For each week, the RCL website has added scriptural reflections based on a featured art image, as well as RCL prayers for worship.
What are the terms of use for the Lectionary?
What are the terms of use for the Lectionary?
Copyright permission for this project has been received:
- Lectionary selections are reprinted from Revised Common Lectionary Daily Readings copyright © 2005. Consultation on Common Texts, Augsburg Fortress Publishers. Reproduced by permission.
- Scripture texts are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA. All rights reserved. Used with permission.
- Prayers are reproduced from Revised Common Lectionary Prayers, copyright © 2002 Consultation on Common Texts. Augsburg Fortress. Used by permission. A complete edition of the prayers is available though Augsburg Fortress.
- Art images are from the Art in the Christian Tradition database, a project sponsored by the Jean and Alexander Heard Library and the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, a division of the Heard Library, 2007.
The lectionary selections, scripture texts, and prayers may be freely used for non-profit purposes by worship leaders, teachers, and others in the Church and educational communities. Extensive portions of the NRSV may not be quoted without permission from the holder of copyright as stated above. Please contact us if you have questions.
The art images and accompanying descriptions may be freely used for non-profit purposes by worship leaders, teachers, and others in the Church and educational communities. They are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial ShareAlike 3.0 License. In short: you are free to use and to share the file for non-commercial purposes under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license compatible with this one. For other use, please contact the Divinity Library Reference Staff with your request.
- First reading
- Acts 1:1-11
- Psalm
- Psalm 47 or Psalm 93
- Second reading
- Ephesians 1:15-23
- Gospel
- Luke 24:44-53
NEW! Large font format for reading from the pulpit/lectern is now available for the Season of Lent. See our specially formatted pdfs for printing or reading online. Please offer feedback as we refine this offering.
We are now on Facebook -- weekly readings are listed here. Please continue to use the "contact us" icon at the top of the pages on this website if you wish to communicate with us; thank you.
Comments: Please send your comments and questions about the website and its offerings to the Vanderbilt Divinity Library staff.




Your feedback is essential in helping us improve our new interface; thank you!