Ninth Sunday after Trinity (Proper 13)

The Common Worship lectionary readings for Ninth Sunday after Trinity (Proper 13) in Year A, the liturgical colour, and what changes in the order of service.

Year A · Ordinary Time · green

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The readings

This Sunday is a Proper, so the Old Testament reading and psalm come in two tracks. Choose one and stay with it for the season — the continuous track reads a book straight through week by week; the related track picks an Old Testament reading that speaks to the Gospel.

Citations follow the Revised Common Lectionary as used in the Church of England's Common Worship principal service lectionary. Verse numbering can differ very slightly between Bible translations.

The liturgical colour

Green is the colour of the two long ordinary stretches — growth, and the ordinary faithfulness of most of the year. On this Sunday the colour is green.

What changes in the service

The standard shape: Gloria and Creed included, nothing seasonal displacing them.

In SundayHQ this is the ordinary template shape. You set your order of service once; when the season turns, one click applies the seasonal change and leaves the rest of your parish's own wording alone.

Hymns that fit these readings

Suggestions matched to the readings above, each with the reason it was chosen:

• Opening — Guide me, O thou great Redeemer 'Bread of heaven, feed me' — feeding of the five thousand
• Gradual — I am the bread of life The feeding of the five thousand, carried into 'I am the bread of life'
• Offertory — Take my life, and let it be Consecration: the offertory's own theme
• Communion — Bread of heaven, on thee we feed The feeding miracle carried into the eucharist
• Final — Great is thy faithfulness 'All I have needed thy hand hath provided' — twelve baskets over

When it next falls

Year A comes round every three years. The date moves because the whole calendar hangs off Easter.

The same Sunday in the other years

Questions