A Liturgical Calendar

For the Year 2012

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 2012

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

 1
The Holy Name
2
3 4
5
6
The Epiphany
7
8
First Sunday after the Epiphany
The Baptism of Our Lord
9
Julia Chester Emery, Missionary
10
William Laud, Archbishop
11
12
Aelred, Abbot
13
Hillary, Bishop
14
15
Second Sunday after the Epiphany
16
17
Antony, Abbot
18
Confession of St Peter, Apostle
19
Wulfstan, Bishop
20
Fabian, Bishop and Martyr
21
Agnes, Martyr
22
Third Sunday after the Epiphany
23
Phillips Brooks, Bishop
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
Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany
30
 31        

 February 2012

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
Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany
13
Absalom Jones, Priest
 14
Cyril and Methodius, Monk and Bishop
15
Thomas Bray, Priest
16 17
Janani Luwum
Archbishop and Martyr
18
Martin Luther
19
Last Sunday after the Epiphany
20
21 22
Ash Wednesday
23
Polycarp, Bishop and Martyr
24
St Matthias, Apostle
25
26
First Sunday in Lent
27
George Herbert, Priest
28
Anna Julia Haywood Cooper, Educator
29
   

March 2012

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 
Second Sunday in Lent
 5
6
7
Perpetua and her Companions
8
9
Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa
10
11
Third Sunday in Lent
12
Gregory the Great, Bishop
13
James Theodore Holly, Bishop
14
15
16 17
Patrick, Bishop
18
Fourth Sunday in Lent
19
St Joseph
20
Cuthbert, Bishop
21
Thomas Ken, Bishop
22
James De Koven, Priest
23
Gregory the Illuminator
24
Oscar Romero, Archbishop, and the Martyrs of San Salvador
25
Fifth Sunday in Lent
26
The Annunciation
(transferred)
27
Charles Henry Brent, Bishop
28
29
John Keble, Priest
30
31
John Donne, Priest

April 2012

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

1
Sunday of the Passion:
Palm Sunday
2
Monday in Holy Week
3
Tuesday in Holy Week
4
Wednesday in Holy Week
5
Maundy Thursday
(White is appropriate at Eucharist)
6
Good Friday
7
Holy Saturday
Easter Vigil
(At the vigil, white is appropriate)
8
Easter Day
Principal
Evening
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
16
17
18
19
Alphege, Archbishop
20
21
Anselm, Archbishop
22
Third Sunday of Easter
23
24
25
St Mark, Evangelist
26
27
28
29
Fourth Sunday of Easter
30
       

 May 2012

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

    1
St Philip and St James, Apostles
2
Athanasius, Bishop
3
4
Monnica, Mother of Augustine
5
6
Fifth Sunday of Easter
7 8
Dame Julian of Norwich
9
Gregory of Nazianzus, Bishop
10 11 12
13
Sixth Sunday of Easter
14 15
16
17
Ascension Day
18
19
Dunstan, Archbishop
20
Seventh Sunday of Easter
21 22
23
24
Jackson Kemper, Bishop
25
Bede the Venerable
26
Augustine, Archbishop
27
Day of Pentecost
Whitsunday

28
The First Book of Common Prayer
29
30
31
Visitation of the Blessed Virgin
   

  June 2012

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

        1
Justin, Martyr
2
The Martyrs of Lyons
3
First Sunday after Pentecost
Trinity Sunday
4
5
Boniface, Archbishop and Martyr
6 7 8
9
Columba, Abbot
10
Second Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 5
11
St Barnabas, Apostle
12
Enmegahbowh, Priest and Missionary
13
14
Basil the Great, Bishop
15
Evelyn Underhill
16
Joseph Butler, Bishop
17
Third Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 6
18
Bernard Mizeki, Martyr
19
20
21 22
Alban, Martyr
23
24
Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 7
25
Nativity of St John, the Baptist
26
27
28
Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons
29
St Peter and St Paul, Apostles
30

 July 2012

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

 1
Fifth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 8
2 3
4
Independence Day
5 6
7
8
Sixth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 9
9 10
11
Benedict of Nursia, Abbot
12 13
14
15
Seventh Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 10
16 17
William White, Bishop
18
19
Macrina
20
Stanton, Bloomer, Truth, Tubman
21
22
Eighth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 11
23
Mary Magdalene
(transferred)
24
25
St James, Apostle
26
The Parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary
27
William Reed Huntington, Priest
28
29
Ninth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 12
30
William Wilberforce
31
Ignatius of Loyola
       

August 2012

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

       1
Joseph of Arimathea
 2 3
4
5
Tenth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 13
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
13
Jeremy Taylor, Bishop
14
Jonathan Myrick Daniels
15
St Mary, the Virgin
16
17
18
William Porcher Dubose, Priest
19
Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 15
20
Bernard, Abbot
21
22
23 24
St Bartholomew, Apostle
25
Louis, King of France
26
Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 16
27
Thomas Gallaudet and Henry Winter Syle
28
Augustine, Bishop of Hippo
29
30 31
Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne
 

  September 2012

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

            1
David Pendleton Oakerhater, Deacon
2
Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 17
3
Labor Day
4
Paul Jones, Bishop
5
6
7
8
9
Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 18
10
Alexander Crummell, 1898
11
12
John Henry Hobart, Bishop
13
Cyprian, Bishop and Martyr
14
Holy Cross Day
15
16
Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 19
17
Hildegard of Bingen
18
Edward Bouverie Pusey, Priest
19
Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop
20
John Coleridge Patteson
21
St Matthew, Evangelist
22
Philander Chase, Bishop
23
Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 20
24 25
Sergius, Abbot
26
Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop
27 28
29
St Michael and All Angels
30
Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 21
           

 October 2012

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

  1
Remigius, Bishop
2
3
4
Francis of Assisi, Friar
5
6
William Tyndale, Priest
7
Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 22
8 9
Robert Grosseteste, Bishop
10
Vida Dutton Scudder, Educator and Witness for Peace
11
Philip, Deacon and Evangelist
12 13
14
Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 23
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
20
21
Twenty First Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 24
22 23
St James of Jerusalem
24
25 26
Alfred the Great
27
28
Twenty Second Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 25
29
St Simon & St Jude, Apostles
(transferred)
30
31
Vigil of All Saints
(White for vigil)
     

November 2012

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
All Saints' (see Nov 1, white)
or
Proper 26
5
6
William Temple, Archbishop
7
Willibrord, Archbishop
8 9
10
Leo the Great, Bishop
11
Twenty Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 27
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
19
Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary
20
Edmund, King of East Anglia
21
22
Thanksgiving Day
23
Clement, Bishop
24
25
Last Sunday after Pentecost:
Christ the King
26 27
28
Kamehameha and Emma
29 30
St Andrew, Apostle
 

December 2012

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

             1
Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon
2
First Sunday of Advent
3 4
John of Damascus
5
Clement of Alexandria, Priest
6
Nicholas, Bishop
7
Ambrose, Bishop
8
9
Second Sunday of Advent
10 11
12
13 14 15
16
Third Sunday of Advent
17 18
19
20 21
St Thomas, Apostle
22
23
Fourth Sunday of Advent
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
First Sunday after Christmas

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

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 begins with Advent 2011 and ends at Advent 2012 is Year B. The year which began at Advent 2010 and ended at Advent 2011 was Year A. The First Sunday of Advent 2012 begins Year C.

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 June 10, 2011