Readings Sep 14/25 to Dec 25/25

Sunday, September 14th, 2025
Season of Creation
Holy Eucharist: Propers 422 or FAS 279; Num 21:4b-9; Ps 98:1-6; 1 Cor 1:18-24; Jn 3:13-17; Preface of Holy Week

Sunday, September 21st, 2025
Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost [Proper 25] (Green)
Season of Creation
Holy Eucharist: Propers 381; Jer 8:18—9:1; Ps 79:1-9; 1 Tim 2:1-7; Lk 16:1-13; Preface of the Lord’s Day

Sunday, September 28th, 2025
Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost [Proper 26] (Green)
Season of Creation
Holy Eucharist: Propers 382; Jer 32:1-3a, 6-15; Ps 91:1-6, 14-16; 1 Tim 6:6-19; Lk 16:19-31; Preface of the Lord’s Day

Sunday, October 5th, 2025
Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost [Proper 27] (Green)
Blessing of the Animals (pamphlet)

Sunday, October 12th, 2025
Harvest Thanksgiving (White)
Harvest Thanksgiving: Propers 396; Dt 26:1-11; Ps 100; Phil 4:4-9; Jn 6:25-35; Preface of the Lord’s Day

Sunday, October 19th, 2025
Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost [Proper 29] (Green)
Holy Eucharist: Propers 386; Jer 31:27-34; Ps 119:97-104; 2 Tim 3:14—4:5; Lk 18:1-8; Preface of the Lord’s Day

Sunday, October 26th, 2025 BISHOP’s VISIT
Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost [Proper 30] (Green)
Holy Eucharist: Proper 30: Propers 388; Jl 2:23-32; Ps 65; 2 Tim 4:6-8, 16-18; Lk 18:9-14; Preface of the Lord’s Day

Sunday, November 2nd, 2025
All Saints’ Sunday – PF (White or Gold)
Holy Eucharist: All Saints’ Sunday: Propers 427 or FAS 329; Dan 7:1-3, 15-18; Ps 149; Eph 1:11-23; Lk 6:20-31; Preface of All Saints

Sunday, November 9th, 2025
Remembrance Sunday (Violet or Black)
Remembrance Sunday (ALL SOULS DAY)
Eucharist: The Propers for All Souls Day are appointed for Remembrance Sunday. Names of members of those who have died in the last year may be included in the prayers of the people and a special intention made for them with the prayer before the gifts. If there are members of the parish who died in the wars it would be appropriate to add their names as well. A Litany of the departed for use before or after the Eucharist is provided by the Church of England’s Common Worship: Times and Seasons (available online).

Act of Remembrance: This may be best done at the end of the service. During an appropriate hymn there may be a procession to a suitable station such as a war memorial, plaque, or a list of those who served and or died in the wars. Such a service is also provided in Common Worship: Times and Seasons. The dismissal and blessing may be said after this or before the procession to the station.

Blessing of a Graveyard: There may be a procession to the graveyard using Psalm 25, Psalm 116, Psalm 118, or Psalm 42. The blessing and dismissal would be used at the conclusion of this second (or first) special act of commemoration. One of the best of these services that may be adapted to local use may be found in the Catholic Book of Blessings (available at the Catholic Culture website). The minister may circulate through the graveyard after this service and bless individual graves and offer prayers for individual departed members. In practice this means that family and friends of the departed disperse to different areas of the graveyard to clean and tidy the graves as they wait for the minister to come to them. It may be appropriate for the whole congregation to gather first at the graves of those parishioners who have died in war or during the previous year. In parishes where the cemetery is located some distance from the parish church, this service, extended with readings, may be used at another time during the day or during the week.

