Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity (Proper 21)

The Common Worship lectionary readings for Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity (Proper 21) in Year C, the liturgical colour, and what changes in the order of service.

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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 — All people that on earth do dwell Old Hundredth: nobody needs the book
• Gradual — The kingdom of God is justice and joy The rich man and Lazarus at the gate
• Offertory — Now thank we all our God Thanksgiving at the preparation of the table
• Communion — Be thou my vision Slane; 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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