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1 Maccabees in the Daily Office Lectionary

The Daily Office Lectionary appoints 1 Maccabees 9 times in its two-year course. The course reads 4 of its 16 chapters, 1 of them in full.

Chapter by chapter

  • Year One reads chapters 1–4 during the Season after Pentecost, at Morning Prayer.
  • Year Two does not read it in the course.
1 Maccabees chapters: Year One only 1–4; not in the two-year course 5–16; in part 1–2, 4.
  • Year One only
  • Year Two only
  • Both years
  • Half filled: only part of the chapter
  • Not in the two-year course

When both offices have two lessons, “the Old Testament Reading for the alternate year is used as the First Reading at Evening Prayer” (BCP p. 934). This site and the app follow that rubric, so most of these lessons are heard twice: at Morning Prayer in the year listed, and at Evening Prayer on the same day in the other year.

Year One9 lessons

1 Maccabees in Year One of the Daily Office Lectionary
WhenOfficeLessonBCP page
Week of Proper 27, ThursdayMorning1 Maccabees 1:1-28992
Week of Proper 27, FridayMorning1 Maccabees 1:41-63992
Week of Proper 27, SaturdayMorning1 Maccabees 2:1-28992
Week of Proper 28, SundayMorning1 Maccabees 2:29-43, 49-50992
Week of Proper 28, MondayMorning1 Maccabees 3:1-24992
Week of Proper 28, TuesdayMorning1 Maccabees 3:25-41992
Week of Proper 28, WednesdayMorning1 Maccabees 3:42-60992
Week of Proper 28, ThursdayMorning1 Maccabees 4:1-25992
Week of Proper 28, FridayMorning1 Maccabees 4:36-59992

Coming up

The next 12 offices on this site that read from 1 Maccabees:

6 more through November 19, 2027; see the calendar.