Readings for the day · Pentecost Season · All Four Lectionaries
The readings for October 4, 2026, in all four lectionaries
Revised Common and LSB Three-Year keep Proper 22; Roman Catholic keeps Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time; Historic One-Year keeps The Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity. No reading is common to all four.
| Reading | Revised CommonProper 22Year A · Oct 4 | Roman CatholicTwenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary TimeYear A · Oct 4 | LSB Three-YearProper 22Year A · Oct 4 | Historic One-YearThe Eighteenth Sunday after TrinityOne-year · Oct 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gospel3 of 4 read Matthew 21 | Matthew 21:33-46 | Matthew 21:33-43 | Matthew 21:33-46 | Matthew 22:34-46 |
| Epistle / Second Reading2 of 4 read Philippians 3 | Philippians 3:4b-14 | Philippians 4:6-9 | Philippians 3:4b-14 | 1 Corinthians 1:(1-3) 4-9 |
| Old Testament / First Reading2 of 4 read Isaiah 5 | Exodus 20:1-4, 7-9, 12-20or Isaiah 5:1-7 | Isaiah 5:1-7 | Isaiah 5:1-7 | Deuteronomy 10:12-21 |
| Psalm2 of 4 read Psalm 80 | Psalm 19or Psalm 80:7-15 | Psalm 80:9+12, 13-14, 15-16, 19-20 (Isaiah 5a) | Psalm 80:7-19 | Psalm 34:8-22 |
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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