Trinity Sunday

The Common Worship lectionary readings for Trinity Sunday in Year B, the liturgical colour, and what changes in the order of service.

Year B · Ordinary Time · white/gold

Year BOrdinary Timewhite/gold

The readings

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

Gold, or white where a parish has no gold set, for the principal feasts of the year. On this Sunday the colour is white/gold.

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 — Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty Nicaea; effectively the Trinity Sunday hymn
• Gradual — I bind unto myself today Nicodemus: born of water and the Spirit, in the threefold name
• Offertory — Father, Lord of all creation Abbot's Leigh; the threefold name at the offertory
• Communion — Firmly I believe and truly Creed turned to devotion
• Final — Thou whose almighty word Moscow; the Trinity sent out into the world

When it next falls

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

The same Sunday in the other years

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