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Lectionaries Old and New
Lectionaries are wondrous things. The
way that various sections of text are interwoven with others, and
sometimes with songs and prayers, realize in their combination an effect on the
spirit that the individual
elements would not otherwise exert. The amount of thoughtful, prayerful
attention invested in their creation
and elaboration is clear in this effect.
I came to begin collecting these and many other lectionaries
(which will eventually be added to this site)
out of my curiosity regarding church readings of first the Old Testament, and
then the apocrpypha and
pseudepigrapha in lectionaries, in order to provide myself with a personal plan
of study for those sets of
readings. Finding such a variety of lectionaries was a pleasant
surprise. The lectionaries that I present
here therefore all contain readings of the Old Testament and/or apocrypha.
Please contact me with any suggestions or comments you may have.
Early Western Lectionaries
Lectionary of Augustine of Hippo (dated readings)
Lectionary of Augustine of Hippo (undated readings)
Lectionary of Ambrose of Milan
Hispano-Mozarabic Lectionary (Liber Comicus)
Gallican Lectionaries Comparison Chart
East Syrian Lectionaries
Lectionary of the Church of the Forty Martyrs, Mesopotamia
Lectionary of the Monastery of `Azīzā´el, Mesopotamia
Comparison Table of the Forty Martyrs and `Azīzā´el Lectionaries
An Early Syriac Lectionary (Burkitt)
An East Syrian Kalendar and Lectionary (Maclean)
(The same lectionary in Maclean's original format with notes)
Jerusalem Tradition Lectionaries
All of these spring from the tradition of liturgical usage in Jerusalem,
dating from between 417
to 439 AD (Renoux and Conybeare) to about 700 AD (Tarchnischvili). They
offer a fascinating
glimpse of the lost wealth of a Christian culture in the Holy Land during the
Byzantine period,
which culture was decimated eventually by Muslim restrictions.
An Early Armenian Lectionary (Renoux)
Another Early Armenian Lectionary (Conybeare)
The Georgian Lectionary (Tarchnischvili)
Modern Eastern Lectionaries
Eastern Orthodox Psalm Reading Plan
Eastern Orthodox New Testament Reading Plan
One-year NETS LXX Bible Reading Plan
2009 Eastern Orthodox Bible Reading Plan
Modern Western Lectionaries
Roman Catholic Tridentine Lectionary
Comparison tables of Anglican Book of Common Prayer
1979, Roman Catholic
Lectionary for
Mass 1998, and the Revised Common
Lectionary (I chose those colors because they are the
colors of the
covers of the editions which I used to put these tables together!):
Modern Bible Reading Plans
Full NRSV one-year reading plans