The Lectionary Page
Lesser Feasts and
Fasts, 2022, with 2024 additions and modifications
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. In the index below, the commemorations (and alternate dates) approved only provisionally are shown in square brackets.
For an index to the commemorations by date, see Lesser Feasts and Fasts, by Date
Alphabetical Index
—A—
Aelred, Abbot
of Rievaulx, 1167, January 12
Agatha of Sicily, Martyr, c.251, February 5
Agnes and Cecilia of Rome, Martyrs, 304 and c.230
January 21
Aidan, Bishop of
Lindisfarne, 651, August 31
Alban, First Martyr
of Britain, c.304, June 22
Alcuin,
Deacon, and Abbot of Tours, 80, May 20
Anna Ellison Butler Alexander, 1947, September 24
Alfred the Great,
King of the West Saxons, 899, October 26
Commemoration of
All Faithful Departed, November 2
Alphege,
Archbishop of Canterbury, and Martyr, 1012, April 19
Ambrose,
Bishop of Milan, 397, December 7
Ammonius, Hermit, c.403, November 8
Lancelot Andrewes,
Bishop of Winchester, 1626, September 26
Anselm,
Archbishop of Canterbury, 1109, April 21
Anskar,
Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865, February 3
Antony, Abbot
in Egypt, January 17
Priscilla and Aquila, Coworkers of the Apostle Paul, July 8
Thomas Aquinas,
Priest and Friar, 1274, January 28
Argula von Grumbach, Scholar and Church Reformer, c.1554, July 14
Johann Arndt and Jacob Boehme, Mystics, 1621 and 1624, May 11
Athanasius,
Bishop of Alexandria, 373, May 2
Augustine, First
Archbishop of Canterbury, 605, May 26
Augustine, Bishop
of Hippo, 430, August 28
—B—
Johann Sebastian Bach, 1750, Composer, July 28
Bakhita (Josephine Margaret Bakhita), Monastic, 1947, February 8
Catherine of Alexandria, Barbara of Nicomedia, and Margaret of Antioch, Martyrs, c.305, November 24
Basil of Caesarea,
Bishop and Theologian, 379, June 14
Thomas Becket, December 29
Bede the Venerable,
Priest, and Monk of Jarrow, 735, May 25
Harriet Bedell, Deaconess and Missionary, 1969, January 8
The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist, August 29
Benedict of Nursia,
Abbott of Monte Cassino, c.540, July 11
Edith Stein (Teresa Benedicta of the Cross), Philosopher, Monastic, and Martyr, 1942, August 9
Richard Meux Benson, Religious, 1915, and Charles Gore,
Bishop of Worcester, of Birmingham, and of Oxford, 1932, January 16
Bernard of Clairvaux, Monastic and Theologian, August 20
Birgitta of Sweden, Mystic, 1373, October 7
Blandina and Her Companions, The
Martyrs of Lyons, 177, June 2
Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, Amelia Bloomer, and Sojourner Truth,
Social Reformers, July 20
Johann Arndt and Jacob Boehme, Mystics, 1621 and 1624, May 11
The First Book of Common
Prayer, 1549, June 13
Dietrich
Bonhoeffer, Pastor and Theologian, 1945, April 9
Boniface,
Archbishop of Mainz, Missionary to Germany, and Martyr, 754, June 5
Thomas Bray, Priest
and Missionary, 1730 , February 15
James Lloyd Breck,
Priest, 1876, April 2
Charles Henry Brent,
Bishop of the Phillipines, and of Western New York, 1929, March 27
Brigid (Bride), February 1
Phillips Brooks,
Bishop of Massachusetts, 1893, January 23
Joseph
Butler, 1752, Bishop and Theologian, June 16
—C—
Harriet Starr Cannon, Religious, 1896, April 5
Adelaide Teague Case, Teacher, 1948, June 19
