Additional Lessons

There are many and various Feasts and Festivals celebrated throughout the Church Year. The Four Year Lectionary has not lost sight of this fact. Christmas Day is also being celebrated on a Sunday this Year which gives us another group of Texts.

Yet I have not completed all the Saint Days or Special Feast parts of the Lectionary here is a short list of additional texts.


Daniel the Prophet and the Three Men (December 17th)
Daniel 1:8-21 (OT)
Daniel 3:8-28 (OTA)
Acts 10:9-22 (NT)
Revelation 2:8-11 (NTA)
Matthew 24:15-28 (G)


St Thomas (December 21st)
Judges 6:36-40 (OT)
Ephesians 4:7-16 (NT)
John 20:24-29 (G)
John 11:1-16 (GA)

Christmas Eve (December 24th)
Isaiah 7:10-14 (OT)
1 John 4:7-16 (NT)
Matthew 1:18-25 (G)
John 1:1-18 (GA)

Christmas Midnight (December 24/25)
Isaiah 9:2-7 (OT)
Titus 2:11-14 (NT)
Luke 2:1-14 (G)
Luke 2:1-20 (GA)

Christmas Dawn (December 25th)
Isaiah 62:10-12 (OT)
Titus 3:4-7 (NT)
Luke 2:15-20 (G)
Luke 2:1-20 (GA)


St Stephen (December 26th)
2 Chronicles 24:17-22 (OT)
Exodus 32:7-14 (OTA)
Acts 6:8-7:2a, 51-60 (NT)
Acts 7:2-53 (NTA)
Matthew 23:34-39 (G)
John 1:43-51 (GA)


St John (December 27th)
Hosea 11:1-4 (OT)
1 John 1:1-2:2 (NT)
Revelation 1:9-20 (NTA)
John 21:20-25 (G)
John 1:1-18 (GA)

Holy Innocents (December 28th)
Jeremiah 31:15-17 (OT)
Matthew 2:13-18 (G)

New Year's Eve (December 31st)
Isaiah 30:8-17 (OT)
Romans 8:31b-39 (NT)
Luke 12:35-40 (G)

Circumcision and Name of Jesus (January 1st)
Genesis 17:1-14 (OT)
Joshua 5:1-9 (OTA)
Galatians 3:23-29 (NT)
Romans 2:17-29 (NTA)
Luke 2:21 (22-32) (G)
John 7:14-24 (GA)

We may remember to inform the reader of further Saint Day celebrations. These lists are not completed yet. Therefore, if you have any suggestions for these celebrations or changes to these lessons I would not take offense. But I figured this was an appropriate time to inform the reader of the additional lessons offered by the Four Year Lectionary.

I am sorry, but I will not be commenting on any of these.