Liturgical Year 2008/2009

Click here for a note on the Liturgical Year 2008-2009
Click here to download a guide to the Liturgical Years dates
Click here to download the readings for the full year

Index of readings for the week beginning:

30-11-2008	07-12-2008	14-12-2008	21-12-2008
28-12-2008	11-01-2009	18-01-2009	25-01-2009
01-02-2009	08-02-2009	15-02-2009	22-02-2009
01-03-2009	08-03-2009	15-03-2009	22-03-2009
29-03-2009	05-04-2009	12-04-2009	19-04-2009
26-04-2009	03-05-2009	10-05-2009	17-05-2009
24-05-2009	31-05-2009	07-06-2009	14-06-2009
21-06-2009	28-06-2009	05-07-2009	12-07-2009
19-07-2009	26-07-2009	02-08-2009	09-08-2009
16-08-2009	23-08-2009	30-08-2009	06-09-2009
13-09-2009	20-09-2009	27-09-2009	04-10-2009
11-10-2009	18-10-2009	25-10-2009	01-11-2009
08-11-2009	15-11-2009	22-11-2009

Click here to download a guide to the Liturgical Year 2009/10
Click here to access the Weekday Lectionary for 2009/10

The first four weeks of the 2009/10 lectionary are available below:

29-11-2009

06-12-2009

13-12-2009

20-12-2009

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Abbreviations used for the books of the Bible

OLD TESTAMENT
Gen	Genesis	Ho	Hosea	Lk	Luke
Ex	Exodus	Jl	Joel	Jn	John
Lv	Leviticus	Am	Amos	Ac	Acts
Num	Numbers	Obadiah		Ro	Romans
Dt	Deuteronomy	Jon	Jonah	1 Co	1 Corinthians
Jsh	Joshua	Mic	Micah	2 Co	2 Corinthians
Jg	Judges	Nah	Nahum	Ga	Galatians
Ru	Ruth	Hk	Habakkuk	Ep	Ephesians
1 Sa	1 Samuel	Zep	Zephaniah	Ph	Philippians
2 Sa	2 Samuel	Zec	Zechariah	Col	Colossians
1 Kg	1 Kings	Hag	Haggai	1 Th	1 Thessalonians
2 Kg	2 Kings	Mal	Malachi	2 Th	2 Thessalonians
1 Ch	1 Chronicles			1 Ti	1 Timothy
2 Ch	2 Chronicles	APOCRYPHA		2 Ti	2 Timothy
Ezr	Ezra	Tob	Tobit	Philemon
Ne	Nehemiah	Ju	Judith	Hb	Hebrews
Job		Ws	Wisdom of Solomon	Ja	James
Ps	Psalm or Psalms	Sir	Ecclesiasticus or Sirach	1 Pe	1 Peter
Ec	Ecclesiastes			2 Pe	2 Peter
SofS	Song of Solomon	Bar	Baruch	1 Jn	1 John
Isa	Isaiah	Ma	Maccabees	2 Jn	2 John
Jer	Jeremiah			3 Jn	3 John
Lam	Lamentations	NEW TESTAMENT		Jude
Ezk	Ezekiel	Mt	Matthew	Rev	Revelation
Dan	Daniel	Mk	Mark

 

Sunday readings
Those listed for Sundays and Festivals are drawn from the Table of Readings in the Book of Common Prayer (the listings for a Third Service are not included). Copyright approval has been given to reproduce these. Those for weekdays from tables approved by the House of Bishops in 2004 and 2005.
Those for the Principal Service are printed in full in The Word of The Lord (Canterbury Press 2003)
The ‡ prefaced to Gospel readings in the Second Service listing is a provision to be used if that service is a celebration of Holy Communion.

WEEKDAY PSALMS
Psalter provision is given for Morning (M) and Evening (E). During seasons a selection of psalms appropriate to the season is arranged. In ordinary time psalms are for the most part read in course. The final cycle of the year omits some psalms well-used during the seasons.
An optional provision indicated by [B] is the provision in the Consultation for Common Texts Revised Common Lectionary Daily Readings: normally the same psalm for the Thursday, Friday and Saturday preceding Sunday and another for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday following.

WEEKDAY READINGS
Listing A is from the two-year programme which covers almost the whole Bible in semicontinuous reading over the two years. This may be used at either the Morning or Evening office. In this year the New Testament readings are mostly from the gospels. In the alternate year they are mostly from the rest of the New Testament. In this way the whole of the New Testament is read over two years. The greater part of the Old Testament is also covered over the two years.

Listing B is from Revised Common Lectionary Daily Readings drawn up by the compilers of the Revised Common Lectionary and published in 2005. Readings for Thursday, Friday and Saturday help to prepare for the coming Sunday; those for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday reflect upon it. Where MP and EP are celebrated this may be used either in the morning or evening. Because of its link with the Sunday readings of the three year cycle, when only one office is celebrated this may be used where an irregular congregation might find the A table less than helpful. This listing is from Revised Common Lectionary Daily Readings, © 2005 Consultation on Common Texts and is used with permission.

The readings cited under HC are now published printed out by Canterbury Press as The Common Worship Daily Eucharistic Lectionary (2008).

DAILY SINGLE READING
In the listing for Holy Communion (HC) the readings marked in italic indicate a simple provision for people requiring one reading for the day. The psalm may also be used.

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