Peter Williams Cassey, Deacon, 1917 and Annie Besant Cassey, 1875, April 16
John Cassian, Monastic and Theologian, 435, July 23
Catherine of Alexandria, Barbara of Nicomedia, and Margaret of Antioch, Martyrs, c.305, November 24
Catherine of Genoa, Mystic and Nurse, 1510, September 15
Catherine
of Siena, 1380, April 29
Edith Cavell, Nurse, 1915, October 12
Agnes and Cecilia of Rome, Martyrs, 304 and c.230
January 21
Chad, Bishop of
Lichfield, 672, March 2
Charles de Foucauld, Monastic and Martyr,
1916, December 1
Philander Chase,
Bishop of Ohio, and of Illinois, 1852, September 22
John Chrysostom,
Bishop of Constantinople, 407, January 27
Clare, Abbess at
Assisi, 1253, August 11
Clement of
Alexandria, Priest, c.210, December 5
Clement, Bishop of
Rome, c.100, November 23
Margaret Ward, Margaret Clitherow, and Anne Line, Martyrs, 1588, 1586, and 1601, August 30
Columba,
Abbot of Iona, 597, June 9
Constance, Thecla, Ruth, Frances, Charles Parsons, and Louis
Schuyler, Martyrs, 1878, September 9
Anna Julia Haywood Cooper, 1964, Educator, February 28
Damien, Priest, 1889, and Marianne Cope, Monastic, 1918,
of Hawaii, April 15
Cornelius the
Centurion, October 20
[Corpus Christi], Thursday following Trinity Sunday. Not on the Episcopal calendar but often observed in the Anglican Communion.
Hugh Latimer,
Nicholas Ridley, and Thomas Cranmer, 1555, 1556, October 16
Alexander Crummell, September 10
Elisabeth Cruciger, Poet and Hymnographer, 1535, May 3
Cuthbert, 687, Bishop of Lindisfarne, March 20
Cyprian,
Bishop and Martyr of Carthage, 258, September 13
Cyril, Bishop of
Jerusalem, 386, March 18
Cyril, Monk and
Methodius,Bishop, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869, 885, February 14
—D—
Damien, Priest, 1889, and Marianne Cope, Monastic, 1918,
of Hawaii, April 15
Jonathan Myrick Daniels,
Seminarian and Martyr, 1965, August 14
David, Bishop of
Menevia, Wales, c. 544, March 1
Francis de Sales, Bishop, and Jane de Chantal, Vowed Religious, 1622 and 1641, December 12
Charles de Foucauld, Monastic and Martyr,
1916, December 1
James De Koven,
Priest, 1879, March 22
Vincent de Paul, Priest, and Louise de Marillac, Vowed Religious, Workers of Charity, 1660, March 15
Vincent de Paul, Priest, and Louise de Marillac, Vowed Religious, Workers of Charity, 1660, March 15
Francis de Sales, Bishop, and Jane de Chantal, Vowed Religious, 1622 and 1641, December 12
Dominic,
Priest and Friar, 1221, August 8
John Donne, Priest,
1631, March 31
Tabitha (Dorcas) of Joppa, October 25
Frederick Douglass, Orator and Advocate for Truth and Justice,
1895, February 20
Dunstan,
Archbishop of Canterbury, 988, May 19
—E—
Edmund, King of East
Anglia, 870, November 20
Elizabeth,
Princess of Hungary, 1231, November 19
Julia Chester Emery, Missionary, 1922, January 9
Kamehameha and Emma,
King and Queen of Hawaii, 1864, 1885, November 28
Enmegahbowh, Priest
and Missionary, 1902, June 12
Ephrem of Nisibis,
Deacon and Poet, 373, June 10
Euphrosyne/Smaragdus of Alexandria, Monastic, fifth century, September 27
Paula and Eustochium of Rome, Monastics and Scholars, 404
and c.419, September 28
—F—
Fabian, Bishop and
Martyr of Rome, 250, January 20
Perpetua and Felicity, Martyrs, 202, March 7
Nicholas Ferrar,
Deacon, 1637, December 1
The First Book of Common
