Readings for the day · Lenten Season · All Four Lectionaries
The readings for March 29, 2026, in all four lectionaries
Revised Common keeps Liturgy of the Palms; Roman Catholic keeps Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord: Procession of the Palms; LSB Three-Year keeps Palm Sunday (Sunday of the Passion); Historic One-Year keeps The Sunday of the Passion (Palm Sunday). All four agree on the Epistle and the Psalm.
| Reading | Revised CommonLiturgy of the PalmsYear A · Mar 29also Liturgy of the Passion | Roman CatholicPalm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord: Procession of the PalmsYear A · Mar 29also Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord: Mass | LSB Three-YearPalm Sunday (Sunday of the Passion)Year A · Mar 29 | Historic One-YearThe Sunday of the Passion (Palm Sunday)One-year · Mar 29 |
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| Gospel3 of 4 read Matthew 21 | Matthew 21:1-11 | Matthew 21:1-11 | Matthew 26:1-27:66or Matthew 27:11-66or John 12:20-43 | Matthew 21:1-9or John 12:12-19or Matthew 26:1-27:66or Matthew 27:11-54 |
| Epistle / Second ReadingWord for word the same | not appointed | not appointed | Philippians 2:5-11 | Philippians 2:5-11 |
| Old Testament / First ReadingEvery one differs | not appointed | not appointed | Isaiah 50:4-9a | Zechariah 9:9-12 |
| PsalmAll read Psalm 118 | Psalm 118:1-2, 19-29 | not appointed | Psalm 118:19-29or Psalm 31:9-16 | Psalm 118:19-29or Psalm 31:9-16 |
More than one service is appointed on this date. The table shows the first of each tradition’s; the others are linked under the column they belong to.
Every citation above opens its own page: the passage, verse-by-verse commentary, background and word study, the Church Fathers, and worship resources. An “or” line is the second track a lectionary offers for the same day, not a different Sunday. Agreement is judged by chapter, because the four rarely cut a passage to the same length.
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