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. All four agree on the Gospel.
| Reading | Revised CommonDay of PentecostYear C · Jun 4 | Roman CatholicPentecost Sunday: Day MassYear C · Jun 4also Pentecost Sunday: Vigil | LSB Three-YearThe Day of PentecostYear C · Jun 4 | Historic One-YearThe Day of PentecostOne-year · May 24 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GospelAll read John 14 | John 14:8-17, (25-27) | John 14:15-16, 23b-26 or John 20:19-23 | John 14:23-31 | John 14:23-31 |
| Epistle / Second Reading2 of 4 read Romans 8 | Romans 8:14-17 or Acts 2:1-21 | Romans 8:8-17 or 1 Corinthians 12:3b-7, 12-13 or 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 Genesis 11:1-9 | Acts 2:1-11 | Genesis 11:1-9 | Genesis 11:1-9 |
| Psalm2 of 4 read Psalm 104 | Psalm 104:24-34, 35b | Psalm 104:1ab, 24ac, 29bc-30, 31, 34 (cf 30) | Psalm 143 | 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 June 4, 2028.
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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