Dated Lectionary Readings of Augustine of Hippo

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Dated Lectionary Readings of Augustine of Hippo

This list of readings is compiled from the preserved sermons of Augustine of Hippo.
Although the indications of readings are not enough to reconstruct a full lectionary, they
do indicate some intriguing patterns. For the days on which multiple readings are preserved,
we can find that a general pattern is that of: one or more Old Testament readings, one or more
non-Gospel New Testament readings, one or more Psalm, one or more Gospel readings.

(The psalm citations below use Greek Pss numbering)

Nativity of our Lord, 25 December
    Isa 53.8; Rom 5.1-2; Ps 84; Lk 2.1-39
Stephen, 26 December
    Ac 6-7; Jn 12.26
James and the Beheading of John the Baptist, 27 December
    Mt 14.1-12
Octave of Nativity, 1 January
    Ps 105
Epiphany
    Eph 2.11-22; Mt 2.all
Between Epiphany and Lent
    Ps 38; Mt 6.19-21
Beginning of Lent
    Isa 58.3-7(?)
During Lent
    1Jn 2.8, .9
During Lent
    Jn 17.24
Lent IV [16 March 413]
    1Cor 2.9-14; Jn 1.1-5
Monday after Lent IV [17 March 413]
    Jn 1.6-14
Wednesday after Lent IV [19 March 413]
    Ps 49; Jn 1.19-33
Friday after Lent IV [21 March 413]
    Isa 2.3; Ps 2; Mt 28.19
Saturday after Lent IV, Tradition of the Lord’s Prayer
    Rom 10.13-15; Mt 6.9-13
Lent V [25 March 413]
    Ps 74; Jn 1.34-51
Wednesday after Lent V [26 March 413]
    Ps 81; Jn 2.1-11
Thurday after Lent V [27 March 413]
    Ps 34; Jn 2.12-21
Sunday before Easter [30 March 413]
    Jn 2.23-35
Monday before Easter [31 March 413]
    Jn 3.6-21
A little before Easter
    Jn 13.23-25
A little before Easter
    Gen 32
Good Friday
    Ps 21; Mt 26-27
Easter Vigil
    Gen 1.1-5; Ex 15.1-21; Rom 6.4-11; Ps 117; Ps 12; Ps 17; Mt 28.all
Easter Day
    am: Isa 53.5-7; Ac 1; Ps 145; Mk 16.1-20
Monday in Easter Week
    Ac 2.1-13(or 36); Lk 24.1-12
Tuesday in Easter Week
    Ac 2.14(or 37) to end; Lk 24.13-35
Wednesday in Easter Week
    Lk 24.36 to end
Thursday in Easter Week
    Ps 146; Jn 20
Friday in Easter Week
    Jn 21.1-14
Saturday in Easter Week
    Jn 21.15 to end
First Sunday after Easter
    Ac 5.1-11; Ps 115; Ps 117; Jn 20
Monday after Easter I ?
    Mt 5.46-6.1
Between Easter I and Ascension, Carthage 418
    Heb 10.20
Between Easter I and Ascension
    2Cor 5.6
Between Easter I and Ascension
    Ps 115
Between Easter I and Ascension
    Ps 118.85-96
Between Easter I and Ascension
    Jn 6.56-57
A Sunday in Eastertide
    Ps 82
During the following week in Eastertide
    Gn 49.27; Ac 9; Rom 9.10
5 May – (day before Marianus and Jacobus, 6 May)
    Ps 117
Between 7 May and 21 May 397
    Dan 13; Jn 16.24
Ascension Day
    Ac 1; Rev 5.5; Ps 96(?); Mt 28.16-20; Lk 24.36 to end; Jn 14.23-28; Jn 20.11-18
Between Ascension and Pentecost
    Ps 71 [Carthage, 31 May 411, the day before the opening of the Council of Carthage]
    Ps 118.96
    Ps 149 [Carthage, 418]
Between Pentecost and Ascension
    Lk 10.2-6
Even of Pentecost
    Ps 140 [Carthage, 23 May 397]
Pentecost
    Tob 2.1; Ac 2; Mt 9.17
Monday after Pentecost [27 May 418]
    Ps 2; Jn 8.1-11
Wednesday after Pentecost [27 May 397]
    Ex 3
Friday after Pentecost [29 May 397]
    Ps 104
Agnes, Fructuosus, Augurius, and Eulogius, 21 January
    Gen 27; Rom 8; Mt 5.3-8
Vincent, 22 January
    Ps 42; Mt 10.16-28
Summer, before June 404
    1Cor 12.26-13.end; Jn 15.1-2
June 397
    Jn 7.2-10
June 397, a little after the last item
    Mt 21.18-22
Sunday 18 June 411
    Jas 2.19; Ps 38; Jn 8.1-11
Summer of 411, after 8 June (closing of Council of Carthage)
    Lk 7.36-50
Between 20 and 23 June 397
    Mt 17.1-8
A little before 24 June 397
    1 Tim 6.7-10
A little before 24 June 397, but after the last item
    1 Cor 1.31; Ps 70; Mt 20.20-28
A little before 24 June
    Mt 13.3-23
A little before 24 June, day after the last item
    Mt 13.24-43
A little before 24 June
    At 19.17-25
Sunday 23 June 401
    Mt 18.12-14
