When you need a copy of the Revised Common Lectionary, Episcopal Edition, in NRSV for reading in a service or on your own it is difficult to find a better edition than this volume. The print is dark and easy to read from a lectern. This paperback edition is bound specifically to lie flat. It contains the RCL for all three years of the Eucharistic lectionary cycle. The Psalms selections are written out not simply noted by number and verse. Old Testament readings during Pentecost include both tracks.

This volume measures 6 inches wide by 9 inches tall and about 1 1/16 inches thick. By our measurement the font size is about 11 point.

General Convention of June 2006 directed that the Revised Common Lectionary replace the Book of Common Prayer lectionary effective the First Sunday of Advent 2007 (resolution A077). It made provision for continued use of the previous lectionary "for purposes of orderly transition, with the permission of the Ecclesiastical Authority," until the First Sunday of Advent 2010.