For each week, the RCL website has added scriptural reflections based on a featured art image, as well as RCL prayers for worship.
How is the Revised Common Lectionary structured?
How is the Revised Common Lectionary structured?
The RCL offers a three-year cycle with four readings for every Sunday in the Church Year. These readings are:
- A Lesson from the Hebrew Scriptures (or Acts during the Season of Easter)
- A Psalm
- A Lesson from the Epistles or Acts
- A Lesson from the Gospels
During Ordinary Time, there are two sets of Hebrew Bible readings. One set progresses semi-continuously through the Patriarchal/Exodus narratives (Year A), the Monarchial narratives (Year B), and the Prophets (Year C). The other set is related thematically to the gospel lections for those dates. Likewise, during Ordinary Time, there are two separate Psalm readings, one that corresponds to the semi-continuous Hebrew Bible lection and one that corresponds to the theme of the gospel lection. The Hebrew Bible lections during the rest of the year are thematically related to the gospel lections, which are in turn connected to the seasons of the Church Year. Additional readings are provided for special feast days.
- First reading
- 2 Kings 5:1-14
- Psalm
- Psalm 30
- Second reading
- 1 Corinthians 9:24-27
- Gospel
- Mark 1:40-45
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