Covenant Household

Tuesday after the Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity

Dates: Tuesday 22 September 2026; Tuesday 14 September 2027; Tuesday 3 October 2028.

The lessons

Morning, first lesson
2 Chronicles 20:1–13In place of 1 Maccabees 3:42. The 1922 table appoints that lesson from the Apocrypha.
Morning, second lesson
Colossians 1:21–2:7
Evening, first lesson
2 Chronicles 20:14–30In place of 1 Maccabees 4:1-25. The 1922 table appoints that lesson from the Apocrypha.
Evening, second lesson
John 18:28–40

The lessons come from the Revised Tables of Lessons (1922). The psalms follow the day of the month, in the order of 1662. Open a date in the app to sing the psalm of that day.

The collect

The collect for the Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity, from the Book of Common Prayer (1662).

O LORD, we beseech thee, let thy continual pity cleanse and defend thy Church; and, because it cannot continue in safety without thy succour, preserve it evermore by thy help and goodness; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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