Readings for the day · Lenten Season · All Four Lectionaries
The readings for March 21, 2027, 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, the Old Testament and the Psalm.
| Reading | Revised CommonLiturgy of the PalmsYear B · Mar 21also Liturgy of the Passion | Roman CatholicPalm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord: Procession of the PalmsYear B · Mar 21also Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord: Mass | LSB Three-YearPalm Sunday (Sunday of the Passion)Year B · Mar 21 | Historic One-YearThe Sunday of the Passion (Palm Sunday)One-year · Mar 21 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gospel2 of 4 read Mark 11 | Mark 11:1-11 or John 12:12-16 | Mark 11:1-10 or John 12:12-16 | Mark 14:1-15:47or Mark 15:1-47or John 12:12-19or 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 ReadingWord for word the same | not appointed | not appointed | Zechariah 9:9-12 | 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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