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The Sunday lectionary in churches
If your church uses the "Revised Common Lectionary", you'll be familiar with having an Old Testament reading, a New Testament reading, and a Gospel reading read out in church every Sunday. (Your church might also read a psalm.) The readings you have in church each Sunday will be the same as the readings being read out in thousands of other churches across the country and across the world!
The way a lot of churches follow the lectionary means the Gospel reading usually follows on from where it left off the previous Sunday, and the other readings are chosen because they have similar themes to the Gospel passage and help us understand it better.
Some people like to study or pray with the readings ahead of the service each week.
To read a bit more about the Revised Common Lectionary and to download it you can click here: http://www.commontexts.org/rcl/
Also, this is a website that some preachers use. You can click on the date you want and it will show you the Bible passages for that Sunday as well as offering links to commentaries and sermons on those passages: http://www.textweek.com/