Weekly Lectionary Commentaries

Year C, 2019

(December 2, 2018 through November 30, 2019)

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

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

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 A, 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 © 2019, Dennis Bratcher, All Rights Reserved
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Advent Year C Responsive Readings

Year C Index of Readings:

Advent-Christmas-Epiphany

Lent-Easter-Pentecost

Ordinary Time

Index by Biblical Books:

Weekly Lectionary Commentaries:

Year A

Year B

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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