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Liturgical Calendar for the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham Liturgical Calendar for the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham Temporale The date of Easter being moveable, Sundays marked * are not needed in every annual cycle. Advent First Sunday of Advent Second Sunday of Advent Third Sunday of Advent From 17 December (O Sapientia) begin the eight days of prayer before Christmas Day Fourth Sunday of Advent Christmas Eve Christmas THE NATIVITY OF THE LORD (Christmas) Sunday within the Octave of the Nativity: The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph (if there is no Sunday, 30 December) THE OCTAVE DAY OF CHRISTMAS: SOLEMNITY OF MARY, THE HOLY MOTHER OF GOD *Second Sunday after Christmas Epiphany THE EPIPHANY OF THE LORD (The Manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles) – (6 January or, as permitted or required by authority, the Sunday between 2 and 8 January) The Baptism of the Lord - Sunday after Epiphany (or, if the Epiphany is celebrated on Sunday 7 or 8 January, on Monday 8 or 9 January) Time after Epiphany Time after Epiphany begins usually with Monday of Week 1 on the day following the Baptism of the Lord. For the weekdays following the Baptism of the Lord, the propers for the Week after Epiphany (Week 1) are used. Even when the Baptism of the Lord is transferred to the Monday, the Sunday after the Baptism of the Lord is observed as the Second Sunday after Epiphany. For the purposes of the lectionary, this is Sunday 2 in Ordinary Time and the Sundays thereafter Sundays 3, 4, 5 &c. until Lent begins. Second Sunday after Epiphany * Third Sunday after Epiphany * Fourth Sunday after Epiphany * Fifth Sunday after Epiphany * Sixth Sunday after Epiphany __________________ Feast of the Lord The Presentation of the Lord (Candlemas) - 2 February __________________ Third Sunday before Lent (Septuagesima) Second Sunday before Lent (Sexagesima) Sunday next before Lent (Quinquagesima) Lent Ash Wednesday First Sunday in Lent Second Sunday in Lent Third Sunday in Lent Fourth Sunday in Lent (Mothering Sunday) Fifth Sunday in Lent (Passion Sunday) Palm Sunday Monday of Holy Week Tuesday of Holy Week Wednesday of Holy Week Maundy Thursday Good Friday Holy Saturday (Easter Eve) Easter Easter Sunday Monday of Easter Week Tuesday of Easter Week Wednesday of Easter Week Thursday of Easter Week Friday of Easter Week Saturday of Easter Week Second Sunday of Easter (Divine Mercy Sunday) Third Sunday of Easter Fourth Sunday of Easter Fifth Sunday of Easter Sixth Sunday of Easter 2 Scheme A Ascension Day (Thursday of Week 6 of Eastertide) From Friday after Ascension Day begin the nine days of prayer before Pentecost Seventh Sunday of Easter (Sunday after Ascension) Pentecost (Whit-Sunday) Scheme B Ascension of the Lord (Sunday 7 of Eastertide) Pentecost (Whit-Sunday) Pentecost Octave The ancient Octave of Pentecost began with Whit-Sunday and continued until Trinity Sunday. For the midweek ferias following Pentecost the weekday lectionary is used, as prescribed for Ordinary Time, but the mass propers and red as the liturgical colour may sustain the themes of Pentecost. SOLEMNITY OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY (Trinity Sunday) (Sunday after Pentecost) Time after Trinity This begins on Monday of the week following Pentecost. For the purposes of the Roman Lectionary, the numbering of Sundays (Sunday 8, 9, 10, 11, 12) resumes either on the First Sunday after Trinity or on the first Sunday thereafter on which a solemnity is not celebrated. Sunday numbers remain in sequence until Sunday 33. Sunday 34 is Christ the King and Week 34 the final six days of the liturgical year. SOLEMNITY OF THE MOST HOLY BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST (Corpus Christi) (Thursday after Trinity Sunday or, as permitted or required by authority, on the First Sunday after Trinity) SOLEMNITY OF THE MOST SACRED HEART OF JESUS (Friday after the First Sunday after Trinity) Sundays after Trinity: First Sunday after Trinity (if not kept as Corpus Christi) Second Sunday after Trinity Third Sunday after Trinity Fourth Sunday after Trinity Fifth Sunday after Trinity Sixth Sunday after Trinity Seventh Sunday after Trinity Eighth Sunday after Trinity Ninth Sunday after Trinity 3 Tenth Sunday after Trinity Eleventh Sunday after Trinity Twelfth Sunday after Trinity Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity Twentieth Sunday after Trinity Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity Twenty-second Sunday after Trinity * Twenty-third Sunday after Trinity * Twenty-fourth Sunday after Trinity * Twenty-fifth Sunday after Trinity * Twenty-sixth Sunday after Trinity * Twenty-seventh Sunday after Trinity Last Sunday of the Church Year: solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe – The propers of