Holy Days

The Table of Proper Lessons for Holy Days and other Feasts

Fixed Feasts

These feasts are observed on the same date each year.

Date	Feast	Mattins		Evensong
Date	Feast	1st Lesson	2nd Lesson	1st Lesson	2nd Lesson
Jan 01	Circumcision	Gen. 17	Rom. 2	Deut. 10:12-22	Col. 2
Jan 06	Epiphany	Isa. 60	Luke 3:1-22	Isa. 49	John 2:1-11
Jan 25	Conversion of St. Paul	Wis. 5	Acts 22:1-21	Wis. 6	Acts 26
Feb 02	Purification of the V. Mary	Wis. 9	—	Wis. 12	—
Feb 24	St. Matthias	Wis. 19	—	Sir. 1	—
Mar 25	Annunciation of our Lady	Sir. 2	—	Sir. 3	—
Apr 25	St. Mark	Sir. 4	—	Sir. 5	—
May 01	St. Philip and St. James	Sir. 7	John 1:43-51	Sir. 9	—
Jun 11	St. Barnabas	Sir. 10	Acts 14	Sir. 12	Acts 15:1-35
Jun 24	St. John the Baptist	Mal. 3	Matt. 3	Mal. 4	Matt. 14:1-12
Jun 29	St. Peter	Sir. 15	Acts 3	Sir. 19	Acts 4
Jul 25	St. James	Sir. 21	—	Sir. 22	—
Aug 24	St. Bartholomew	Sir. 24	—	Sir. 29	—
Sep 21	St. Matthew	Sir. 35	—	Sir. 38	—
Sep 29	St. Michael	Gen. 32	Acts 12:1-19	Dan. 10:5-21	Jude 6-15
Oct 18	St. Luke	Sir. 51	—	Job 1	—
Oct 28	St. Simon and St. Jude	Job 24-25	—	Job 42	—
Nov 01	All Saints	Wis. 3:1-9	Heb. 11:32-12:6	Wis. 5:1-16	Rev. 19:1-16
Nov 30	St. Andrew	Prov. 20	—	Prov. 21	—
Dec 21	St. Thomas the Apostle	Prov. 23	—	Prov. 24	—
Dec 25	Nativity of Christ	Isa. 9:1-7	Luke 2:1-14	Isa. 7:10-16	Titus 3:4-8
Dec 26	St. Stephen	Prov. 28	Acts 6:8-7:29	Eccl. 4	Acts 7:30-54
Dec 27	St. John	Eccl. 5	Rev. 1	Eccl. 6	Rev. 22
Dec 28	Innocents' Day	Jer. 31:1-17	—	Wis. 1	—

These feasts are calculated from Easter and fall on different dates each year.