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  Alternative Psalmody              
for the Principal Service Lectionary
 
  The purpose of this Alternative Psalmody is, in some cases, to reduce the number of verses of a particular provision and, in others, to simplify the reading. Psalms which are starred * have alternatives listed in this table.    
 
  Year A Year B Year C
Advent 1    80.1-8  
Advent 2 72.1-7   85.8-13  
Advent 3     146.4-10
Advent 4 80.1-8   89.1-8  
Christmas 1 148.7-14    148.7-14 148.7-14
Epiphany 2    139.1-9  
Epiphany 3 27.1-11   19.1-6
Proper 1   147.1-12  
Proper 3      37.1-7
Lent 1     91.1-11
Lent 3    19.7-14  
Lent 4    107.1-9  
Palm Sunday 118.19-24  118.19-24  118.19-24 
  31.9-18  31.9-18 31.9-18
Tuesday in Holy Week 71.1-8    71.1-8 71.1-8
Maundy Thursday 116.9-17  116.9-17 116.9-17
Good Friday 22.1-11
or
1-21
22.1-11
or
1-21
22.1-11
or
1-21
Easter Eve 31.1-5      31.1-5   31.1-5
Easter Day 118.14-24  118.14-24  118.14-24
Easter 3 116.1-7    
Easter 5 31.1-5       148.1-6
Easter 7 68.1-10    
Pentecost 104.26-37        104.26-37  104.26-37
Proper 4 31.19-24    
Proper 6 116.9-17  92.1-8  
Proper 7 86.1-10     42 or 43     
  69.14-20  107.23-32  
Proper 8 89.8-18      77.11-20
Proper 10 65.8-13    
Proper 11 139.1-11    
Proper 12 105.1-11    85.1-7
Proper 13 17.1-7       107.1-9
  145.15-22   49.1-9
Proper 14 105.1-10    50.1-7 
      33.12-21
Proper 15      80.9-20
Proper 17 115 45.1-7  81.1-11
Proper 18      139.1-7
Proper 19 103.8-13     19.1-6  
Proper 20 105.37-45    
Proper 21 78.1-7           91.11-16
Proper 22 19.7-14    137.1-6
Proper 23 106.1-6         
Proper 24 99.1-9 104.1-10  
Proper 25 90.1-6 34.1-8   65.1-7
4 before Advent 107.1-8    
3 before Advent      17.1-8
2 before Advent 90.1-8    
? The Archbishops' Council of the Church of England, 2000-2004
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