Prayer, 1549, is appropriately observed on a weekday following
the Day of Pentecost
[Charles de Foucauld, Hermit and Martyr in the Sahara,
1916], December 1
Constance, Thecla, Ruth, Frances, Charles Parsons, and Louis
Schuyler, Martyrs, 1878, September 9
Francis of Assisi,
Friar, 1226, October 4
Francis de Sales, Bishop, and Jane de Chantal, Vowed Religious, 1622 and 1641, December 12
Francis Xavier, Missionary to the Far East, 1552, December 3
—G—
Thomas Gallaudet,
1902 and Henry Winter Syle,
1890, August 27
Frances Joseph Gaudet,
Educator and Prison Reformer, 1934, December 30
[George of Lydda, May 6]
Mechthilde of Hackeborn and Gertrude the Great, Mystics and Thoelogians, 1298 and 1302, November 21
Richard Meux Benson, Religious, 1915, and Charles Gore,
Bishop of Worcester, of Birmingham, and of Oxford, 1932, January 16
Gregory, Bishop of
Nyssa, c.394, March 9
Gregory
of Nazianzus, Bishop of Constantinople, 389, May 9
Gregory the Great,
Bishop of Rome, 604, March 12
Gregory the
Illuminator, Bishop and Missionary of Armenia, c.332, March 23
Robert Grosseteste,
Bishop of Lincoln, 1253, October 9
Argula von Grumbach, Scholar and Church Reformer, c.1554, July 14
—H—
Hadewijch of Brabant, Poet and Mystic, thirteenth century, April 22
James Hannington,
Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, and his Companions, Martyrs,
1885, October 29
[Isabel Florence Hapgood, Ecumenist, 1929], June 26
The Consecration of Barbara Clementine Harris, First Woman Bishop in the Anglican Communion, 1989, February 11
Helena of Constantinople, Protector of the Holy Places, 330, May 22
George Herbert,
Priest, 1633, February 27
Zenaida, Philonella, and Hermione, Unmercenary Physicians, c.100, c.117, April 14
Hilary, Bishop
of Poitiers, 367, January 13
Hilda, Abbess of
Whitby, 680, November 18
Hildegard,Mystic and Scholar, 1179, September 17
Richard Rolle, 1349, Walter Hilton, 1396, and Margery Kempe,
c. 1440, Mystics, November 9
John Henry Hobart,
Bishop of New York, 1830 , September 12
James Theodore Holly, Bishop of Haiti, and of the Dominican
Republic, 1911, March 13
Richard Hooker,
Priest, 1600, November 3
Hugh of Lincoln, Bishop, 1200 November 17
James Otis Sargent
Huntington, Priest and Monk, 1935, November 25
William Reed Huntington,
Priest, 1909, July 27
—I—
Ignatius, Bishop
of Antioch, and Martyr, c.115, October 17
Ignatius of Loyola,
Priest, Monastic, and Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556, July 31
Irenaeus of Lyon, Bishop
and Theologian, c.202, June 28
—J—
Francis de Sales, Bishop, and Jane de Chantal, Vowed Religious, 1622 and 1641, December 12
The Martyrs of
Japan, 1597, February 5
Jerome, Priest, and
Scholar, 420, September 30
Joanna, Mary, and Salome, Myrrh-Bearing Women, August 3
John XXIII (Angelo Guiseppe Roncalli), Bishop of Rome,
1963, June 4
The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist, August 29
John of
Damascus, Priest, c.760, December 4
John of the Cross, Mystic, 1591, December 14
Juana Ines de la Cruz, Monastic and Theologian, 1695, April 18
Absalom Jones,
Priest, 1818, February 13
Paul Jones, September 4
Joseph of
Arimathaea, August 1
Dame
Julian of Norwich, c. 1417, May 8
Justin,
Martyr at Rome, c.167, June 1
—K—
[Toyohiko Kagawa, Prophetic Witness in Japan, 1960], April 23
