{"id":9772,"date":"2023-11-02T10:08:13","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T14:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/?p=9772"},"modified":"2023-11-02T10:08:13","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T14:08:13","slug":"the-hidden-depths-of-the-mass-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/the-hidden-depths-of-the-mass-13\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hidden Depths of the Mass #13"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The Liturgy of the Word \u2013 How the Readings Are Selected<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">Last week, we read about the importance of the Word of God.&nbsp; Today we take a look at how the Sunday readings are chosen.&nbsp; Every Latin Rite Catholic Church in the world uses the same readings each Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">During the seasons of Advent, Christmas, Lent, and Easter the readings are selected to correspond to the themes of the season.&nbsp; In Ordinary Time, selected passages from one of the gospels is read in order.&nbsp; Then, the first reading is picked to correspond to an idea presented in the gospel passage.&nbsp; In turn, the psalm is selected to correspond with the first reading.&nbsp; This helps us see the connection between the Old Testament and the New Testament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">In Ordinary Time, the second reading is selected independent of the other readings.\u00a0 Letters from the New Testament are selected and read in semi-continuous sequence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Previous articles in this series can be found online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.renewaloffaith.org\/bulletin-series-on-the-mass-2023.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Hidden Depths of the Mass #13<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Liturgy of the Word \u2013 How the Readings Are Selected Last week, we read about the importance of the Word of God.&nbsp; Today we take a look at how the Sunday readings are chosen.&nbsp; Every Latin Rite Catholic Church in the world uses the same readings each Sunday. During the seasons of Advent, Christmas, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/the-hidden-depths-of-the-mass-13\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;The Hidden Depths of the Mass #13&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[733],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMTPk-2xC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9773,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9772\/revisions\/9773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}