Colour: As All Saints and All Souls reflect two different aspects of the Christian theology of death it may be appropriate to reflect this in the liturgical colour used for both days. White for All Saints allows for thanksgiving for those who have been sanctified. Traditionally violet (or black) has been used for All Souls to reflect the eschatological hope of salvation for all people and to also allow an occasion for the public expression of bereavement. Violet allows a more somber reflection of the reality of the grief of the loss of loved ones in a culture that is often uncomfortable with grieving. This is especially true for those who died in armed conflict. However, it may be more pastorally appropriate to use white if the parish regularly uses white for funerals and has integrating a hopeful and joyous eschatological outlook. In this case it may be appropriate to change into a violet stole for the blessing of graveyard and individual graves to allow an expression of human loss invariably found in the experience of death.
Note on the Name of the Service: Remembrance Sunday is the most common title. Although “All Souls’ Sunday” does have a complimentary ring with “All Saints’ Sunday” it may sound alien to many. “Commemoration of the Faithful Departed (or just ‘Departed:’) with an (or ‘the’) Act of Remembrance”, or “Commemoration of the Departed: with an Act of Remembrance and the Blessing of the Graveyard” might be more suitable.

Remembrance Sunday: Propers 429 or FAS 331; Wis 3:1-9; Ps 116:1-8; 1 Pet 1:3-9; Jn 6:37-40 or Jn 11:21-27; Preface for the Commemoration of the Dead

Sunday, November 16th, 2025
Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost [Proper 33] (Green)
Holy Eucharist: Propers 392; Is 65:17-25; Is 12 (as canticle); 2 Th 3:6-13; Lk 21:5-19; Preface of the Lord’s Day

Sunday, November 23rd, 2025
Last Sunday after Pentecost: The Reign of Christ [Proper 34] (White)
Holy Eucharist: Propers 394; Jer 23:1-6; C 19 (Luke 1:68-79); Col 1:11-20; Lk 23:33-43; Preface of the Reign of Christ

Sunday, November 30th, 2025
First Sunday of Advent (Violet or Blue)
Advent
The Advent Wreath: An Advent wreath may be erected in the church with four candles (rose for Advent III and violet for the other Sundays—the traditional liturgical colours of Advent, but for parishes that use blue during Advent it would be appropriate for the candles to also be blue). These traditionally represent 1) the Patriarchs, 2) the Prophets, 3) John the Baptist, and 4) the Blessed Virgin Mary. Another popular representation is 1) Hope, 2) Peace, 3) Love, and 4) Joy. Some choose to combine these by describing the candle from the one and the intent from the other, for example “We light the candle of Love for the Blessed Virgin Mary”. Often a fifth candle (white) is placed in the centre of the wreath to be lit on Christmas Eve and throughout the Christmas season. Each Sunday (beginning with First Evening Prayer), the appropriate number of candles is lit in advance of the formal liturgy. The Book of Occasional Celebrations provides material for the use of the Advent Wreath (A34).

Gloria in Advent: It is customary to omit the Gloria during the season of Advent.

Advent Festival of Readings and Music: The Book of Occasional Celebrations (A2) provides materials for this service to be used during the Advent season.

Advent Prose: Many parishes use the Advent Prose during this season. This can be found in many Anglican hymnals.

Ancient Advent Antiphons: The O Antiphons may be said or sung before and after the Magnificat at evening prayer between the 17th and the 23rd of December, when Advent enters it final thematic phase anticipating the Nativity of Christ. These antiphons, or refrains, all beginning “O…”, were sung before and after the Magnificat at Vespers, according to the Roman use, on the seven days preceding Christmas Eve (December 17-23). They are addressed to God, calling for him to come as teacher and deliverer, with a tapestry of scriptural titles and pictures that describe his saving work in Christ. It is not known when and by whom the antiphons were composed, but they were already in use by the eighth century. The translations provided are from the Church of England’s Common Worship.

Holy Eucharist: (Year A) Propers 268; Is 2:1-5; Ps 122; Rom 13:11-14; Mt 24:36-44; Preface of Advent

Sunday, December 7th, 2025
Second Sunday of Advent (Violet or Blue)
Holy Eucharist: Propers 269; Is 11:1-10; Ps 72:1-7, 18-19; Rom 15:4-13; Mt 3:1-12; Preface of Advent

December 14, 2025 Advent 3 CONCERT?

December 21, 2025 Advent 4 LESSONS AND CAROLS?

December 24, 2025 Christmas Eve

December 25, Christmas Morning