A Liturgical Calendar

For the Year 2006

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 2006

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

  1
The Holy Name
BCP

RCL
 2
 3  4
 5
 6
The Epiphany
BCP
RCL
7
8
First Sunday after the Epiphany
BCP
RCL
9
Julia Chester Emery, Missionary
10
William Laud, Archbishop
11
12
Aelred, Abbot
13
Hillary, Bishop
14
15
Second Sunday after the Epiphany
BCP
RCL
16
17
Antony, Abbot
18
Confession of St Peter, Apostle
19
Wulfstan, Bishop
20
Fabian, Bishop and Martyr
21
Agnes, Martyr
22
Third Sunday after the Epiphany
BCP
RCL
23
Phillips Brooks, Bishop
24
25
Conversion of St Paul, Apostle
26
Timothy and Titus
27
John Chrysostom, Bishop
28
Thomas Aquinas, Priest and Friar
29
Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany
BCP
RCL
30
31



 February 2006

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
Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany
BCP
RCL
6
7 8
9
10
11
12
Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany
BCP
RCL
13
Absalom Jones, Priest
 14
Cyril and Methodius, Monk and Bishop
15
Thomas Bray, Priest
16 17
18
Martin Luther
19
Seventh Sunday after the Epiphany
BCP
RCL
20
21 22
23
Polycarp, Bishop and Martyr
24
St Matthias, Apostle
25
26
Last Sunday after Epiphany
BCP
RCL
27
George Herbert, Priest
28        

March 2006

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

 
   1
Ash Wednesday
 2
Chad, Bishop of Lichfield
 3
John and Charles Wesley, Priests
4 
 5
First Sunday in Lent
BCP
RCL
6
7
Perpetua and her Companions
8 9
Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa
10
11
12
Second Sunday in Lent
BCP
RCL
13
14
15
16 17
Patrick, Bishop
18
Cyril, Bishop
19
Third Sunday in Lent
BCP
RCL
20
St Joseph
(transferred)
21
Thomas Ken, Bishop
22
James DeKoven, Priest
23
Gregory the Illuminator
24
25
The Annunciation
26
Fourth Sunday in Lent
BCP
RCL
27
Charles Henry Brent, Bishop
28
29
John Keble, Priest
30
31
John Donne, Priest
 

April 2006

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

 

      1
Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest
2
Fifth Sunday in Lent
BCP
RCL
3
4
Martin Luther King
5
6
7
8
William Augustus Muhlenberg, Priest
9
Sunday of the Passion:
Palm Sunday
BCP
RCL
10
Monday in Holy Week

11
Tuesday in Holy Week
12
Wednesday in Holy Week
13
Maundy Thursday
14
Good Friday
15
Holy Saturday
Easter Vigil BCP
Easter Vigil RCL
16
Easter Day
Early
Principal BCP
Principal RCL
Evening
17
Monday in Easter Week
18
Tuesday in Easter Week
19
Wednesday in Easter Week
20
Thursday in Easter Week
21
Friday in Easter Week
22
Saturday in Easter Week
23
Second Sunday of Easter
BCP
RCL
24
25
St Mark, Evangelist
26
27 
28
29
Catherine of Sienna
30
Third Sunday of Easter
BCP
RCL






 May 2006

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday


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

  June 2006

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday


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

 July 2006

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday


           1

2
Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 8
BCP
RCL
3
4
Independence Day
5 6
7
8
9
Fifth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 9
BCP
RCL
10
11
Benedict of Nursia, Abbot
12 13
14
15
16
Sixth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 10
BCP
RCL
17
William White, Bishop
18
19
Macrina
20
Stanton, Bloomer, Truth, Tubman
21
22
Mary Magdalene
23
Seventh Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 11
BCP
RCL
24
Thomas a Kempis, Priest
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
Eighth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 12
BCP
RCL
31
Ignatius of Loyola
         


August 2006

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

   1
Joseph of Arimathea
 2 3
4
5
6
The Transfiguration
7
John Mason Neale, Priest
8
Dominic, Priest and Friar
9 10
Laurence, Deacon and Martyr
11
Clare, Abbess
12
Florence Nightingale
13
Tenth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 14
BCP
RCL
14
Johnathan Myrick Daniels
15
St Mary, the Virgin
16
17
18
William Porcher Dubose, Priest
19
20
Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 15
BCP
RCL
21
22
23 24
St Bartholomew, Apostle
25
Louis, King of France
26
27
Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 16
BCP
RCL
28
Augustine, Bishop of Hippo
29
30 31
Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne
   

  September 2006

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday


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

 October 2006

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

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

November 2006

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

  Note: If All Saints Day is observed on the Sunday following, use white
  1
All Saints (1) BCP
or
All Saints (2) BCP
or
All Saints RCL
2
Commemoration of All Faithful Departed
3
Richard Hooker, Priest
4
5
All Saints, (white)
or
Twenty Second Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 26
BCP
RCL
6
7
Willibrord, Archbishop
8 9
10
Leo the Great, Bishop
11
Martin, Bishop of Tours
12
Twenty Third Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 27
BCP
RCL
13
14
Consecration of Samuel Seabury
15 16
Margaret, Queen of Scotland
17
Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln
18
Hilda, Abbess of Whitby
19
Twenty Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 28
BCP
RCL
20
Edmund, King of East Anglia
21
22
C.S. Lewis
Apologist and Author
23
Thanksgiving Day
BCP
RCL
24
25
James Otis Sargent Huntington, Priest
26
Last Sunday after Pentecost:
Christ the King
BCP
RCL
27
28
Kamehameha and Emma
29 30
St Andrew, Apostle
   

December 2006

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday


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






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 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 May 20, 2006