A New Daily Office Lectionary

INTRODUCTION

 

Blessed Lord, who hast caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning; Grant that we may in such wise hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that by patience, and comfort of thy holy Word, we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlast­ing life, which thou hast given us in our Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.^[1]

Across North America, orthodox Anglicans have been seeking new structures and tools to help them to be able to “contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.”^[2] Among these have been a series of new prayer books (e.g. those of the Reformed Epis­copal Church in 2003 and the Anglican Mission in the Americas in 2008). It is the expectation of many that this work will be furthered through The Common Cause Partnership and (hopefully) result in an edition that will be used widely throughout a new Anglican Province in North Amer­ica. With this new prayer book must come a new daily office lectionary.

We have strayed far from our roots. The most damning evi­dence is found in Arch­bishop Thomas Cranmer’s preface to the first English Prayer Book of 1549, which places the reading of the whole Bible at the forefront of his justification for the reformation of liturgy in 16^th-century Eng­land:

The ancient fathers . . . so ordered the matter, that all the whole Bible (or the greatest part thereof) should be read over once in the year, intending thereby, that the Clergy, and especially such as were Min­is­ters of the congregation, should (by often reading, and medi­tation of God’s word) be stirred up to godliness them­selves, and be more able to exhort others by wholesome doctrine, and to confute them that were adver­saries to the truth. And further, that the people (by daily hear­ing of holy Scripture read in the Church) should continual­ly pro­fit more and more in the knowledge of God, and be the more inflamed with the love of his true religion. But these many years passed, this godly and decent order of the ancient fathers hath been so altered, broken, and neglected, by plant­­ing in uncertain stories, Leg­ends, Responds, Verses, vain repetitions, Commemora­tions, and Synodals, that com­mon­ly when any book of the Bible was begun, before three or four Chapters were read out, all the rest were unread. And in this sort the book of Isaiah was begun in Advent, and the book of Genesis in Septuagesima; but they were only begun, and never read through. After a like sort were other books of holy Scripture used.^[3]

From the above we can glean three clear priorities for the daily office lectionary:

• Read “the whole Bible (or the greatest part thereof)”
• Read it “once in the year” (i.e. don’t take two or three years)
• Read the books through as a whole (without breaks that would hinder compre­hen­sion)

THE LECTIONARY OF 1549 ^[4]

Old Testament

The first Anglican Prayer Book introduced the recitation of the whole Psalter in a 30-day pattern. Thus the Psalms are the one Old Testament book that was read through twelve times in the year. It must be noted, however, that this was actually a significant simplification of the long-held tra­di­tion in the church of reciting the whole Psalter once per week (a practice which continued in the Roman Catholic Church into the 20^th century).^[5]

Of the remaining Canonical books of the O.T., 29 are read in their entirety. The vast majority of four others are read (73% of Exodus^[6], 75% of Numbers, 90% of Esther, and 98% of Genesis^[7]). Two more are heavily curtailed (we read only 19% of Ezekiel, and 11% of Lev­iti­cus). And there are three books entirely omitted (1 & 2 Chronicles, and The Song of Sol­o­mon).

The pattern in the lectionary is to split the O.T. books between Morn­ing and Evening Prayer. For ex­ample: on January 2,^[8] Genesis chap­ter 1 is read in the morning and chapter 2 in the evening—alternating back and forth until the whole book is completed at Morning Prayer on the 27^th.

Apocrypha

Our early Anglican reformers were very fond of the Apocrypha. All told, about three quarters of the Apocrypha is assigned with the only significant omissions being 1 & 2 Maccabees and the additions to Esther.^[9] Nearly two months in the year are devoted to the Apo­crypha (54 days or 108 readings count­ing both Morning and Even­ing Prayer).

New Testament

The Pattern of the New Testament is different than the Old in that it is sequential within each office. For example, the second reading of Morning Prayer is an unbroken sequence of the Four Gospels and Acts, repeated three times in the year. Evening Prayer likewise starts with Romans and continues through the Epistles in canonical order through Jude (also repeating three times in the year).

The glaring omission of the 1549 N.T. lectionary is that it includes only two readings from the book of Revelation: chapters 1 & 22 on the feast day of St. John the Evan­gelist (December 27). Put in per­centage terms, over the course of a year one reads 300% of the first 26 books of the N.T., yet only 9% of Revelation. One wonders, if Martin Luther had put together our New Testament lectionary, would he have skipped the book of James (reportedly his least favorite)? This omission, and that of the Song of Solomon in the O.T., set a dan­gerous precedent within Anglican­ism that only balloons as time pas­ses. The books and chapters which Cranmer terms “least edifying”^[10] in 1549 change and expand with new generations and migrating mores (more on this subject below).

Holy Days

In the 1549 calendar, 11 days are given their own special set of readings which interrupt the conti­nuity of the lectionary. Thus Cran­mer adheres to his principle of greatly curtailing interruptions in the sequential read­­ing of the canonical books, while still setting the precedent that certain (few) days might be excepted from the rule.

THE PRESENT STANDARD (1871)

As the Prayer Book underwent revision, so did the lectionary. In fact, if you were to buy a “1662 Book of Common Prayer” today it is most likely that you would find it contained the lectionary ap­proved by the Church of England in 1871 within its covers.^[11] My own copy of the 1662 Book, picked up while studying in England, contains the following note behind the title page:

This edition includes the various amendments to the Book of Com­mon Prayer of 1662 that are con­tained in the following Mea­sures:

Clergy (Ordination and

Mis­cel­­lan­eous Provisions)

Mea­­sure 1964

Prayer Book (Miscellaneous Pro­­vis­ions) Measure 1965

Prayer book (Further Pro­vis­ions) 1968.^[12]

Hint: this is no longer the lection­ary of your Anglican forebears.

While the lectionary of 1871 bears a family resemblance to that of 1549, it greatly ex­pands the omis­sions, enters new realms of “polit­i­cal correctness” and also goes a long way toward undoing the sim­plicity that Cranmer et al sought to achieve in the 16^th century.

Old Testament

While approximately 83% of the O.T. was read in the 1549, by 1871 that figure is down to 68%. And it’s not just genealogies and redundancies that are omitted. The only books of the O.T. that are read in their entirety (apart from the Psalms which are still read monthly) are the shortest books—Ruth, and eight of the Minor Prophets. The editing of many books is heavy. For example, all of The Book of Joshua is read in 1549, but less than half in 1879. Isaiah remains popular (89%), but Jeremiah has fallen out of favor (46%). Ezekiel’s stock is up (from 19% to 44%), but Exodus’ is down (from 73% to 45%). These are just a few samples.

Since a careful and exhaustive treatment of the migration of pri­or­ities would be book-length, a few anecdotes will have to serve: In 1549 all of Genesis is read except chapter 10 (as noted above). By 1879 there are fourteen slices taken out, some of them more than a chapter in length. For example, 19.1-11 and 19.31-38 are omitted (the first includes the men of Sodom desiring to rape Lot and the second includes Lot’s daughters sleeping with their father while he is drunk). It is hard to escape the idea that Victorian sensibilities have guided the edit­ing of this lectionary. With that in mind, it is no surprise that the Song of Solomon is the only book of the Old Testament to be com­pletely absent from this lectionary (a carry-over from 1549).^[13]

A further anecdote reinforcing this point is the absurd omission of 2 Samuel 13.1-37 (The rape of Tamar and Amnon’s subsequent mur­der at the hands of his brother Absalom). Without this episode, the next seven chapters of 2 Sam­uel make no sense! Nor do we see the complete fulfillment of the judg­ment pronounced by Nathan the prophet in 12.6—and that’s just for starters! This is clearly a new generation grabbing hold of Cranmer’s exception and elimi­nat­ing passages that are “least edi­fying”—only there are apparently more unedifying scriptures by 1871 than there were in 1549. Any guesses as to how this trend continues into the present cen­tury?

