Lectionnaire

The lectionnaire or épistolier is a delivers liturgical containing the passages of the readings of the Old Testament, the Acts of the Apostles and the sung apostolic epistle S Sundays and the feastdays. It is thus the work which contains the readings of the offices in the Christian Liturgie , in particular in the catholic Messe .

History

Some of these lectionnaires, copied and enluminés with the Moyen-âge are true works of art. It is the case, for example lectionnaire known as of Luxeuil, Chef-d'oeuvre of the Enluminure mérovingienne.

Catholic Lectionnaire

Since the Concile Vatican II, the Sunday lectionnaire envisages a circuit on the whole of the Bible in three years and the daily lectionnaire is built on a rate of two years. This allows in particular a broader course of the Bible. The readings during the mass of Sunday are, since the reforms of 1970: a passage of the Old Testament or Acts of the Apostles, an extract of Psalm, a passage of a epistle, a passage of Gospel. For the daily mass, the readings are: a passage of the Bible other than the Gospels and the Psalms, according to a principle of quasi-continuous reading on a two years cycle; an extract of Psalm, a passage of Gospel, according to an annual cycle.

Oecumenical Lectionnaire

There exists also an oecumenical lectionnaire developped at the point by the international Consultation on the liturgy in English language - CILA (International English Language Liturgical Consultation - ELLC) which includes/understands today representatives of more than twenty-five Protestant Churches in North America, just as the catholic Roman International commission on the liturgy in English language - CCLA (Romance Catholic International Commission one English in the Liturgy - ICEL) and represents similar groups in Australia, Zealand News, the United Kingdom and in Canada, in addition to group CCLA. The plan of the three readings and three years remains exactly the same one. The calendar is practically the same one. The texts of the Gospels are almost always the same ones, as well as the choices of the second readings.

The Protestant churches in France follow the oecumenical lectionnaire.

According to the philologist Christoph Luxenberg, Coran would be as for him derived from a lectionnaire in syriaque Langue.

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