I forgot today was a feast day until I had already prayed Matins and Twitter reminded me that today we commemorate Ss. Peter & Paul. Normally I try to be meticulous about observing the feasts of those saints who are most important to me. But getting out of bed this morning was a real struggle, and I was on auto-pilot (and honestly lucky I even mustered the willpower for Morning Prayer). So I read the "wrong" lessons.
The Gospel According to St. [REDACTED]
“This is my part.” Even though he was sleepy and bleary-eyed without his glasses, Benji wanted to read the Lessons. We were praying the Morning Office earlier today. Or at least, we were trying to. We got to the Gospel lesson and started fumbling around, somewhat baffled. My copy of the Revised English Bible left off at John 7:52 and picked up again at 8:12, missing precisely the passage that the lectionary assigned for today. I had vague childhood memories of a disputed section somewhere in the Gospels, but I had written over any specifics long ago. We forewent the Gospel lesson and moved on with our prayers. But I wanted to go back and look at the passage more closely.