by Ian Paul, Psephizo
In 2018, I sensed God calling me to write a weekly commentary on the gospel lectionary reading for the following Sunday. So I began with Year C, when the main gospel was Luke, and worked through the following three years.
Then, in 2021, I started producing video versions of these commentaries—but it didn’t work doing it on my own. So in January 2022 I was joined by my great friend James Blandford-Baker, vicar of Histon and Impington, north of Cambridge, and we worked through the three years of the lectionary. Having mostly completed the gospels, last year we began to comment on the epistle set for the respective Sundays (though filling in where we had missed the gospel previously), and we will continue that through the three-year cycle. These videos do not have a parallel written commentary.
Some readers of the blog have asked about an index of the lectionary readers, and here it is for the coming new lectionary year, which is Year A, when we focus again on the gospel according to Matthew, though with some forays into the third and fourth gospels, notably around Lent and Easter.
This chart also provides a handy overview of the gospel lectionary readings for the coming year.
The hyperlinks will take you to the relevant article, either with written commentary or with the video discussion embedded. Where there is no hyperlink, it means that the video is missing—but we will fill that gap when the week comes round on the Monday before the Sunday it is due.