Year A Homily Guides, Sunday by Sunday

The Church reads the Sunday Gospels on a three-year cycle. Year A is Matthew’s year, and it runs from the First Sunday of Advent 2025 through Christ the King on November 22, 2026. After that the lectionary turns to Year B and Mark, and these readings do not come back around until Advent 2028.

That is the reason this index exists. A guide written for the Twentieth Sunday of Year A is just as useful in 2029 as it was the week it was published, so the archive below is built to be read by liturgical day rather than by publication date. It fills in as each Sunday is written.

Each guide prints the four readings in full, works through them with the Church Fathers, Aquinas, the Catechism, and current Catholic commentary in Chicago-style footnotes, and closes with developed homily themes. The readings and the opening of the analysis are free to read. The rest is for members.

Ordinary Time, Year A

Sunday and readings	Date	Guide
Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Isaiah 55:1-3 · Psalm 145 · Romans 8:35, 37-39 · Matthew 14:13-21	August 2, 2026	Read the guide
Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 1 Kings 19:9a, 11-13a · Psalm 85 · Romans 9:1-5 · Matthew 14:22-33	August 9, 2026	Read the guide
Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time Isaiah 56:1, 6-7 · Psalm 67 · Romans 11:13-15, 29-32 · Matthew 15:21-28	August 16, 2026	Read the guide
Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time Isaiah 22:19-23 · Psalm 138 · Romans 11:33-36 · Matthew 16:13-20	August 23, 2026	Read the guide
Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time Jeremiah 20:7-9 · Psalm 63 · Romans 12:1-2 · Matthew 16:21-27	August 30, 2026	Read the guide
Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time Ezekiel 33:7-9 · Psalm 95 · Romans 13:8-10 · Matthew 18:15-20	September 6, 2026	Read the guide
Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Sirach 27:30—28:7 · Psalm 103 · Romans 14:7-9 · Matthew 18:21-35	September 13, 2026	Read the guide
Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time Isaiah 55:6-9 · Psalm 145 · Philippians 1:20c-24, 27a · Matthew 20:1-16a	September 20, 2026	Read the guide
Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Ezekiel 18:25-28 · Psalm 25 · Philippians 2:1-11 · Matthew 21:28-32	September 27, 2026	Read the guide
Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Isaiah 5:1-7 · Psalm 80 · Philippians 4:6-9 · Matthew 21:33-43	October 4, 2026	Coming
Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time Isaiah 25:6-10a · Psalm 23 · Philippians 4:12-14, 19-20 · Matthew 22:1-14	October 11, 2026	Coming
Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time Isaiah 45:1, 4-6 · Psalm 96 · 1 Thessalonians 1:1-5b · Matthew 22:15-21	October 18, 2026	Coming
Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time Exodus 22:20-26 · Psalm 18 · 1 Thessalonians 1:5c-10 · Matthew 22:34-40	October 25, 2026	Coming
All Saints Revelation 7:2-4, 9-14 · Psalm 24 · 1 John 3:1-3 · Matthew 5:1-12a The solemnity falls on a Sunday in 2026 and replaces the Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time.	November 1, 2026	Coming
Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time Wisdom 6:12-16 · Psalm 63 · 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 · Matthew 25:1-13	November 8, 2026	Coming
Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time Proverbs 31:10-13, 19-20, 30-31 · Psalm 128 · 1 Thessalonians 5:1-6 · Matthew 25:14-30	November 15, 2026	Coming
Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe Ezekiel 34:11-12, 15-17 · Psalm 23 · 1 Corinthians 15:20-26, 28 · Matthew 25:31-46	November 22, 2026	Coming

This index runs from August 2, 2026, where the archive begins, to Christ the King on November 22, which is where Year A itself ends. Sundays earlier in the year fall before this site existed, and they will be filled in when Year A comes around again in Advent 2028. The readings are listed for every Sunday whether or not the guide is written yet, so the page is useful for planning before it is useful for preaching.

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