LITURGICAL CALENDAR for the ORDER of PREACHERS 2006
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LITURGICAL CALENDAR For the ORDER OF PREACHERS 2006 NB: Each year only enough copies of this Liturgical Calendar are printed to fill standing orders. If you wish to place a standing order, please do so by June 1st of any year by writing to: LITURGICAL CALENDAR Provincial Office 1909 S. Ashland Avenue Chicago, IL 60608 Cycle B Year II © 2005 Dominican Central Province, Chicago, IL. Prepared for the U.S. Dominican Provinces and the Province of St. Joseph the Worker 2 INTRODUCTION D. Celebration of Patronal Feasts: This Liturgical Calendar follows the Roman Calendar (1969) adopted by In addition to the celebrations proper to each province, a community should the Order and adapted for use in the Provinces of the United States and the celebrate the following: Province of St. Joseph the Worker, Nigeria and Ghana, by the inclusion of celebra- tions proper to the Order and celebrations proper to the United States, Nigeria and a. Solemnity of the anniversary of the Dedication of their particular Ghana. For the most part only what pertains to the celebration of the Eucharist church on the anniversary day of the dedication, if the church was is noted. References to the Liturgy of the Hours are limited to indicating the consecrated. If the day of dedication is unknown, this solemnity is proper week of the four-week psalter to be used and an occasional reference to observed on Oct 22; customs proper to the Order. b. Solemnity of the titular saint of their church; c. Solemnity of the principal patron of their house; d. Feast of the anniversary of the Dedication of the Cathedral; I. THE CALENDAR: e. Feast of the principal patron of the diocese, territory, province, or more extensive territory; and A. Holy Days of Obligation [USA]: By a decision of the USCCB f. Obligatory Memorial of a Saint or Blessed (mentioned in the confirmed by the Congregation for Bishops on July 4, 1992, whenever Martyrology or its Appendix) whose body is preserved in their January 1, the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, or August 15, the church or oratory. Solemnity of the Assumption, or November 1, the Solemnity of All Saints, falls on a Saturday or on a Monday, the precept to attend Mass is abrogated. E. The Celebration of Dominican Saints and Blesseds: B. Certain celebrations [e.g., Christmas, Pentecost and Assumption] have When the celebration of a Dominican Saint or Blessed found in this proper Vigil Masses in addition to the Mass for the day itself. These Vigil Calendar is celebrated with the higher rank of a solemnity, the proper Masses are intended to be used either before or after Evening Prayer I of the readings given in this Calendar should be arranged as follows: celebration. - 1st Reading = Old Testament C. On Saturdays in Ordinary Time when there is no obligatory memorial, an (except during the Easter Season when the first reading is always optional memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary is allowed. (RC, 15). taken from the New Testament) Whenever this optional memorial is allowed, the special votive Mass of the - Responsorial Psalm Blessed Virgin Mary proper to the Order may be used as an alternative, i.e.: - 2nd Reading = New Testament - Gospel Acclamation - OP Votive Mass of the BVM - Gospel Wh MASS pref of BVM I or II RDGS rdgs of the weekday or proper: NB: When it is a question of celebrating a patronal feast (as listed above), (A) Eph 1:3-6,16-19 [710.4]/ Resp. Ps [572]/ Lk 1:39-47 the same principle applies when arranging the readings. When [712.5] or proper readings are not provided, they are taken from the appropriate (B) Eph 3:14-19 [740.7]/ Ps 16 [721.1]/ Jn 19:25-27 Common. [712.12] NB: On Solemnities the Gloria and Creed are said (on Feasts only the Gloria) as well as the proper preface, if there is one, otherwise a preface from the appropriate Common is used. 3 4 II. THE READINGS: D. Choice of Readings for Dominican Celebrations: A. The cycles of readings for 2006 are: The use of proper readings for Dominican celebrations depends upon the Sundays: Year B rank of the celebration and is governed by the following norms: Weekdays: Year II SOLEMNITY B. In this Liturgical Calendar the references to the daily Mass readings follow Three readings are used and are taken from the proper. the chapter and verse enumeration of the New American Bible as revised for the Lectionary for Mass, 4 vols. (1998-2002). The number for the FEAST readings given in brackets refers to this same Lectionary. Two readings are used and are taken from the proper or, if there are no proper readings, from the appropriate Common. For Sundays, solemnities and feasts, the exact text references are given. For memorials and optional memorials only the references to the semi- OBLIGATORY