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Bible Sunday
As well as being the 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time or Proper 11, in the Anglican Church of Or (this lectionary booklet provides 20 different options for a Eucharist this Sunday, requiring a Gospel reading) this can also be “National Bible Sunday”. For this, the NZ Lectionary booklet provides mother Church of England’s Common Worship (CW) readings for an optional English October Sunday. Common Worship has no status in our Church and, hence, cannot be used to replace our agreed readings for this Sunday (the Lectionary booklet printing these here, notwithstanding). The NZ Anglican Lectionary booklet has been printing these Church of England’s readings since 1998, plenty of time to have come to a NZ agreement on readings for a Bible Sunday if we actually think we need them. [On occasion, the NZ…