Nativity of John the Baptist, 24 June
    Isa 40.3-8; Ac 13.25; Lk 1.1-80
Guddenis, 27 June
    Jn 3.1-21
Peter and Paul, 29 June
    2Tim 4.6-8; Ps 18; Jn 21.15-19
A little after 29 June
    Ps 30; Mt 21.38-42
Between 29 June and 2 August
    Mt 25.24-30
Saturday after Pentecost V [5 July 413]
    Jn 3.22-29
Pentecost VI [6 July 413]
    Jn 3.29-36
Saturday after Pentecost VI [12 July 413]
    Jn 4.1-42
Pentecost VII [13 July 413]
    Jn 4.43-54
Scillitan Martyrs, 17 July
    Pr 31.10-31; Lk 12.1-12
Saturday after Pentecost VII [19 July 413]
    Jn 5.1-18
Pentecost VIII [20 July 413]
    Jn 5.19-30
A little before 22 July
    1Jn 4.1-3
Massilitan Martyrs, 22 July
    Mt 16.13-20
Monday after Pentecost IX [28 July 413]
    Jn 5.24-30
Tuesday after Pentecost IX [29 July 413]
    Jn 5.31-40
Tuburbitan Martyrs, 30 July
    1Tim 6.17-19
Holy Maccabees, 1 August
    2Mac 7; Lk 14.25-33
Saturday after Pentecost IX [2 August 413]
    Jn 6.1-14
Pentecost X [3 August 413]
    Jn 6.15-40
Saturday after Pentecost X [9 August 413]
    Jn 6.41-59
Laurence, 10 August
    Pr 23.1-2; 2Cor 1.5-10; Ps 93(?); Lk 21.10-19(?) in Hippo, Mt 23.29-39 in Carthage; Jn 6.59-71 (Hippo 10 Aug 413, 11^th Sunday after Pentecost)
Saturday after Pentecost XI [16 August 413]
    Ps 93; Jn 7.1-13
Pentecost XII [17 August 413]
    Jn 7.14-18
Massa Candida Martyrs, 18 August
    Wis 3.1-8(or 9?); Ps 115; Mt 16.22-23
Quadratus, 21 August
    Rev 7.14(?); Ps 35(?); Mt 10.27-39; Mt 16.25
Saturday after Pentecost XII [23 August 413]
    Jn 7.19-24
Pentecost XIII [24 August 413]
    Jn 7.25-36
Saturday after Pentecost XIII [30 August 413]
    Jn 7.25-36
Saturday after Pentecost XVI [20 Sept 413]
    Jn 7.37-39
Pentecost XVII [21 September 413]
    Jn 7.40-8.11
Monday [24 Sept 417]
    Gal 5.16-21; Ps 84
Sunday [25 September 410]
    Lk 16.19-31
Thursday after Pentecost XVII [25 September 413]
    Jn 8.12
Pentecost XVIII [28 September 413]
    Jn 8.19-20
Between September and October 418
    Rom 7.15-25
Beginning of October 418 (1-18 Ocotober)
    Rom 8.3b-4
Saturday after Pentecost XVIII [4 October 413]
    Jn 8.21-25
Pentecost XIX [5 October 413]
    Jn 8.26-27
Saturday after Pentecost XIX [11 October 413]
    Jn 8.28-32
Pentecost XX [12 October 413]
    2Cor 5.20-21; Jn 8.31-36
Sunday [13 October 418]
    Rom 7.5-13; Ps 93
Monday [14 October 418]
    Rom 7.14-25
Tuesday [15 October 418]
    Rom 8.1-11
Volitan Martyrs, Thursday 17 October 418
    Rom 8.12-17
Volitan Martyrs, Friday after Pentecost XX, 17 October 413
    Jn 8.37-47
Saturday after Pentecost XX [18 October 413]
    Jn 8.48-59
Friday 18 October 418
    Rom 9 (.20-21 at least); Ps 94
Pentecost XXI [19 October 413]
    John 9
Saturday after Pentecost XXI [25 October 413]
    John 10.1-10
Pentecost XXII [26 Oct 413]
    Jn 10.14-21
Saturday after Pentecost XXII [1 November 413]
    Jn 10.14-21
Pentecost XXIII [2 November 413]
    Jn 10.22-42
Felix, 6 November
    2Tim 3.12; Ps 127; Mk 9.43
Saturday after Pentecost XXIII [8 November 413]
    Jn 11.1-54
Pentecost XXIV [9 November 413]
    Jn 11.55-12.11
Saturday after Pentecost XXIV [15 November 413]
    Jn 12.12-26
Pentecost XXV [16 November 413]
    Jn 12.27-36
Saturday after Pentecost XXV [22 November 413]
    Jn 12.27-36
Pentecost XXVI [23 November 413]
     Jn 12.44-50
Crispina, 5 December
    Gen 1.28(?); Ps 120; Mt 10.28
Eulalia, 10 December
    Jn 15.18-16.2(?)
18 December 425
    Mt 11.17-19
Domitianus
    Wis 4.7; Rom 14.8-9(?); Ps 115?
Feast of Martyrs
    Jas 1.1-4(or 17?); 1Jn 3.16; Rev 14.5; Ps 42; Ps 115; Ps 141; Mt 10.16-28; Mt 5.7-11; Lk 21.1-19
Feast of a Confessor
    Php 1.23; Ps 111, Mt 22.23-33
Consecration of a church
    Ps 29; Mt 5.14-16
Consecration of a bishop
    1Tim 3.1-7; Jn 10.7-18
Anniversary of Augustine’s Consecration
    Ezk 33.2-11; Lk 14.12-14

source:
G. G. Willis, St. Augustine’s Lectionary, Alcuin Club Collection no. 44; London: SPCK
[=Society for the Preservation of Christian Knowledge], 1962. pp 22-57