Like a lectionary, but only the scripture references?

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My fiancée and I enjoy reading and discussing the daily readings together. While we’ve made much use of the Laudate app and a couple Daily Roman Missals, she’s repeatedly expressed a preference for reading directly from the Bible.

Try as I might, I’ve had no luck in finding a printed reference for just the scripture readings (as in, just the chapter and verse numbers, no text). I know there are lots of online references that I could probably just print out, but I was hoping to find something more in the form of a small physical booklet. Does anyone know of such a thing?

If not, I’ll take any and all suggestions for self-printing services for a small booklet I’ll try to put together myself. Thank you!
 
I doubt you’d find one. The readings are on a three year cycle for Sunday Masses, and a two year one for daily Masses, so they’re not always the same.
 
Welcome, seadaily.

The first “standalone” reference that comes to mind is an Ordo. It has the list of readings for each day for the given year.
 
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So why not just look at the reading verses and open your bibles and read it? I don’t see what the difference is.
 
Thank you Usige for the lead, I’ll be sure to check that out!

Its mostly to have a handy (hopefully pocket-sized) reference that doesn’t require using a book that already has the text laid out or being on our phones where we can be distracted.

Thank you all for the replies so far.
 
Have you looked at your parish bulletin, diocesan newspaper/website, or even the calendars that many parishes distribute at the end of the year? In each of those for me, I find the scripture citations for the upcoming week’s readings.

Example:
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I have a New American Bible put out by St. Benedict Press, and it lists the Sunday and weekday citations in the back.

Otherwise, you can just print out the USCCB Liturgical Calendar each year. If it takes too many pages for you, you could go to the trouble of cutting and pasting and reformatting or just download the PDF.

If you’d like it to be formatted or booklet form, the USCCB sells that, too:

The Liturgical Calendar can be purchased by writing to:

USCCB – Divine Worship
3211 Fourth Street, NE
Washington, DC 20017
ATTN: 2020 Liturgical Calendar

All orders must be accompanied by a check made out to “Committee on Divine Worship” in the amount of $10.00 per copy, covering printing, postage and handling. An electronic file (either Microsoft Word or PDF format in an e-mail attachment) of the calendar is also available for $10.00.
http://www.usccb.org/about/divine-worship/liturgical-calendar/upload/2019cal.pdf
 
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Thank you Usige for the lead, I’ll be sure to check that out!
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No problem. While I said an Ordo is my first thought, it has much more in it than the daily readings. It also has which part of the Psalter to use for liturgy of the hours, which Masses can be offered, as well as a necrology of the clergy in that region. Great for someone that needs all of it, but a bit more than you asked for. (Please Note: This uploaded content is no longer available.)

Looking at the link @Todd_Easton provided, that would seem to be a better match… plus you could buy 6 years of them for the same price as a single yearly Ordo. 😉
 
The 2019 Catholic Daily Bible Reading Guide, a downloadable pdf, produced by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines and the Philippine Bible Society, is the most compact listing of daily Mass readings for 2019 that I’ve seen online. Once properly sized, it looks like its two pages could all fit on the front and back of a single piece of paper. I suppose the Mass readings are pretty much the same whether you are in the Philippines or elsewhere.
 
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That is certainly compact (especially if you print it on letter/A4 paper). They even managed to get the 4 week psalter on there. You might have to ask your eye doctor if I could use it as an eye chart though. 😃

For the most part the readings are right. The main difference would be in areas like last week where some might celebrate the Ascension on Thursday versus those where it was moved to the 7th Sunday of Easter. In those cases the readings would be off for a handful of days. Other minor differences would be around feast days that might be celebrated locally, but not in the Philippines. For the most part it likely wouldn’t be a big issue though. Overall a nice find.
 
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At our parish, the locations (book, chapter and verse) for the upcoming week’s readings are printed on the bulletin front cover. This is pretty common (somewhere in the bulletin).
 
Some Catholic Bibles have a section at the back listing the daily readings, week by week – typically two weeks to a page, taking up about 30 pages altogether.
 
One thing I would like to see is to have those who recite the readings at Mass do it like they used to do back when I was growing up.
They would actually give the chapter and verse(s), not just day this reading is a reading from the Book of John.
The old way helps to connect us to the Bible a little more, in my opinion.
 
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