A Liturgical Calendar

For the Year 2011

With Links to the Lessons From the Episcopal Lectionary


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Month:

| January | February | March | April | May | June |


| July | August | September | October | November | December |

January 2011

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

             1
The Holy Name
2
Second Sunday after Christmas

(Note: Episcopal readings differ from the "generic" RCL readings)

3 4
5
6
The Epiphany
7 8
Harriet Bedell, Deaconess and Missionary
9
First Sunday after the Epiphany
The Baptism of Our Lord
10
William Laud, Archbishop
11
12
Aelred, Abbot
13
Hillary, Bishop
14 15
16
Second Sunday after the Epiphany
17
Antony, Abbot
18
Confession of St Peter, Apostle
19
Wulfstan, Bishop
20
Fabian, Bishop and Martyr
21
Agnes, Martyr
22
Vincent, Deacon and Martyr
23
Third Sunday after the Epiphany
24
Ordination of Florence Li Tim-Oi
25
Conversion of St Paul, Apostle
26
Timothy and Titus
27
John Chrysostom, Bishop
28
Thomas Aquinas, Priest and Friar
29
30
Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany
 31          

 February 2011

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

     1
Brigid (Bride)
2
Presentation of Jesus in the Temple
3
Anskar, Archbishop
4
Cornelius, the Centurion
5
Martyrs of Japan
6
Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany
7
8
9
10
11 12
13
Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany
 14
Cyril and Methodius, Monk and Bishop
15
Thomas Bray, Priest
16 17
Janani Luwum
Archbishop and Martyr
18
Martin Luther
19
20
Seventh Sunday after the Epiphany
21 22
23
Polycarp, Bishop and Martyr
24
St Matthias, Apostle
25
26
27
Eighth Sunday after the Epiphany
28
Anna Julia Haywood Cooper, Educator
         

March 2011

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

     1
David, Bishop of Menevia, Wales
 2
Chad, Bishop of Lichfield
 3
John and Charles Wesley, Priests
4 
 5
6
Last Sunday after Epiphany
7
Perpetua and her Companions
8
9
Ash Wednesday
10
11
12
Gregory the Great, Bishop
13
First Sunday in Lent
14
15
16 17
Patrick, Bishop
18
Cyril, Bishop
19
St Joseph
20
Second Sunday in Lent
21
Thomas Ken, Bishop
22
James De Koven, Priest
23
Gregory the Illuminator
24
Oscar Romero, Archbishop, and the Martyrs of San Salvador
25
The Annunciation
26
27
Third Sunday in Lent
28
29
John Keble, Priest
30
31
John Donne, Priest

April 2011

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

        1
Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest
2
James Lloyd Breck, Priest
3
Fourth Sunday in Lent
4
Martin Luther King
5
6
7
Tikhon, Patriarch, Confessor, and Ecumenist
8
William Augustus Muhlenberg, Priest
9
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
10
Fifth Sunday in Lent
11
George Augustus Selwyn, Bishop
12
13
14
15
16
17
Sunday of the Passion:
Palm Sunday
18
Monday in Holy Week
19
Tuesday in Holy Week
20
Wednesday in Holy Week
21
Maundy Thursday
22
Good Friday
23
Holy Saturday
Easter Vigil
24
Easter Day
Principal
Evening
25
Monday in Easter Week
26
Tuesday in Easter Week
27
Wednesday in Easter Week
28
Thursday in Easter Week
29
Friday in Easter Week
30
Saturday in Easter Week

 May 2011

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

1
Second Sunday of Easter
2
St Mark, Evangelist
(transferred)
3
St Philip and St James, Apostles
(transferred)
4
Monnica, Mother of Augustine
5
6 7
8
Third Sunday of Easter
9
Gregory of Nazianzus, Bishop
10 11 12 13 14
15
Fourth Sunday of Easter
16
17 18
19
Dunstan, Archbishop
20
Alcuin, Deacon and Abbot
21
22
Fifth Sunday of Easter
23
24
Jackson Kemper, Bishop
25
Bede the Venerable
26
Augustine, Archbishop
27 28
29
Sixth Sunday of Easter
30
31
Visitation of the Blessed Virgin
       

  June 2011

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

       1
Justin, Martyr
2
Ascension Day
3
Martyrs of Uganda
4
5
Seventh Sunday of Easter
6 7 8
9
Columba, Abbot
10
Ephrem of Edessa
11
St Barnabas, Apostle
12
Day of Pentecost
Whitsunday

13
The First Book of Common Prayer
14
Basil the Great, Bishop
15
Evelyn Underhill
16
Joseph Butler, Bishop
17
18
Bernard Mizeki, Martyr
19
First Sunday after Pentecost
Trinity Sunday
20
21 22
Alban, Martyr
23
24
Nativity of St John, the Baptist
25
26
Second Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 8
27
28
Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons
29
St Peter and St Paul, Apostles
30
   

