Download Call to Worship Lectionary aids
These worship planning aids are designed to coordinate with the Revised Common Lectionary (RCL), a
three-year system for reading biblical texts in worship on the Lord’s Day and other holy days. The RCL
represents the work of the Consultation on Common Texts, an ecumenical body of scholars and
denominational representatives in North America, including the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). While the
Roman Catholic Church uses a slightly different lectionary, the U.S. and Canadian Catholic churches have had
a voice in shaping the RCL. The Episcopal Church adopted the RCL beginning in Advent 2007. The RCL is
widely used by an increasing number of Protestant denominations.
Congregations and their liturgical leaders have found that using the lectionary allows for the reading of a
broad range of Scripture in worship and entering into the rhythms and patterns of the liturgical year.
Furthermore, the lectionary offers a discipline for the reading and preaching of texts that one might not
choose if left to one’s own devices, and a system that allows for coordinated worship planning between
pastors, musicians, artists, and worship committees.
Readers will notice that during Ordinary Time (from the Sunday after Trinity through Christ the
King/Reign of Christ), there are two streams of readings from the Old Testament. As a way of honoring the
lectio continua pattern of reading through Scripture, many Presbyterian churches follow the semicontinuous
readings. The psalm for the day is chosen to be sung or read in response to the reading from the Hebrew
scripture. Congregations of the United Church of Christ often follow the other stream, in which the Old
Testament readings are coordinated with the Gospel reading, as they are during the major liturgical seasons.
Here, too, the psalm for the day is designed to complement the reading from the Old Testament.
The suggestions for hymns are keyed to the readings, as well to the four-fold pattern reflected in the Book
of Common Worship. The hymn charts, then, offer hymns appropriate for Gathering, Eucharist, Word (with the
various readings denoted) and Sending.
Download the Introduction to the Lectionary Aids Year B. 
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November 30 • First Sunday of Advent
December 7 • Second Sunday of Advent
December 14 • Third Sunday of Advent
December 21 • Fourth Sunday of Advent
December 24 • Christmas Eve
December 25 • Christmas Day dawn | Christmas Day
December 28 • First Sunday after Christmas
January 4 • Second Sunday after Christmas
January 6 • Epiphany of the Lord
January 11 • Baptism of the Lord
January 18 • Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
January 25 • Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
February 1 • Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
February 8 • Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
February 15 • Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
February 22 • Transfiguration of the Lord
February 25 • Ash Wednesday
March 1 • First Sunday in Lent
March 8 • Second Sunday in Lent
March 15 • Third Sunday in Lent
March 22 • Fourth Sunday in Lent
March 29 • Fifth Sunday in Lent
April 5 • Passion/Palm Sunday (Holy Week Begins)
April 9 • Maundy Thursday
April 10 • Good Friday
April 11 • Great Vigil of Easter
April 12 • Easter/Resurrection of the Lord
April 19 • Second Sunday of Easter
April 26 • Third Sunday of Easter
May 3 • Fourth Sunday of Easter
May 10 • Fifth Sunday of Easter
May 17 • Sixth Sunday of Easter
May 21 • Ascension of the Lord
May 24 • Seventh Sunday of Easter
May 31 • Pentecost
June 7 • Trinity Sunday
June 14 • Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
June 21 • Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time
June 28 • Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
July 5 • Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
July 12 • Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
July 19 • Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
July 26 • Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
August 2 • Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
August 9 • Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
August 16 • Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
August 23 • Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time
August 30 • Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
September 6 • Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
September 13 • Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
September 20 • Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
September 27 • Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
October 4 • Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
October 11 • Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
October 18 • Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time
October 25 • Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
November 1 • All Saints' Day
November 8 • Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
November 15 • Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
November 22 • Christ the King/Reign of Christ |
