A Liturgical Calendar

For the Year 2005

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 2005

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

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

 February 2005

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

     1
Brigid (Bride)
2
Presentation of Jesus in the Temple
BCP
RCL
3
Anskar, Archbishop
4
Cornelius, the Centurion
5
Martyrs of Japan
6
Last Sunday after Epiphany
BCP
RCL
7
8
9
Ash Wednesday
10
11 12
13
First Sunday in Lent
BCP
RCL
 14
Cyril and Methodius, Monk and Bishop
15
Thomas Bray, Priest
16 17
18
Martin Luther
19
20
Second Sunday in Lent
BCP
RCL
21 22
23
Polycarp, Bishop and Martyr
24
St Matthias, Apostle
25
26
27
Third Sunday in Lent
BCP
RCL
28          

March 2005

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
Fourth Sunday in Lent
BCP
RCL
7
Perpetua and her Companions
8 9
Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa
10
11 12
Gregory the Great, Bishop
13
Fifth Sunday in Lent
BCP
RCL
14
15
16 17
Patrick, Bishop
18
Cyril, Bishop
19
St Joseph
20
Sunday of the Passion:
Palm Sunday
BCP
RCL
21
Monday in Holy Week
BCP
RCL
22
Tuesday in Holy Week
BCP
RCL
23
Wednesday in Holy Week
BCP
RCL
24
Maundy Thursday
BCP
RCL
25
Good Friday
BCP
RCL
26
Holy Saturday
BCP
RCL
Easter Vigil
BCP
RCL
27
Easter Day
Early
Principal BCP
Principal RCL
Evening
28
Monday in Easter Week
29
Tuesday in Easter Week
30
Wednesday in Easter Week
31
Thursday in Easter Week
   

April 2005

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

        1
Friday in Easter Week
2
Saturday in Easter Week
3
Second Sunday of Easter
BCP
RCL
4
The Annunciation
(transferred)
BCP
RCL
5
6
7
8
William Augustus Muhlenberg, Priest
9
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
10

Third Sunday of Easter
BCP
RCL

11
George Augustus Selwyn, Bishop
12
13
14
15
16
17
Fourth Sunday of Easter
BCP
RCL
18
19
Alphege, Archbishop
20
21
Anselm, Archbishop
22
23
24
Fifth Sunday of Easter
BCP
RCL
25
St Mark, Evangelist
26
27 
28
29
Catherine of Sienna
30

 May 2005

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

1
Sixth Sunday of Easter
BCP
RCL
2
St Philip and St James, Apostles
(transferred)
3 4
Monnica, Mother of Augustine
5
Ascension Day
6 7
8
Seventh Sunday of Easter
BCP
RCL
9
Gregory of Nazianzus, Bishop
10 11 12 13 14
15
Day of Pentecost
Whitsunday
BCP
RCL
16
17 18
19
Dunstan, Archbishop
20
Alcuin, Deacon and Abbot
21
22
First Sunday after Pentecost
Trinity Sunday
BCP
RCL
23
24
Jackson Kemper, Bishop
25
Bede the Venerable
26
Augustine, Archbishop
27 28
29
Second Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 4
BCP
RCL
30
31
Visitation of the Blessed Virgin
BCP
RCL
       

  June 2005

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
Third Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 5
BCP
RCL
6 7 8
9
Columba, Abbot
10
Ephrem of Edessa
11
St Barnabas, Apostle
12
Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 6
BCP
RCL
13
14
Basil the Great, Bishop
15
Evelyn Underhill
16
Joseph Butler, Bishop
17 18
Bernard Mizeki, Martyr
19
Fifth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 7
BCP
RCL
20
21 22
Alban, Martyr
23
24
Nativity of St John, the Baptist
25
26
Sixth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 8
BCP
RCL
27
28
Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons
29
St Peter and St Paul, Apostles
30
   

 July 2005

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

           1

2
3
Seventh Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 9
BCP
RCL
4
Independence Day
5 6
7
8 9
10
Eighth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 10
BCP
RCL
11
Benedict of Nursia, Abbot
12 13
14
15 16
17
Ninth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 11
BCP
RCL
18
19
Macrina
20
Stanton, Bloomer, Truth, Tubman
21
22
Mary Magdalene
23
24
Tenth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 12
BCP
RCL
25
St James, Apostle
26
The Parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary
27
William Reed Huntington, Priest
28
29
Mary and Martha of Bethany
30
William Wilberforce
31
Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 13
BCP
RCL
           

August 2005

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

   1
Joseph of Arimathea
 2 3
4
5 6
The Transfiguration
7
Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 14
BCP
RCL
8
Dominic, Priest and Friar
9 10
Laurence, Deacon and Martyr
11
Clare, Abbess
12
Florence Nightingale
13
Jeremy Taylor, Bishop
14
Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 15
BCP
RCL
15
St Mary, the Virgin
16
17
18
William Porcher Dubose, Priest
19 20
Bernard, Abbot
21
Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 16
BCP
RCL
22
23 24
,St Bartholomew, Apostle
25
Louis, King of France
26 27
Thomas Gallaudet and Henry Winter Syle
28
Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 17
BCP
RCL
29
30 31
Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne
     

  September 2005

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

        1
David Pendleton Oakerhater, Deacon
2
The Martyrs of New Guinea
3
4
Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 18
BCP
RCL
5
Labor Day
6
7
8
9
Constance, Nun
10
Alexander Crummell, 1898
11
Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 19
BCP
RCL
12
John Henry Hobart, Bishop
13
Cyprian, Bishop and Martyr
14
Holy Cross Day
BCP
RCL
15
16
Ninian, Bishop
17
Hildegard of Bingen
18
Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 20
BCP
RCL
19
Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop
20
John Coleridge Patteson
21
St Matthew, Evangelist
22
23 24
25
Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 21
BCP
RCL
26
Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop
27 28
29
St Michael and All Angels
30
Jerome, Priest
 

 October 2005

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

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

November 2005

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

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

December 2005

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

         1
Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon
2
Channing Moore Williams, Missionary Bishop
3
4
Second Sunday of Advent
BCP
RCL
5
Clement of Alexandria, Priest
6
Nicholas, Bishop
7
Ambrose, Bishop
8
9 10
11
Third Sunday of Advent
BCP
RCL
12
13 14 15
16 17
18
Fourth Sunday of Advent
BCP
RCL
19
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
St Stephen, Deacon and Martyr
27
St John, Apostle and Evangelist
28
Holy Innocents
29
Thomas Becket
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 began with Advent 2004 and ends at Advent 2005 is Year A. The year which begins at Advent 2003 and ends at Advent 2004 is Year C. The First Sunday of Advent 2005 begins Year B.

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 July 4, 2005