Morning or Evening: Scriptural and/or Patristic Readings
appropriate to the Day or Season
- The Simplest
Option for Day and Season: The One-Year Cycle in the Office of Readings, available
for the current date at Universalis.com [LINK and scroll down to the readings
for the day]
- The Two-Year Cycle of
Seasonal Readings only, available as A Two Year Patristic Lectionary for the
Divine Office (Office of Readings) posted as PDF downloads in a variety of
formats at Durham University's Centre for Catholic Studies [LINK]
- Indices for the One- and
Two-Year Cycles of Scriptural Readings from the Office of Readings are available:
- One-Year, including Saints
and Commons, compiled and posted by Fr. Felix Just, S.J., at www.catholic-resources.org
[LINK]
- One-Year, Seasonal only, printed as Appendix
C in the CTS New Catholic Bible.
- Two-Year, Seasonal only,
printed as Appendix D in the CTS New Catholic Bible.
- Two-Year, Seasonal
only [LINK]
Evening, if have already
used the above: Tomorrow's Gospel for Mass.
- Again, the Simplest
Option for the Day and Season: Universalis.com [LINK and select the day from the
list at right, then scroll to the desired reading]
- Many Catholic Bibles include
an Index to the Sunday readings; fewer include the Daily readings. One which
includes both is the CTS New Catholic Bible, Appendices A and B respectively.
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As a point of information, and for what it's worth, my personal practice
is this:
- During the Seasons throughout
the year:
- For Scripture, I use
the CTS New Catholic Bible, following the two-year cycle for the Office of
Readings as outlined in Appendix D. In the evenings, I anticipate the next
day's Gospel as described above.
- For the Fathers, I use
a copy of the Patristics-only from the Two-Year Lectionary that was formerly
available from Durham University as described above.
- For Feasts and Solemnities,
I follow the aforementioned link to the Office of Readings at Universalis.com
for both readings.
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The C[atholic] T[ruth] S[ociety] New Catholic Bible may be obtained
directly from the publisher [LINK] or from Amazon.com [LINK]. If ordering from other than the
publisher, be careful to get the 2012 edition which incorporates changes required
by the Vatican to conform to proper liturgical usage. Several years ago I posted
a review of this Bible, which combines a slightly edited version of the 1966 Jerusalem
Bible text (mainly replacing the Divine Name "Yahweh" with "Lord")
with the 1963 Grail Psalms [LINK].
