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Song of Solomon 2:8-13

Proper 17B

Are the people who put together the Common Lectionary winking at us this week?  The Lectionary across its three-year cycle contains exactly ONE text from the Song of Songs (or the Song of Solomon) and this is it.  But it occurs on the same Year B Sunday when the Gospel lection is from Mark 7…

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Song of Solomon 2:8-13

Proper 17B

This is first and only time the Song of Songs appears in the Revised Common Lectionary, and it is an odd time.  I mean that the reading clearly refers to the first days of spring, while we are in the last days of summer.  What can we do with this oddly timed and controversial reading?…

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Song of Solomon 2:8-13

Proper 17B

Comments and Observations: Are the people who put together the Common Lectionary winking at us this week?  The Lectionary across its three-year cycle contains exactly ONE text from the Song of Songs (or the Song of Solomon) and this is it.  But it occurs on the same Year B Sunday when the Gospel lection is…

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