Readings for the day · Pentecost Season · All Four Lectionaries
The readings for September 20, 2026, in all four lectionaries
Revised Common and LSB Three-Year keep Proper 20; Roman Catholic keeps Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time; Historic One-Year keeps The Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity. No reading is common to all four.
| Reading | Revised CommonProper 20Year A · Sep 20 | Roman CatholicTwenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary TimeYear A · Sep 20 | LSB Three-YearProper 20Year A · Sep 20 | Historic One-YearThe Sixteenth Sunday after TrinityOne-year · Sep 20 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gospel3 of 4 read Matthew 20 | Matthew 20:1-16 | Matthew 20:1-16a | Matthew 20:1-16 | Luke 7:11-17 |
| Epistle / Second Reading3 of 4 read Philippians 1 | Philippians 1:21-30 | Philippians 1:20c-24, 27a | Philippians 1:12-14, 19-30 | Ephesians 3:13-21 |
| Old Testament / First Reading2 of 4 read Isaiah 55 | Exodus 16:2-15or Jonah 3:10-4:11 | Isaiah 55:6-9 | Isaiah 55:6-9 | 1 Kings 17:17-24 |
| PsalmEvery one differs | Psalm 105:1-6, 37-45or Psalm 145:1-8 | Psalm 145:2-3, 8-9, 17-18 (18a) | Psalm 27:1-9 | Psalm 30 |
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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