Kamehameha and Emma,
King and Queen of Hawaii, 1864, 1885, November 28
Kassiani, Poet and Hymnographer, 865, September 7
Katharina von Bora, Church Reformer, 1552, December 20
John Keble, Priest,
1866, March 29
Richard Rolle, 1349, Walter Hilton, 1396, and Margery Kempe,
c. 1440, Mystics, November 9
Jackson Kemper,
First Missionary Bishop in the United States, 1870, May 24
Thomas a Kempis,
Priest, 1471, July 24
Thomas Ken,
Bishop of Bath and Wells, 1711, March 21 [or 20]
Martin Luther
King, Jr., Civil Rights Leader, 1968, April 4
James De Koven,
Priest, 1879, March 22
—L—
Hugh Latimer,
Nicholas Ridley, and Thomas Cranmer, 1555, 1556, October 16
William Laud,
Archbishop of Canterbury, 1645, January 10
Laurence, Deacon,
and Martyr at Rome, 258, August 10
William
Law, Priest, 1761, April 10
Leo of Rome,
Bishop, 461, November 10
Clive Staples Lewis,
Apologist and Spiritual Writer 1963, November 22
[Lili'uokalani of Hawai’i, January 29 or November 11]
Margaret Ward, Margaret Clitherow, and Anne Line, Martyrs, 1588, 1586, and 1601, August 30
Louis, King of
France, 1270, August 25
Vincent de Paul, Priest, and Louise de Marillac, Vowed Religious, Workers of Charity, 1660, March 15
Lucy of Syracuse, Martyr, 304, December 13
Martin Luther,
Reformer, 1546, February 18
Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, and Martyr, 1977, February 17
Lydia of Thyatira, Coworker of the Apostle Paul, May 21
—M—
Macrina of Caesarea, Monastic and Teacher, 379, July 19
Marcella of Rome, Monastic and Scholar, 410, January 31
Margaret, Queen of
Scotland, 1093, November 16
Catherine of Alexandria, Barbara of Nicomedia, and Margaret of Antioch, Martyrs, c.305, November 24
Margaret of Cortona, Monastic, 1297,February 22
Damien, Priest and Leper, 1889, and Marianne, Religious, 1918,
of Hawaii, April 15
Marina the Monk, Monastic, fifth century, June 17
Thurgood Marshall, Lawyer and Jurist, 1993, May 17
Mary and Martha of
Bethany, July 29
Martin, Bishop of
Tours, 397, November 11
Henry Martyn,
Priest, and Missionary to India and Persia, 1812, October 19
Óscar Romero,
Archbishop of San Salvador, 1980, and the Martyrs of El Salvador, March 24
The Martyrs of
Japan, 1597, February 6
Blandina and Her Companions, The
Martyrs of Lyons, 177, June 2
The Martyrs of Memphis: Constance, Thecla, Ruth, Frances, Charles Parsons, and Louis
Schuyler, 1878, September 9
The Martyrs of
New Guinea, 1942, September 2
The Martyrs of the Reformation Era, May 5
The Martyrs
of Uganda, 1886, June 3
The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, September 8
Joanna, Mary, and Salome, Myrrh-Bearing Women, August 3
Mary of Egypt, Monastic, c.421, March 30
Mary and Martha of
Bethany, July 29
Maryam of Qidun, Monastic, fourth century, October 30
Manche Masemola, Martyr, 1928, February 4
Eva Lee Matthews, Monastic, 1928, July 6
Frederick
Denison Maurice, Priest 1872, April 1
Mechthild of Magdeburg, Mystic, c.1282, May 28
Mechthilde of Hackeborn and Gertrude the Great, Mystics and Thoelogians, 1298 and 1302, November 21
Melania the Elder, Monastic, 410, June 8
Cyril, Monk and
Methodius, Bishop, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869, 885, February 14
Bernard Mizeki,
Martyr, 1896 , June 18
Monica,
Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387, May 4