Another snippet: There is only one passage of 1 Chronicles in the lectionary — 29.10-30 (in 1549 there were none) — one may wonder why? It turns out that this is substituted in place of 1 Kings 1.28-chapter 2. So we still read of David’s death and Solomon’s crown­ing, but we miss the messy details concerning Solomon’s ex­e­cu­tion of his political enemies.

A final tidbit to give you a picture of the kind of editing found in this lectionary is this fact: 25% of the book of Proverbs is omitted. How random is that? There is a whole school of devotion, widely prac­ticed today, that reads all of Pro­verbs every month. Can you find 25% of Proverbs that’s not worth reading?

Apocrypha

The Apocrypha is still read in the 1871 lectionary, but it has clearly fallen in priority. While most of the books of the Apocrypha were read in 1549 (accounting for 74% of the potential chapters), by 1871 only portions of three books are read—Ecclesiasticus, Wisdom & Baruch (22% of the total). The amount of time devoted to the Apocrypha is reduced from 54 days (108 read­ings) in 1549 to 21 days (42 read­ings) in 1871.

New Testament

There are a few significant changes to the New Testament portion of the lectionary—mostly, in my opin­ion, for the better. The first change is that rather than reading the Gospels and Acts only in Morning Prayer and Epistles in the Evening. The Bible is read from Matthew – Jude in both Morning and Evening Prayer. Also, most of the Book of Revelation is now included (but read only once compared to the other 26 books of the N.T. which are read twice).

There are three and a half chap­ters of the New Testament which are never read: Revelation 9, 13 & 17; and Matthew 1.1-17 (The Gen­e­alogy of Christ). Apparently Rev­ela­tion is now mostly, but not entirely, edifying; but the 17 verses which begin the New Testament (in Matthew’s Gospel) have somehow become too much to bear.

Holy Days

Here the 1871 lectionary makes a serious attempt to undo the good Cranmer and his allies did in sim­pli­fying the lectionary. From 11 Holy Days in 1549 we now have 22 interrupting the flow of readings. But that does not even count an additional 12 floating Holy Days as­sign­ed for Holy Week, Easter Week, Ascension & Whitsun Week. So not only are there 22 days in­serted in the cycle, but the addi­tional 12 actually bump the set read­ings so that they will not be read at all that year. This yields a total of more than a month of in­ter­ruptions in the 1871 lectionary.

It gets worse. There is also an en­tirely different schedule of “Les­sons Proper For Sundays.”^[14] I’m not sure how commonly it was employed, but if this schedule is used as well, this would substitute for the Old Testament lesson for both Morning and Evening Prayer the first day of every week. It is no small leap from there to what we have in many of our modern lec­tion­aries — a completely different set of lessons for Sunday which seriously compromise the ability to read and comprehend Books of the Bible as a whole through the Daily Office.^[15]

MODERN LECTIONARIES

The most damaging feature of many modern Anglican lection­aries is not the passages they omit (as egregious as those omissions are), but rather that they follow the liturgical year! The abandonment of the calendar-year lectionary was accomp­lished in the American church with the introduction of the 1928 Prayer Book (and con­tin­ues to this day). You will find there is a lot of company on this point among North American Anglicans. For example, the daily office lec­tion­ary in the new REC Prayer Book (2003) follows the liturgical year as well as that of the “tra­di­tional” Prayer Book of the Anglican Church of Canada (1962).

While many modern lectionaries continue (and expand upon) the practice of selective scripture omis­sion according to prevail­ing “theo­logical correctness” and mores^[16], the liturgical year calen­dar makes it impossible to either read “the whole Bible (or the greatest part thereof) . . . once in the year”^[17] or to avoid dropping entire books of the Bible in the middle never to return to them in the course of the year.

For an illustration, let’s look at the 1943 lectionary that is currently published in the American “1928 Prayer Book”. A calendar study of the first thirty-five years of the twenty-first century yielded the fol­lowing results regarding the fre­quency of certain weeks appearing:

Sundays After Epiphany
1st	100%
2nd	97%
3rd	77%
4th	57%
5th	34%
6th	3%

What scriptures do you assign to the fourth week after Epiphany (to be read only half the time); how about the 5^th week (1/3 of the time) or the 6^th (almost never)?

You have a similar result with the Sundays after Trinity (or Christ­mas). In addition to the uncer­tainty regarding weeks actually ap­pear­­ing in a particular calendar year, you have the jolt of reading one set of scriptures, then drop­ping them completely when a trans­i­tion is made from one season to another (Epiphany to pre-Lent; Trinity to pre-Advent, etc. . . .). We have returned to the state of affairs that Cranmer decried in 1549 when he wrote:

[T]hat commonly when any book of the Bible was begun, before three or four Chapters were read out, all the rest were unread. And in this sort the book of Isaiah was begun in Advent, and the book of Gen­e­sis in Septuagesima; but they were only begun, and never read through. After a like sort were other books of holy Scrip­ture used.^[18]

In an effort to put together an effective liturgical-year lectionary, you might attempt to put “less important” books in the infre­quently occurring weeks (e.g. books of the Apocrypha), but you run out of regularly occurring weeks before you can even come close to covering the canonical scrip­tures in any complete or sen­sible fashion.

A LECTIONARY FOR A RENEWED NORTH AMERICAN ANGLICANISM

The Goal of this lectionary is to honor Cranmer’s original priorities without making arbitrary judg­ments as to which of the canonical scriptures are edifying and which are not. For according to God’s own word: “All scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equip­­ped for every good work.”^[19]

The guiding principles in the orga­nization of this lectionary are as follows:

• Read the whole Bible
• Read the books in a some­what chronological order
• Include separate readings for the major Holy Days of the Christian year
• Provide flexibility for a one-year or two-year cycle

Old Testament

One or two Psalms are appointed for both Morning and Even­ing Prayer. The Psalter is recited through five times per year if both offices are read. However, they are spaced in such a way that even if you divide the lectionary into a two-year cycle (reading the lessons for Morning Prayer in year-1 and Evening Prayer in year-2) you will still read the entire Psalter each year—more than twice.

In a break from early Anglican lectionaries, the remaining books of the Old Testament are not split between Morning and Evening Prayer. For example, you will read the whole of Genesis in Morning Prayer alone, etc. . . . As a whole, the O.T. readings of Morning Prayer primarily consist of the Historical books, with the addition of a few of the smaller prophetic books later in the year.

The O.T. readings of evening Prayer are primarily from the Wisdom and Prophetic writings, although you will also find Deu­teronomy, 1 & 2 Chronicles as well as 1 Maccabees. This is in order to provide a portion of both the Law and the story of the Davidic king­dom in both offices for those who wish to divide the readings into a two-year cycle.

Apocrypha

This lectionary maintains the tra­dition of reading a portion of the Apocrypha (though not at the ex­pense of any of the canonical books of the Old Testament). Other than a few passages read on certain Holy Days (and February 29), the principle Apocryphal book included is the whole of 1 Mac­cabees. This is read at the end of the year in Evening Prayer (or year-2 of a two-year cycle) in order to provide an historical bridge be­tween the Old and New Test­a­ments.

New Testament

The entire New Testament is read in both offices. The readings are staggered so that, for the most part, when a Gospel is being read in one office, an Epistle is being read in the other.

