This blog follows traditional one-year lectionaries.

Friday, December 22, 2023

Advent IV and Christmas Week Readings 2023

 As we conclude Advent this year, the calendar is unusual since Advent IV is also Christmas Eve. That means that there is only one day for reading before the Feast of the Incarnation. So here are two sets of readings for the same day, Advent IV/Christmas Eve. and then readings for Christmas week. May the profound joy of our Lord's coming into this world be with us all!

Psalms and Lessons for MORNING PRAYER (according to the 1945 lectionary in the 1928 BCP)

Days                                                    Psalms     First Lesson           Second Lesson

FOURTH SUNDAY IN ADVENT      80          Isaiah 40:1–11                  Luke 3:1–17

Christmas Eve                                   50          Baruch 4:36–5:9               Luke 1:67-80


Christmas Week

CHRISTMAS DAY                             89:1–30     Isaiah 9:2–7                    Luke 2:1–20

ST. STEPHEN                                     118           2 Chron. 24:17–22          Acts 6

ST. JOHN EVANGELIST                   23, 24       Exodus 33:12 -23            John 13:20-26,

HOLY INNOCENTS                          8, 26        Jeremiah 31:1–6, 15–16  Matthew 18:1–14

December 29                                      27             Isa. 56:1–8                     1 John 1

December 30                                      33             Isa. 59:1–3, 15b–21       1 John 2:1–17

December 31                                     147            Isa. 62                            1 John 2:18-29

CIRCUMCISION OF                       

       OUR LORD (Jan. 1)                  103           Deuteronomy 30:1–10  Ephesians 2:11-22

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