Text study and calendars

[Cino]

Does your faith have a schedule of text study, a calendar maybe, of which scriptural passage to read when, maybe with the aim of completing the reading of certain texts over the course of a set time period?

Do you participate in such a schedule? What's your experience with this way of reading sacred texts?

 

[RJM]

There is a Catholic Divine Office -- set daily morning, noon and night psalms and prayers, with special readings for feast days and so on:

But it is mainly observed by 'the religious' clergy ...

 

[Thomas]

We did the Office mornings and evenings at Maryvale when on residentials. I continued at home, but got out of the practice.

 

[Thomas]

The 'Lectionary', the readings during the Mass from the Bible, follows a Sunday cycle and a weekday cycle.

Sundays follow a three year cycle (A, B and C). The A cycle reads Matthew as the primary Gospel, B is Mark and C is Luke. John is read on particular Sundays in each year. As well as the Gospel, there are two readings, one from the NT letters and the other the OT.

Weekdays there is a 2 year cycle (I and II). Year I is read in odd-number years, year II in even-numbered.

If you attend Mass everyday for 3 years, most of the Bible will have been read to him during that time.

 

[wil]

I do like that it starts with a bold... GIVE NOW button.

https://www.biblica.com/resources/reading-plans/

 

[wil]

And I recall a neighbor Hindu woman who told an oral tradition to her children every night...a system which took a year to tell and she repeated when completed.

When her mother was in town...she sat and listened and corrected her daughter....as she had been hearing or telling this story nightly her whole life.

 

[RJM]

We did the Office mornings and evenings at Maryvale when on residentials. I continued at home, but got out of the practice.

I'm out of practice too

 

[Cino]

We did the Office mornings and evenings at Maryvale when on residentials. I continued at home, but got out of the practice.

Sounds like it works better in a community or family setting.

Actually, it makes sense to me that this might appeal to our human urge to keep traditions alive and to pass them on to the next generation. This requires community.

Interesting about the length of the cycles, one to three years. That seems about manageable. I know too little about oral traditions to be sure of anything, though.

 

[RJM]

Sounds like it works better in a community or family setting.

Quite true. It's natural to do the divine office with the monks when actually staying at a monastery, it's difficult to keep it up for long afterwards, in my experience.

The monastic divine office is much more extended, they pray seven times a day

 

[Prycejosh1987]

Does your faith have a schedule of text study, a calendar maybe, of which scriptural passage to read when, maybe with the aim of completing the reading of certain texts over the course of a set time period?

Do you participate in such a schedule? What's your experience with this way of reading sacred texts?

What works for me is John 3.16 everyone knows the verse. So God loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him has eternal life. The thing people believe is that its just a declaration or a slight mental acceptance. Its actually doing exactly what Jesus did completely give up ones personal desires and life choices to follow the way of Jesus. I love this verse it speaks to me often and keeps me in check.