How do I search Daily Readings?

[scylla]

I would like to be able to search the Daily Readings automatically to see when we read certain passages.

About a year ago we had a Jehovah’s Witness on the boards claim that one particular passage was ignored by Catholics, which happened to fall a week or so later on a Sunday.
So I didn’t have to even search it but just looked and found it easy. This was fortunate but I would really like to be able to search to see when any particular Gospel passage or etc is read any day of the week.
For example…
Lets say I want to know when we read Romans 3:10 and would just want to quickly find out which date that falls on.
Without having to manually search the readings schedule in the back of my Saint Joseph Bible.
Would anyone be able to help?

God Bless
Scylla

 

[Mintaka]

Go to a search engine site.

Search for results coming from the site with the Mass readings.

Search for, say, “Romans 3” or “Rom. 3”. (You don’t want to narrow it down farther than that, because usually readings only cite the beginning and end of the passage being used, not every verse. You wouldn’t want to miss Romans 3:10 because the reading started at Romans 3:8.) Look through the search results until you find the passage you want; then note down the day. (You may have to look at the cached version of a page to find out the liturgical calendar week, etc.)

The USCCB site has a lectionary, but only for the current year. Google’s cache doesn’t go back very far, but it would work.
Universalis.com is difficult to search this way for similar reasons, although searching for Liturgy of the Hours readings is pretty easy.

EWTN.com’s Mass readings site is very nice, but I didn’t seem to be able to find Romans 3 readings there.

CIN Daily Word, through Google Groups, is probably the easiest to search (on Google Groups). But it doesn’t go back any longer than a couple years. The problem with faithofthefathersreadings.blogspot.com is similar.

Sorry I couldn’t help more. There are plenty of places where you can look up the readings for a specific day, but not vice versa.

You know what might be a neat project? Just for grins, and probably easier to do online? Somebody taking a (probably public domain) Bible and marking all the Mass readings in it, just so you can see what seasons and liturgical years use what, what gets used for special occasions like funerals, what gets used in the Liturgy of the Hours, and what few passages we never actually read liturgically at all.

 

[scylla]

That is a good idea, which would be useful for the purpose for which I am asking the original question.

Thanks for your suggestions, I hope someone else might have more…

Scylla

 

[jprioli]

There is a way, but it’s not terribly convenient…

In the back of the Lectionary is a chart that delineates the use of each pericope. It is pretty easy to find when a particular reading is used, but you need to have access to the actual printed-and-bound Lectionary.

If this is an occasional question, you could just take a peek at it before or after Mass.

Pax,
Deacon Joe

 

[Todd_Easton]

In the back of my New Saint Joseph Sunday Missal there is an Index of Biblical Readings. Similarly, in the back of each of the two volumes of my New Saint Joseph Weekday Missal, there is an Index of Biblical Readings, covering the readings contained in the particular volume.

Romans 3:10 does not appear in any of the Mass readings.

I don’t know of an online resource.

 

[Rykell]

Todd, you are correct that Romans 3 does not appear in the lectionary. The first reference centers on all readings in the lectionary for Romans. The second allows you to select the area of scripture. There is also a link for each cycle. I hope this is what the OP needed.

textweek.com/romans.htm

textweek.com/scripture.htm