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, 11th 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 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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