OR OPTIONAL MEMORIAL continuous readings are given except for the few memorials that have Two readings are used. These may be taken from the proper assigned readings (e.g., Jul 29 - St. Martha). On days when a memorial of readings, if there are any, or from the weekday. a saint is celebrated, texts may be selected from the Proper of the Saints or taken from the Commons of the Saints. However, the celebrant will make III. TYPOGRAPHY OF THIS CALENDAR: sure not to omit too often or without sufficient cause the readings assigned for each day in the weekday Lectionary. (See: IL, n.83). A. Italics: 1. indicate an element of the liturgy of the day which is optional, e.g., C. Interim Dominican Liturgical Books: seq; 2. indicate an Optional Memorial, e.g., Dec 6, St. Nicholas, bishop. The following interim translations for Dominican feasts are available: B. A text set off by a short single line indicates explanatory material, e.g.: - Lectionary for Proper Masses of the Order of Preachers (1980) [$5.00] --------------------------------- - Supplement to the Liturgy of the Hours for the Order of * = explanatory material from the Roman rites and documents, e.g., Preachers (1991) [$12.50] Nov. 27; --------------------------------- [NB: Dominican Sacramentary (1986) is out of print] or Order from: Dominican Provincial Office --------------------------------- 1909 S. Ashland Avenue OP = explanatory material taken from Dominican Liturgical books, e.g., Chicago, IL 60608 Dec 22. --------------------------------- NB: WHEN ORDERING, SEND NO MONEY! YOU WILL BE BILLED! 5 6 C. The rank of feasts are indicated by both letters (S, F, M) and typography, seq = sequence e.g.: SP = Southern Proinvce Vi = violet - CHRISTMAS (S) Wh = white - St. Andrew (F) WP = Western Province - St. Francis Xavier (M) - Optional Memorials are indicated by italic type placed within V. NECROLOGY: brackets. A combined Necrology of the four Dominican Provinces of Friars in the NB: Celebrations proper to the United States are indicated by the addition United States and of the Province of St. Joseph the Worker is appended to of [USA] to the listing. this Liturgical Calendar. D. The Gloria and Creed are said only when indicated in the Liturgical Calendar. The Gloria is not said on memorials or weekdays. E. Days on which Eucharist Prayer I would have proper communicantes are indicated as follows: Euch Prayer I-prop. IV. ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THIS CALENDAR: Adv = Advent Ascen = Ascension CP = Central Province cr = Creed EP = Evening Prayer Epiph = Epiphany GILH = General Instruction of the Liturgy of the Hours (2002) GIRM = General Instruction of the Roman Missal (1975) gl = Gloria Gr = Green IL = Introduction to the Lectionary (1981) JW = Province of St. Joseph the Worker LFM = Lectionary for Mass 4 vols. (1998-2002) MP = Morning Prayer OHS = Ordo Hebdomadae Sanctae OP (1965) opt mem = Optional Memorial pref = preface prop = proper RC = Roman Calendar (1969) RCIA = Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (1972) Rd = red rdgs = readings 7 8 November-December December NB: Number references for readings appear in brackets and refer to the Lectionary --------------------------------- for Mass, 4 Vols. (1998-2002). JW For the Province of St. Joseph the Worker: 3 Fri - St. Francis Xavier, priest and patron of the missions (F) NB: The Necrology for the Dominican Friars begins on p.59. Wh Mass: gl, pref of Pastors Rdgs: prop or from the Common of Pastors -o0o- --------------------------------- ============= NOVEMBER 2005 4 Sun - 2nd SUNDAY OF ADVENT 27 Sun - 1st SUNDAY OF ADVENT HOURS Week II HOURS Week I Vi Mass: cr, Adv pref I Vi Mass: cr, Adv pref I Rdgs: [5] Is 40:1-5,9-11/ 2 Pt 3:8-14/ Mk 1:1-8 Rdgs: [2] Is 63:16b-17,19b; 64:2-7/ 1 Cor 1:3-9/ Mk 13:33-37 5 Mon - Advent Weekday --------------------------------- Vi Mass: Adv pref I * Begin Cycle B for Sunday rdgs and Year II for weekday rdgs. Rdgs: [181] Is 35:1-10/ Lk 5:17-26 * Mass pref until Dec 16 inclusive is Adv I, i.e., for Sundays, weekdays and 6 Tue - Advent Weekday feasts which have no prop pref. Vi Mass: Adv pref I --------------------------------- Rdgs: [182] Is 40:1-11/ Mt 18:12-14 28 Mon - Advent Weekday [Wh - St. Nicholas, bishop] Vi Mass: Adv pref I 7 Wed - St. Ambrose, bishop and doctor of the Church (M) Rdgs: [175] Is 2:1-5/ Mt 8:5-11 Wh Mass: Adv pref I 29 Tue - Advent Weekday RDGS: [183] Is 40:25-31/ Mt 11:28-30 Vi Mass: Adv pref I ------------------------- Rdgs: [176] Is 11:1-10/ Lk 10:21-24 * EP = EP I of The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. 30 Wed - St. Andrew, apostle (F) ------------------------- Rd Mass: gl, pref of Apostles I or II 8 Thu - THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN Rdgs: [684] Rom 10:9-18/ Mt 4:18-22 MARY (S) Today is a holy day of obligation in the USA.