The Septuagint Year
The whole Greek Old Testament — 1,104 chapters — read once between one Indiction and the next. The feasts set the rhythm: on a Great Feast or a Paschal day the cycle rests and you read what the Church reads. Every other day carries the next chapters in order.
Read the guide to the Septuagint lectionary →
- Chapters
- 1,104
- Reading days
- 349
- Feast days
- 16
- Days you've read
- 0
Today's reading
Friday, October 30, 2026 · Day 60 of 365
Continuous reading
Judges 18 · Judges 19 · Judges 20
The week ahead
Today
Judges 18 · Judges 19 · Judges 20
Sat, Oct 31
Judges 21 · Ruth 1 · Ruth 2
Sun, Nov 1
Ruth 3 · Ruth 4 · 1 Samuel 1
Mon, Nov 2
1 Samuel 2 · 1 Samuel 3 · 1 Samuel 4
Tue, Nov 3
1 Samuel 5 · 1 Samuel 6 · 1 Samuel 7
Wed, Nov 4
1 Samuel 8 · 1 Samuel 9 · 1 Samuel 10
Thu, Nov 5
1 Samuel 11 · 1 Samuel 12 · 1 Samuel 13
Fri, Nov 6
1 Samuel 14 · 1 Samuel 15 · 1 Samuel 16
How the plan is built
- The year begins on September 1, the Indiction — the Church's new year — and ends on August 31.
- Great Feasts, the Paschal days and the major commemorations keep their own appointed readings, and the continuous cycle rests that day.
- Fasting seasons — the Nativity Fast, Great Lent, Holy Week, the Apostles' and Dormition Fasts — are named on each day so you read inside the season you are keeping.
- Old Testament chapters are Brenton's Septuagint, the Greek text of the Church, in canonical order — including the books read only in the Orthodox canon.
Feast dates follow the Revised Julian (New) Calendar. Parishes on the Old Calendar keep the same feasts thirteen days later. Your parish's own lectionary always comes first.