Holy Days

23 days out of the year (24 in leap years) have lessons apart from the continuous reading of the Bible. This is to allow for special med­i­ta­tion on the chief Christian Holi­days of the year. They are:

• The Epiphany (January 6^th)
• Ash Wednesday (anywhere from February 4 – March 10)
• Holy Week (The Sunday – Saturday preceding Easter which can fall anywhere from March 22-April 25)
• Easter Week (7 days cel­e­brating Jesus’ Resur­rec­tion)
• The Ascension (anywhere from April 30 – June 3 depen­ding on the date of Easter)
• The Feast of Pentecost and its Eve (Sat – Sun, 9 days after the Ascension)
• Trinity Sunday (one week after Pentecost)
• All Saints’ Day (November 1)
• Christmas Eve and Day (December 24-25)

The Holy Days in italics above float from year to year. They are inclu­ded in the follow­ing lectionary on the average date of their occur­rence.

As it is assumed that Christians will be worshipping in community on the major Feast and Fast Days of the year, the Holy Day readings in this lectionary are intended to supplement the primary readings for the day. The appendix which follows the lectionary indicates what are to be considered the chief readings for the day and should be substi­tuted for those in the lec­tion­ary if the reader is unable to attend public worship on any of those days.

 

JANUARY

		MORNING PRAYER					EVENING PRAYER
			(or Year One)					(or Year Two)
	Psalm	Old Testament		New Testament		Psalm	Old Testament		New Testament
1	1-2	Gen	1.1-2.3	Mark	1.1-20	3-4	Job	1-2.10	1 Thess	1
2	5	Gen	2.4-end	Mark	1.21-end	6	Job	2.11-ch. 3	1 Thess	2.1-16
3	7	Gen	3	Mark	2.1-22	8	Job	4-5	1 Thess	2.17-ch. 3
4	9	Gen	4-5	Mark	2.23-3.12	10	Job	6-7	1 Thess	4
5	11-12	Gen	6-7	Mark	3.13-end	13-14	Job	8	1 Thess	5
Epiphany	46	Isa	52.7-10	Rom	15.8-21	29	Isa	49.1-7	Matt	12.15-21
7	15-16	Gen	8.1-9.17	Mark	4.1-20	17	Job	9-10	2 Thess	1
8	18	Gen	9.18-ch. 10	Mark	4.21-end	19	Job	11-12	2 Thess	2
9	20	Gen	11	Mark	5.1-20	21	Job	13-14	2 Thess	3
10	22	Gen	12-13	Mark	5.21-6.6	23	Job	15	Gal	1
11	24	Gen	14	Mark	6.7-29	25	Job	16-17	Gal	2
12	26	Gen	15-16	Mark	6.30-end	27	Job	18-19	Gal	3
13	28	Gen	17	Mark	7.1-23	29	Job	20	Gal	4
14	30	Gen	18	Mark	7.24-8.10	31	Job	21	Gal	5
15	32	Gen	19	Mark	8.11-9.1	33	Job	22	Gal	6
16	34	Gen	20.1-21.21	Mark	9.2-29	35	Job	23-24	1 Cor	1
17	36	Gen	21.22-ch. 22	Mark	9.30-end	37	Job	25-27	1 Cor	2
18	38	Gen	23	Mark	10.1-31	39	Job	28	1 Cor	3
19	40	Gen	24.1-28	Mark	10.32-end	41	Job	29-30	1 Cor	4
20	42	Gen	24.29-end	Mark	11.1-26	43	Job	31	1 Cor	5
21	44	Gen	25	Mark	11.27-12.17	45	Job	32-33	1 Cor	6
22	46	Gen	26	Mark	12.18-end	47	Job	34-35	1 Cor	7.1-24
23	48	Gen	27	Mark	13	49	Job	36-37	1 Cor	7.25-end
24	50	Gen	28	Mark	14.1-31	51	Job	38	1 Cor	8
25	52	Gen	29	Mark	14.32-52	53-54	Job	39-40	1 Cor	9
26	55	Gen	30	Mark	14.53-15.15	56	Job	41-42	1 Cor	10
27	57	Gen	31	Mark	15.16-end	58	Prov	1	1 Cor	11
28	59	Gen	32-33	Mark	16	60	Prov	2.1-3.12	1 Cor	12
29	61	Gen	34	2 Cor	1.1-2.4	62	Prov	3.13-ch. 4	1 Cor	13
30	63	Gen	35	2 Cor	2.5-ch. 3	64	Prov	5.1-6.19	1 Cor	14
31	65	Gen	36	2 Cor	4	66-67	Prov	6.20-ch. 7	1 Cor	15.1-34

FEBRUARY

		MORNING PRAYER						EVENING PRAYER
			(or Year One)						(or Year Two)
	Psalm	Old Testament		New Testament			Psalm	Old Testament		New Testament
1	68	Gen	37	2 Cor	5.1-6.2		69	Prov	8	1 Cor	15.35-end
2	70	Gen	38	2 Cor	6.3-7.1		71	Prov	9-10	1 Cor	16
3	72	Gen	39	2 Cor	7.2-end		73	Prov	11	Luke	1.1-25
4	74	Gen	40	2 Cor	8		75	Prov	12-13	Luke	1.26-56
5	76	Gen	41	2 Cor	9		77	Prov	14	Luke	1.57-end
6	78.1-39	Gen	42	2 Cor	10		78.40-end	Prov	15	Luke	2.1-21
7	79	Gen	43	2 Cor	11		80	Prov	16	Luke	2.22-end
8	81	Gen	44	2 Cor	12		82	Prov	17-18	Luke	3.1-22
9	83	Gen	45	2 Cor	13		84	Prov	19	Luke	3.23-4.13
10	85	Gen	46	Rom	1		86	Prov	20	Luke	4.14-37
11	87	Gen	47	Rom	2		88	Prov	21.1-22.16	Luke	4.38-5.16
12	89	Gen	48	Rom	3		90	Prov	22.17-ch. 23	Luke	5.17-end
13	91	Gen	49	Rom	4		92-93	Prov	24	Luke	6.1-19
14	94	Gen	50	Rom	5		95	Prov	25-26	Luke	6.20-end
15	96	Exod	1.1-2.10	Rom	6		97	Prov	27	Luke	7.1-17
16	98	Exod	2.11-ch. 3	Rom	7		99	Prov	28	Luke	7.18-35
17	100-101	Exod	4	Rom	8.1-17		102	Prov	29	Luke	7.36-end
18	103	Exod	5.1-6.13	Rom	8.18-end		104	Prov	30	Luke	8.1-25
19	105	Exod	6.14-ch. 7	Rom	9.1-29		106	Prov	31	Luke	8.26-end
20	107	Exod	8	Rom	9.30-ch. 10		108	Eccl	1-2	Luke	9.1-27
Ash Wed	6, 38	Isa	58	Heb	12.1-17		143	Jonah	3-4	Luke	15.11-end
22	109	Exod	9	Rom	11		110-111	Eccl	3-4	Luke	9.28-end
23	112-113	Exod	10-11	Rom	12		114-115	Eccl	5-6	Luke	10.1-24
24	116-117	Exod	12	Rom	13		118	Eccl	7-8	Luke	10.25-end
25	119.1-16	Exod	13	Rom	14		119.17-40	Eccl	9-10	Luke	11.1-28
26	119.41-64	Exod	14	Rom	15		119.65-88	Eccl	11-12	Luke	11.29-end
27	119.89-104	Exod	15	Rom	16		119.105-128	Song	1.1-2.7	Luke	12.1-21
28	119.129-152	Exod	16	Philem	All		119.153-end	Song	2.8-ch. 3	Luke	12.22-48
29	1	Wisd	13.1-9	Susanna			127	Pr. of Azariah		Tobit	8.4-8

