Liturgical Calendar with a Wesleyan viewpoint?

[Rhonda Welles]

Hi,

I am interested in finding some type of daily reading which might follow and expound upon the Liturgical Calendar. I was hoping someone here might be able to give me some suggestions. (I am just an average layperson with a certain amount of curiosity. There is no point to the question other than my quest to grow closer to God through knowledge of Scripture.)


Thanks!

[Jeremy D. Scott]

By "liturgical" calendar, I'm going to assume that you mean the lectionary used by many to select scripture for worship gatherings, quite often in liturgical services, but also now quite often in not-so-liturgical services as well.

My wife and I both read from the Daily Office which is also from the Common Book of Prayer. I access it at the Voice website (http://www.crivoice.org) which is the website for the Christian Resource Institute (just click on "Daily Readings"). Though the Daily Office is certainly not exclusively Wesleyan, the Christian Resource Institute certainly has its Wesleyan heritage. Dr. Dennis Bratcher has some great resources and explanations to go along with both the Daily Office readings and other lectionary resources.

[Rhonda Welles]

Thank you! This is a great place for me to start!

[David van Beveren]

A book that comes close is...
'A Guide to Prayer'
for Ministers and Other Servants
by Rueben P. Job and Norman Shawchuck
Publisher: The Upper Room, Nashville, Tennessee
ISBN 0-8358-0559-X

Every week there is an opening page like this...
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The 'Readings for Reflection' are on the following pages as well as the closing hymn.
It helps me with me in structuring my devotionals.

[Rhonda Welles]

Thank you! I'll check it out!

[Belinda Y. Edwards]

Jeremy, i wasn't aware of that link.

Thanks for sharing.

[Bruce Carriker]

Rueben Job - mentioned above - also published "A Guide to Prayer for All God's People". It's the same format, but the readings are directed more toward the laity. Job's Scripture selections follow the Revised Common Lectionary.

I also concur with Jeremy on The Book of Common Prayer. That's what John Wesley used. One of the things I really like about the BCP is all the prayers for various occasions they have in there. Don't get me wrong. I support extemporaneous prayer. But I aslo find written prayer to be very meaningful as well. BUT...until you get used to it, the Book of Common Prayer can be a pretty confusing instrument.

[William Hunter]

Rueben Job - mentioned above - also published "A Guide to Prayer for All God's People". It's the same format, but the readings are directed more toward the laity. Job's Scripture selections follow the Revised Common Lectionary.

I also concur with Jeremy on The Book of Common Prayer. That's what John Wesley used. One of the things I really like about the BCP is all the prayers for various occasions they have in there. Don't get me wrong. I support extemporaneous prayer. But I aslo find written prayer to be very meaningful as well. BUT...until you get used to it, the Book of Common Prayer can be a pretty confusing instrument.

This is an excellent resource. I have used it for a few years now and return to it often, sometimes to owrk my way all the way thorugh, or to use it for times of spiritual renewal when I have a few days to be away from daily pastoral demands. Very good resource.

[John Kennedy]

For whatever it's worth, in regard to a Wesleyan oriented liturgical calendar, the Free Methodist Church, back in the late 80's, developed a lectionary, based on the Common Lectionary, but with special Wesleyan emphases. Don't know whether it's still around or not.