Cycle A B C

[Gabbanelli911]

Question, we are in cycle A in the liturgy, then it will be cycle B and C. So, when cycle A comes again, will Sundays readings be the same as 2014 cicle A readings? 2017 cicle A, will it be the same as 2014 Sunday readings?

 

[1ke]

Yes.

Same for Year I and Year II for daily Mass, same readings in each yearly cycle.

 

[FrDavid96]

Question, we are in cycle A in the liturgy, then it will be cycle B and C. So, when cycle A comes again, will Sundays readings be the same as 2014 cicle A readings? 2017 cicle A, will it be the same as 2014 Sunday readings?

Yes, the Year A readings will remain the same (unless there’s some revision of the Lectionary between now and then, but that’s not very likely). However, the calendar dates will not be the same. In other words, March 23 of 2017 won’t be the 4th Sunday of Lent.

 

[powerofk]

Question, we are in cycle A in the liturgy, then it will be cycle B and C. So, when cycle A comes again, will Sundays readings be the same as 2014 cicle A readings? 2017 cicle A, will it be the same as 2014 Sunday readings?

Yes, with a caveat. If a mandatory universal solemnity (such as “The Chair of Peter”; “Ss. Peter & Paul”; “Birth of St. John the Baptist”; etc.) falls on a Sunday during Ordinary Time, the readings of the solemnity are read instead of the readings for the Sunday of Ordinary Time. For instance, this year, the feasts of Ss. Peter & Paul, All Souls, and the Dedication of St. John Lateran Basilica all fall on Sundays this year. As such, the readings for the specified feasts will be read instead of the regular Sunday readings. However, in 3 years, these feasts will not take place on Sunday.

 

[Granum_Frumenti]

Another difference from year to year is that because the date of Easter varies, the arrangement of the weeks of Ordinary Time before Lent and after Pentecost will vary.

One big difference that comes quickly to my mind involves 2008 and 2011: Easter in 2008 fell on March 23, the second-earliest possible date, but on April 24 in 2011, the second-latest possible date.

I checked the Calendar of Lectionary Cycles and Movable Liturgical Feasts (1969 – 2050) (which points out the same thing about Easter extremes as I just did) on Fr. Felix Just’s handy Catholic Resources site. The year 2008 saw 4 weeks of Ordinary Time before Lent (including the partial week ending on Shrove Tuesday), but 2011 saw 9 weeks. The week of Ordinary Time after Pentecost was #6 in 2008 but #11 in 2011.

Each year omits a different week of Ordinary Time, which you can figure out from the gap. (Apparently such an omission doesn’t happen every year, but it happens more often than not.)

Since this is 2014, another three years off, I checked the corresponding figures (8 weeks of Ordinary Time before Lent; week #9 skipped; week #10 after Pentecost). These resemble–but are not identical to–those of 2011.

The difference in overall coverage is not extreme, but anyone wondering “can I reuse [some resource] made specifically for that liturgical year, same cycle, that happened to be three [six, nine, twelve…] years ago?” should keep this “jump” in mind, especially around those transitions.

 

[ProVobis]

The difference in overall coverage is not extreme, but anyone wondering “can I reuse [some resource] made specifically for that liturgical year, same cycle, that happened to be three [six, nine, twelve…] years ago?” should keep this “jump” in mind, especially around those transitions.

It would depend on which Bible translation they decide to use, I would think. You’re probably okay to use whatever you have, including Latin and other languages; however the priest and readers have stricter rules.

 

[powerofk]

Each year omits a different week of Ordinary Time, which you can figure out from the gap. (Apparently such an omission doesn’t happen every year, but it happens more often than not.)

I forgot about this! Only about once per seven years (on average, due to leap years) are no weeks during Ordinary Time skipped - the years when there end up being 53 Sundays during a given liturgical year. Plus, the Ordinary Time Sunday readings for the first two Sundays after Pentecost are also skipped in the US due to the first Sunday after Pentecost (regardless of when it occurs) being the Feast of the Holy Trinity, and because the US has moved the Feast of Corpus Christi from the second Thursday after Pentecost to the second Sunday after Pentecost.

 

[Granum_Frumenti]

The difference in overall coverage is not extreme, but anyone wondering “can I reuse [some resource] made specifically for that liturgical year, same cycle, that happened to be three [six, nine, twelve…] years ago?” should keep this “jump” in mind, especially around those transitions.

It would depend on which Bible translation they decide to use, I would think. You’re probably okay to use whatever you have, including Latin and other languages; however the priest and readers have stricter rules.

Oh, I had in mind things like old missalettes. I don’t have any lying around to check systematically, but I suspect, for example, that they don’t cover that skipped week (if that year has one) of Ordinary Time.

 

[ProVobis]

Oh, I had in mind things like old missalettes. I don’t have any lying around to check systematically, but I suspect, for example, that they don’t cover that skipped week (if that year has one) of Ordinary Time.

I believe most of the missalettes are disposable. Each parish should have its own current set of missalettes in whatever language they use at the parish, Spanish, English, Latin, etc. They may have readings from past missalettes but to use the older ones I believe would be confusing since they have different dates, etc. I believe Fr David addressed some of these concerns on another thread.

forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=871041

 

[Granum_Frumenti]

I believe most of the missalettes are disposable. Each parish should have its own current set of missalettes in whatever language they use at the parish, Spanish, English, Latin, etc. They may have readings from past missalettes but to use the older ones I believe would be confusing since they have different dates, etc. I believe Fr David addressed some of these concerns on another thread.

forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=871041

Oh, here I’m thinking about a situation like using an old missalette out of something like necessity: for example, “I can’t find the current year’s readings here, but I did find this missalette from three years ago.” (To my mind, whether the original poster had a case like this in mind, this is one applied case of the question in the original post.)

Someone may be thinking of finding the Sunday readings in the older edition because since the underlying cycle is the same in both years. I’d be saying that the search may have “complications.”

(I can imagine someone having an old missalette at home or somewhere else. I’m having a harder time imagining finding a three-year-old missalette in the pews. Yes, at least the missalettes in my experience are made to be disposable; they are clearly dated on the cover. Even if they weren’t, there’d be problems from year to year from just the changes in the days of the week. The changes in the date of Easter are even larger. I don’t imagine that a parish, even to save money, would want to save old ones for future congregational use; there are other reasons why the parish wouldn’t want to, but the date problem by itself is considerable.)