A collection of Lectionary resources for the Episcopal Church.
Updated every Sunday night.

Next Sunday's Readings:
Full text of the Sunday Bible readings, following the Revised Common, Episcopal, Roman Catholic, Anglican Church of Canada, and Church of England Lectionaries. The text is from the NRSV translation of the Bible (except for the Episcopal Psalm, which is from the US Book of Common Prayer) and is in RTF format, which is editable by nearly all word processors. Clicking on one of the links below will probably bring up a "helper program" (WordPad or MS Word if you have Windows). You may then either read the file, or save it to disk and then read or edit it with your favorite Word Processor.

• Fourth Sunday in Advent (December 22)
• Chriustmas Day I (December 24)
• Christmas Day II (December 25)
• Christmas Day III (December 25)
• First Sunday after Christmas (December 29)
  

Sunday and Daily Bible readings according to the use of the Episcopal Church. You may choose either the Revised Standard (RSV) or New Revised Standard (NRSV) versions of the Bible.

Sunday Eucharistic Lectionary: The Bible readings used for Sunday Services in the Episcopal Church.

• Pentecost (October, November): NRSV, RSV
• Advent & Christmas, 2024-25: NRSV, RSV
• Epiphany: NRSV, RSV
  

Daily Office and Daily Eucharistic Lectionary: Old Testament, New Testament, Psalm, and Gospel readings for every day of the year, in either the New Revised Standard (NRSV) or Revised Standard (RSV) Versions of the Bible. The Psalms are from the Episcopal Church's 1979 Book of Common Prayer. Daily Eucharistic Readings are taken from Lesser Feasts & Fasts.

• Week of the Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 24, October 20 - 26): NRSV, RSV
• Week of the Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 25, October 27 - November 2): NRSV, RSV
• Week of the Twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 26, Novemver 3 - 9):: NRSV, RSV
• Week of the Twenty-fifth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 27, November 10 - 16): NRSV, RSV
• Week of the Twenty-sixth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 28, November 17 - 23): NRSV, RSV
• Week of the Twenty-seventh Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 29, November 24 - 30): NRSV, RSV
• Week of the First Sunday in Advent (December 1 - 7): NRSV, RSV
• Week of the Seond Sunday in Adsvent (December 8 - 14): NRSV, RSV
• Week of the Third Sunday in Advent (December 15 - 21): NRSV, RSV
• Week of the Fourth Sunday in Advent (December 22 - 28): NRSV, RSV
• Week of the First Sunday after Christmas (December 29 - January 4, 2025): NRSV, RSV
• Week of the Second Sunday after Christmas (January 5 - 11): NRSV, RSV
• Week of the First Sunday after the Epiphany (January 12 - 18): NRSV, RSV
• Week of the Second Sunday after the Epiphany (January 19 - 25): NRSV, RSV
• Week of the Third Sunday after the Epiphany (January 26 - February 1): NRSV, RSV
• Week of the Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany (February 2 - 8): NRSV, RSV
• Week of the Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany (February 9 - 15): NRSV, RSV
• Week of the Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany (February 16 - 22): NRSV, RSV

Calendar View: Links to all the above readings by way of a monthly calendar.

• October
• November
• December
• January 2025
• February
  
  

Feasts, Holy Days, and Commemorations: We have two lists of all these, as observed in the Episcopal Church: one by date (similar to that on pages 19-31 in the Book of Common Prayer), and one alphabetical. Both have been updated to reflect additional commemorations voted by General Convention for Lesser Feasts & Fasts 2018 and A Great Cloud of Witnesses; both have links to bios, collects, and lectionary texts.

Archives page: Links to all the files - in case you need readings for some day other than what's on this page.

Today's devotion from Forward Day by Day, based on the Daily Office Readings.

Lectionary links to the NRSV version of the Bible are thanks to Simon Kershaw and oremus.org.  

When Will It Be Read? Have you ever come across a Bible reading and wondered when it will be read as part of the Sunday Lectionary? Now you can find out!
    We have it in two forms: one is a simple table, which gives a complete index of Bible passages and when they will be part of the Sunday Episcopal Lectionary.
    The other is an Excel spreadsheet, which has the RCL, Roman Catholic, Episcopal, Lutheran, and Methodist lectionaries keyed to Bible passages.   Thanks to Jenee Woodard of textweek.com and Andee Zetterbaum.

An Excel Spreadsheet containing the (former) Eucharistic (Sunday & Holy Day) readings for the Episcopal Church. Thanks to Andee Zetterbaum for providing this.
    Also, Excel spreadsheets with the ECUSA Daily Lectionary readings, for both Year One and Year Two. Thanks to Tommy D Sheppard for providing this.

Other Lectionary Resources:

• Sermon & Sermon - Lectionary Resources: from Richard Fairchild & Brett Blair, a very comprehensive set of links on these topics.
• Commentaries on next Sunday's readings (following the RCL) from Chris Haslam and maintained by the Anglican Diocese of Montreal.
• The Common Worship (Church of England) daily lectionary is available in Outlook and Excel formats from the Church of England's website.

 
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Last updated: 22 December 2024