Abstract
This paper analyzes the role that the Sunday Lectionary, revised after Vatican II, plays in the Catholic Church’s presentation of Jews and Judaism. The presentation of Jews and Judaism in the current Lectionary is clearly a vast improvement over what preceded it. However, there is still much work to be done in order to bring the Lectionary in line with official Catholic teachings on the Old Testament and the Jews. The recent document of the Pontifical Biblical Commission, The Jewish People and Their Sacred Scriptures in the Christian Bible (2001), provides a new and authoritative impetus to reconsider the selection of Old Testament texts and their relationship to Gospel texts in the Lectionary. The article argues that continued Lectionary reform â specifically with regard to the Old Testament lections â would improve Jewish-Christian relations in the long term.
Highlights
Every three years in the Roman Catholic liturgy, on the eleventh Sunday of Ordinary Time (Year C), the lectionary prescribes readings from 2 Samuel 12 and Luke 7
Michael Signer and Adela Yarbro Collins offered encouragement during its preparation. This was a Lutheran service, not a Catholic Mass, but the anecdote applies to the Roman lectionary as well
The situation is worse in the Roman lectionary, since it includes even less of the context for the Old Testament story
Summary
Bis so virtually identical to A as to have been predicted by the existence of A. Adapted from Laurence Hull Stookey, “Marcion, Typology, and Lectionary Preaching,” Worship 66 (1992), 251-62
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