With Links to the Lessons From the Episcopal Lectionary
and the Revised Common Lectionary, as modified for use in Episcopal worship
| January | February | March | April | May | June |
| July | August | September | October | November | December |
January 2007 |
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Sunday |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
Saturday |
1 The Holy Name BCP RCL |
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3 | 4 |
5 |
6 The Epiphany BCP RCL |
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7 First Sunday after the Epiphany BCP RCL |
8 |
9 Julia Chester Emery, Missionary |
10 William Laud, Archbishop |
11 |
12 Aelred, Abbot |
13 Hillary, Bishop |
14 Second Sunday after the Epiphany BCP RCL |
15 Martin Luther King (alternate date) |
16 |
17 Antony, Abbot |
18 Confession of St Peter, Apostle |
19 Wulfstan, Bishop |
20 Fabian, Bishop and Martyr |
21 Third Sunday after the Epiphany BCP RCL |
22 Vincent, Deacon and Martyr |
23 Phillips Brooks, Bishop |
24 |
25 Conversion of St Paul, Apostle |
26 Timothy and Titus |
27 John Chrysostom, Bishop |
28 Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany BCP RCL |
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30 |
31 |
February 2007 |
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Sunday |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
Saturday |
1 Brigid (Bride) |
2 Presentation of Jesus in the Temple BCP RCL |
3 Anskar, Archbishop |
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4 Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany BCP RCL |
5 Martyrs of Japan |
6 |
7 | 8 |
9 |
10 |
11 Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany BCP RCL |
12 |
13 Absalom Jones, Priest |
14 Cyril and Methodius, Monk and Bishop |
15 Thomas Bray, Priest |
16 | 17 |
18 Last Sunday after Epiphany BCP RCL |
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20 |
21 Ash Wednesday |
22 |
23 Polycarp, Bishop and Martyr |
24 St Matthias, Apostle |
25 First Sunday in Lent BCP RCL |
26 |
27 George Herbert, Priest |
28 |
March 2007 |
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Sunday |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
Saturday |
1 David, Bishop of Menevia, Wales |
2 Chad, Bishop of Lichfield |
3 John and Charles Wesley, Priests |
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4 Second Sunday in Lent BCP RCL |
5 |
6 |
7 Perpetua and her Companions |
8 | 9 Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa |
10 |
11 Third Sunday in Lent BCP RCL |
12 Gregory the Great, Bishop |
13 |
14 |
15 |
16 | 17 Patrick, Bishop |
18 Fourth Sunday in Lent BCP RCL |
19 St Joseph |
20 Cuthbert, Bishop |
21 Thomas Ken, Bishop |
22 James DeKoven, Priest |
23 Gregory the Illuminator |
24 |
25 Fifth Sunday in Lent BCP RCL |
26 The Annunciation (transferred) BCP RCL |
27 Charles Henry Brent, Bishop |
28 |
29 John Keble, Priest |
30 |
31 John Donne, Priest |
April 2007 |
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Sunday |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
Saturday |
1 Sunday of the Passion: Palm Sunday BCP RCL |
2 Monday in Holy Week BCP RCL |
3 Tuesday in Holy Week BCP RCL |
4 Wednesday in Holy Week BCP RCL |
5 Maundy Thursday BCP RCL |
6 Good Friday BCP RCL |
7 Holy Saturday Easter Vigil BCP Easter Vigil RCL |
8 Easter Day Early BCP Primary BCP Primary RCL Evening BCP Evening RCL |
9 Monday in Easter Week |
10 Tuesday in Easter Week |
11 Wednesday in Easter Week |
12 Thursday in Easter Week |
13 Friday in Easter Week |
14 Saturday in Easter Week |
15 Second Sunday of Easter BCP RCL |
16 |
17 |
18 |
19 Alphege, Archbishop |
20 |
21 Anselm, Archbishop |
22 Third Sunday of Easter BCP RCL |
23 |
24 |
25 St Mark, Evangelist |
26 |
27 |
28 |
29 Fourth Sunday of Easter BCP RCL |
30 |
May 2007 |
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Sunday |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
Saturday |
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1 St Philip and St James, Apostles |
2 Athanasius, Bishop |
3 | 4 Monnica, Mother of Augustine |
5 |
6 Fifth Sunday of Easter BCP RCL |
7 |
8 Dame Julian of Norwich |
9 Gregory of Nazianzus, Bishop |
10 | 11 | 12 |
13 Sixth Sunday of Easter BCP RCL |
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15 |
16 |
17 Ascension Day BCP RCL |
18 |
19 Dunstan, Archbishop |
20 Seventh Sunday of Easter BCP RCL |
21 |
22 |
23 |
24 Jackson Kemper, Bishop |
25 Bede the Venerable |
26 Augustine, Archbishop |
27 Day of Pentecost Whitsunday BCP RCL |
28 The First Book of Common Prayer |
