What kind of canon do the lectionaries constitute?

From: Biblical Theology Bulletin | Date: March 22, 2000| Author: Sloyan, Gerard S. | Copyright information

Abstract

The Roman Catholic Church inaugurated a three-year cycle of three readings from the Bible entitled LECTIONARY FOR MASS in Advent, 1969. Four U.S. Protestant Churches shortly produced their own patterned on it, one of them proposed for use by eight of the member Churches of the Consultation on Church Union (the ninth had its own). At present there are three in use, the Catholic lectionary that is internationally employed, one composed by the U.S. Episcopal Church...

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