A planning guide for church musicians and clergy for selecting hymns, songs, and anthems, for the three-year liturgical cycle following the Revised Common Lectionary.

•  Hymns and songs keyed to the appropriate liturgical occasion for Sundays in the Revised Common Lectionary for the three-year cycle. This is the first book of the three-book series (Years A, B, and C)
• Includes selections from The Hymnal 1982, Lift Every Voice and Sing, Wonder, Love, and Praise, Voices Found, and My Heart Sings Out. Tunes are cross referenced to choir and instrumental descant resources from Church Publishing.
• Each selection is coded for its appropriate use at the entrance, before the Gospel, at the offering of gifts, communion, or at the end of liturgy.
• Selections are listed by their relationship to the texts appointed for the day with indications which texts are direct quotes or paraphrases of the appointed scripture.
• First lines of hymns and songs include their page number and book location.
• Anthems are coded with their source when they are part of collection
• Choral selections are categorized as anthems or solos and voice parts are indicated

Carl P. Daw, Jr. is an Episcopal priest, author, college professor, and hymnwriter who is also the immediate past executive director of The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada. He is adjunct professor of hymnology in the Master of Sacred Music program at Boston University.

Thomas Pavlechko is currently cantor and composer-in-residence at St. Martin's Lutheran Church in Austin, Texas, which he previously served from 1994-2000. He was also organist-choirmaster at Calvary Episcopal Church in Memphis, Tennessee, from 2000-2006. He has planned worship for twelve years using the Revised Common Lectionary in both parishes.