The Third Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 9 - 3 July 2011
The Third Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 9 - 3 July 2011 Zechariah 9:9-12 Psalm 145:8-15 Romans 7:15-25a St. Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30 BACKGROUND: The RCL and Ordinary Time Since Advent of 2007, the Revised Common Lectionary (RCL) has been the Lectionary of the Episcopal Church. The history of the RCL, and of the three-year lectionary is a study in ecumenism. The three-year lectionary that was adapted by the Episcopal (1979) and Lutheran Church (1978) (later by the Methodists, Presbyterians, and other Protestants) was a version of the Ordo Lectionum Missae , promulgated by the Roman Church in 1969 following the reforms of the Second Vatican Council. A further revision (The Common Lectionary) was proposed in 1974, which represented a collaboration of English-speaking churches, including the Roman Church. In 1994, the Revised Common Lectionary was published, and was adopted in time by most of