MARCH

		MORNING PRAYER					EVENING PRAYER
			(or Year One)					(or Year Two)
	Psalm	Old Testament		New Testament		Psalm	Old Testament		New Testament
1	120-121	Exod	17-18	Col	1.1-23	122-123	Song	4.1-5.1	Luke	12.49-13.9
2	124-125	Exod	19	Col	1.24-ch. 2	126-127	Song	5.2-ch. 6	Luke	13.10-end
3	128-129	Exod	20	Col	3.1-4.1	130-131	Song	7-8	Luke	14.1-24
4	132	Exod	21	Col	4.2-end	133-134	Jonah	1-2	Luke	14.25-15.10
5	135	Exod	22	Eph	1	136	Jonah	3-4	Luke	15.11-end
6	137	Exod	23	Eph	2	138	Amos	1-2	Luke	16.1-18
7	139	Exod	24.1-25.30	Eph	3	140	Amos	3-4	Luke	16.19-17.10
8	141	Exod	25.31-ch. 26	Eph	4	142	Amos	5	Luke	17.11-end
9	143	Exod	27	Eph	5	144	Amos	6	Luke	18.1-17
10	145	Exod	28	Eph	6	146	Amos	7-8	Luke	18.18-end
11	147	Exod	29	Phil	1	148	Amos	9	Luke	19.1-27
12	149-150	Exod	30	Phil	2	1-2	Hosea	1-2	Luke	19.28-end
13	3-4	Exod	31	Phil	3.1-4.1	5	Hosea	3-4	Luke	20.1-18
14	6	Exod	32	Phil	4.2-end	7	Hosea	5.1-6.10	Luke	20.19-end
15	8	Exod	33	1 Tim	1	9	Hosea	6.11-ch. 8	Luke	21.1-19
16	10	Exod	34	1 Tim	2	11-12	Hosea	9-10	Luke	21.20-end
17	13-14	Exod	35	1 Tim	3	15-16	Hosea	11-12	Luke	22.1-23
18	17	Exod	36	1 Tim	4	18	Hosea	13-14	Luke	22.24-38
19	19	Exod	37	1 Tim	5.1-6.2	20	Micah	1	Luke	22.39-end
20	21	Exod	38	1 Tim	6.3-end	22	Micah	2-3	Luke	23.1-25
21	23	Exod	39	2 Tim	1	24	Micah	4.1-5.6	Luke	23.26-end
22	25	Exod	40	2 Tim	2	26	Micah	5.7-ch. 6	Luke	24.1-35
23	27	Lev	1-2	2 Tim	3	28	Micah	7	Luke	24.36-end
24	29	Lev	3.1-4.21	2 Tim	4	30	Isaiah	1	Acts	1
25	31	Lev	4.22-ch. 5	Titus	1	32	Isaiah	2	Acts	2.1-21
26	33	Lev	6	Titus	2-3	34	Isaiah	3-4	Acts	2.22-end
27	35	Lev	7	Matt	1	36	Isaiah	5	Acts	3
28	37	Lev	8	Matt	2	38	Isaiah	6.1-7.9	Acts	4.1-31
29	39	Lev	9	Matt	3	40	Isaiah	7.10-ch. 8	Acts	4.32-5.11
30	41	Lev	10	Matt	4.1-17	42	Isaiah	9	Acts	5.12-end
31	43	Lev	11	Matt	4.18-5.12	44	Isaiah	10	Acts	6

APRIL

		MORNING PRAYER						EVENINGPRAYER
				(or Year One)					(or Year Two)
	Psalm	Old Testament			New Testament		Psalm	Old Testament		New Testament
Palm Sun	24	Zech		9.9-12	Luke	19.29-40	77	Lam	1	John	14
Mon	71	Isa		42.1-7	Matt	21.12-end	42	Lam	2	John	15
Tue	12	Isa		49.1-7	Matt	22	94	Lam	3	John	16
Wed	55	Isa		50.4-end	Matt	23	74	Lam	4	John	17
Maun Thur	102	Jer		31.31-34	Matt	26.1-25	142	Lam	5	Luke	22.14-30
Good Fri	54	Wisd		1.16-2.1;	John	18	69	Zech	12.9-13.1,	I Pet	2.11-end
				2.12-24					13.7-end
Holy Sat	88	Pr. of Manasseh			1 Pet	3.17-21	27	Job	19.21-27a	Rom	6.3-11
Easter Sun	149-150	Exod	12.1-14		Luke	24.1-12	113	Isa	51.9-11	Mark	16
Mon	98	Exod	13.3-16		Luke	24.13-49	66	Isa	12	John	20
Tue	103	Exod	15.1-21		Matt	28	111	Isa	30.18-21	John	21
Wed	97	Ezek	37.1-14		Acts	2.22-36	148	Isa	61	I Cor	15.1-11
Thur	146	Jer	31.10-14		Acts	3.12-4.12	147	Isa	25.1-9	1 Cor	15.12-34
Fri	136	Zeph	3.14-end		Acts	13.26-41	114	Isa	65.17-end	I Cor	15.35-end
Sat	145	Dan	12		Phil	3.7-end	104	Song	2.10-end	Rev	5
15	45	Lev	12.1-13.28		Matt	5.13-32	46	Isaiah	11-12	Acts	7.1-43
16	47	Lev	13.29-end		Matt	5.33-6.4	48	Isaiah	13	Acts	7.44-end
17	49	Lev	14.1-32		Matt	6.5-24	50	Isaiah	14	Acts	8.1-25
18	51	Lev	14.33-end		Matt	6.25-7.14	52	Isaiah	15-16	Acts	8.26-end
19	53-54	Lev	15		Matt	7.15-8.4	55	Isaiah	17-18	Acts	9.1-22
20	56	Lev	16		Matt	8.5-end	57	Isaiah	19	Acts	9.23-end
21	58	Lev	17		Matt	9.1-17	59	Isaiah	20-21	Acts	10
22	60	Lev	18		Matt	9.18-end	61	Isaiah	22	Acts	11
23	62	Lev	19		Matt	10	63	Isaiah	23	Acts	12
24	64	Lev	20		Matt	11	65	Isaiah	24	Acts	13.1-12
25	66-67	Lev	21		Matt	12.1-21	68	Isaiah	25-26	Acts	13.13-end
26	69	Lev	22		Matt	12.22-end	70	Isaiah	27	Acts	14
27	71	Lev	23		Matt	13.1-23	72	Isaiah	28	Acts	15.1-35
28	73	Lev	24.1-25.7		Matt	13.24-43	74	Isaiah	29	Acts	15.36-16.15
29	75	Lev	25.8-end		Matt	13.44-end	76	Isaiah	30	Acts	16.16-end
30	77	Lev	26		Matt	14	78.1-39	Isaiah	31-32	Acts	17.1-15

