they might understand, and have profit by hearing the same; The Service in this Church of England these many years hath been read in Latin to the people, which they understand not; so that they have heard with their ears only, and their heart, spirit, and mind, have not been edified thereby. Three things are particularly distinctive in the Lectionary of the Book of Common Prayer when compared with the lectionaries which preceded it: the exclusive use of biblical and apocryphal texts and the aim to