ECUMENICAL SOMETHING OR OTHER

I botched this one, it was a really obscure theology stub that came up a couple of weeks ago, and it was so unmemorable that I can't even find it now. It's got to be still in the browser history on my wife's computer, but I don't care to go back to it now.

But to summarize, it was about a certain group of people -- theologians and heads of different American Catholic and a few Protestant church leaders, who together agreed on a standard for what scripture would be part of the church program at a given year. This standard wasn't adopted by all churches, but it's a very common standard among catholic churches, and at least used as a guidline by many protestant churches. It's sort of a recipe book of 1 part old testament, a psalm or letter, then alternate years reading from one of the 4 main gospels, and one or two other things and that would be the whole service.

This was necessary to revise after the 2nd vatican council in the 60s, a reshuffling of what they were going to preach was required and that's what this council, over a period of years in the 70s, accomplished.