The following First Lessons may be used at the discretion of the Minister in place of the lessons from the Apocrypha on Sundays from the Twenty-first to the Twenty-sixth Sundays after Trinity.
Year I
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Morning Prayer
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Evening Prayer
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Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity
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Job 39:1–40:4
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Jeremiah 5:20–end
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Twenty-second Sunday after Trinity
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Habakkuk 1:1–14
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Jeremiah 10:1–16
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Twenty-third Sunday after Trinity
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Habakkuk 2:1–14
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Jeremiah 11:1–15
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Twenty-fourth Sunday after Trinity
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Habakkuk 3:2–end
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Jeremiah 22:1–9
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Twenty-fifth Sunday after Trinity
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Amos 2:4–end
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Ezekiel 14:1–11
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Twenty-sixth Sunday after Trinity
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Amos 4:4–end
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Ezekiel 14:12–end
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Year II
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Morning Prayer
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Evening Prayer
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Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity
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Proverbs 2
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Daniel 1
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Twenty-second Sunday after Trinity
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Proverbs 9:1–11
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Daniel 2:1–23
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Twenty-third Sunday after Trinity
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Proverbs 16:9–20
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Daniel 2:24–45
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Twenty-fourth Sunday after Trinity
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Proverbs 25:11–end
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Daniel 9:1–19
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Twenty-fifth Sunday after Trinity
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Zechariah 1:7–end
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Zechariah 9:9–12 & 16
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Twenty-sixth Sunday after Trinity
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Zechariah 11
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Zechariah 13
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Lessons for Special Occasions
Feast of Dedication
on the anniversary of the consecration of a church, or, where the actual date is unknown, on the first Sunday in October, as ordered by Convocation in 1536, and as permitted in the Proposed Prayer Book of 1928.
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1st Evensong
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Genesis 28:10–end
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Revelation 21:9–16
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Mattins
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2 Chronicales 29:6–19
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Ephesians 2:8–end
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2nd Evensong
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1 Kings 8:22–30
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Hebrews 10:19–25
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Patronal Festival,
that is, the Festival of our Lord, or of the mystery, or of the saint in whose honour the church is dedicated. If this day is provided with proper lessons in the Table of Lessons, these will be read, but if not, appropriate lessons should be chosen.
Thanksgiving for Harvest
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Genesis 1:24–end
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Matthew 13:24–30, 36–43
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Deuteronomy 8
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Luke 8:4–15
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Deuteronomy 26:1–11
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Luke 12:13–34
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Joel 2:21–27
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John 6:26–35
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Remembrance Sunday
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Micah 4:1–5
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Romans 8:31–end
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Ecclesiasticus 51:1–12
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1 Corinthians 15:30–end
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St Andrew’s Tide
and other missionary occasions
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Isaiah 49:1–13
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Luke 4:16–21
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Isaiah 61
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John 4:31–38
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Ezekiel 2:1–3:3
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Acts 16:6–15
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Jonah 3
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Romans 10:9–15
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Zechariah 8:20–end
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Ephesians 3:1–11
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Commomoration of the Faithful Departed
(suitable for use on All Souls’ Day and on other appropriate occasions)
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Isaiah 38:10–30
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John 5:24–29
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Isaiah 43:1–7
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1 Corinthians 15:51–end
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Job 19:21–27a
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Revelation 1:9–18
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or, except on November 2nd,
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Wisdom 3:1–9
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John 11:21–27
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Wisdom 4:7–13
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1 Thessalonians 4:13–end
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Wisdom 5:1–15
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Revelation 20:11–13
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Thanksgiving for the Institution of Holy Communion
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Exodus 16:2–15
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Mark 14:12–25
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Exodus 24:1–11
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John 6:22–35
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Proverbs 9:1–5
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1 Corinthians 10:1–17
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