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Lamentations in the Daily Office Lectionary

The Daily Office Lectionary appoints Lamentations 8 times in its two-year course. The course reads 3 of its 5 chapters, 0 of them in full.

Chapter by chapter

  • Year One reads chapters 1–2 during the Season after Pentecost, at Morning Prayer.
  • Year Two reads chapters 1–3 during Holy Week, at Morning Prayer.
Lamentations chapters: both years 1–2; Year Two only 3; not in the two-year course 4–5; in part 1–3.
  • 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 One2 lessons

Lamentations in Year One of the Daily Office Lectionary
WhenOfficeLessonBCP page
Week of Proper 24, TuesdayMorningLamentations 1:1-5(6-9)10-12988
Week of Proper 24, WednesdayMorningLamentations 2:8-15988

Year Two6 lessons

Lamentations in Year Two of the Daily Office Lectionary
WhenOfficeLessonBCP page
Holy Week, MondayMorningLamentations 1:1-2, 6-12957
Holy Week, TuesdayMorningLamentations 1:17-22957
Holy Week, WednesdayMorningLamentations 2:1-9957
Holy Week, Maundy ThursdayMorningLamentations 2:10-18957
Holy Week, Good FridayMorningLamentations 3:1-9, 19-33957
Holy Week, Holy SaturdayMorningLamentations 3:37-58957

Coming up

The next 10 offices on this site that read from Lamentations: