THE IONIAN PSALTER AND THE REVISED COMMON LECTIONARY

Although there has been widespread acceptance of the Revised Common Lectionary 1992 by the major liturgical denominations in the United States, Canada, England and Australia, each denomination has adopted its own "particular" version of the RCL. It has not been possible to provide for these "custom" versions of each lectionary. As a result, there will be some psalms in your lectionary that are not provided for here. Those using track one of the Episcopalian version of the RCL during the green season, will discover that the major portion of psalm settings not included in the Ionian Psalter only occur at that time; when choirs are on summer vacation.

In addition, the RCL has greatly lengthened the number of verses included. Frequently a 20+ verse psalm is specified to follow a reading of only 5 or 6 verses. We feel this is a distortion of the "function of the gradual psalm" as a sung response to the first reading and thus have not provided for the lengthening of the psalms. However, the purchaser is granted permission to adapt The Ionian Psalter settings accordingly.