 July 2011

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

           1

2
3
Third Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 9
4
Independence Day
5 6
7
8 9
10
Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 10
11
Benedict of Nursia, Abbot
12 13
14
15 16
17
Fifth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 11
18
19
Macrina
20
Stanton, Bloomer, Truth, Tubman
21
22
Mary Magdalene
23
24
Sixth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 12
25
St James, Apostle
26
The Parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary
27
William Reed Huntington, Priest
28
29
Mary and Martha of Bethany
30
William Wilberforce
31
Seventh Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 13
           

August 2011

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

   1
Joseph of Arimathea
 2 3
4
5 6
The Transfiguration
7
Eighth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 14
8
Dominic, Priest and Friar
9 10
Laurence, Deacon and Martyr
11
Clare, Abbess
12
Florence Nightingale
13
Jeremy Taylor, Bishop
14
Ninth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 15
15
St Mary, the Virgin
16
17
18
William Porcher Dubose, Priest
19 20
Bernard, Abbot
21
Tenth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 16
22
23 24
,St Bartholomew, Apostle
25
Louis, King of France
26 27
Thomas Gallaudet and Henry Winter Syle
28
Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 17
29
30 31
Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne
     

  September 2011

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

        1
David Pendleton Oakerhater, Deacon
2
The Martyrs of New Guinea
3
4
Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 18
5
Labor Day
6
7
8
9
Constance, Nun
10
Alexander Crummell, 1898
11
Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 19
12
John Henry Hobart, Bishop
13
Cyprian, Bishop and Martyr
14
Holy Cross Day
15
16
Ninian, Bishop
17
Hildegard of Bingen
18
Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 20
19
Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop
20
John Coleridge Patteson
21
St Matthew, Evangelist
22
Philander Chase, Bishop
23 24
25
Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 21
26
Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop
27 28
29
St Michael and All Angels
30
Jerome, Priest
 

 October 2011

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

            1
Remigius, Bishop
2
Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 22
3
4
Francis of Assisi, Friar
5
6
William Tyndale, Priest
7 8
9
Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 23
10
Vida Dutton Scudder, Educator and Witness for Peace
11
Philip, Deacon and Evangelist
12 13
14
Samuel Schereschewsky, Bishop
15
Teresa of Avila, Nun
16
Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 24
17
Ignatius, Bishop and Martyr
18
St Luke, Evangelist
19
Henry Martyn, Priest and Missionary
20
21 22
23
Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 25
24
St James of Jerusalem
(Transferred)
25 26
Alfred the Great
27
28
St Simon & St Jude, Apostles
29
James Hannington, Bishop, and his Companions
30
Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 26
31
Vigil of All Saints
(White for vigil)
         

November 2011

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

  Note: If All Saints' Day is additionally observed on Sunday, use white   1
All Saints' Day
2
Commemoration of All Faithful Departed
3
Richard Hooker, Priest
4 5
6
All Saints' (see Nov 1, white)
or
Twenty First Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 27
7
Willibrord, Archbishop
8 9
10
Leo the Great, Bishop
11
Martin, Bishop of Tours
12
Charles Simeon, Priest
13
Twenty Second Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 28
14
Consecration of Samuel Seabury
15
16
Margaret, Queen of Scotland
17
Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln
18
Hilda, Abbess of Whitby
19
Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary
20
Last Sunday after Pentecost:
Christ the King
21
22
Clive Staples Lewis, Apologist and Writer
23
Clement, Bishop
24
Thanksgiving Day
25
James Otis Sargent Huntington, Priest
26
27
First Sunday of Advent
28
Kamehameha and Emma
29 30
St Andrew, Apostle
     

December 2011

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

         1
Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon
2
Channing Moore Williams, Missionary Bishop
3
4
Second Sunday of Advent
5
Clement of Alexandria, Priest
6
Nicholas, Bishop
7
Ambrose, Bishop
8
9 10
11
Third Sunday of Advent
12
13 14 15
16 17
18
Fourth Sunday of Advent
19
20 21
St Thomas, Apostle
22 23 24
Christmas Eve
25
Christmas Day
Christmas I
Christmas II
Christmas III
26
St Stephen, Deacon and Martyr
27
St John, Apostle and Evangelist
28
Holy Innocents
29
Thomas Becket
30
Francis Joseph Gaudet, Educator and Prison Reformer
31


Notes:

The Episcopal Lectionary is based on the Revised Common Lectionary, which is, itself, based on the Roman Catholic Lectionary, a product of Vatican II. So it is that, most often, the Episcopal, Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian, and Roman Catholic and other churches are using the same lessons, with slight variations. The lessons presented here follow the Episcopal form of the Revised Common Lectionary. 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 began with Advent 2010 and ends at Advent 2011 is Year A. The year which began at Advent 2009 and ended at Advent 2010 was Year C. The First Sunday of Advent 2011 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 Churches 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.


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Last updated on May 30, 2010