This Week · Christmas Season · All Four Lectionaries

This week’s readings in all four lectionaries

Revised Common keeps First Sunday after Christmas Day; Roman Catholic keeps The Holy Family of Jesus: Mary and Joseph; LSB Three-Year keeps First Sunday after Christmas; Historic One-Year keeps The First Sunday after Christmas. No reading is common to all four.

Reading	Revised Common First Sunday after Christmas DayYear A · Dec 28	Roman Catholic The Holy Family of Jesus: Mary and JosephYear A · Dec 28	LSB Three-Year First Sunday after ChristmasYear A · Dec 28	Historic One-Year The First Sunday after ChristmasOne-year · Dec 28
Gospel3 of 4 read Matthew 2	Matthew 2:13-23	Matthew 2:13-15, 19-23	Matthew 2:13-23	Luke 2:(22-32) 33-40
Epistle / Second Reading2 of 4 read Galatians 4	Hebrews 2:10-18	Colossians 3:12-21 or Colossians 3:12-17	Galatians 4:4-7	Galatians 4:1-7
Old Testament / First Reading2 of 4 read Isaiah 63	Isaiah 63:7-9	Sirach 3:2-6, 12-14	Isaiah 63:7-14	Isaiah 11:1-5 or 2 Samuel 7:1-16
PsalmEvery one differs	Psalm 148	Psalm 128:1-2, 3, 4-5	Psalm 111	Psalm 89:1-8

This page is permanent: it shows the same readings every time this day comes round. In the current year it falls on December 28, 2025.

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. This page always shows the current week and updates each Sunday.

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