What This Plan Does
The Revised Common Lectionary (RCL) guides Sunday worship in many Anglican, Episcopal, Methodist, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Reformed, and Catholic churches. While it provides a rich three-year cycle of readings, it does not include every chapter of the Bible. This plan extends the RCL so that, over its three-year cycle, the entire Bible is read while remaining within the rhythm of the church year. This is a reading plan for those whose churches follow the Revised Common Lectionary and who want to read the entire Bible over its three-year cycle.
The Pattern
Each week has a shape. Sundays carry the four lectionary readings your church uses. Monday previews next Sunday’s readings — Old Testament, Psalm, Epistle, and Gospel — so you encounter them before hearing them in worship. Tuesday reads the full chapter of Monday’s Old Testament excerpt. Wednesday through Friday work through a book of the Bible, chapter by chapter, matched to the season. Saturday revisits the Monday preview as a final pass before Sunday.
Each season has a walk. Advent reads through Isaiah. Lent through Ezekiel. Easter through Acts. The long stretch of Ordinary Time after Pentecost works from Genesis through Judges. Each cycle (A, B, C) walks different books, so across three years the entire Bible is covered — every verse of every chapter.
Feasts have their own place in the sequence. Christmas, Holy Week, Ascension, and other major days carry their own appointed readings. The sequential walk continues afterward.
When the RCL appoints two alternative Old Testament readings for a Sunday, both are included on different days of the week. There is an option to show readings from the deuterocanonical books, although they are not fully covered.
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