Weekly Lectionary Readings and Commentary

Year B, 2018

(December 3, 2017 through November 25, 2018)

Advent 1 December 3	Advent 2 December 10	Advent 3 December 17	Advent 4 December 24	Christmas Day December 25
Christmas 1 December 31	Christmas 2 (not used)	Epiphany January 6	Epiphany 1 January 7 (Baptism)	Epiphany 2 January 14
Epiphany 3 January 21	Epiphany 4 January 28	Epiphany 5 February 4	Epiphany 6 Proper 1 ALT February 11	Epiphany 7 Proper 2 Not Used
Epiphany 8 Proper 3 (not used)	Epiphany 9 Proper 4 (not used)	Last Epiphany Transfiguration February 11	Lent 1 February 18	Lent 2 February 25
Lent 3 March 4	Lent 4 March 11	Lent 5 March 18	Lent 6 Palm/Passion March 25	Easter 1 Easter Sunday April 1
Easter 2 April 8	Easter 3 April 15	Easter 4 April 22	Easter 5 April 29	Easter 6 May 6
Easter 7 May 13	Pentecost May 20	Trinity Sunday May 27	Proper 3 (not used)	Proper 4 June 3
Proper 5 June 10	Proper 6 June 17	Proper 7 June 24	Proper 8 July 1	Proper 9 July 8
Proper 10 July 1 5	Proper 11 July 22	Proper 12 July 29	Proper 13 August 5	Proper 14 August 12
Proper 15 August 19	Proper 16 August 26	Proper 17 September 2	Proper 18 September 9	Proper 19 September 16
Proper 20 September 23	Proper 21 September 30	Proper 22 October 7	Proper 23 October 14	Proper 24 October 21
Proper 25 October 28	Proper 26 November 4	Proper 27 November 11	Proper 28 November 18	Proper 29 Christ the King November 25

Clicking on a date will take you to the readings and commentary (if available) for that Sunday; if more than one are available, the Old Testament reading will appear first, with direct links to others.

This section is still being developed, so commentaries for all Sundays are not yet available. However, most Sundays have some material available. Sundays in Grey list the Lectionary readings for that Sunday, but do not have commentaries or other material available.

The Propers are readings for Ordinary Time following Epiphany and Pentecost, numbered to help establish a seven day range of dates on which they can occur. Propers numbering in the Revised Common Lectionary begins with the Sixth Sunday in Epiphany, excludes Sundays in Lent through Pentecost and Trinity Sunday, and resumes the Second Sunday after Pentecost (the first Sunday after Pentecost is Trinity Sunday), usually with Proper 4. Since the date of Easter is variable between March 22 and April 25, some Propers are not used in certain years, nor are all the Sundays of Epiphany. The Roman Catholic Lectionary and those based on it number the Propers differently.

Commentaries continue with Year C, Advent 1

The Church Year begins with Advent in November/December.
We are presently in Year A of readings in the Revised Common Lectionary.
beginning with Advent, December 1, 2019
Year B: 2017-2018; 2020-2021
Year C: 2015-2016; 2018-2019
Year A: 2016-2017, 2019-2020

-Dennis Bratcher, Copyright © 2018, Dennis Bratcher, All Rights Reserved
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Year B Index of Readings:

Advent-Christmas-Epiphany

Lent-Easter-Pentecost

Ordinary Time

Index by Biblical Books:

Weekly Lectionary Commentaries:
Year A
Year C

This section is still being developed, so commentaries for all Sundays are not yet available. Sundays in Gray list the Lectionary readings for that Sunday, but do not have commentaries or other material available.

The Dates of the Church Year:

Year C, 2018-2019
Year A, 2019-2020
Year B, 2020-2021*
(*not current)

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