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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