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The Lectionary Page


A Liturgical Calendar for Upcoming Weeks

With Links to the Lessons
for Sundays and Major Holy Days
From the Revised Common Lectionary (RCL)
(as adapted for use in Episcopal worship)

| September | October | November | December | January | February |

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

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

1
Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 17
2
Labor Day
3
4
5
6
7
8
Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 18
9
10
11
12
13
14
Holy Cross Day
15
Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 19
16
17
18
19
20
21
St Matthew, Evangelist
22
Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 20
23
24
25
26
27 28
29
Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 21
30
St Michael and All Angels
(transferred)
         

 October 2024

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

    1
2
3
4
5
6
Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 22
7
8
9
10 11
12
13
Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 23
14
15
16
17
18
St Luke, Evangelist
19
20
Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 24
21
22
23
St James of Jerusalem
24
25 26
27
Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 25
28
St Simon & St Jude, Apostles
29
30
31
Vigil of All Saints
(White for vigil)
   

November 2024

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Note: If All Saints Day is observed on Sunday, use white          2
3
All Saints may be celebrated (white)
or
Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 26
4
5
6
7
8 9
10
Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 27
11
12
13
14 15 16
17
Twenty-Sixth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 28
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Last Sunday after Pentecost:
Christ the King

25
26
27
28
Thanksgiving Day
29 30
St Andrew, Apostle

December 2024

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

 1
First Sunday of Advent
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Second Sunday of Advent
9

10
11
12
13 14
15
Third Sunday of Advent
16
17
18
19
20 21
St Thomas, Apostle
22
Fourth Sunday of Advent
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
First Sunday after Christmas
30 31




January 2025

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

       1
The Holy Name
2
3
4
5
Second Sunday after Christmas

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

6
The Epiphany
7 8 9 10 11
12
First Sunday after the Epiphany
13
14
15
16
17 18
Confession of St Peter, Apostle
19
Second Sunday after the Epiphany
20
21
22
23
24
25
Conversion of St Paul, Apostle
26
Third Sunday after the Epiphany
27
28
29
30
31
 

 February 2025

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

             1
 
2
Presentation of Jesus in the Temple
 3
 4
5
6
7
8
9
Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany
10
11
12
13
14 15
16
Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany
 17
18
19 20
21
22
23
Seventh Sunday after the Epiphany
24
St Matthias, Apostle
25
26
27
28
 

 




What are “Track 1” and “Track 2”?

During the long green season after Pentecost, there are two tracks (or strands) each week for Old Testament readings. Within each track, there is a Psalm chosen to accompany the particular lesson.

The Revised Common Lectionary allows us to make use of either of these tracks, but once a track has been selected, it should be followed through to the end of the Pentecost season, rather than jumping back and forth between the two strands.

The first track of Old Testament readings (“Track 1”) follows major stories and themes, read mostly continuously from week to week. In Year A we begin with Genesis, in Year B we hear some of the great monarchy narratives, and in Year C we read from the later prophets.

A second track of readings (“Track 2”) follows the Roman Catholic tradition of thematically pairing the Old Testament reading with the Gospel reading, often typologically—a sort of foretelling of Jesus Christ’s life and ministry, if you will. This second track is almost identical to our previous Book of Common Prayer lectionary.

Within each track there may be additional readings, complementary to the standard reading; these may be used with the standard reading, or in place of it.

(credit to The Rev Dr. J. Barrington Bates)



A Note about Weekday Observances

In 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.


Liturgical Calendar available for iCal, Google Calendar, etc

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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Kelly W. Puckett

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Last updated on September 23, 2024