MAY

		MORNING PRAYER					EVENING PRAYER
			(or Year One)					(or Year Two)
	Psalm	Old Testament		New Testament		Psalm	Old Testament		New Testament
1	78.40-end	Lev	27	Matt	15.1-31	79	Isaiah	33	Acts	17.16-end
2	80	Num	1	Matt	15.32-16.12	81	Isaiah	34-35	Acts	18
3	82	Num	2	Matt	16.13-end	83	Isaiah	36.1-37.13	Acts	19.1-20
4	84	Num	3	Matt	17	85	Isaiah	37.14-end	Acts	19.21-end
5	86	Num	4	Matt	18.1-14	87	Isaiah	38-39	Acts	20.1-16
6	88	Num	5	Matt	18.15-end	89	Isaiah	40	Acts	20.17-end
7	90	Num	6	Matt	19	91	Isaiah	41	Acts	21.1-16
8	92-93	Num	7.1-41	Matt	20	94	Isaiah	42	Acts	21.17-36
9	95	Num	7.42-end	Matt	21.1-22	96	Isaiah	43	Acts	21.37-22.29
10	97	Num	8	Matt	21.23-end	98	Isaiah	44	Acts	22.30-23.11
11	99	Num	9	Matt	22.1-22	100-101	Isaiah	45	Acts	23.12-end
12	102	Num	10	Matt	22.23-end	103	Isaiah	46	Acts	24
13	104	Num	11	Matt	23.1-36	105	Isaiah	47	Acts	25
14	106	Num	12-13	Matt	23.37-24.14	107	Isaiah	48	Acts	26
15	108	Num	14	Matt	24.15-end	109	Isaiah	49	Acts	27.1-12
16	110-111	Num	15	Matt	25.1-30	112-113	Isaiah	50	Acts	27.13-end
Ascension	8	Ezek	1	Eph	1.15-end	24	2 Kgs	2.1-15	Heb	4.14-5.10
18	114-115	Num	16	Matt	25.31-end	116-117	Isaiah	51	Acts	28.1-16
19	118	Num	17	Matt	26.1-35	119.1-16	Isaiah	52-53	Acts	28.17-end
20	119.17-40	Num	18	Matt	26.36-56	119.41-64	Isaiah	54	James	1
21	119.65-88	Num	19	Matt	26.57-end	119.89-104	Isaiah	55-56	James	2
22	119.105-128	Num	20	Matt	27.1-26	119.129-152	Isaiah	57	James	3
23	119.153-end	Num	21	Matt	27.27-56	120-121	Isaiah	58	James	4
24	122-123	Num	22	Matt	27.57-ch. 28	124-125	Isaiah	59	James	5
25	126-127	Num	23	Heb	1	128-129	Isaiah	60	1 Pet	1
Eve	48	Joel	2.21-end	Rom	8	33	Ezek	36.22-28	1 Jn	4.1-14
Pentecost	133	Ezek	47.1-12	John	7.37-39	145	Acts	10.34-end	Gal	5.16-end
28	130-131	Num	24	Heb	2	132	Isaiah	61	1 Pet	2
29	133-134	Num	25.1-26.22	Heb	3	135	Isaiah	62	1 Pet	3
30	136	Num	26.23-end	Heb	4.1-13	137	Isaiah	63.1-14	1 Pet	4
31	138	Num	27	Heb	4.14-5.10	139	Isaiah	63.15-ch. 64	1 Pet	5

JUNE

		MORNING PRAYER					EVENING PRAYER
			(or Year One)					(or Year Two)
	Psalm	Old Testament		New Testament		Psalm	Old Testament		New Testament
1	140	Num	28	Heb	5.11-ch. 6	141	Isaiah	65.1-16	2 Pet	1
2	142	Num	29	Heb	7	143	Isaiah	65.17-66.6	2 Pet	2
Trinity Sun	112	Gen	18.1-16	John	1.1-14,	100	Num	6.22-end	Eph	3.14-end
					29-34
4	144	Num	30	Heb	8	145	Isaiah	66.7-end	2 Pet	3
5	146	Num	31	Heb	9	147	Nah	1	Jude	All
6	148	Num	32	Heb	10.1-18	149-150	Nah	2-3	John	1.1-28
7	1-2	Num	33	Heb	10.19-end	3-4	Zeph	1	John	1.29-end
8	5	Num	34	Heb	11.1-12.2	6	Zeph	2	John	2
9	7	Num	35	Heb	12.3-end	8	Zeph	3	John	3.1-21
10	9	Num	36	Heb	13	10	Deut	1	John	3.22-end
11	11-12	Josh	1	1 John	1.1-2.6	13-14	Deut	2	John	4.1-42
12	15-16	Josh	2	1 John	2.7-27	17	Deut	3	John	4.43-5.18
13	18	Josh	3	1 John	2.28-ch. 3	19	Deut	4.1-31	John	5.19-end
14	20	Josh	4.1-5.12	1 John	4	21	Deut	4.32-end	John	6.1-21
15	22	Josh	5.13-ch. 6	1 John	5	23	Deut	5	John	6.22-end
16	24	Josh	7	2 John	all	25	Deut	6	John	7.1-24
17	26	Josh	8	3 John	all	27	Deut	7	John	7.25-end
18	28	Josh	9	Rev	1	29	Deut	8	John	8.1-30
19	30	Josh	10.1-28	Rev	2.1-17	31	Deut	9	John	8.31-end
20	32	Josh	10.29-ch. 11	Rev	2.18-3.6	33	Deut	10	John	9
21	34	Josh	12.1-13.7	Rev	3.7-end	35	Deut	11	John	10.1-21
22	36	Josh	13.8-ch. 14	Rev	4	37	Deut	12	John	10.22-end
23	38	Josh	15	Rev	5	39	Deut	13.1-14.21	John	11.1-44
24	40	Josh	16-17	Rev	6	41	Deut	14.22-ch. 15	John	11.45-12.11
25	42	Josh	18	Rev	7	43	Deut	16.1-17.7	John	12.12-36a
26	44	Josh	19	Rev	8	45	Deut	17.8-ch. 18	John	12.36b-end
27	46	Josh	20	Rev	9	47	Deut	19-20	John	13.1-20
28	48	Josh	21	Rev	10	49	Deut	21	John	13.21-end
29	50	Josh	22	Rev	11	51	Deut	22	John	14
30	52	Josh	23	Rev	12	53-54	Deut	23	John	15.1-17

JULY

		MORNING PRAYER					EVENING PRAYER
			(or Year One)					(or Year Two)
	Psalm	Old Testament		New Testament		Psalm	Old Testament		New Testament
1	55	Josh	24	Rev	13	56	Deut	24.1-25.10	John	15.18-16.15
2	57	Judg	1	Rev	14	58	Deut	25.11-ch. 26	John	16.16-end
3	59	Judg	2	Rev	15	60	Deut	27	John	17
4	61	Judg	3	Rev	16	62	Deut	28.1-35	John	18.1-27
5	63	Judg	4	Rev	17	64	Deut	28.36-end	John	18.28-end
6	65	Judg	5	Rev	18	66-67	Deut	29	John	19.1-16a
7	68	Judg	6.1-35	Rev	19	69	Deut	30	John	19.16b-end
8	70	Judg	6.36-ch. 7	Rev	20	71	Deut	31.1-29	John	20.1-18
9	72	Judg	8	Rev	21	73	Deut	31.30-32.27	John	20.19-end
10	74	Judg	9.1-21	Rev	22	75	Deut	32.28-end	John	21
11	76	Judg	9.22-end	1 Thess	1	77	Deut	33	Mark	1.1-20
12	78.1-39	Judg	10	1 Thess	2.1-16	78.40-end	Deut	34	Mark	1.21-end
13	79	Judg	11	1 Thess	2.17-ch. 3	80	Hab	1.1-2.1	Mark	2.1-22
14	81	Judg	12	1 Thess	4	82	Hab	2.2-end	Mark	2.23-3.12
15	83	Judg	13	1 Thess	5	84	Hab	3	Mark	3.13-end
16	85	Judg	14	2 Thess	1	86	Jer	1	Mark	4.1-20
17	87	Judg	15	2 Thess	2	88	Jer	2	Mark	4.21-end
18	89	Judg	16	2 Thess	3	90	Jer	3	Mark	5.1-20
19	91	Judg	17-18	Gal	1	92-93	Jer	4	Mark	5.21-6.6
20	94	Judg	19	Gal	2	95	Jer	5	Mark	6.7-29
21	96	Judg	20	Gal	3	97	Jer	6	Mark	6.30-end
22	98	Judg	21	Gal	4	99	Jer	7.1-8.3	Mark	7.1-23
23	100-101	Ruth	1	Gal	5	102	Jer	8.4-17	Mark	7.24-8.10
24	103	Ruth	2	Gal	6	104	Jer	8.18-ch. 9	Mark	8.11-9.1
25	105	Ruth	3-4	1 Cor	1	106	Jer	10	Mark	9.2-29
26	107	1 Sam	1.1-2.11	1 Cor	2	108	Jer	11	Mark	9.30-end
27	109	1 Sam	2.12-end	1 Cor	3	110-111	Jer	12	Mark	10.1-31
28	112-113	1 Sam	3	1 Cor	4	114-115	Jer	13	Mark	10.32-end
29	116-117	1 Sam	4-5	1 Cor	5	118	Jer	14	Mark	11.1-26
30	119.1-16	1 Sam	6-7.2	1 Cor	6	119.17-40	Jer	15	Mark	11.27-12.17
31	119.41-64	1 Sam	7.3-ch. 8	1 Cor	7.1-24	119.65-88	Jer	16	Mark	12.18-end

