This is the second volume of a three-volume set for Ordinary Time in the Christian Year. For the weekday readings at Mass there is a two-year cycle: Year A and Year B. Over the two years there is a different first reading from the Scriptures whilst both years share the same Gospel readings. On Sundays there is a three-year cycle.Ordinary Time has often been described as the growing season in the Christian Year. After having celebrated the major observances in our Lord's life over the span of five months or less, the rest of the year is devoted to our Lord's ministry rather than to events in his life. It is a time to discover how the early Christian communities remembered the teaching and preaching of the Lord in light of their own experiences.That preaching and experience we can read about in the earliest Christian documents in the genuine letters of St. Paul in the New Testament. At the centre of his preaching was Christ's death and resurrection, in which the baptised shared. Paul wrote his letters to deal with problems that arose in those first Christian communities. When we read the Pauline Letters we realise that not much has changed. Human nature is still basically the same and as a result the same problems that arose two thousand years ago we still have today. Hence St. Paul speaks also to us.As well as the Pauline Letters, Ordinary Time covers many other parts of our Bible, both the Old and New Testaments. By meditating on the daily set readings, our lives as Christians are enriched as we come to a deeper understanding of Scripture.

Product Description: The Christian year begins with Advent, a short preparatory, but also an exciting time for the greatest event in history the coming of Christ. As the angels rejoice both heaven and earth are united in the incarnation of the Son of God...read more

Product Description: Mark Frank has been one of the most overlooked of all the Caroline divines. It is author Marianne Dorman's hope that this book will partly rectify this. Frank's sermons, with their polished style, are the high-water mark of preaching amongst the Caroline Divines in the seventeenth century...read more

Product Description: Ideally the way we live Lent should be the way we live the whole year, but one way or another we often lapse here and there--not being so constant in our prayer time, forgetting about acts of self-denial, not keeping the other fast and abstinence days of the Christian year, neglecting the needs of our brothers and sisters, losing the vision of our true humanity, and so on...read more

Product Description: Lancelot Andrewes: Teacher and Preacher in the Post Reformation English Church, contains catechetical lectures and sermons by Lancelot Andrewes from Lambeth Palace Library Ms. 3707. As well as transcribing, editor Marianne Dorman has endeavoured to link the contents with his other lectures and sermons...read more

Product Description: This book focuses on one of the most important preaching and teaching prelates in the post-Reformation Church in England, Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626). As a prelate deeply grounded in the teachings as Patristics, he endeavored to uphold all that was wholesome in the Catholic religion after the reforms under the Tudors...read more

Product Description: Lancelot Andrewes' life as a bishop spanned almost the length of the reign of James I. He became a regular preacher at Court for this monarch, as he had been for Elizabeth I. Indeed, James had some of Andrewes' sermons published shortly after hearing them in order to study them closer...read more