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The Lectionary Page


 

A Liturgical Calendar for Upcoming Weeks

With Links to the Lessons
From the Episcopal Lectionary (BCP)
and Revised Common Lectionary (RCL)

 

| April | May | June | July | August |

April 2008

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

 
1
The Annunciation
(transferred)
BCP
RCL
2
James Lloyd Breck, Priest
3
Richard, Bishop
4
Martin Luther King
5
6
Third Sunday of Easter
BCP
RCL
7
Tikhon, Patriarch, Confessor, and Ecumenist
8
William Augustus Muhlenberg, Priest
9
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
10
William Law, Priest
11
George Augustus Selwyn, Bishop
12
13
Fourth Sunday of Easter
BCP
RCL
14
15
16
17
18
19
Alphege, Archbishop
20
Fifth Sunday of Easter
BCP
RCL
21
Anselm, Archbishop
22
23
24
25
St Mark, Evangelist
26
27 
Sixth Sunday of Easter
BCP
RCL
28
29
Catherine of Sienna
30



 May 2008

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday





1
Ascension Day
BCP
RCL
2
St Philip and St James, Apostles
(transferred)
3
4
Seventh Sunday of Easter
BCP
RCL
5
6
7
8
Dame Julian of Norwich
9
Gregory of Nazianzus, Bishop
10
11
Day of Pentecost
Whitsunday
BCP
RCL
12
The First Book of Common Prayer
13
14
15
16
17
18
First Sunday after Pentecost
Trinity Sunday
BCP
RCL
19
Dunstan, Archbishop
20
Alcuin, Deacon and Abbott of Tours
21
22
23
24
Jackson Kemper, Bishop
25
Second Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 3
BCP
RCL
26
Augustine, Archbishop
27
28
29
30
31
Visitation of the Blessed Virgin
BCP
RCL

  June 2008

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

 1
Third Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 4
BCP
RCL
2
The Martyrs of Lyons
3
The Martyrs of Uganda
4
5
Boniface, Archbishop and Martyr
6
7
8
Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 5
BCP
RCL
9
Columba, Abbot
10
Ephrem of Edessa
11
St Barnabas, Apostle
12
Enmegahbowh, Priest and Missionary
13
14
Basil the Great, Bishop
15
Fifth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 6
BCP
RCL
16
Joseph Butler, Bishop
17
18
Bernard Mizeki, Martyr
19
20
21
22
Sixth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 7
BCP
RCL
23
24
Nativity of St John, the Baptist
25
26
27
28
Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons
29
Seventh Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 8
BCP
RCL
30
St Peter and St Paul, Apostles
(transferred)

       

 July 2008

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday


   1
2
3
4
Independence Day
5
6
Eighth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 9
BCP
RCL
7
8
9
10
11
Benedict of Nursia, Abbot
12
13
Ninth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 10
BCP
RCL
14
15
16
17
William White, Bishop
18
19
Macrina, Monastic and Teacher
20
Tenth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 11
BCP
RCL
21
22
Mary Magdalene
23
24
Thomas a Kempis, Priest
25
St James, Apostle
26
The Parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary
27
Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 12
BCP
RCL
28
29
Mary and Martha of Bethany
30
William Wilberforce
31
Ignatius of Loyola
   

August 2008

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

       1
Joseph of Arimathea
 2
3
Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 13
BCP
RCL
4
5
6
The Transfiguration
7
John Mason Neale, Priest
8
Dominic, Priest and Friar
9
10
Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 14
BCP
RCL
11
Clare, Abbess
12
Florence Nightingale
13
Jeremy Taylor, Bishop
14
Jonathan Myrick Daniels
15
St Mary, the Virgin
16
17
Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 15
BCP
RCL
18
William Porcher Dubose, Priest
19
20
Bernard, Abbot
21
22
23
24
Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 16
BCP
RCL
25
St Bartholomew, Apostle
26
Louis, King of France
27
Thomas Gallaudet and Henry Winter Syle
28
Augustine, Bishop of Hippo
29
30
31
Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 17
BCP
RCL
 
       

Planning further ahead? Use the 2008 Liturgical Calendar.


Transition to the Revised Common Lectionary at Advent 2007

The 75th General Convention in June, 2006 directed that the Revised Common Lectionary replace the Book of Common Prayer lectionary "effective the First Sunday of Advent 2007; with the provision for continued use of the previous Lectionary for purposes of orderly transition, with the permission of the ecclesiastical authority, until the First Sunday of Advent 2010 (A077)." (Episcopal News Service)

To accommodate this change, in 2005 we began to make available the Revised Common Lectionary readings for Sundays and Holy Days, in addition to the traditional (Book of Common Prayer) lections.

Most churches began using the Revised Common Lectionary readings at Advent, 2007. During the three year transitional period authorized by the General Convention in which you may continue to use the Book of Common Prayer lectionary with the approval of your bishop, we will continue to make both choices accessible on this site.

You may wish to visit the site of the Office of Liturgy and Music of the Episcopal Church to learn more.

A few words of explanation and caution: The General Convention of 2000 which authorized the trial use of the Revised Common Lectionary (RCL) actually modified the RCL slightly to conform to Episcopal worship needs. We honor those modifications, and will be attentive to any future developments in usage.

On Sundays and Holy Days on the calendar, choosing "BCP" will bring up the lections prescribed by the Book of Common Prayer lectionary. Choosing "RCL" will call up the Revised Common Lectionary readings.

When there is no choice available, either the lections are identical, or the RCL offers no option. The weekday feasts and fasts are a matter of Episcopal usage and are not supported by the RCL.


The lessons appointed for the following special services are now available:

Marriages
Burials
Dedication of a Church


This site was created to support all those who need access to the lesson texts of the Episcopal (ECUSA) Eucharistic Lectionary.

The Sunday Lectionary is a three year cyclical lectionary. We are currently in Year A. The year which will begin with Advent in 2008 will be Year B. The year which ended at Advent 2007 was 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.

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.


The Comprehensive Index of Texts from the Book of Common Prayer lectionary has been subdivided to speed access to the Lectionary texts. Year A & Year B are indexed on one page, while Year C, The Holy Days, and Special Services are on another. Lesser Feasts and Fasts occupies a third page. You may easily move between the pages. The Revised Common Lectionary index is under development.


Other Helpful Sites

A wonderful lectionary-based collection of commentaries, exegesis, articles, art and music suggestions can be found at Textweek.

I am often asked where one can find the Daily Lectionary (a two year cycle) online.

The Book of Common Prayer, in both the current and the historical versions, can be found online.

Bible study groups that follow the lectionary are a good way to build community as well as faith. If you are looking for study guides, you might look at the lectionary study material offered by Paraklete Press.

Looking for more information about the saints? James Kiefer's hagiographs are a good starting point.

Want to read the lessons in other translations? Crosswalk.com offers access to the King James, New King James, Revised Standard, New American Standard, New International and several other versions.

Trying to find out when a particular lesson is going to be used? When Will It Be Read? is a wonderful reverse lectionary.


 

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Last updated on April 24, 2008.