AUGUST

		MORNING PRAYER					EVENING PRAYER
			(or Year One)					(or Year Two)
	Psalm	Old Testament		New Testament		Psalm	Old Testament		New Testament
1	119.89-104	1 Sam	9	1 Cor	7.25-end	119.105-128	Jer	17	Mark	13
2	119.129-152	1 Sam	10	1 Cor	8	119.153-end	Jer	18	Mark	14.1-31
3	120-121	1 Sam	11	1 Cor	9	122-123	Jer	19	Mark	14.32-52
4	124-125	1 Sam	12	1 Cor	10	126-127	Jer	20-21	Mark	14.53-15.15
5	128-129	1 Sam	13	1 Cor	11	130-131	Jer	22	Mark	15.16-end
6	132	1 Sam	14.1-23	1 Cor	12	133-134	Jer	23	Mark	16
7	135	1 Sam	14.24-end	1 Cor	13	136	Jer	24	2 Cor	1.1-2.4
8	137	1 Sam	15	1 Cor	14	138	Jer	25	2 Cor	2.5-ch. 3
9	139	1 Sam	16	1 Cor	15.1-34	140	Jer	26	2 Cor	4
10	141	1 Sam	17.1-30	1 Cor	15.35-end	142	Jer	27-28	2 Cor	5.1-6.2
11	143	1 Sam	17.31-end	1 Cor	16	144	Jer	29	2 Cor	6.3-7.1
12	145	1 Sam	18	Luke	1.1-25	146	Jer	30	2 Cor	7.2-end
13	147	1 Sam	19	Luke	1.26-56	148	Jer	31	2 Cor	8
14	149-150	1 Sam	20	Luke	1.57-end	1-2	Jer	32	2 Cor	9
15	3-4	1 Sam	21-22	Luke	2.1-21	5	Jer	33	2 Cor	10
16	6	1 Sam	23	Luke	2.22-end	7	Jer	34	2 Cor	11
17	8	1 Sam	24	Luke	3.1-22	9	Jer	35	2 Cor	12
18	10	1 Sam	25	Luke	3.23-4.13	11-12	Jer	36	2 Cor	13
19	13-14	1 Sam	26-27	Luke	4.14-37	15-16	Jer	37	Rom	1
20	17	1 Sam	28	Luke	4.38-5.16	18	Jer	38	Rom	2
21	19	1 Sam	29.1-30.15	Luke	5.17-end	20	Jer	39.1-40.6	Rom	3
22	21	1 Sam	30.16-ch. 31	Luke	6.1-19	22	Jer	40.7-ch. 41	Rom	4
23	23	2 Sam	1	Luke	6.20-end	24	Jer	42-43	Rom	5
24	25	2 Sam	2	Luke	7.1-17	26	Jer	44	Rom	6
25	27	2 Sam	3	Luke	7.18-35	28	Jer	45-46	Rom	7
26	29	2 Sam	4.1-5.16	Luke	7.36-end	30	Jer	47-48.10	Rom	8.1-17
27	31	2 Sam	5.17-ch. 6	Luke	8.1-25	32	Jer	48.11-end	Rom	8.18-end
28	33	2 Sam	7	Luke	8.26-end	34	Jer	49.1-22	Rom	9.1-29
29	35	2 Sam	8-9	Luke	9.1-27	36	Jer	49.23-end	Rom	9.30-ch. 10
30	37	2 Sam	10	Luke	9.28-end	38	Jer	50.1-20	Rom	11
31	39	2 Sam	11	Luke	10.1-24	40	Jer	50.21-end	Rom	12

SEPTEMBER

		MORNING PRAYER					EVENING PRAYER
			(or Year One)					(or Year Two)
	Psalm	Old Testament		New Testament		Psalm	Old Testament		New Testament
1	41	2 Sam	12	Luke	10.25-end	42	Jer	51.1-23	Rom	13
2	43	2 Sam	13	Luke	11.1-28	44	Jer	51.24-40	Rom	14
3	45	2 Sam	14	Luke	11.29-end	46	Jer	51.41-end	Rom	15
4	47	2 Sam	15	Luke	12.1-21	48	Jer	52	Rom	16
5	49	2 Sam	16	Luke	12.22-48	50	Ob	all	Philem	All
6	51	2 Sam	17	Luke	12.49-13.9	52	Ezek	1	Col	1.1-23
7	53-54	2 Sam	18.1-18	Luke	13.10-end	55	Ezek	2-3	Col	1.24-ch. 2
8	56	2 Sam	18.19-19.15	Luke	14.1-24	57	Ezek	4-5	Col	3.1-4.1
9	58	2 Sam	19.16-end	Luke	14.25-15.10	59	Ezek	6-7	Col	4.2-end
10	60	2 Sam	20	Luke	15.11-end	61	Ezek	8-9	Eph	1
11	62	2 Sam	21	Luke	16.1-18	63	Ezek	10.1-11.13	Eph	2
12	64	2 Sam	22.1-20	Luke	16.19-17.10	65	Ezek	11.14-ch. 12	Eph	3
13	66-67	2 Sam	22.21-end	Luke	17.11-end	68	Ezek	13	Eph	4
14	69	2 Sam	23	Luke	18.1-17	70	Ezek	14-15	Eph	5
15	71	2 Sam	24	Luke	18.18-end	72	Ezek	16	Eph	6
16	73	1 Kgs	1.1-27	Luke	19.1-27	74	Ezek	17	Phil	1
17	75	1 Kgs	1.28-2.12	Luke	19.28-end	76	Ezek	18	Phil	2
18	77	1 Kgs	2.13-end	Luke	20.1-18	78.1-39	Ezek	19	Phil	3.1-4.1
19	78.40-end	1 Kgs	3	Luke	20.19-end	79	Ezek	20.1-32	Phil	4.2-end
20	80	1 Kgs	4	Luke	21.1-19	81	Ezek	20.33-end	1 Tim	1
21	82	1 Kgs	5	Luke	21.20-end	83	Ezek	21	1 Tim	2
22	84	1 Kgs	6	Luke	22.1-23	85	Ezek	22	1 Tim	3
23	86	1 Kgs	7.1-26	Luke	22.24-38	87	Ezek	23	1 Tim	4
24	88	1 Kgs	7.27-end	Luke	22.39-end	89	Ezek	24	1 Tim	5.1-6.2
25	90	1 Kgs	8.1-21	Luke	23.1-25	91	Ezek	25-26	1 Tim	6.3-end
26	92-93	1 Kgs	8.22-end	Luke	23.26-end	94	Ezek	27	2 Tim	1
27	95	1 Kgs	9	Luke	24.1-35	96	Ezek	28	2 Tim	2
28	97	1 Kgs	10	Luke	24.36-end	98	Ezek	29	2 Tim	3
29	99	1 Kgs	11	Acts	1	100-101	Ezek	30	2 Tim	4
30	102	1 Kgs	12	Acts	2.1-21	103	Ezek	31	Titus	1

