When I began attending Saint Paul’s Church in Charlottesville during my college years, there were very small Prayer Books and a copy of Services for Trial Use[1] in the pews. The latter was known as “The Green Book” because of its cover’s color. I wasn’t really paying too much attention; I wasn’t very regular. But I liked going there, sometimes with friends, sometimes by myself. Looking back now, one can say that the biggest change in our church’s worship since the English Reformation had already begun: the revision of the Lectionary.
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