Harriet Monsell, Monastic, 1883, March 26
Hannah More, Religious Writer and Philanthropist, 1833, September 6
Emily Malbone Morgan, Prophetic Witness, 1937, February 25
Moses the Black, Desert Father and Martyr, c. 400, July 2
John Raleigh Mott, Evangelist and Ecumenical Pioneer,
1955, October 3
William Augustus
Muhlenberg, Priest, 1877, April 8
Pauli Murray, Priest, 1985, July 1
—N—
The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, September 8
[Elie Naud, Huguenot Witness to the Faith, 1722], September 7
John Mason Neale,
Priest, 1866, August 7
The Martyrs of
New Guinea, 1942, September 2
Nicholas,
Bishop of Myra, c.342, December 6
Florence Nightingale,
Nurse, Social Reformer, 1910, August 12
Ninian, Bishop in
Galloway, c.430, September 16
Nino of Georgia, Missionary, c.332, December 15
—O—
David Pendleton
Oakerhater, Deacon and Missionary, 1931, September 1
—P—
Pachomius of Tabennisi, Monastic, 348, May 15
The Parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary, July 26
Constance, Thecla, Ruth, Frances, Charles Parsons, and Louis
Schuyler, Martyrs, 1878, September 9
Patrick, Bishop and
Missionary of Ireland, 461, March 17
John Coleridge
Patteson, Bishop, and his Companions, Martyrs,
1871, September 20
[Vincent de Paul, Religious, and Prophetic Witness, 1660], September 27
Paula and Eustochium of Rome, Monastics and Scholars, 404
and c.419, September 28
Frances Perkins, Public Servant and Prophetic Witness, 1965, May 13
Perpetua and Felicity, Martyrs, 202, March 7
[The Philadelphia Eleven, July 29]
Philip, Deacon and
Evangelist, October 11
Zenaida, Philonella, and Hermione, Unmercenary Physicians, c.100, c.117, April 14
Phoebe, Deacon, September 3
Photini, The Samaritan Woman, c.67, February 26
Polycarp, Bishop
and Martyr of Smyrna, 156, February 23
Priscilla and Aquila, Coworkers of the Apostle Paul, July 8
Edward Bouverie Pusey,
Priest, 1882, September 18
—R—
Remegius of Rheims,
Bishop, c.530, October 2
Richard,
Bishop of Chichester, 1253, April 3
Hugh Latimer,
Nicholas Ridley, and Thomas Cranmer, 1555, 1556, October 16
Richard Rolle, 1349, Walter Hilton, 1396, and Margery Kempe,
c. 1440, Mystics, November 9
Óscar Romero,
Archbishop of San Salvador, 1980, and the Martyrs of El Salvador, March 24
John XXIII (Angelo Guiseppe Roncalli), Bishop of Rome,
1963, June 4
James Solomon Russell, Priest, 1935, March 28
Constance, Thecla, Ruth, Frances, Charles Parsons, and Louis
Schuyler, Martyrs, 1878, September 9
—S—
Joanna, Mary, and Salome, Myrrh-Bearing Women, August 3
Sarah, Theodora, and Syncletica of Egypt, Desert Mothers, fourth–fifth century, January 5
Dorothy L Sayers, Apologist and Spiritual Writer, 1957, December 17
Samuel Isaac Joseph
Schereschewsky, Bishop of Shanghai, 1906, October 14
Scholastica, Monastic, 543, February 10
Constance, Thecla, Ruth, Frances, Charles Parsons, and Louis
Schuyler, Martyrs, 1878, September 9
Vida Dutton Scudder,
Educator and Witness for Peace, 1954, October 10
Consecration of Samuel
Seabury, First American Bishop, 1784, November 14
George Augustus Selwyn,
Bishop of New Zealand, and of Lichfield, 1878, April 11
Sergius of Radonezh, Monastic, 1392, September 25
Elizabeth Seton, Founder of the American
Sisters of Charity, 1821, January 4
Charles Simeon,
