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A Liturgical Calendar for Upcoming Weeks |
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Newly Updated: Index to Lesser Feasts and Fasts by Date
and Index to Lesser Feasts and Fasts by Name
Planning further ahead? Use the 2024 Liturgical Calendar, or the 2025 Liturgical Calendar
Go to the Reverse Lectionary.
September 2024 |
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1 Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost Proper 17 |
2 Labor Day |
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8 Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost Proper 18 |
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14 Holy Cross Day |
15 Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost Proper 19 |
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21 St Matthew, Evangelist |
22 Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost Proper 20 |
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Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost Proper 21 |
30 St Michael and All Angels (transferred) |
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13 Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost Proper 23 |
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18 St Luke, Evangelist |
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20 Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost Proper 24 |
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23 St James of Jerusalem |
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27 Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost Proper 25 |
28 St Simon & St Jude, Apostles |
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31 Vigil of All Saints (White for vigil) |
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Note: If All Saints Day is observed on Sunday, use white | 2 |
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3 All Saints may be celebrated (white) or Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost Proper 26 |
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10 Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost Proper 27 |
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17 Twenty-Sixth Sunday after Pentecost Proper 28 |
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24 Last Sunday after Pentecost: Christ the King |
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28 Thanksgiving Day |
29 | 30 St Andrew, Apostle |
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1 First Sunday of Advent |
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8 Second Sunday of Advent |
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15 Third Sunday of Advent |
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20 | 21 St Thomas, Apostle |
22 Fourth Sunday of Advent |
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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 First Sunday after Christmas |
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January 2025 |
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1 The Holy Name |
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5 Second Sunday after Christmas (Note: Episcopal readings differ from the "generic" RCL readings) |
6 The Epiphany |
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12 First Sunday after the Epiphany |
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17 | 18 Confession of St Peter, Apostle |
19 Second Sunday after the Epiphany |
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25 Conversion of St Paul, Apostle |
26 Third Sunday after the Epiphany |
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February 2025 |
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2 Presentation of Jesus in the Temple |
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9 Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany |
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16 Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany |
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23 Seventh Sunday after the Epiphany |
24 St Matthias, Apostle |
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A Note about Weekday ObservancesIn 2024, meeting in Louisville, Kentucky, the General Convention approved a new lectionary for the Commemorations previously approved in Lesser Feasts and Fasts, 2022. For every commemoration, a fourth reading has been added to the propers and many other changes were made to the existing readings. Additionally, five new commemorations were approved for trial use and seven commemorations were given new dates of observance. The new observances have been added, the date changes made and the lection changes have been made. With the approval in 2022 of a new edition of LFF, both Holy Women, Holy Men and A Great Cloud of Witnesses were superceded and should be set aside. You
may access the lesser commemorations by date through the Index by Month
to Lesser Feasts and Fasts, or by name with the Alphabetical Index to Lesser Feasts and Fasts. |
The lessons appointed for the following special services are now available:
Holy Baptism
Marriage
Burial (from Book of Common Prayer)
Burial (from Enriching Our Worship 3)
Dedication of a Church
Advent
Lessons and Carols
Christmas
Lessons and Carols
Nine
Lessons and Carols for Christmas Eve (King's College)
The
Passion Gospels Formatted for Dramatic Reading
Those seeking lessons not on the current calendar may consult the
Comprehensive Index to Texts: Years A, B, and C, and Holy Days
Looking back? Use the Calendars for 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013.
For communities continuing to use the older BCP lectionary:
General Index to the 1979 BCP Lection Texts
This site was created to support all those who need access to the lesson texts of the Episcopal (TEC) Eucharistic Lectionary.
The Sunday Lectionary is a three year cyclical lectionary. We are currently in Year B. Beginning with the first Sunday of Advent in 2024, we will be in Year C. The year which ended at Advent 2023 was Year A.
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 readings have been emended to provide context and clarity for public reading in conformance with the rubrics of the Book of Common Prayer.
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.
On weekdays, other than major Holy Days, the color indicated is the color appropriate to the season. When celebrating the feast of a martyred saint, scarlet is also appropriate.
I am always interested in ways to make this site more useful to you. Your feedback is appreciated. And, please, let me know as soon as possible if you catch an error in this material.
A number of people have asked for a liturgical calendar formatted for iCal, Google Calendar, or any other program that uses the iCalendar format. I have prepared such a calendar, accurate through 2025. You can subscribe to it, through your calendar program, using this url:
http://www.lectionarypage.net/Resources/LiturgicalCalendar.ics
Alternatively, using the same url, you may download the calendar file by pasting the url in the destination window of your web browser and hitting the Go button. For most browsers, on most computers, this will result in that file being downloaded and stored in your downloads folder. You can then import it into your calendar program. What is the difference? You cannot alter a calendar to which you are subscribed, but you can alter a calendar imported from a file on your computer. The downside, if there is one, is that corrections made to the original file (that is, my file) will not be replicated on your computer. Your choice.
Please let me know as soon as possible about errors, omissions, or anything else that lessens the usability of this (intentionally) simple calendar.
Other Helpful Resources
The Revised Common Lectionary Daily Readings are now available online. at DailyLectio.net. This three year cycle of daily scripture readings follows and augments the RCL Sunday lections. Note that these readings are keyed to the "generic" RCL, not the RCL as modified for Episcopal worship. The readings for Thursday through Saturday prepare for the Sunday lessons, while the Monday through Wednesday readings reflect on the Sunday lessons. (To be clear: these are not the Daily Office readings from the Book of Common Prayer.)
A Sermon for Every Sunday offers lectionary based video sermons from a group of accomplished preachers. The sermons are offered "for use in worship, Bible study, small groups, Sunday school classes, or for individual use."
A wonderful lectionary-based collection of commentaries, exegesis, articles, art and music suggestions can be found at Textweek.
Sometimes the question is not what we read on a given date, but "When do we read a certain lesson?" The Reverse Lectionary can answer that question.
I am often asked where one can find the Daily Lectionary (a two year cycle) online.
A number of pronunciation guides are available online. The Biblical Words Pronunciation Guide from Net Ministries offers phonetic spelling as well as audible guidance.
The Sunday lectionary in Spanish can be found at St Mark's Press Leccionario Domenical.
The Book of Common Prayer, in both the current and the historical versions, can be found online.
Looking for more information about the saints? James Kiefer's hagiographs are a good starting point.
Want to read the lessons in other translations? Bible Study Tools offers access to the King James, New King James, Revised Standard, New Revised Standard, New American Standard, New International and many other versions in various languages.
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Last updated on September 23, 2024