Weekly Lectionary

Readings for February 16, 2025:  The Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany

The Beatitudes Sermon (c. 1890) by James Tissot (1836-1902)

• Jeremiah 17:5-10
• Psalm 1
• 1 Corinthians 15:1-20
• Luke 6:17-26

Readings for February 9, 2025:  The Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany

Jesus Preaches in a Ship (1886-1894) by James Tissot (1836–1902)

• Isaiah 6:1-8 (9-13)
• Psalm 138
• 1 Corinthians 14:12b-20
• 1 Corinthians 15:1-11
• Luke 5:1-11

Readings for February 2, 2025: The Presentation of our Lord or Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany

Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem (1630) by Rembrandt (1606-1669)

The Presentation of our Lord

• 1 Samuel 1:21–28
• Malachi 3:1-4 (Catholic Mass)
• Psalm 24:7-10
• Psalm 84 
• Hebrews 2:14-18
• Luke 2:22-40

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Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany

• Jeremiah 1:4-10 & 17-19
• Psalm 71:1-11
• 1 Corinthians 12:31b — 13:13
• Luke 4: 2-44

Readings for January 26, 2025:  The Third Sunday after the Epiphany

Christ in the Synagogue at Nazareth  (1658) by Gerbrand van den Eeckhout (1621–1674)

• Nehemiah 8:1-4a, 5-6, 8-10 
• Psalm 19  
• 1 Corinthians 12:12-31a 
• Luke 4:14-30 

Readings for January 19, 2025:  The Second Sunday after the Epiphany

The Marriage at Cana (1596) by Maerten de Vos (1532 –1603)

• Isaiah 62:1-5
• Psalm 36:5-10 
• Psalm 96:1-3, 7-10 (Catholic Mass)
• Psalm 128
• 1 Corinthians 12:1-11
• John 2:1-11

Readings for January 12, 2025:  The First Sunday after the Epiphany

Baptism of the Lord (1655) by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617-1682)

• Isaiah 42:1-4, 6-7 (Catholic Mass)
• Isaiah 43:1-7 
• Psalm 29
• Acts 8:14-17 
• Acts 10:34-38 (Catholic Mass)
• Romans 6:1-11
• Luke 3:15-22 

Readings for January 5, 2025:  The Second Sunday in Christmas or The Epiphany

Adoration of the Magi (1475) by Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510)

Protestant: 2^nd Sunday in Christmas

• Jeremiah 31:7:14
• 1 Kings 3:4-15 
• Sirach 24:1-12
• Psalm 84
• Psalm 119:97-104
• Psalm 147:12-20 
• Wisdom 10:15-21 
• Ephesians 1:3-14
• Luke 2:40-52
• John 1:[1-9] 10-18

Catholic Mass / Epiphany

• Isaiah 60:1-6
• Psalm 72:1-15
• Ephesians 3:1-12
• Matthew 2:1-12

Readings for December 29, 2024:  The First Sunday in Christmas

Presentation of Christ in the Temple (1516) by Fra Bartolomeo (1472-1517)

Catholic

• Sirach 3:2-6, 12-14
• 1 Samuel 1:20-22, 24-28 (Alt.)
• Psalm 128:1-5

Protestant

• Exodus 13:1-3a, 11-15
• Samuel 2:18-20, 26
• Psalm 111
• Psalm 148

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• Colossians 3:12-21
• Luke 2:22-52

Readings for December 24 & 25, 2024: Christmas!

The Nativity (1473-75) by Sandro Botticelli (1444-1510)

Readings for December 24/ 25, 2024

Christmas!

Christmas  I

• Isaiah 7:10-14
• Isaiah 9:1-7
• Psalm 96
• Psalm 110:1-4
• Titus 2:11-14
• 1 John 4:7-16
• Matthew 1:18-25

Christmas II

• Isaiah 62:6-12
• Psalm 97
• Titus 3:4-7
• Luke 2:1-20

Christmas III

• Isaiah 52:7-10
• Psalm 2
• Psalm 98
• Hebrews 1:1-12
• John 1:1-18

Readings for December 22, 2024 : The Fourth Sunday in Advent

The Visitation (1503) by Mariotto Albertinelli (1474–1515)

• Micah 5:2-5a
• Psalm 80:1-7, 15-16 and 18-19
• Hebrews 10:5-10
• Luke 1:39-56