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

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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.

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. Note: These now follow the new Episcopal RCL lectionary (both 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. Daily Eucharistic Readings are taken from Lesser Feasts & Fasts. Today's readings are also available in the ESV (English Standard Version) from the publisher.

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

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, and both have links to bios, collects, and lectionary texts. We are in the process of incorporating the large number of commemorations provisionally added to the Calendar at General Convention in July 2009. You can see the entire list on our Calendar page.

From July 1, 2010, through June 30, 2011, the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music is conducting trial use of the commemorations in Holy Women, Holy Men. Commemorations will appear on the SCLM blog chronologically. There you will also be able to offer your reflections about any of these commemorations. There is also an electronic survey with questions on the appropriateness of both the commemoration itself and the collect and readings. If you’d like to participate in the survey, click here for more information.

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:

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Last updated: 5 Sept. 2010