This Week · Pentecost Season · All Four Lectionaries
This week’s readings in all four lectionaries
Revised Common keeps Day of Pentecost; Roman Catholic keeps Pentecost Sunday: Day Mass; LSB Three-Year and Historic One-Year keep The Day of Pentecost. No reading is common to all four.
| Reading | Revised CommonDay of PentecostYear B · May 16 | Roman CatholicPentecost Sunday: Day MassYear B · May 16also Pentecost Sunday: Vigil | LSB Three-YearThe Day of PentecostYear B · May 16 | Historic One-YearThe Day of PentecostOne-year · May 24 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gospel3 of 4 read John 15 | John 15:26-27; 16:4b-15 | John 15:26-27; 16:12-15 | John 15:26-27; 16:4b-15 | John 14:23-31 |
| Epistle / Second Reading2 of 4 read Acts 2 | Romans 8:22-27 or Acts 2:1-21 | Galatians 5:16-25or Sequence: Veni Sancte Spiritus | Acts 2:1-21 | Acts 2:1-21 |
| Old Testament / First Reading2 of 4 read Acts 2 | Acts 2:1-21 or Ezekiel 37:1-14 | Acts 2:1-11 | Ezekiel 37:1-14 | Genesis 11:1-9 |
| Psalm2 of 4 read Psalm 104 | Psalm 104:24-34, 35b | Psalm 104:1ab+24ac, 29b-30, 31+34 (cf. 30) | Psalm 139:1-12 (13-16) | Psalm 143 |
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.
This page is permanent: it shows the same readings every time this day comes round. In the current year it falls on May 16, 2027.
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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