Psalms

What psalms made it into the Revised Common Lectionary? When do they occur? This index, hopefully, answers both of those questions.

The (mostly) Sunday worship resources on this website include the set psalm each week. I’ve tried to offer the rich diversity of the psalms, more often than not in a translation of my own, or reflecting a new translation, often using imagery and idioms from rural Australia.

My experience of ‘the Psalms in worship’ over the years has generally been that they are either read responsively (leader/congregation) or ignored altogether. I say ‘generally’ because I can remember occasions in my childhood when we chanted them. So, here I’ve presented them in ways whereby, hopefully, they might be used in worship in other than ‘traditional’ ways. Occasionally, additional psalm-based prayers and/or reflections, for worship or private use, are also offered.


A CROSS-REFERENCE TO THE PSALMS OF THE REVISED COMMON LECTIONARY

PSALM YEAR A YEAR B YEAR C
1 Easter 7
Sunday 25
Epiphany 6
2 Transfiguration
4 Easter 3
5 Sunday 11
8 Trinity Sunday Trinity Sunday
9 Sunday 12
13 Sunday 13
14 Sunday 17 Sunday 24
15 Epiphany 4
16 Easter 2
17 Sunday 18
19 Sunday 27 Lent 3
Sunday 24
Epiphany 3
20 Sunday 11
22 Good Friday Lent 2
Good Friday
Easter 5
Sunday 28
Good Friday
23 Lent 4
Easter 4
Easter 4 Easter 4
24 Sunday 15
All Saints Day
25 Lent 1 Advent 1
26 Sunday 27
27 Epiphany 3 Lent 2
29 Baptism of Jesus Trinity Sunday
Baptism of Jesus
Baptism of Jesus
30 Epiphany 6 Easter 3 Sunday 14
31 Passion Sunday
Holy Saturday
Easter 5
Passion Sunday
Holy Saturday
Passion Sunday
Holy Saturday
32 Lent 1 Lent 4
33 Sunday 10
34 All Saints Day Sunday 30
35
36 Mon. in Holy Week Mon. in Holy Week Mon. in Holy Week
Epiphany 2
40 Epiphany 2 Annunciation – A, B, C (alt)
41 Epiphany 7
42 Sunday 12
43 Sunday 12
45 Sunday 14 Sunday 22
47 Ascension A Ascension B Ascension C
48 Sunday 14
50 Transfiguration Sunday 19
51 Ash Wednesday Ash Wednesday
Lent 5
Sunday 18
Ash Wednesday
52 Sunday 16
62 Epiphany 3
63 Lent 3
65 Sunday 30
66 Easter 6 Sunday 28
67 Easter 6
68 Easter 7
70 Wed. in Holy Week Wed. in Holy Week Wed. in Holy Week
71 Tues. in Holy Week Tues. in Holy Week Tues. in Holy Week
Epiphany 4
Sunday 21
72 Advent 2
Epiphany
Epiphany Epiphany
77 Sunday 13
78 Sunday 26
Sunday 32
79 Sunday 25
80 Advent 4 Advent 1 Advent 4
Sunday 20
81 Sunday 22
82 Sunday 15
84 Sunday 21
85 Advent 2 Sunday 17
86 Sunday 12
89 Advent 4
Sunday 16
90 Sunday 30
91 Lent 1
Sunday 26
93 Ascension (alt) Ascension (alt)
Christ the King (alt)
Ascension (alt)
95 Lent 3
96 Christmas Eve Christmas Eve Christmas Eve
97 Christmas Day Christmas Day Christmas Day
Easter 7
98 Christmas Day Christmas Day
Easter 6
Christmas Day
Sunday 32 (alt)
99 Transfiguration (alt)
Sunday 29
Transfiguration
100 Reign of Christ
103 Epiphany 8
104 Pentecost Pentecost
Sunday 29
Pentecost
105 Sunday 17
Sunday 19
Sunday 22
Sunday 25
106 Sunday 28
107 Sunday 31 lent 4 Sunday 18
111 Epiphany 4
Sunday 20
112 Epiphany 5
113 Christmas 1 (alt)
114 Sunday 24 Easter 2
116 Maundy Thursday
Easter 3
Sunday 11
Maundy Thursday Maundy Thursday
118 Palm Sunday
Easter Day
Palm Sunday
Easter Day
Palm Sunday
Easter Day
119 Sunday 15 Lent 5 (alt) Sunday 29
Sunday 31
121 Lent 2
122 Advent 1 Sunday 13
123 Sunday 33
124 Sunday 21 Sunday 26
125 Sunday 23
126 Advent 3 Lent 5
127 Sunday 32
128 Sunday 17 (alt)
130 lent 5 Sunday 13
Sunday 19
131 Epiphany 8
133 Sunday 20 Easter 2
Sunday 12 (alt)
136
137 Sunday 27 (alt)
138 Sunday 10 Epiphany 5
139 Sunday 16 Epiphany 2
Sunday 9
Sunday 23
145 Sunday 32
146 Advent 3 Sunday 31
147 Christmas 2 Christmas 2
Epiphany 5
Christmas 2
148 Christmas 1 Christmas 1 Christmas 1
Easter 5
149 Sunday 23 All Saints Day
150 Easter 2 (alt)

 

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