Faith & Worship

The Revised Common Lectionary (RCL) offers a three-year cycle with four readings for every Sunday in the Church Year. These readings are:

    A Lesson from the Hebrew Scriptures (or Acts during the Season of Easter)

    A Psalm

    A Lesson from the Epistles or Acts

    A Lesson from the Gospels

During Ordinary Time, there are two sets of Hebrew Bible readings. One set progresses semi-continuously through the Patriarchal/Exodus narratives (Year A), the Monarchial narratives (Year B), and the Prophets (Year C). The other set is related thematically to the gospel lections for those dates.

Likewise, during Ordinary Time, there are two separate Psalm readings, one that corresponds to the semi-continuous Hebrew Bible lection and one that corresponds to the theme of the gospel lection.

The Hebrew Bible lections during the rest of the year are thematically related to the gospel lections, which are in turn connected to the seasons of the Church Year. Additional readings are provided for special feast days.

Praying through the Lectionary

The readings below are for Lectionary Year C. These and prayers for years A abd B appear in my book 'The Act of Prayer' published by BRF (Bible Reading Fellowship) but sadly out of print after its first print run was sold. It should be still available via website book re-sellers.

* To access the prayers, click on the Sunday name.

Advent 1	Advent 2	Advent 3
Advent 4	Christmas Day A, B & C	1st after Christmas
2nd after Christmas	Epiphany Sunday	Baptism of Jesus
Ordinary 2	Ordinary 3	Ordinary 4
Ordinary 5	Ordinary 6	Ordinary 7
Ordinary 8	Ordinary 9	Transfiguration
1st in Lent	2nd in Lent	3rd in Lent
4th in Lent	5th in Lent	6th in Lent
Good Friday A, B & C	Easter Sunday	Easter 2
Easter 3	Easter 4	Easter 5
Easter 6	Easter 7	Pentecost Sunday
Trinity Sunday	Ordinary 9	Ordinary 10
Ordinary 11	Ordinary 12	Ordinary 13
Ordinary 14	Ordinary 15	Ordinary 16
Ordinary 17	Ordinary 18	Ordinary 19
Ordinary 20	Ordinary 21	Ordinary 22
Ordinary 23	Ordinary 24	Ordinary 25
Ordinary 26	Ordinary 27	Ordinary 28
Ordinary 29	Ordinary 30	Ordinary 31
Ordinary 32	Ordinary 33	Christ the King
All Saints Sunday

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