Looking up Mass Readings by Chapter and Verse

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There are plenty of sites out there where you can look up the day of the Liturgical Year and find out what the Readings are.

But, I am thinking of something different. Basically, you look up a verse and it will tell you on which days of the Liturgical Year that the verse or verses appear. It would include the Entrance and Communion Antiphons, the 1st and 2nd Readings, the Responsorial Psalms, the Alleluia Verse (or Verse before the Gospel), and the Gospel.

The left column would list the scripture passages used in order and the right column would tell in which Mass they are used and how they are used in that Mass.

For instance:

Isaiah 45:8
Thurs 1st Week of Advent Alleluia Verse



Wed 3rd Week of Advent Responsorial Psalm

4th Sunday of Advent Entrance Antiphon
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Isaiah 48:17-19
Fri 2nd Week of Advent 1st Reading
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(The formatting doesn’t look quite right on the forums here but you should get the idea)

Would anyone else find something like this useful?

James
 
I would find this extremely useful in apologetics.

Here is one example…
About a year ago there was a Jehovah’s Witness on here who was complaining about the Catholic Church and how when he was Catholic he never heard a certain verse said in Church. As the Holy Spirit would have it I just had to look one week ahead in my Bible. So it was easy.

Had the verse been in a different part of the year it would have been difficult, and maybe not practical to find.

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Scylla
 
James0235 said:
There are plenty of sites out there where you can look up the day of the Liturgical Year and find out what the Readings are.

But, I am thinking of something different. Basically, you look up a verse and it will tell you on which days of the Liturgical Year that the verse or verses appear. It would include the Entrance and Communion Antiphons, the 1st and 2nd Readings, the Responsorial Psalms, the Alleluia Verse (or Verse before the Gospel), and the Gospel.

Would anyone else find something like this useful?
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Sounds very helpful. If you could point me to a resource that lists each liturgical day and its scripture, I could write a program to “invert” it and give you the information in the manner you seek.
 
japhy said:
Sounds very helpful. If you could point me to a resource that lists each liturgical day and its scripture, I could write a program to “invert” it and give you the information in the manner you seek.
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Besides the USCCB site there is also Fr. Just’s site. But, neither is quite complete for my purposes - lacking the Antiphons.

Writing a program had crossed my mind. Though I’m not positive I could do it myself anymore. It’s been a few years since I’ve done any programming.

My ultimate goal is to include a 3rd column showing when a particular chapter and verse is used in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite as well.

James
 
scylla said:
I would find this extremely useful in apologetics.

Here is one example…
About a year ago there was a Jehovah’s Witness on here who was complaining about the Catholic Church and how when he was Catholic he never heard a certain verse said in Church. As the Holy Spirit would have it I just had to look one week ahead in my Bible. So it was easy.

Had the verse been in a different part of the year it would have been difficult, and maybe not practical to find.
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I have had similar discussions. Sometimes I knew when a verse was used in Mass, sometimes I didn’t know, and sometimes a verse is never used in Mass.

I also think it would be useful in Bible Studies. Until this year I used to lead 2 Bible Studies a week on the Sunday Readings - one for high school teens and one for their parents and other interested adults in the parish. The adults in particular often appreciated knowing when a particular Reading was used other than for that particular Sunday.

James
 
James0235 said:
Besides the USCCB site there is also Fr. Just’s site. But, neither is quite complete for my purposes - lacking the Antiphons.
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Great minds think alike (see the previous post).
James0235 said:
Writing a program had crossed my mind. Though I’m not positive I could do it myself anymore. It’s been a few years since I’ve done any programming.
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I write code (Perl and… blech… PHP) for a living, so this is the sort of thing I could throw together in a matter of hours.
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My ultimate goal is to include a 3rd column showing when a particular chapter and verse is used in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite as well.
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Fr. Just’s web site has the EF readings as well. Granted, his site is lacking in antiphon verses (and graduals and alleluias in the EF), but it’s as good a starting place as any!

The other trick would then be compiling the use of Scripture in other parts of the Mass (such as the Asperges, the Lavabo, etc.). For instance, Psalm 116[115] is used in the EF of Mass just before the priest receives the Precious Blood from the Chalice.
 
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Sign me up too, please!
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As a start I have created a MSWord file containing all of the verses used in Mass for Advent and Christmas.

I just wanted to visually see in front of me. If I decide to continue I will add Lent and Easter and then Ordinary Time, the Feast Days, Votive Masses. And lastly I will start all over again for the TLM readings.

I think it would be a useful resource to have online. And maybe as a downloadable pdf file as well.

James
 
If anyone is interested in seeing what I originally had in mind here is a link to the file:

lectionary 1.0.doc

It covers all of the Masses of Advent, Christmas, and the Feast of the Holy Family. And it covers all Scripture used in the Entrance and Communion Antiphons, the 1st and 2nd Readings, the Responsorial Psalm, the Alleluia Verse, and the Gospel.

I actually really enjoyed going page by page through the Missal and doing this. It was great to see all of the Scripture used in just this short period of time.

James
 
The Latin edition of the Lectionary has this sort of thing. There is the text, then six columns. I will layout the columns as rows for this example:

AD COLOSSENSES 3, 12-17
Proprium de Sanctis 579 (Proper of Saints)
Communia 740 (I am unsure what “Communia” means. Normal Mass?)
Missae Rituales 802, 807, 812 (Ritual Masses)
Missae pro varis necessitat. 944 (Masses of Various Needs)
Missae Votivae 986 (Votive Masses)
Missae Defunctorum (Masses for the Dead)

In this case the last column is blank.
(Ordo Lectionum Missae, Liberia Editrice Vaticana, 1981, ISBN 88-209-1356-9, page 520).

Each number refers to part of a particular Mass. For example “986” is the second reading from the New Testament for the Votive of Mass “The Holy Name” or “De Sanctissimo Nomine Iesu”. There are also numbers for the Responsorial Psalm and Allelua, but not the Entrance Antiphon and Communion Antiphon.
 
In the St. Joseph Sunday Missal, there’s an “Index of Biblical Readings”. Right after is the Psalms. For the most part it has everything you’re looking for except you have to turn to the page number to see what day it’s read on.

The St. Joseph Sunday Missal doesn’t include the scriptures throughout the rest of the Mass unfortunately.
 
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