I know that I am not the only person in the parish who is physically tired from the work and worship of Holy Week and Easter Day. Before climbing out of bed this morning, I found myself trying to imagine what shape Jesus’ disciples were in as the day after the day resurrection dawned. But when I got to my desk, I remembered that I am never happy with the lessons appointed for Monday in Easter Week. In preparation for the 1979 Prayer Book, the Standing Liturgical Commission proposed, with almost no changes, the Roman Catholic Church’s choices for this week.[1] From an ecumenical perspective, there is something important here. That said, I think the pre-Vatican II lessons appointed for Monday in Easter Week in earlier Prayer Books and the former Roman Missal were better choices.[2]
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