Readings for the day · Pentecost Season · All Four Lectionaries
The readings for September 27, 2026, in all four lectionaries
Revised Common and LSB Three-Year keep Proper 21; Roman Catholic keeps Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time; Historic One-Year keeps The Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity. No reading is common to all four.
| Reading | Revised CommonProper 21Year A · Sep 27 | Roman CatholicTwenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary TimeYear A · Sep 27 | LSB Three-YearProper 21Year A · Sep 27 | Historic One-YearThe Seventeenth Sunday after TrinityOne-year · Sep 27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gospel3 of 4 read Matthew 21 | Matthew 21:23-32 | Matthew 21:28-32 | Matthew 21:23-27 (28-32) | Luke 14:1-11 |
| Epistle / Second Reading3 of 4 read Philippians 2 | Philippians 2:1-13 | Philippians 2:1-11 or Philippians 2:1-5 | Philippians 2:1-4 (5-13, 14-18) | Ephesians 4:1-6 |
| Old Testament / First Reading2 of 4 read Ezekiel 18 | Exodus 17:1-7or Ezekiel 18:1-4, 25-32 | Ezekiel 18:25-28 | Ezekiel 18:1-4, 25-32 | Proverbs 25:6-14 |
| Psalm2 of 4 read Psalm 25 | Psalm 78:1-4, 12-16or Psalm 25:1-9 | Psalm 25:4-5, 6-7, 8-9 (6a) | Psalm 25:1-10 | Psalm 2 |
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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