A Liturgical Calendar

For the Year 2004

With Links to the Lessons From the Episcopal Lectionary


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Month:

| January | February | March | April | May | June |


| July | August | September | October | November | December |

January 2004

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

         1
The Holy Name
2
 
3
4
Second Sunday after Christmas
5
6
The Epiphany
7 8 9
Julia Chester Emery, Missionary
10
William Laud, Archbishop
11
First Sunday after the Epiphany
12
Aelred, Abbot
13
Hillary, Bishop
14 15
Martin Luther King
(alternate date)
16 17
Antony, Abbot
18
Second Sunday after the Epiphany
19
Confession of St Peter, Apostle
(transferred)
20
Fabian, Bishop and Martyr
21
Agnes, Martyr
22
Vincent, Deacon and Martyr
23
Phillips Brooks, Bishop
24
25
Third Sunday after the Epiphany
26
Conversion of St Paul, Apostle
(transferred)
27
John Chrysostom, Bishop
28
Thomas Aquinas, Priest and Friar
29 30  31

 February 2004

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

 1
Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany
2
Presentation of Jesus in the Temple
3
Anskar, Archbishop
4
Cornelius, the Centurion
5
Martyrs of Japan
6 7
8
Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany
9 10
11 12 13
Absalom Jones, Priest
 14
Cyril and Methodius, Monk and Bishop
15
Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany
16 17
18
Martin Luther
19 20 21
22
Last Sunday after Epiphany
23
Polycarp, Bishop and Martyr
24
St Matthias, Apostle
25
Ash Wednesday
26
27
George Herbert, Priest
28
29
First Sunday in Lent
           

March 2004

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

   1
David, Bishop of Menevia, Wales
 2
Chad, Bishop of Lichfield
 3
John and Charles Wesley, Priests
4   5 6
7
Second Sunday in Lent
8 9
Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa
10
11 12
Gregory the Great, Bishop
13
14
Third Sunday in Lent
15
16 17
Patrick, Bishop
18
Cyril, Bishop
19
St Joseph
20
Cuthbert, Bishop
21
Fourth Sunday in Lent
22
James DeKoven, Priest
23
Gregory the Illuminator
24 25
The Annunciation
26 27
Charles Henry Brent, Bishop
28
Fifth Sunday in Lent
29
John Keble, Priest
30 31
John Donne, Priest

April 2004

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

        1
Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest
2

James Lloyd Breck, Priest
3

Richard, Bishop
4
Sunday of the Passion:
Palm Sunday
5
Monday in Holy Week
6
Tuesday in Holy Week
7
Wednesday in Holy Week
8
Maundy Thursday
9
Good Friday
10
Holy Saturday

Easter Vigil

11
Easter Day
Early
Primary
Evening
12
Monday in Easter Week
13
Tuesday in Easter Week
14
Wednesday in Easter Week
15
Thursday in Easter Week
16
Frday in Easter Week
17
Saturday in Easter Week
18
Second Sunday of Easter
19
Alphege, Archbishop
20
21
Anselm, Archbishop
22
23
24
25
Third Sunday of Easter
26
St Mark, Evangelist (transferred)
27 
28
29
Catherine of Sienna
30

 May 2004

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

            1
St Philip and St James, Apostles
2
Fourth Sunday of Easter
3 4
Monnica, Mother of Augustine
5
6 7 8
Dame Julian of Norwich
9
Fifth Sunday of Easter
10 11 12 13 14 15
16
Sixth Sunday of Easter
17 18
19
Dunstan, Archbishop
20
Ascension Day
21 22
23
Seventh Sunday of Easter
24
Jackson Kemper, Bishop
25
Bede the Venerable
26
Augustine, Archbishop
27 28 29
30
Day of Pentecost
Whitsunday
31
Visitation of the Blessed Virgin
         

  June 2004

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

     1
Justin, Martyr
2
The Martyrs of Lyons
3
Martyrs of Uganda
4
The First Book of Common Prayer
5
Boniface, Archbishop and Martyr
6
First Sunday after Pentecost
Trinity Sunday
7 8
9
Columba, Abbot
10
Ephrem of Edessa
11
St Barnabas, Apostle
12
Enmegahbowh
13
Second Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 6
14
Basil the Great, Bishop
15
Evelyn Underhill
16
Joseph Butler, Bishop
17 18
Bernard Mizeki, Martyr
19
20
Third Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 7
21 22
Alban, Martyr
23
24
Nativity of St John, the Baptist
25 26
27
Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 8
28
Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons
29
St Peter and St Paul, Apostles
30
     

 July 2004

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

         1

2 3
4
Fifth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 9
5
Independence Day (tr)
6
7
8 9 10
11
Sixth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 10
12 13
14
15 16 17
William White, Bishop
18
Seventh Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 11
19
Macrina
20
Stanton, Bloomer, Truth, Tubman
21
22
Mary Magdalene
23 24
Thomas a Kempis, Priest
25
Eighth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 12
26
St James, Apostle
(transferred)
27
William Reed Huntington, Priest
28
29
Mary and Martha of Bethany
30
William Wilberforce
31
Ignatius of Loyola

