RT Article
T1 Redacting Acts: The Acts of the Apostles in the Three-Year Lectionaries
JF Studia liturgica
VO 51
IS 2
SP 173
OP 186
A1 Connell, Martin F. 1960-
LA English
PB Sage Publishing
YR 2021
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1786542188
AB The representation of the Acts of the Apostles in the three-year lectionaries—the Roman Catholic Ordo Lectionum Missae (OLM) and the Protestant Revised Common Lectionary (RCL)—favors the first half of the twenty-eight-chapter book over its second half. The OLM prescribes nine times more verses from the first half than from the second half, and the RCL prescribes four times more. This article compares the proportion of Acts in the lectionaries to the other twenty-six books of the New Testament, shows when in the three-year lectionary cycle readings from Acts are proclaimed, presents how much of each of the twenty-eight chapters of Acts appears in the lectionaries, hypothesizes about why the second half of Acts is slighted, and argues that the church’s liturgical tradition is weakened by muting significant passages about post-resurrection eucharists.
K1 Ecumenism
K1 Sacraments
K1 Eucharist
K1 Lord’s Supper
K1 Revised Common Lectionary
K1 Ordo Lectionum Missae
K1 Acts of the Apostles
K1 Lectionary
DO 10.1177/0039320721993462