The church, Christian calendar starts with Advent. The 2020-21 calendar started on 29 November 2020.
Today (30 May 2021) is the start of week 27 on the church calendar.
The “normal” calendar starts on a Sunday, and today is the beginning of week 22 (where the first Sunday (03 January) of the year was the start of the first week of the year).
Many churches in South Africa and around the world uses reading lectionaries to plan their Sunday and other services, sermons and messages. One of these lectionaries that are used by some in the Dutch Reformed Church (NG Kerk) in South Africa, is the Revised Common Lectionary. I also use this lectionary’s Bible texts most of the time.
Week 27’s texts that are commonly used, is:
- John 3:1-17
- Isaiah 6:1-8
- Psalm 29
- Romans 8:12-17
On the Christian calendar, today is the first Sunday after Pentecost. In the Afrikaans church, it is called “eerste Sondag van Koninkrykstyd”, which is translated to “first Sunday of Kingdom time”. Today is also Trinity Sunday.
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