OCTOBER

		MORNING PRAYER					EVENING PRAYER
			(or Year One)					(or Year Two)
	Psalm	Old Testament		New Testament		Psalm	Old Testament		New Testament
1	104	1 Kgs	13	Acts	2.22-end	105	Ezek	32	Titus	2-3
2	106	1 Kgs	14	Acts	3	107	Ezek	33	Matt	1
3	108	1 Kgs	15.1-32	Acts	4.1-31	109	Ezek	34	Matt	2
4	110-111	1 Kgs	15.33-16.28	Acts	4.32-5.11	112-113	Ezek	35.1-36.21	Matt	3
5	114-115	1 Kgs	16.29-ch. 17	Acts	5.12-end	116-117	Ezek	36.22-37.14	Matt	4.1-17
6	118	1 Kgs	18.1-40	Acts	6	119.1-16	Ezek	37.15-ch. 38	Matt	4.18-5.12
7	119.17-40	1 Kgs	18.41-ch. 19	Acts	7.1-43	119.41-64	Ezek	39	Matt	5.13-32
8	119.65-88	1 Kgs	20.1-25	Acts	7.44-end	119.89-104	Ezek	40.1-43	Matt	5.33-6.4
9	119.105-128	1 Kgs	20.26-end	Acts	8.1-25	119.129-152	Ezek	40.44-ch. 41	Matt	6.5-24
10	119.153-end	1 Kgs	21	Acts	8.26-end	120-121	Ezek	42.1-43.12	Matt	6.25-7.14
11	122-123	1 Kgs	22.1-28	Acts	9.1-22	124-125	Ezek	43.13-44.14	Matt	7.15-8.4
12	126-127	1 Kgs	22.29-end	Acts	9.23-end	128-129	Ezek	44.15-45.17	Matt	8.5-end
13	130-131	2 Kgs	1	Acts	10	132	Ezek	45.18-ch. 46	Matt	9.1-17
14	133-134	2 Kgs	2	Acts	11	135	Ezek	47	Matt	9.18-end
15	136	2 Kgs	3	Acts	12	137	Ezek	48	Matt	10
16	138	2 Kgs	4	Acts	13.1-12	139	1 Chr	1	Matt	11
17	140	2 Kgs	5	Acts	13.13-end	141	1 Chr	2	Matt	12.1-21
18	142	2 Kgs	6	Acts	14	143	1 Chr	3.1-4.23	Matt	12.22-end
19	144	2 Kgs	7	Acts	15.1-35	145	1 Chr	4-24-ch. 5	Matt	13.1-23
20	146	2 Kgs	8	Acts	15.36-16.15	147	1 Chr	6	Matt	13.24-43
21	148	2 Kgs	9	Acts	16.16-end	149-150	1 Chr	7	Matt	13.44-end
22	1-2	2 Kgs	10	Acts	17.1-15	3-4	1 Chr	8.1-9.34	Matt	14
23	5	2 Kgs	11	Acts	17.16-end	6	1 Chr	9.35-11.9	Matt	15.1-31
24	7	2 Kgs	12	Acts	18	8	1 Chr	11.10-end	Matt	15.32-16.12
25	9	2 Kgs	13	Acts	19.1-20	10	1 Chr	12	Matt	16.13-end
26	11-12	2 Kgs	14	Acts	19.21-end	13-14	1 Chr	13-14	Matt	17
27	15-16	2 Kgs	15	Acts	20.1-16	17	1 Chr	15	Matt	18.1-14
28	18	2 Kgs	16.1-17.5	Acts	20.17-end	19	1 Chr	16	Matt	18.15-end
29	20	2 Kgs	17.6-end	Acts	21.1-16	21	1 Chr	17	Matt	19
30	22	2 Kgs	18	Acts	21.17-36	23	1 Chr	18-19	Matt	20
31	24	2 Kgs	19	Acts	21.37-22.29	25	1 Chr	20.1-21.17	Matt	21.1-22

NOVEMBER

		MORNING PRAYER					EVENING PRAYER
			(or Year One)					(or Year Two)
	Psalm	Old Testament		New Testament		Psalm	Old Testament		New Testament
All Saints	15	Heb	11.1-12.2	Rev	19.1-10	34	Wisd	3.1-9	Rev	21.1-22.5
2	26	2 Kgs	20	Acts	22.30-23.11	27	1 Chr	21.18-ch. 22	Matt	21.23-end
3	28	2 Kgs	21	Acts	23.12-end	29	1 Chr	23	Matt	22.1-22
4	30	2 Kgs	22	Acts	24	31	1 Chr	24-25	Matt	22.23-end
5	32	2 Kgs	23.1-20	Acts	25	33	1 Chr	26	Matt	23.1-36
6	34	2 Kgs	23.21-35	Acts	26	35	1 Chr	27	Matt	23.37-24.14
7	36	2 Kgs	23.36-ch. 24	Acts	27.1-12	37	1 Chr	28	Matt	24.15-end
8	38	2 Kgs	25	Acts	27.13-end	39	1 Chr	29	Matt	25.1-30
9	40	Joel	1	Acts	28.1-16	41	2 Chr	1	Matt	25.31-end
10	42	Joel	2.1-27	Acts	28.17-end	43	2 Chr	2-3	Matt	26.1-35
11	44	Joel	2.28-ch. 3	James	1	45	2 Chr	4-5	Matt	26.36-56
12	46	Dan	1	James	2	47	2 Chr	6	Matt	26.57-end
13	48	Dan	2	James	3	49	2 Chr	7-8	Matt	27.1-26
14	50	Dan	3	James	4	51	2 Chr	9	Matt	27.27-56
15	52	Dan	4	James	5	53-54	2 Chr	10-11	Matt	27.57-ch. 28
16	55	Dan	5	1 Pet	1	56	2 Chr	12-13	Heb	1
17	57	Dan	6	1 Pet	2	58	2 Chr	14-15	Heb	2
18	59	Dan	7	1 Pet	3	60	2 Chr	16-17	Heb	3
19	61	Dan	8	1 Pet	4	62	2 Chr	18	Heb	4.1-13
20	63	Dan	9	1 Pet	5	64	2 Chr	19.1-20.23	Heb	4.14-5.10
21	65	Dan	10	2 Pet	1	66-67	2 Chr	20.24-ch. 21	Heb	5.11-ch. 6
22	68	Dan	11	2 Pet	2	69	2 Chr	22-23	Heb	7
23	70	Dan	12	2 Pet	3	71	2 Chr	24	Heb	8
24	72	Hag	all	Jude	All	73	2 Chr	25	Heb	9
25	74	Zech	1-2	John	1.1-28	75	2 Chr	26-27	Heb	10.1-18
26	76	Zech	3-4	John	1.29-end	77	2 Chr	28	Heb	10.19-end
27	78.1-39	Zech	5-6	John	2	78.40-end	2 Chr	29	Heb	11.1-12.2
28	79	Zech	7-8	John	3.1-21	80	2 Chr	30	Heb	12.3-end
29	81	Zech	9-10	John	3.22-end	82	2 Chr	31	Heb	13
30	83	Zech	11-12	John	4.1-42	84	2 Chr	32	1 John	1.1-2.6