29 |
30 |
31 Visitation of the Blessed Virgin BCP RCL |
June 2007 |
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Sunday |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
Saturday |
1 Justin, Martyr |
2 The Martyrs of Lyons |
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3 First Sunday after Pentecost Trinity Sunday BCP RCL |
4 |
5 Boniface, Archbishop and Martyr |
6 |
7 | 8 |
9 Columba, Abbot |
10 Second Sunday after Pentecost Proper 5 BCP RCL |
11 St Barnabas, Apostle |
12 Enmegahbowh |
13 |
14 Basil the Great, Bishop |
15 Evelyn Underhill |
16 Joseph Butler, Bishop |
17 Third Sunday after Pentecost Proper 6 BCP RCL |
18 Bernard Mizeki, Martyr |
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20 |
21 | 22 Alban, Martyr |
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24 Fourth Sunday after Pentecost Proper 7 BCP RCL |
25 Nativity of St John, the Baptist (transferred) |
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27 |
28 Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons |
29 St Peter and St Paul, Apostles |
30 |
July 2007 |
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Sunday |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
Saturday |
1 Fifth Sunday after Pentecost Proper 8 BCP RCL |
2 |
3 |
4 Independence Day |
5 | 6 |
7 |
8 Sixth Sunday after Pentecost Proper 9 BCP RCL |
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10 |
11 Benedict of Nursia, Abbot |
12 | 13 |
14 |
15 Seventh Sunday after Pentecost Proper 10 BCP RCL |
16 |
17 William White, Bishop |
18 |
19 Macrina |
20 Stanton, Bloomer, Truth, Tubman |
21 |
22 Eighth Sunday after Pentecost Proper 11 BCP RCL |
23 Mary Magdalene (transferred) |
24 Thomas a Kempis, Priest |
25 St James, Apostle |
26 The Parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary |
27 William Reed Huntington, Priest |
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29 Ninth Sunday after Pentecost Proper 12 BCP RCL |
30 William Wilberforce |
31 Ignatius of Loyola |
August 2007 |
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Sunday |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
Saturday |
1 Joseph of Arimathea |
2 | 3 |
4 |
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5 Tenth Sunday after Pentecost Proper 13 BCP RCL |
6 The Transfiguration |
7 John Mason Neale, Priest |
8 Dominic, Priest and Friar |
9 | 10 Laurence, Deacon and Martyr |
11 Clare, Abbess |
12 Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost Proper 14 BCP RCL |
13 Jeremy Taylor, Bishop |
14 Jonathan Myrick Daniels |
15 St Mary, the Virgin |
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18 William Porcher Dubose, Priest |
19 Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost Proper 15 BCP RCL |
20 Bernard, Abbot |
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22 |
23 | 24 St Bartholomew, Apostle |
25 Louis, King of France |
26 Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost Proper 16 BCP RCL |
27 Thomas Gallaudet and Henry Winter Syle |
28 Augustine, Bishop of Hippo |
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30 | 31 Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne |
September 2007 |
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Sunday |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
Saturday |
1 David Pendleton Oakerhater, Deacon |
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2 Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost Proper 17 BCP RCL |
3 Labor Day |
4 Paul Jones, 1941 |
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6 |
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8 |
9 Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost Proper 18 BCP RCL |
10 Alexander Crummell, 1898 |
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12 John Henry Hobart, Bishop |
13 Cyprian, Bishop and Martyr |
14 Holy Cross Day BCP RCL |
15 |
16 Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost Proper 19 BCP RCL |
17 Hildegard of Bingen |
18 Edward Bouverie Pusey, Priest |
19 Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop |
20 John Coleridge Patteson |
21 St Matthew, Evangelist |
22 |
23 Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost Proper 20 BCP RCL |
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25 Sergius |
26 Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop |
27 | 28 |
29 St Michael and All Angels |
30 Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost Proper 21 BCP RCL |
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Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
