What Sunday of the church year is it?
Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Season of ordinary · liturgical color Green
Year A of the Revised Common Lectionary
This week’s lectionary readings
- First readingGenesis 50:15-21
- PsalmPsalm 103:(1-7) 8-13
- Second readingRomans 14:1-12
- GospelMatthew 18:21-35
Coming Sundays
- Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost — ordinary 2026-09-20
- Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost — ordinary 2026-09-27
- Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost (also: World Communion Sunday) — ordinary 2026-10-04
- Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost — ordinary 2026-10-11
- Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost — ordinary 2026-10-18
- Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost (also: Reformation Sunday) — ordinary 2026-10-25
- Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost (also: All Saints Sunday) — ordinary 2026-11-01
- Twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost — ordinary 2026-11-08
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Frequently asked
What Sunday of the church year is it?
Today falls in Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost — the season of ordinary, liturgical color Green, in Year A of the Revised Common Lectionary.
What liturgical season are we in?
We are in ordinary. The liturgical color is Green.
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