the Sunday next before Advent are used during the final week of the liturgical year, Week 34. Dedication Festival - The First Sunday in October as permitted or required by authority, may be kept locally as the Dedication Festival if the date of consecration or dedication is not known. The Rogation Days are the three days follows Rogation Sunday (Sixth Sunday of Easter) The Ember Days at the four seasons are the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after First Sunday of Lent Pentecost 14 September 13 December 4 Sanctorale The version of the Sanctorale is that of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham under the Patronage of Blessed John Henry Newman. It conforms to the General Calendar of the Roman Church and to the National Calendar for England. Since the Personal Ordinariate has the privileges of a local Church, the Ordinariate Calendar, like diocesan calendars, has local characteristics. Different degrees of celebration are distinguished by typography. Observances peculiar to the Ordinariate Calendar are inset and printed in blue. With the exception of the feast of the All Saints of England or All Saints of Wales, they are all optional memorials. • SOLEMNITIES On solemnities (BOLD CAPITALS) the Gloria in excelsis and Creed are used at Mass. The Mass propers and the readings (of which there are three) are as appointed for the day. • External solemnity The external solemnity of any feast means the celebration of the feast without an office, for the good of the faithful, either on the day on which the feast is impeded, or on a Sunday when the feast occurs during the week, or on some other established day. This convention is sometimes applied to the celebration of Epiphany, the Ascension, Corpus Christi, and the Sacred Heart, and All Saints. It may also be applied to the feast of a duly constituted principal patron, the anniversary of the dedication of the church in which the Mass is said, the titular feast of the church itself, the titular feast of the order or congregation, the feast of the holy founder of the order or congregation, and solemnities which are celebrated with an especially large attendance by the faithful (of this matter the local ordinary is the judge). • Feasts On feasts (Bold Type or Bold Type), the Gloria in excelsis is used. The Mass propers and the readings (of which there are two) are as appointed for the day. • Obligatory memorials On obligatory memorials (Ordinary Type), the Gloria in excelsis is not used. The Mass propers of the day are used but the readings are often the normal weekday ones. In Lent the collect of the memorial replaces the collect of the Lent weekday but the remainder of the Mass is as for the Lent weekday. • Optional memorials Optional memorials (Italics), where observed, are observed like obligatory ones. Observance of the Optional memorials of the General Calendar remains available to those following the Proper Calendar of the Ordinariate. 5 January 1 The Octave Day of the Nativity of the Lord SOLEMNITY OF MARY, THE HOLY MOTHER OF GOD 2 Sts Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops and Doctors of the Church 3 The Most Holy Name of Jesus 6 THE EPIPHANY OF THE LORD (The Manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles) 7 St Raymond of Penyafort, Priest 12 In England: St Aelred of Rievaulx, Abbot St Benedict Biscop, Abbot 13 St Hilary, Bishop and Doctor of the Church St Kentigern (Mungo), Bishop 17 St Antony, Abbot 19 In England: St Wulstan, Bishop 20 St Fabian, Pope and Martyr St Sebastian, Martyr 21 St Agnes, Virgin and Martyr 22 St Vincent, Deacon and Martyr 24 St Francis de Sales, Bishop and Doctor of the Church 25 The Conversion of St Paul the Apostle 26 Sts Timothy and Titus, Bishops 27 St Angela Merici, Virgin 28 St Thomas Aquinas, Priest and Doctor of the Church 31 St John Bosco, Priest Sunday after 6 January: The Baptism of the Lord When the Solemnity of the Epiphany is transferred to the Sunday that occurs on 7 or 8 January, the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord is celebrated on the following Monday. 6 February 1 St Brigid of Kildare, Abbess 2 The Presentation of the Lord (Candlemas) 3 St Blaise, Bishop and Martyr St Ansgar, Bishop 4 St Gilbert of Sempringham, Religious 5 St Agatha, Virgin and Martyr 6 St Paul Miki and Companions, Martyrs 8 St Jerome Emiliani St Josephine Bakhita, Virgin 9 In Wales: St Teilo, Bishop 10 St Scholastica, Virgin 11 Our Lady of Lourdes 14 Sts Cyril, Monk, and Methodius, Bishop, Patrons of Europe 17 The Seven Holy Founders of the Servite Order 21 St Peter Damian, Bishop and Doctor of the Church 22 The Chair of St Peter the Apostle 23 St Polycarp, Bishop and Martyr March 1 St David, Bishop, Patron of Wales (IN WALES: SOLEMNITY) 4 St Casimir 5 St Piran, Abbot 7 Sts Perpetua and Felicity, Martyrs 8 St John of God, Religious
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