Useful Resources

I have created several resources in PDF form which are useful for me personally, and are possibly useful for others as well, so I've made them available to the public through this web site (one basic overall theme of my web site is to supply things I couldn't find on the internet, but discovered I had the ability to create, and fill the gap). Some of these are linked from other articles of mine and have been brought togther in one collection on this page, and other resources can only be found here.

Please feel free to print these out and use them. I print these on A4 size paper unless otherwise indicated. If you are using a different paper size, you may have to adjust the size of the images or the paper settings.

The spread sheets on this page are in PDF form, and were created in Google Sheets. I also exported them as Excel files so that you can modify them as you like. The Excel files may look a little strange, but I hope they are still useable.

I've also included links to useful resources created by others so that you don't have to go searching all over the internet to find them.

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Bible Reading Charts

These charts have twelve numbers on the left side, dividing the year into months so you can track your progress if you are trying to read the entire Bible in a year. I used numbers instead of the names of months so that they can represent the number of months in your personal schedule if you did not start in January.

These charts can be printed and trimmed and glued onto a blank page in the back of your Bible.

You should use a glue that is not permanent such as restickable glue since you will eventually want to remove the chart and replace it with a new chart. Just glue just a strip along one edge of the back of the paper, (the edge which is closest to the inside of the Bible which is called the gutter). This way it will function like a huge "Post-it" note.

You don't need to coat the entire back surface with glue, only a strip along the edge.

Each Bible reading chart comes in two versions, one is a single panel vertical design (portrait orientation) which will fit larger Bibles.

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The other is a double panel horizontal design (landscape orientation) for smaller Bibles. This can be folded back on itself and glued together to make a card. I recommend a dry glue such as a glue stick so that the paper won't wrinkle. You can also cut the pages apart to make two sheets and glue them with restickable glue to facing pages in the back of your Bible.

As mentioned above, I designed these to be printed on A4 size paper. If you print on 8 1/2 X 11 paper, you may have to fiddle with the print or paper size settings to get a better fit.

The Augustine Institute ESV-CE Bible in a Year Chart

The Augustine Institute who publishes the ESV-CE in the United States under the title The Augustine Bible has produced a PDF Bible in a Year chart so you can check off the days as you go.

You can also listen to each day's passages in the Bible in a Year section of their free Amen app.

Bible-in-a-Year combined with the Office of Readings (36KB PDF): For those who want to read the entire Bible every year and also read the Scriptures in the daily Office of Readings of the Liturgy of the Hours one-year lectionary, here is a checklist which combines these two reading plans efficiently without reading the same passages twice. I have color-coded the references in the Office of Readings so that you can wait and read them when they appear in the Church Calendar. Many of the Office of Readings passages cover only partial chapters, but I have listed these as full chapters, so you will need to refer to a Bible as you go along. This particular PDF uses the chapter divisions of the ESV-CE (English Standard Version Catholic Edition). I originally created this in Google Sheets, but for those who want to revise this chart, I saved the spreadsheet as an Excel version(17KB Excel File) which may or may not require a little formatting of the fonts.

For the size Office of Readings data I used information I found in an amazing web site called Catholic Resources which was created by Felix Just, S.J., Ph.D. of Jesuit Biblical Ministries.

The Two-year Scripture Lectionary for the Office of Readings: This lectionary was originally intended to be included in the current Liturgy of the Hours, but because of its huge size, it was left out, and a smaller one-year lectionary was used instead (the one used for the resources above). This two-year list appears in the one-volume breviary called Christian Prayer. I compared available versions out there and compiled this printable list for personal use.

