Liturgical Context
The prescriptive texts, on which the Baroque cantata and, still now, the contemporary liturgy are based, derive from the Sunday or feast-day readings from the epistle and from the gospel. The epistle is from the Apostolic letters of the Christian Bible. The gospel is concerned with the life and teachings of Christ.
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