Priest, 1836, November 12
Maria Skobtsova, Monastic and Martyr, 1945, July 21
Euphrosyne/Smaragdus of Alexandria, Monastic, fifth century, September 27
Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, Amelia Bloomer, and Sojourner Truth,
Social Reformers, July 20
Edith Stein (Teresa Benedicta of the Cross), Philosopher, Monastic, and Martyr, 1942, August 9
Thomas Gallaudet,
1902 and Henry Winter Syle,
1890, August 27
Sarah, Theodora, and Syncletica of Egypt, Desert Mothers, fourth–fifth century, January 5
—T—
Tabitha (Dorcas) of Joppa, October 25
Jeremy Taylor,
Bishop of Down, Connor, and Dromore, 1667, August 13
Kateri Tekakwitha, Lay Contemplative, 1680, April 17
William Temple,
Archbishop of Canterbury, 1944, November 6
Edith Stein (Teresa Benedicta of the Cross), Philosopher, Monastic, and Martyr, 1942, August 9
Teresa of Avila,
Nun, 1582, October 15
Constance, Thecla, Ruth, Frances, Charles Parsons, and Louis
Schuyler, Martyrs, 1878, September 9
Thecla of Iconium, Proto-Martyr Among Women, c.70, September 23
Theodora, Empress, c.867, February 12
Sarah, Theodora, and Syncletica of Egypt, Desert Mothers, fourth–fifth century, January 5
Theodore of Tarsus,
Archbishop of Canterbury, 690, September 19
Therese of Lisieux, Monastic, 1897, October 1
Thomas a Kempis,
Priest, 1471, July 24
Thomas Aquinas,
Priest and Friar, 1274, January 28
Ordination of
Florence Li Tim-Oi, First Woman Priest in the Anglican Communion,
1944 , January 24
Tikhon, Patriarch of Russia, Confessor and Ecumenist,
1925, April 7
Timothy and Titus
, Companions of Saint Paul, January 26
Timothy and Titus
, Companions of Saint Paul, January 26
Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, Amelia Bloomer, and Sojourner Truth,
Social Reformers, July 20
Harriet Ross Tubman, Social Reformer, 1923, March 10
[Adeline Blanchard Tyler and her Companions, November 4]
William Tyndale, 1536, [and Miles Coverdale, 1568], Translators of the Bible, October 6
—U—
The Martyrs
of Uganda, 1886, June 3
Evelyn Underhill,
1941, June 15
—V—
Vincent,
Deacon of Saragossa, and Martyr, 304, January 22
Vincent de Paul, Priest, and Louise de Marillac, Vowed Religious, Workers of Charity, 1660, March 15
Katharina von Bora, Church Reformer, 1552, December 20
Argula von Grumbach, Scholar and Church Reformer, c.1554, July 14
—W—
Margaret Ward, Margaret Clitherow, and Anne Line, Martyrs, 1588, 1586, and 1601, August 30
John and Charles
Wesley, Priests, 1791, 1788, March 3
William White, Bishop
of Pennsylvania, 1836, July 17
William Wilberforce,
1833, July 30
Channing Moore
Williams, Missionary Bishop in China and Japan, 1910, December 2
Willibrord,
Bishop and Missionary, 739, November 7
Wulfstan,
Bishop of Worcester, 1095, January 19
—X—
Francis Xavier, Missionary to the Far East, 1552, December 3
—Y—
Agnes Tsao Kou Ying, Agatha Lin Zhao, and Lucy Yi Zhenmei, Catechists and Martyrs, 1856, 1858, and 1862, February 19
—Z—
Katharina Zell, Church Reformer and Writer, 1562, September 5
Zenaida, Philonella, and Hermione, Unmercenary Physicians, c.100, c.117, April 14
Agnes Tsao Kou Ying, Agatha Lin Zhao, and Lucy Yi Zhenmei, Catechists and Martyrs, 1856, 1858, and 1862, February 19
Zita of Tuscany, Worker of Charity, 1271, April 27
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