UNIVERSAL NORMS ON THE AND THE CALENDAR

CHAPTER II THE CALENDAR

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TABLE OF LITURGICAL DAYS according to their order of precedence

I II 1. The Paschal of the Passion and 5. Feasts of the Lord inscribed in the General Resurrection of the Lord. Calendar. 2. The Nativity of the Lord, the , the 6. Sundays of Time and the Sundays in Ascension, and . Ordinary Time. Sundays of Advent, Lent, and . 7. Feasts of the Blessed Virgin Mary and of the Ash Wednesday. Saints in the General Calendar. Weekdays of Holy from Monday up to and 8. Proper Feasts, namely: including Thursday. a) The Feast of the principal Patron of the Days within the . . 3. inscribed in the General Calendar, b) The Feast of the anniversary of the dedication whether of the Lord, of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the cathedral church. or of Saints. c) The Feast of the principal Patron of a region The of All the Faithful or province, or a country, or of a wider Departed. territory. 4. Proper Solemnities, namely: d) The Feast of the Title, Founder, or principal a) The of the principal Patron of the Patron of an Order or Congregation and of a place, city or state. religious province, without prejudice to the b) The Solemnity of the dedication and of the prescriptions given under no. 4. anniversary of the dedication of one’s own e) Other Feasts proper to an individual church. church. f) Other Feasts inscribed in the Calendar of c) The Solemnity of the Title of one’s own each diocese or Order or Congregation. church. 9. Weekdays of Advent from December 17 up to d) The Solemnity either of the Title and including December 24. or of the Founder Days within the Octave of Christmas. or of the principal Patron of an Order or Weekdays of Lent. Congregation.

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10. Obligatory Memorials in the General Calendar. In the same manner Obligatory Memorials may 11. Proper Obligatory Memorials, namely: be celebrated as Optional Memorials if they a) The Memorial of a secondary Patron of the happen to fall on Lenten weekdays. place, diocese, region, or religious province. 13. Weekdays of Advent up to and including b) Other Obligatory Memorials inscribed in the December 16. Calendar of each diocese, or Order or Weekdays of Christmas Time from January 2 Congregation. until the Saturday after the Epiphany. 12. Optional Memorials, which, however, may be Weekdays of the Easter Time from Monday after celebrated, in the special manner described in the the Octave of Easter up to and including the General Instruction of the Roman Missal and the Saturday before Pentecost. , even on the days listed in Weekdays in Ordinary Time. no. 9.

THE GENERAL INSTRUCTION OF THE ROMAN MISSAL

CHAPTER VIII MASSES AND PRAYERS FOR VARIOUS NEEDS AND OCCASIONS AND MASSES FOR THE DEAD

I. MASSES AND PRAYERS FOR VARIOUS NEEDS AND OCCASIONS

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375. Votive Masses of the mysteries of the 376. On days when there occurs an Lord or in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary Obligatory Memorial or on a weekday of or of the Angels or of any given Saint or of Advent up to and including December 16, of all the Saints may be said in response to the Christmas Time from January 2, and of devotion of the faithful on weekdays in Easter Time after the Octave of Easter, Ordinary Time, even if an Optional Memorial Masses for Various Needs and Occasions and occurs. However, it is not permitted to Votive Masses are in principle forbidden. If, celebrate as Votive Masses those that refer to however, some real necessity or pastoral mysteries related to events in the life of the advantage calls for it, in the estimation of the Lord or of the Blessed Virgin Mary, with the rector of the church or the Priest Celebrant exception of the Mass of the Immaculate himself, a Mass appropriate to the same may Conception, since their celebration is in be used in a celebration with the people. integral part of the course of the liturgical year.