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To: chajin
Because "apocrypha" is a much larger category, can I assume you mean the seven deuterocanonical books? (I like to avoid conflation between the otherwise distinct terms "deuterocanonical" and "apocryphal".)

Looking at my lectionary, the answer is "yes, mostly."

Tobit -- 6 Weekday Mass readings in Year I

Judith -- --

Esther (12:14-16, 21-25)one pericope in the weekday readings

Wisdom -- 15 pericopes in both Sunday and Weekday readings

Sirach (or Ecclesiasticus)-- a whole bunch, spread across both the Sunday and Weekday cycles

Baruch -- 4 pericopes, Sundays and weekdays

Daniel: The Song of Azariah is used as one of the First Readings
I can't find it readily, but I think the Song of the Three Holy Children is sometimes used as a Responsory Psalm, probably when the Fiery Furnace episode is the First Reading

1 Maccabees -- 4 pericopes, all on weekdays of the first cycle

II Maccabees -- 3 pericopes, one on a Sunday, two on weekdays

This is just from running my eyes down the list of the Roman Missal Lectionary, 1970 edition. There might be some "presider's choice of readings" or "alternate readings" for special Masses or feast days of saints, I don't know.

I can't speak for the Orthodox, they have a different lectionary.

It's very nice, by the way, to answer a question by an inquirer who is actually looking for an answer. :o)

43 posted on 07/21/2014 2:27:27 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (A Buddhist goes over to a hot-dog vendor and says, "Make me one with everything.")
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To: Mrs. Don-o
Looking at my lectionary, the answer is "yes, mostly."

It seems to be not so much on Sundays, but sometimes, particularly the ones I would expect. FWIW, Lutheran Bibles (I'm LCMS) included the 14 books until the churches in the US started using English language Bibles, maybe 100 years ago or so. In 2012 the denomination printed them once again, cf. here. And thank you for a quick response!

52 posted on 07/21/2014 3:20:15 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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