• 2-year Scripture Lectionary for the Office of Readings: Year 1, page 1
• 2-year Scripture Lectionary for the Office of Readings: Year 1, page 2
• 2-year Scripture Lectionary for the Office of Readings: Year 2, page 1
• 2-year Scripture Lectionary for the Office of Readings: Year 2, page 2

I have often heard it said that if one reads all the scriptures in the two-year cycle, one can read through practically the entire Bible, especially if one also reads the scripture readings from the Daily Mass and Sunday Mass. So I decided to go through the entire list of readings for the 2-year cycle of the Office of Readings plus the daily Mass and Sunday Mass check them off from a list of all the Bible chapters. Often, only a small portion of a chapter was read, but I counted those as entire chapters since the chapter was at least partially read.

I discovered that there was a lot of overlap where the same scriptures are read in the Liturgy of the Hours as well as the Mass. Since the largest portion of scripture is read in the Office of Readings, I checked those off first, then added any other readings from the daily Mass, and then the Sunday Mass. The results can be found in this PDF:

2-year-cycle-OOR-Bible (35KB PDF).

This chart could be useful for those dedicated folks who attend Mass every day and also do the Office of Readings, and also want to leave no stone unturned in their Bible reading. Many of those remaining Bible readings were probably left out of the lectionary because they don't make very good public reading (things like lists of names).

The chapter divisions are from the New American Bible (NAB) which is used in the current edition of the Liturgy of the Hours. There may be a few differences from other translations. For example some other translations divide Malachi into four chapters while there are three in the NAB.

The one-year lectionary for the Personal Ordinariates (49KB PDF). I have also gone through the lectionary in the Ordo used in the Divine Office in the Personal Ordinariates. I gathered the data from the 2017, 2018,and 2019 Ordo lectionaries of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross. It is the same lectionary used by the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter in North America. Two lengthy passages of Scripture are read every morning and evening. The Lectionary is a one-year cycle and does not change each year except on special days when it replaces the regular scripture passages with other ones, leaving gaps that differ from year to year. It has been said that this lectionary will also cover the entire Bible in one year, but the chart reveals a slightly different story. Now you will know when you have to supply missing portions to read the entire Bible, no stone unturned.

A Liturgy of the Hours Psalms Chart in the form of a web page tells you which Psalms are used for which hours (Office of Readings, Morning Prayer, Daytime Prayer, Evening Prayer and Night Prayer) over the four week cycle.

Here it is in a horizontal format.

I also made a PDF of the vertical chart.

Here it is the vertical chart in Japanese.

Liturgy of the Hours Scripture and Psalms Chart is more comprehensive and tells you which Psalms and Canticles from the Bible are used for which hours (Office of Readings, Morning Prayer, Daytime Prayer, Evening Prayer and Night Prayer) over the four week cycle at least on regular days during Ordinary time. These are the Psalms and Canticles which are repeated every four weeeks. The lectionary for the Office of Readings which covers every day one or two years is not included in this chart.

Here is a PDF version of the chart that is the same format as several of the cards I have created for printing.

Here is a plain PDF version of the chart with no crop marks or instructions for you do do whatever you want with it.

Simple Psalm tones chart: Four identical cards basically 3X5 inches with 5 of the simplest, most versatile Psalm tones for quick reference to use with any of the Psalms (483KB PDF).

Here are the same simple Psalm tones in a square format (95KB PDF) that will fit the inside a small book. I have one glued to the inside cover of The Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary so I can quickly refer to it when I want to chant the Psalms. The five tones on the card allow each Psalm to have its own tone during Lauds and Matins.

The Lord's Prayer in English, Latin and Japanese -- the version currently used in the Catholic Church in Japan (319KB PDF).

Frequently used phrases in prayer in Latin and Japanese -- the version currently used in the Catholic Church in Japan. (307KB PDF).

The Nicene Creed in Japanese. This is the version currently used in the Catholic Church in Japan. (319KB PDF).

Green Scapular images for printing: This is my web page with a collection of images in several languages for you to make your own.

Brown Scapular images for printing: This is my web page with a collection of images in several languages for you to make your own.

Saint Benedict Medal Design: The Saint Benedict Medal design for free download.