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Your Essential Worship Planning Companion: The Sundays and Seasons Suite

Written by Augsburg Fortress | Jun 18, 2026 2:30:00 PM

Why do we keep telling you about Sundays and Seasons? It’s a very simple answer. This product family places in your hands everything you need to plan worship services for the whole year.

The Sundays and Seasons family of resources supports comprehensive week-by-week planning for Lutherans with content and ideas shaped by the Revised Common Lectionary, the church year, and the assembly gathered around word and sacrament. More than 100 contributors from across the church have contributed to this expansive suite of weekly and seasonal helps. Use Sundays and Seasons print editions together with SundaysandSeasons.com for effective and efficient planning, preparation, and production of all your worship needs.

 

Who is the artist for these resources? 

Mary Button, an ordained pastor in the ELCA, provided the cover and interior art for this year’s volume of Sundays and Seasons. An artist and activist, Mary’s work explores the connections between biblical narratives and contemporary social justice issues. Mary is a native Texan and graduate of the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University (BFA), the Candler School of Theology at Emory University (MTS), and United Lutheran Seminary (MDiv). You can see her work at marybutton.com

 

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Sundays and Seasons: Guide to Worship Planning, Year B 2027

Supports comprehensive week-by-week worship planning with content and ideas for liturgy, music, preaching, and visuals. Worship planners and leaders, preachers, presiding ministers, intercessors, worship committees, musicians, visual artists, sacristans and altar guilds, and those who create congregational worship folders will find an indispensable companion in Sundays and Seasons as they prepare for worship each week.

 

 

How does Sundays and Seasons help with worship planning?

Sundays and Seasons provides:

    • Day and reading introductions
    • Propers: prayer of the day, gospel acclamation, scripture texts, preface, color
    • Examples of prayers of intercession for each Sunday and major festival
    • Ideas for approaching the day and its texts in preaching and worship
    • Ideas for deepening children's engagement with worship
    • Assembly song suggestions from a variety of resources in a range of musical styles
    • Choral, children's choir, keyboard/instrumental, and handbell recommendations
    • Notes on commemorations

How does Sundays and Seasons help leaders through the church seasons?

Sundays and Seasons provides:

    • Seasonal introductions for preaching, assembly song, creation care, and worship space
    • Reproducible worship texts for the seasons
    • Reproducible rites for days and occasions, including a midweek Advent and Lenten service

 

Sundays and Seasons: Preaching, Year B 2027

The S&S Preaching resource encourages and provides helps for lectionary preaching, taking into account all the readings for the day, the worship service as a whole, and the day itself in the church year. Provides interpretation and helps, offers many points of connection for a diversity of worshipers and spiritual needs, and situates preaching within the larger task of worship planning.

 

 

Sundays and Seasons: Preaching accomplishes the following:

    • Encourages and provides helps for lectionary preaching, taking into account all the readings for the day, in addition to the rest of the worship service and the day itself in the lectionary year
    • Deepens engagement with the lectionary's goal of proclaiming the living Word, Jesus Christ
    • Provides interpretation and helps, giving many points of connection for a diversity of worshipers and spiritual needs
    • Situates preaching within the larger task of worship planning

What different perspectives does Sundays and Seasons: Preaching provide?

From a Scholar brings succinct notes on assigned lectionary readings for the whole church year, offering clarity, historical context, and practical insights in essays specifically designed with preachers in mind.

From a Preacher offers practical contemplation, modern and relevant sermon inspiration, and images and symbolism from the perspective of a practicing preacher.

 

 

Worship Planning Calendar Year B 2027

Worship Planning Calendar serves as a planning guide, workbook, appointment calendar, and guide to daily prayer and is an important part of the Sundays and Seasons worship planning suite.

Readings for Sundays and principal festivals are drawn from the Revised Common Lectionary as presented in Evangelical Lutheran Worship. Daily lectionary readings are drawn from Revised Common Lectionary: Daily Readings, which are also included in Evangelical Lutheran Worship (pp. 1121–1153).

 

Features:

    • 5⅜" x 8⅜" spiral bound
    • Monthly and weekly spreads
    • Each weekly spread presents Monday through Saturday on the left-hand side and Sunday on the right-hand side, allowing space for notes about the music, liturgy, intercessions, and sermon
    • Includes prayer of the day, gospel acclamation, psalm refrain, preface, and seasonal color
    • Holiday, appointment, and reminder tracking pages
    • Includes principal festivals, lesser festivals, commemorations, observances, and occasions

 

Church Year Calendar Year B 2027

This full-color, two-sided worship planning and devotional resource gives specific dates, Bible readings, hymn of the day, and liturgical color for Sundays and festivals of the church year.

 

 

Features:

    • 8.5” x 11” and double sided

    • Full color

    • Offers first and second readings, psalm, gospel, and hymn of the day for Sundays and festivals

    • Printed with liturgical colors for easy worship planning

 

Calendar of Word and Season: Sundays and Seasons, Year B 2027


Featuring the iconography of Kelly Latimore, this beautiful, full-color wall calendar identifies church festivals as well as US and Canadian holidays and includes a table of the appointed readings for the year from the Revised Common Lectionary for Sundays and church festivals.
Latimore’s work sets traditional biblical imagery in contemporary context, challenging viewers to become open to the patterns of work, knowledge and experience they may not have seen in others or buried in themselves. This kind of deep seeing, Latimore says, may have something to teach us about who God is, the world we live in, and who are our neighbors. Spiral-bound and punched for hanging.

Available 7/15/2026


Bread for the Day: Daily Bible Readings and Prayers 2027

A daily-use resource that perfect for personal, household, or group devotions. Following the daily lectionary and other resources, Bread for the Day includes:

  • Brief introductions to each season and notes on festivals and commemorations

  • Daily scripture readings, hymn suggestions, and prayers

  • Simplified forms for morning and evening prayer

  • Waking prayers and bedtime prayers, including prayers with children

Available 8/31/2026

 

Sundays and Seasons Print Subscription


Take one more thing off your to-do list! Sign up for the Sundays and Seasons Print Subscription to receive each subsequent release of the Sundays and Seasons resources you have selected when the next volume is published. Your subscription begins with the next annual edition release in the spring. No more last-minute panic from forgetting to order the next year's resources! Let this subscription bring you peace of mind by knowing that you will have what you need to plan worship automatically delivered to your door, year after year.

 

Use these resources with sundaysandseasons.com for a comprehensive and streamlined worship planning system.

 
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