Second Sunday before Lent

The Common Worship lectionary readings for Second Sunday before Lent in Year C, the liturgical colour, and what changes in the order of service.

Year C · Sundays before Lent · green

Year CSundays before Lentgreen

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

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.

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 — Praise, my soul, the King of heaven Confident green-season opening
• Gradual — There's a wideness in God's mercy 'Love your enemies' — mercy wider than justice
• Offertory — Lord, for the years Thanksgiving before Lent begins
• Communion — Be thou my vision Quiet, and universally known
• Final — Forth in thy name, O Lord, I go Sends them into the working week

When it next falls

Year C 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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