Definition of "lectionary" []

• A book or list of lections to be read at church services during the year. (noun)

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• "This wider signification is, however, perhaps the less usual, and in practice the term lectionary is more commonly used to denote one of two things: (1) the book containing the collection of Scriptural readings which are chanted by the deacon, subdeacon, or a lector during Mass;"
• "The Bible was not written with what we call a lectionary in mind."
• "The word lectionary, then, in its wider sense, is a term which may be correctly applied to any liturgical volume containing passages to be read aloud in the services of the Church."