Reading order

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The reading order of the Catholic Church defines the biblical text passages that are read in the service ( mass , times of the day ) on the individual Sundays or working days. Even the Jewish and most other Christian denominations who read orders. More important than in previous orders for the reading order based on the example of Judaism is the principle of reading the path .

Procedure order

According to the Catholic reading of the Roman rite for Sundays , the most important passages of the Bible are read every three years . The three annual cycles ( reading years ) are denoted by the letters A, B and C. Each year is dedicated to one of the three synoptic evangelists Matthew (reading year A), Mark (reading year B) and Luke (reading year C), that is, the gospels of this evangelist are predominantly read. The most important parts of John's Gospel are recited in the marked times (Advent, Christmas, Lent and Easter) of each church year. As a rule of the cycle allocation, divide the calendar year in which the reading year begins (Advent) by three and use the remainder (year modulo 3): 0 to A, 1 to B, 2 to C. In addition, the reading order also defines the texts the Old Testament and the non-evangelical New Testament readings (letters, Acts of the Apostles, Revelation). For every Catholic Sunday mass outside of Easter, an Old Testament text, an excerpt from the literature of the epistles or the Acts of the Apostles and a Gospel from the four Gospels are provided. During the Easter season all three pericopes from the New Testament are read.

There is a separate reading order for the weekdays, which - apart from the marked times of Advent and Lent and some days of commemoration of the saints - alternate for the first reading after "Year I" and "Year II" (in reading years that begin with an odd calendar year: year I; in reading years that begin with an even calendar year: year II, where the beginning of a reading year coincides with the beginning of the church year on the 1st of Advent) and brings many scriptures to his ears for which there is no room on Sundays.

Thus, after six years, the same readings meet again in the same order. The years follow one another:

A / I B / II C / I A / II BI C / II A / I B / II ...

The reading order is closely related to the church year , whose movable festivals, depending on their rank, can have priority over the Sunday or weekday of the time in the annual cycle .

The reading year always begins on the 1st  Sunday in Advent . This Sunday marks the beginning of the Christmas festival circle . After the Christmas season (until the Sunday after January 6th, the feast of the baptism of Jesus ) follows the first section of the so-called annual cycle , which continues until the beginning of Lent . The forty-day fasting period together with Easter and Easter (until Pentecost ) form the Easter festival circle . This is followed by the second section of the annual cycle until the beginning of the next reading year .

The reading order is binding for the entire Church of the Roman Rite. All liturgical Bible texts are sorted by day and printed in the multi-volume lectionary . As an extract from this, a Gospel book with the Gospel pericopes is also used in larger churches . A separate epistolar is no longer common.

For the preparation of the services and to follow the texts in the service (for example for the hard of hearing) there are so-called pocket measuring books, which offer not only the readings but also introductions to the texts and the daily or closing prayer of the respective day. The most famous pocket missal is published by the Beuron Archabbey. This edition is named after the original editor, Father Anselm Schott . The first edition of the Schott appeared in 1884. In the liturgy of that time, the prayers (and also the readings of the scriptures) were exclusively in Latin, which is why the bilingual folk missiles had an important pastoral function and played a major role in the liturgical movement .

Table of reading years

year Reading year (Sundays) Reading year (days of the week) Beginning
(first Advent)
Feast of the baptism of the Lord Weeks in the annual cycle Sundays after Epiphany 1st Sunday of Lent Easter Pentecost Trinity
2017 A. I. November 27, 2016 January 8th 34 8th 5. March April 16 June 4th June 11th
2018 B. II 3rd December 2017 January 7th February 18 April 1st May 20th May 27th
2019 C. I. 2nd December 2018 13th January March 10th April 21 June 9th June 16
2020 A. II 1st December 2019 January 12th 1st March 12. April 31. May June 7th
2021 B. I. November 29, 2020 10. January 21st of February 4. April 23. May 30th May

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Individual evidence

  1. The celebration of Holy Mass - missal for the bishoprics of the German-speaking area - authentic edition for liturgical use. Missal [small edition] . Benziger, Einsiedeln and Cologne, 1975, p. 103 *