Lenten Gospel Readings



I'll be blunt: i think all Christians should read the Gospels - with footnotes, ideally - during Lent.  You might be tempted to just read John (not that there's a "best" Gospel), but, quite frankly, that's a cakewalk.  Even adding in Luke doesn't make it anything close to a feat; the Gospels simply aren't all that long.  As it so happens, the WEB translation site (which is a good idea despite not being a Catholic version) has a "read (most of) the Bible in a year" list which breaks the Gospels down into forty days.  That's just all kinds of handy.

Well, without further ado, here's the list.  I duplicated the names of the Gospels so that the entire list could be copied and each line deleted as it's read.  I'm not going to tie each reading to a particular day because in the Byzantine Rite everything is shifted two days earlier (beginning the Monday prior to Fat Tuesday and ending the Thursday prior to Easter) because His passion, death, and burial are celebrated apart from the Great Fast.

Matthew  1-4
Matthew  5-6
Matthew  7-9
Matthew  10-11
Matthew  12-13
Matthew  14-17
Matthew  18-20
Matthew  21-22
Matthew  23-24
Matthew  25-26
Matthew  27-28

Mark  1-3
Mark  4-5
Mark  6-7
Mark  8-9
Mark  10-11
Mark  12-13
Mark  14
Mark  15-16

Luke  1-2
Luke  3-4
Luke  5-6
Luke  7-8
Luke  9-10
Luke  11-12
Luke  13-15
Luke  16-18
Luke  19-20
Luke  21-22
Luke  23-24

John  1-2
John  3-4
John  5-6
John  7-8
John  9-10
John  11-12
John  13-15
John  16-17
John  18-19
John  20-21


WEB translation -   http://ebible.org/
(in case you don't have a paper Bible handy)


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