DECEMBER

		MORNING PRAYER					EVENING PRAYER
			(or Year One)					(or Year Two)
	Psalm	Old Testament		New Testament		Psalm	Old Testament		New Testament
1	85	Zech	13-14	John	4.43-5.18	86	2 Chr	33	1 John	2.7-27
2	87	Esther	1	John	5.19-end	88	2 Chr	34	1 John	2.28-ch. 3
3	89	Esther	2	John	6.1-21	90	2 Chr	35	1 John	4
4	91	Esther	3-4	John	6.22-end	92-93	2 Chr	36	1 John	5
5	94	Esther	5-6	John	7.1-24	95	1 Mac	1.1-40	2 John	All
6	96	Esther	7-8	John	7.25-end	97	1 Mac	1.41-2.14	3 John	All
7	98	Esther	9-10	John	8.1-30	99	1 Mac	2.15-end	Rev	1
8	100-101	Ezra	1-2	John	8.31-end	102	1 Mac	3.1-37	Rev	2.1-17
9	103	Ezra	3.1-4.6	John	9	104	1 Mac	3.38-4.25	Rev	2.18-3.6
10	105	Ezra	4.7-ch. 5	John	10.1-21	106	1 Mac	4.26-end	Rev	3.7-end
11	107	Ezra	6	John	10.22-end	108	1 Mac	5.1-36	Rev	4
12	109	Ezra	7	John	11.1-44	110-111	1 Mac	5.37-end	Rev	5
13	112-113	Ezra	8	John	11.45-12.11	114-115	1 Mac	6.1-27	Rev	6
14	116-117	Ezra	9	John	12.12-36a	118	1 Mac	6.28-end	Rev	7
15	119.1-16	Ezra	10	John	12.36b-end	119.17-40	1 Mac	7	Rev	8
16	119.41-64	Neh	1-2	John	13.1-20	119.65-88	1 Mac	8	Rev	9
17	119.89-104	Neh	3	John	13.21-end	119.105-128	1 Mac	9.1-22	Rev	10
18	119.129-152	Neh	4	John	14	119.153-end	1 Mac	9.23-end	Rev	11
19	120-121	Neh	5	John	15.1-17	122-123	1 Mac	10.1-47	Rev	12
20	124-125	Neh	6.1-7.4	John	15.18-16.15	126-127	1 Mac	10.48-end	Rev	13
21	128-129	Neh	7.5-end	John	16.16-end	130-131	1 Mac	11.1-37	Rev	14
22	132	Neh	8	John	17	133-134	1 Mac	11.38-end	Rev	15
23	135	Neh	9.1-37	John	18.1-27	136	1 Mac	12.1-23	Rev	16
Eve	85	Isa	7.10-17	Luke	1.26-56	89.1-29	Micah	4.1-5;	Luke	1.67-79
								5.2-5a
Christmas	45	Isa	11.1-10	Matt	1.18-end	132	Isa	59.15b-end	Phil	2.5-11
26	137	Neh	9.38-ch. 10	John	18.28-end	138	1 Mac	12.24-end	Rev	17
27	139	Neh	11	John	19.1-16a	140	1 Mac	13.1-42	Rev	18
28	141-142	Neh	12	John	19.16b-end	143	1 Mac	13.43-14.15	Rev	19
29	144	Neh	13	John	20.1-18	145	1 Mac	14.16-end	Rev	20
30	146	Mal	1.1-2.16	John	20.19-end	147	1 Mac	15.1-36	Rev	21
31	148	Mal	2.17-ch. 4	John	21	149-150	1 Mac	15.37-ch. 16	Rev	22

APPENDIX

Principal Readings for Holy Days to be used in Public Worship

Day	Psalm	1st Reading	Epistle	Gospel
Epiphany	72	Isaiah 60.1-9	Eph 3.1-12	Matt 2.1-12
Ash Wed.	51	Joel 2.12-17	2 Cor 5.20b-ch. 6	Matt 6.1-6, 16-21
Palm Sun.	118, 22	Isaiah 45.21-25	Phil 2.5-11	Matt 26.47-27.54 or Mark 14.43-15.39 or Luke 22.54-23.49
Maun Thur	78	Exod 12.1-14	1 Cor 11.23-32 & at the vigil:	John 13.1-15 Matt 26.30-46
Good Fri	22	Isaiah 52.13-53.12	Heb 10.1-25	John 19.1-37
Holy Sat	130	Job 14.1-14	I Pet 4.1-8	Matt 27.57-end or John 19.38-42
Easter Eve or Sunrise Service	33, 98 114	Gen 1.1-2.2 Exod 14.10-15.1 Ezek 36.24-28 Zeph 3.11-20	Rom 6.3-11	Matt 28.1-10
Easter Day	118	Acts 10.34-43	Col 3.1-4	John 20.1-10 or Mark 16.1-8 or Luke 24.1-10
Ascension	47	Dan 7.9-14	Acts 1.1-11	Luke 24.44-end
Pentecost	104.24-end	Acts 2.1-11	1 Cor 12.4-13	John 20.19-23
Trinity Sun or or	150 93 29	Gen 1.1-2.3 Exod 3.1-6 Isaiah 6.1-8	2 Cor 13.5-14 Rom 8.12-17 Rev 4.1-11	Matt 28.16-20 John 3.1-16 John 6.5-15
All Saints’	149	Sirach 44.1-10,13-14	Rev 7.2-4, 9-17	Matt 5.1-12
Christ. Eve or	96 97	Isaiah 9.2-4, 6-7 Isaiah 62.6-7,10-12	Titus 2.11-14 Titus 3.4-7	Luke 2.1-20 ” ”
Christ. Day	98	Isaiah 52.7-10	Heb 1.1-12	John 1.1-14

*This article first appeared in the Winter 2008 print edition of The North American Anglican.*

Notes:

1. The Collect for the Second Sunday in Advent , The Book of Common Prayer (1662) ↑
2. Jude 3 ↑
3. The Book of Common Prayer (New York: The Church Hymnal Corp., 1979), p. 866. Note – the spelling and punctuation were modernized in the 1979 book, but the meaning is unchanged from the original. ↑
4. The First and Second Prayer Books of Edward VI (London: J.M.Dent & Sons, 1957), pp. 8-20. ↑
5. The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 2^nd ed. (Oxford: OUP, 1989), pp. 1140, 199. ↑
6. For the sake of simplicity, percentages are calculated here and elsewhere by the number of chapters read. If portions of chapters are read, an estimation is made (e.g. 25% or 50% of the chapter, etc.). ↑
7. In Genesis, chapter 10 alone is omitted: “The Descendants of Noah” ↑
8. January 1 is a Holy Day (The feast of the Circumcision) with its own special set of readings. ↑
9. It was unclear to me whether they would have read the Prayer of Azariah within Daniel 3; it is not assigned as a separate reading, while the other “additions to Daniel” are specifically included. ↑
10. The First and Second Prayer Books of Edward VI (London: J.M.Dent & Sons, 1957), p. 8. ↑
11. An Anglican Prayer Book (Swedesboro, NJ: Preservation Press, 2008), p. 172 ↑
12. The Book of Common Prayer (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1986), p. 2 ↑
13. The Book of Lamentations is also omitted from the main lectionary, but portions are picked up in the Proper Lessons for Holy Week. ↑
14. The Book of Common Prayer (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1986), p. 14 ↑
15. See e.g. the American Prayer Books of 1928 and 1979 ↑
16. One example—Romans 1.26-27 has disappeared from the 1979 lectionary:“For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.”Any guesses as to why our wise and benevolent scripture police did not want us to ever read that passage? ↑
17. Cranmer, op. cit. ↑
18. The Book of Common Prayer (New York: The Church Hymnal Corp., 1979), op. cit. ↑
19. 2 Timothy 3.16-17Reformation From Africa: The “Faith Delivered” to Saint Athanasius on the Incarnation (page 100) ↑