bulletins here for today were titled "The Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost (18th Proper)," or something very like that, I may be misremembering slightly. We had two weeks that the rector was on vacation and we had a lay preacher rather than an ordained priest to give the homily, and therefore no Eucharist - is that why the count would be different?<br /><br />(Er, sorry for the long-winded thing. Just curious.)Patiencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01356616598776330524noreply@blogger.com