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  2. Liturgical book - Wikipedia

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    It set out in full the Epistle and Gospel readings for the Sunday Communion Service. Set Old Testament and New Testament readings for daily prayer were specified in tabular format as were the set Psalms; and canticles, mostly biblical, that were provided to be sung between the readings. [8]

  3. Lectionary - Wikipedia

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    Scripture readings are assigned for Sundays and feast days, for each day of Lent and Holy Week, for raising people to various offices of the Church, for the blessing of Holy Oil and various services such as baptisms and funerals. Generally, three Old Testament lections, a selection from the prophets, and three readings from the New Testament ...

  4. Revised Common Lectionary - Wikipedia

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    As in its predecessors, readings are prescribed for each Sunday: a passage typically from the Old Testament (including in Roman Catholic, Lutheran and Anglican churches those books sometimes referred to as the Apocrypha or deuterocanonical books), or the Acts of the Apostles; a passage from one of the Psalms; another from either the Epistles or ...

  5. 15 Comforting and Uplifting Bible Verses for Funerals - AOL

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    These uplifting funeral readings from the Bible will bring comfort amid loss. Top funeral scripture can be used in a speech, on a funeral program or headstone. 15 Comforting and Uplifting Bible ...

  6. Prayer for the dead - Wikipedia

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    A passage in the New Testament which is seen by some to be a prayer for the dead is found in 2 Timothy 1:16–18, which reads as follows: . May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain, but when he was in Rome, he sought me diligently, and found me (the Lord grant to him to find the Lord's mercy on that day); and in how many ...

  7. Gospel (liturgy) - Wikipedia

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    After the preparation of the body and before the funeral itself begins, it is traditional for the Gospels to be read continuously over him. The reading may be performed by a bishop, priest or deacon. During the funeral procession, the Gospel Book is carried in front of the coffin, and there are several Gospel readings during the funeral.

  8. Catholic epistles - Wikipedia

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    With the exception of the Petrine epistles, both of which may be pseudepigrapha, the seven catholic epistles were added to the New Testament canon because early church fathers attributed the anonymous epistles to important people, and attributed the epistles written by people with the same name as important people to those important people.

  9. Christian burial - Wikipedia

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    The official name for the liturgy in the United Methodist Church is "A Service of Death and Resurrection"; it includes the elements found in a standard liturgy celebrated on the Lord's Day, [22] such as the Entrance, Opening Prayer, Old Testament Reading, Psalm, New Testament Reading, Alleluia, Gospel Reading, Sermon, Recitation of one of the ...