The Catholic Lectionary Website
compiled by Felix Just, S.J., Ph.D.

Introduction / Purpose: Many other websites provide easy access to the scripture readings assigned to particular Sundays and/or weekdays in the lectionaries of various Christian denominations (see my LINKS page). For the full texts of biblical readings used in the Roman Catholic liturgies, see the website of the USCCB.

In contrast, this website provides comprehensive tables of the scripture readings from several Latin and English editions of the Catholic Lectionary for Mass, so that you can easily obtain an overview of all the readings used in a particular liturgical season (Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter) and/or in a particular year of Ordinary Time (Sundays in Years A, B, C;  Weekdays in Years I & II). Cross-references and comparative analyses are also provided to enable you more easily to see the differences between various editions of the Lectionary for Mass. For printed editions of the Lectionary and related resources, see also my Bibliography page.

The bishops gathered at the Second Vatican Council in 1964 decreed: "The treasures of the Bible are to be opened up more lavishly, so that richer fare may be provided for the faithful at the table of God’s word. In this way a more representative portion of the holy scriptures will be read to the people in the course of a prescribed number of years" (Sacrosanctum Concilium, 51).
My website also shows how well this decree has been implemented, with much more scripture used at Mass in multi-year cycles than was the case before Vatican II.