Saturday |
1 Remigius, Bishop |
2 |
3 |
4 Francis of Assisi, Friar |
5 |
6 William Tyndale, Priest |
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7 Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost Proper 22 BCP RCL |
8 |
9 Robert Grosseteste, Bishop |
10 |
11 Philip, Deacon and Evangelist |
12 | 13 |
14 Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost Proper 23 BCP RCL |
15 Teresa of Avila, Nun |
16 Latimer, Ridley, and Cranmer |
17 Ignatius, Bishop and Martyr |
18 St Luke, Evangelist |
19 Henry Martyn, Priest and Missionary |
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21 Twenty First Sunday after Pentecost Proper 24 BCP RCL |
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23 St James of Jerusalem |
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25 | 26 Alfred the Great |
27 |
28 Twenty Second Sunday after Pentecost Proper 25 BCP RCL |
29 St Simon & St Jude, Apostles (transferred) |
30 |
31 Vigil of All Saints (White for vigil) |
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Monday |
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Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
Saturday |
Note: If All Saints Day is observed on Sunday, use white | 2 Commemoration of All Faithful Departed |
3 Richard Hooker, Priest |
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4 All Saints may be celebrated (white) or Twenty Third Sunday after Pentecost Proper 26 BCP RCL |
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7 Willibrord, Archbishop |
8 | 9 |
10 Leo the Great, Bishop |
11 Twenty Fourth Sunday after Pentecost Proper 27 BCP RCL |
12 Charles Simeon, Priest |
13 |
14 Consecration of Samuel Seabury |
15 | 16 Margaret, Queen of Scotland |
17 Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln |
18 Twenty Fifth Sunday after Pentecost Proper 28 BCP RCL |
19 Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary |
20 Edmund, King of East Anglia |
21 |
22 Thanksgiving Day BCP RCL |
23 Clement, Bishop |
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25 Last Sunday after Pentecost: Christ the King BCP RCL |
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27 |
28 Kamehameha and Emma |
29 | 30 St Andrew, Apostle |
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Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
Saturday |
1 Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon |
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2 First Sunday of Advent RCL BCP |
3 |
4 John of Damascus |
5 Clement of Alexandria, Priest |
6 Nicholas, Bishop |
7 Ambrose, Bishop |
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9 Second Sunday of Advent RCL BCP |
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16 Third Sunday of Advent RCL BCP |
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20 | 21 St Thomas, Apostle |
22 |
23 Fourth Sunday of Advent RCL BCP |
24 Christmas Eve |
25 Christmas Day Christmas I RCL Christmas II RCL Christmas III RCL Christmas I BCP Christmas II BCP Christmas III BCP |
26 St Stephen, Deacon and Martyr |
27 St John, Apostle and Evangelist |
28 Holy Innocents |
29 Thomas Becket |
30First Sunday after Christmas | 31 |
Notes:
The Episcopal Lectionary is based on the Roman Catholic Lectionary, a product of Vatican II. The Lutheran Lectionary and the Revised Common Lectionary also share this ancestry, so that quite often, the Episcopal, Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian, and Roman Catholic Churches are using the same lessons, with slight variations. The lessons presented here follow the Episcopal form. If you are a member of one of the other denominations, these may also be your lessons, but (!) double check before you base a sermon on them.
The Sunday Lectionary is a three year cyclical lectionary. The year which begins with Advent 2004 and ends at Advent 2005 is Year A. The year which begins at Advent 2003 and ends at Advent 2004 is Year C. The First Sunday of Advent 2005 begins Year B.
The Bible translation used is The New Revised Standard Version, copyright 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Church of Christ in the USA, and used by permission.
The collects and the Psalms are from the Book of Common Prayer. The collects use the contemporary wording.
The liturgical color appropriate for the day is indicated, when the color is green, red or purple, by the color of the numeral against a light grey background. When the liturgical color is white, the numeral is black against a white background.
Return to The Lectionary Page.
Last updated on July 3, 2004