In 1971, the British-born New Testament scholar Reginald Fuller began writing a series of articles for the journal Worship to introduce the then-new three-year Lectionary for Mass adopted by the Roman Catholic Church in 1969. It’s the basis for most lectionaries in the Christian West. Dr. Fuller was a priest of the Church of England. After taking a position at Seabury­Western Theological Seminary, he was received as a priest of the Episcopal Church. He would go on to teach at Union Theological Seminary here in the city. In 1972, he became professor of New Testament at the Virginia Theological Seminary, from which he retired in 1985. The articles were published as a book in 1974 called Preaching the New Lectionary: The Word of God for the Church Today.
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