A Liturgical Calendar

For the Year 2016

With Links to the Lessons From the Revised Common Lectionary, as modified for use in Episcopal worship


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Month:

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


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

January 2016

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

           1
The Holy Name
2
 
3
Second Sunday after Christmas
(Note: Episcopal readings differ from the "generic" RCL readings)
4
5
6
The Epiphany
7 8
Harriet Bedell, Deaconess and Missionary
9
Julia Chester Emery, Missionary
10
First Sunday after the Epiphany
11
12
Aelred, Abbot
13
Hillary, Bishop
14 15
Martin Luther King
16
17
Second Sunday after the Epiphany
18
Confession of St Peter, Apostle
19
Wulfstan, Bishop
20
Fabian, Bishop and Martyr
21
Agnes, Martyr
22
Vincent, Deacon and Martyr
23
Phillips Brooks, Bishop
24
Third Sunday after the Epiphany
25
Conversion of St Paul, Apostle
26
Timothy and Titus
27
John Chrysostom, Bishop
28
Thomas Aquinas, Priest and Friar
29 30
 31
Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany
           

 February 2016

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

   1
Brigid (Bride)
2
Presentation of Jesus in the Temple
3
Anskar, Archbishop
4
Cornelius, the Centurion
5
Martyrs of Japan
6
7
Last Sunday after Epiphany
8
9 10
Ash Wednesday
11 12 13
Absalom Jones, Priest
 14
First Sunday in Lent
15
Thomas Bray, Priest
16 17
Janani Luwum, Archbishop

18
Martin Luther
19 20
21
Second Sunday in Lent
22
23
Polycarp, Bishop and Martyr
24
St Matthias, Apostle
25
26
27
George Herbert, Priest
28
Third Sunday in Lent
 29          

March 2016

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


April 2016

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

 
      1
Friday in Easter Week
2
Saturday in Easter Week
3
Second Sunday of Easter
4
The Annunciation
(transferred)
5
6
7
Tikhon, Patriarch, Confessor, and Ecumenist
8
William Augustus Muhlenberg, Priest
9
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
10
Third Sunday of Easter
11
George Augustus Selwyn, Bishop
12
13
14
15
16
17
Fourth Sunday of Easter
18
19
Alphege, Archbishop and Martyr

20
21
Anselm, Archbishop
22
23
24
Fifth Sunday of Easter
25
St Mark, Evangelist
26 27 28 29
Catherine of Siena
30

 May 2016

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

1Sixth Sunday of Easter 2
St Philip and St James, Apostles
(transferred)

3 4
Monnica, Mother of Augustine
5
Ascension Day
6 7
8
Seventh Sunday of Easter
9
Gregory of Nazianzus, Bishop
10 11 12 13 14
15
Day of Pentecost
Whitsunday


16
The First Book of Common Prayer
17 18
19
Dunstan, Archbishop
20
Alcuin, Deacon and Abbot
21
22
First Sunday after Pentecost
Trinity Sunday

23
24
Jackson Kemper, Bishop
25
Bede the Venerable
26
Augustine, Archbishop
27 28
29
Second Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 4
30
31
Visitation of the Blessed Virgin
       

  June 2016

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

       1
Justin, Martyr
2
Martyrs of Lyon

3
Martyrs of Uganda
4
5
Third Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 5

6 7 8
9
Columba, Abbot
10
Ephrem of Edessa
11
St Barnabas, Apostle
12
Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 6
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
20
21 22
Alban, Martyr
23
24
Nativity of St John, the Baptist
25
26
Sixth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 8
27
28
Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons
29
St Peter and St Paul, Apostles
30
   

 July 2016

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

           1 2
3
Seventh Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 9
4
Independence Day
5 6
7
8 9
10
Eighth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 10
11
Benedict of Nursia, Abbot
12 13
14
15 16
17
Ninth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 11
18
19
Macrina
20
Stanton, Bloomer, Truth, Tubman
21
22
Mary Magdalene
23
24
Tenth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 12
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
           

August 2016

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
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
15
St Mary, the Virgin
16
17
18
William Porcher Dubose, Priest
19 20
Bernard, Abbot
21
Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 16
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
29
30 31
Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne
     

  September 2016

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
5
Labor Day
6
7
8
9
Constance, Nun, and her Companions
10
Alexander Crummell, 1898
11
Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 19
12
John Henry Hobart, Bishop
13
Cyprian, Bishop and Martyr
14
Holy Cross Day
15
16
Ninian, Bishop
17
Hildegard of Bingen
18
Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 20
19
Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop
20
John Coleridge Patteson
21
St Matthew, Evangelist
22
Philander Chase, Bishop
23 24
25
Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 21
26
Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop
27 28
29
St Michael and All Angels
30
Jerome, Priest
 

 October 2016

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

            1
Remigius, Bishop
2
Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 22
3
4
Francis of Assisi, Friar
5
6
William Tyndale, Priest
7 8
9
Twenty First Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 23
10
Vida Dutton Scudder, Educator and Witness for Peace
11
Philip, Deacon and Evangelist
12 13
14
Samuel Schereschewsky, Bishop
15
Teresa of Avila, Nun
16
Twenty Second Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 24
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
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
31
Vigil of All Saints
(White for vigil)
         

November 2016

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

  Note: If All Saints' Day is additionally observed on Sunday, use white   1
All Saints' Day
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
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
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
21
22
Clive Staples Lewis, Apologist and Writer
23
Clement, Bishop
24
Thanksgiving Day
25
James Otis Sargent Huntington, Priest
26
27
First Sunday of Advent
28
Kamehameha and Emma
29 30
St Andrew, Apostle
     

December 2016

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

         1
Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon
2
Channing Moore Williams, Missionary Bishop
3
4
Second Sunday of Advent
5
Clement of Alexandria, Priest
6
Nicholas, Bishop
7
Ambrose, Bishop
8
9 10
11
Third Sunday of Advent
12
13 14 15
16 17
18
Fourth Sunday of Advent
19
20 21
St Thomas, Apostle
22 23 24
Christmas Eve
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
Francis Joseph Gaudet, Educator and Prison Reformer
31

Notes:

The Sunday Lectionary is a three year cyclical lectionary. The year which begins with Advent 2015 and ends at Advent 2016 is Year C. The year which began at Advent 2014 and ended at Advent 2015 is Year B. The First Sunday of Advent 2016 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.

On weekdays, other than major Holy Days, the color indicated is the color appropriate to the season. When celebrating the feast of a martyred saint, red is also appropriate.


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Last updated on May 22, 2015