August 2004

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

 1
Ninth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 13
 2 3
4
5 6
The Transfiguration
7
John Mason Neale, Priest
8
Tenth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 14
9 10
Laurence, Deacon and Martyr
11
Clare, Abbess
12
Florence Nightingale
13
Jeremy Taylor, Bishop
14
Johnathan Myrick Daniels
15
Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 15
16
St Mary, the Virgin
(transferred)
17
18

William Porcher Dubose, Priest
19 20
Bernard, Abbot
21
22
Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 16
23 24
St Bartholomew, Apostle
25
Louis, King of France
26 27
Thomas Gallaudet and Henry Winter Syle
28
Augustine, Bishop of Hippo
29
Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 17
30 31
Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne
       

  September 2004

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

      1
David Pendleton Oakerhater, Deacon
2
The Martyrs of New Guinea
3 4
Paul Jones, 1941
5
Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 18
6
Labor Day
7
8
9
Constance, Nun
10
Alexander Crummell, 1898
11
12
Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 19
13
Cyprian, Bishop and Martyr
14
Holy Cross Day
15
16
Ninian, Bishop
17
Hildegard of Bingen
18
Edward Bouverie Pusey, Priest
19
Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 20
20
John Coleridge Patteson
21
St Matthew, Evangelist
22
23 24 25
Sergius
26
Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 21
27 28
29
St Michael and All Angels
30
Jerome, Priest
   

 October 2004

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

          1
Remigius, Bishop
2
3
Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 22
4
Francis of Assisi, Friar
5
6
William Tyndale, Priest
7 8 9
Robert Grosseteste, Bishop
10
Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 23
11
Philip, Deacon and Evangelist
12 13
14
Samuel Schereschewsky, Bishop
15
Teresa of Avila, Nun
16
Latimer, Ridley, and Cranmer
17
Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 24
18
St Luke, Evangelist
19
Henry Martyn, Priest and Missionary
20
21 22 23
St James of Jerusalem
24
Twenty First Sunday after Pentecost Proper 25
25 26
Alfred the Great
27
28
St Simon & St Jude, Apostles
29
James Hannington, Bishop, and his Companions
30
31
Twenty Second Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 26
Vigil of All Saints
           

November 2004

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

  Note: If All Saints Day is observed on Sunday, November 7, use white 1
All Saints (1)
or
All Saints (2)
2
Commemoration of All Faithful Departed
3
Richard Hooker, Priest
4 5 6
7
All Saints,
(white),
see Nov 1
or
Twenty Third Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 27
8 9
10
Leo the Great, Bishop
11
Martin, Bishop of Tours
12
Charles Simeon, Priest
13
14
Twenty Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 28
15 16
Margaret, Queen of Scotland
17
Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln
18
Hilda, Abbess of Whitby
19
Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary
20
Edmund, King of East Anglia
21
Last Sunday after Pentecost:
Christ the King
22 23
Clement, Bishop
24
25
Thanksgiving Day
26 27
28
First Sunday of Advent
BCP
RCL
29 30
St Andrew, Apostle
       

December 2004

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

       1
Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon
2
Channing Moore Williams, Missionary Bishop
3 4
John of Damascus
5
Second Sunday of Advent
BCP
RCL
6
Nicholas, Bishop
7
Ambrose, Bishop
8
9 10 11
12
Third Sunday of Advent
BCP
RCL
13 14 15
16 17 18
19
Fourth Sunday of Advent
BCP
RCL
20 21
St Thomas, Apostle
22 23 24
Christmas Eve
25
Christmas Day
Christmas I
BCP
RCL
Christmas II
BCP
RCL
Christmas III
BCP
RCL
26
First Sunday after Christmas
27
St John, Apostle and Evangelist
28
Holy Innocents
29
St Stephen, Deacon and Martyr
(transferred)
30 31  


Notes:

The Episcopal Lectionary is based on the Roman Catholic Lectionary, a product of Vatican II. The Lutheran Lectionary and the Revised Common Lectionary also share this ancestry, so that quite often, the Episcopal, Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian, and Roman Catholic Churches are using the same lessons, with slight variations. The lessons presented here follow the Episcopal form. If you are a member of one of the other denominations, these may also be your lessons, but (!) double check before you base a sermon on them.

The Sunday Lectionary is a three year cyclical lectionary. The year which begins with Advent 2002 and ends at Advent 2003 is Year B. The year which begins at Advent 2003 and ends at Advent 2004 is Year C. The First Sunday of Advent 2004 begins Year A.

The Bible translation used is The New Revised Standard Version, copyright 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Church of Christ in the USA, and used by permission.

The collects and the Psalms are from the Book of Common Prayer. The collects use the contemporary wording.

The liturgical color appropriate for the day is indicated, when the color is green, red or purple, by the color of the numeral against a light grey background. When the liturgical color is white, the numeral is black against a white background.


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Last updated on January 31, 2004