2021 Liturgical Notes for the Liturgical Year Catholic Diocese of Cleveland November/December 2020 January 2021 February 2021 A Chronological* Listing of the Days on which a Ritual Mass may not be used. Sun. Mon. Tues. Wed. Thurs.. Fri. Sat. Sun. Mon. Tues. Wed. Thurs.. Fri. Sat. Sun. Mon. Tues. Wed. Thurs.. Fri. Sat. First Sunday of Advent 2021 Second Sunday of Advent 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary (December 8) Third Sunday of Advent 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Fourth Sunday of Advent Nativity of the Lord/Christmas (December 25) LiturgicalSeasons 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Mary, the Mother of God (January 1) Epiphany of the Lord 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Ash Wednesday Advent 27 28 29 30 31 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 First Sunday of Lent 28 Second Sunday of Lent 31 St. Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary (March 19) Annunciation of the Lord (March 25) March 2021 April 2021 May 2021 Third Sunday of Lent Fourth Sunday of Lent Sun. Mon. Tues. Wed. Thurs.. Fri. Sat. Sun. Mon. Tues. Wed. Thurs.. Fri. Sat. Sun. Mon. Tues. Wed. Thurs.. Fri. Sat. Fifth Sunday of Lent Christmas Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 1 Monday of Holy Week Tuesday of Holy Week 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Wednesday of Holy Week Thursday of Holy Week (day) 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Triduum: Holy Thursday-Good Friday-Holy Saturday/Easter Vigil Easter Sunday: Solemnity of the Resurrection of the Lord Easter 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Monday within the Octave of Easter 28 29 30 31 25 26 27 28 29 30 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Tuesday within the Octave of Easter Wednesday within the Octave of Easter 30 31 Thursday within the Octave of Easter Friday within the Octave of Easter June 2021 July 2021 August 2021 Saturday within the Octave of Easter Lent Second Sunday of Easter/Divine Mercy Sunday Sun. Mon. Tues. Wed. Thurs.. Fri. Sat. Sun. Mon. Tues. Wed. Thurs.. Fri. Sat. Sun. Mon. Tues. Wed. Thurs.. Fri. Sat. Third Sunday of Easter Fourth Sunday of Easter 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Fifth Sunday of Easter Sixth Sunday of Easter 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Ascension of the Lord (replaces the Seventh Sunday of Easter in this diocese) 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Pentecost Sunday Ordinary The Most Holy Trinity 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus 27 28 29 30 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 29 30 31 Nativity of John the Baptist (June 24) Sts. Peter and Paul (June 29) Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (August 15) All Saints (November 1) Triduum September 2021 October 2021 November/December 2021 All Souls (November 2) Mon. Tues. Wed. Thurs.. Fri. Sat. Mon. Tues. Wed. Thurs.. Fri. Sat. Mon. Tues. Wed. Thurs.. Fri. Sat. Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe Sun. Sun. Sun. *This order will be impacted by the date of Easter in any given year. 1 2 3 4 1 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Office for Phone: 216- 696-6525 Worship 26 27 28 29 30 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 Catholic Diocese www.dioceseofcleveland.org/worship 31 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 of Cleveland 032317 LITURGY DURING THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC 2 A worldwide tragedy like the Covid-19 pandemic momentarily revived the sense that we are a global SYMBOL KEY 3 community, all in the same boat, where one person’s problems are the problems of all. Once more we realized that no one is saved alone; we can only be saved together. As I said in those days, “the storm has exposed our vulnerability and uncovered those false and superfluous certainties around which we constructed our daily schedules, our projects, our habits and priorities… Amid this storm, the façade of those stereotypes with Holy Day of Obligation which we camouflaged our egos, always worrying about appearances, has fallen away, revealing once more the ineluctable and blessed awareness that we are part of one another, that we are brothers and sisters of one another." (Pope Francis, Fratelli Tutti, no. 32) Marriage Within Mass may be celebrated. MASS FOR VARIOUS NEEDS AND SOME GENERAL GUIDELINES FOR Whenever Marriage Within Mass is celebrated, the Ritual Mass “The Celebration OCCASIONS: MASS IN TIME OF MASSES DURING THE PANDEMIC of Marriage” is used with sacred vestments of the color white or of a festive color. (Order of PANDEMIC Celebrating Matrimony, second edition, [hereafter OCM] 34) Limit attendance On March 20, 2020, the Congregation for Divine Our diocesan custom is that Marriages Within or Without Mass are not celebrated on Sundays. Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments Increase ventilation and/or air purification A Marriage within the Mass of the Day may be celebrated. promulgated new Mass texts entitled “Mass for Physically distance 6' between households Various Needs and Occasions: Mass in Time of Ritual Masses are connected to the celebration of certain Sacraments or Sacramentals. They are prohibited on Sundays of Advent, Lent, and Easter, on Solemnities, on the days Pandemic” (Prot. N. 156/20). In a rather unusual Wear masks within the Octave of Easter, on the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed (All process, given the urgency of the worldwide Reduce or eliminate congregational singing Souls’ Day), on Ash Wednesday, and during Holy Week, and furthermore due regard is pandemic, they released the texts in Latin, to be had for the norms set out in the ritual books or in the Masses themselves. (GIRM, 372) English, Spanish, German and other languages Omit the Rite of Peace On those days listed in nos. 1-4 of the Table of Liturgical Days, the Mass of the simultaneously. Holy Communion under the form of bread alone Day is used with its own readings, with inclusion of the Nuptial Blessing and, if Sanitize, sanitize, sanitize appropriate, the proper formula for the final blessing. A presider may use this Mass text “for the If, however, during Christmas and Ordinary Time, the parish community duration of the pandemic.” It may be used any Maintain physical distancing after Masses participates in a Sunday Mass during which Marriage is celebrated, the Mass of the day except Solemnities; the Sundays or Advent, Sunday is used. Lent, and Easter; days within the Octave of Easter; For more details, visit the Forward With Christ Nevertheless, since a Liturgy of the Word adapted for the celebration of Marriage The Commemoration of the Faithful Departed has a great impact in the handing on of catechesis about the Sacrament itself and about (All Souls); Ash Wednesday and the days of Holy and/or Office for Worship websites. the duties of the spouses, when the Mass “For the Celebration of Marriage” is not said, Week. one of the readings may be taken from the texts provided for the celebration of Marriage. (OCM, 34) You may find more information on this on the Participation in the Rite of Marriage during Mass fulfills the Holy Day obligation (Canon 1248). FDLC website. https://fdlc.org/covid Marriage Without Mass may be celebrated. You may find the Mass texts in Latin, English, and Spanish on the USCCB website: A Funeral Mass is permitted and fulfills the Holy Day obligation. The Funeral Mass may be https://www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/the-mass/ celebrated on any day except for solemnities that are holy days of obligation, Holy Thursday, votive-masses-and-various-needs/mass-in-time-of- the Easter Triduum, and the Sundays of Advent, Lent, and Easter, with due regard also for all pandemic the other requirements of the norm of the law. (GIRM 380) Participation at a Funeral Mass fulfills the Sunday or Holy Day obligation. (Canon 1248) Funeral outside of Mass is permitted. ReferenceKey BB ............Book of Blessings GIRM......General Instruction of the Roman Missal HB ...........Catholic Household Blessings and Prayers SC ............SACROSANCTUM CONCILIUM (Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy) Jeanne Marie Miles, Director USCCB: ...United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Office for Worship UNLY.......Universal Norms on the Liturgical Year and the Calendar, third edition November/December 2020 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC SUNDAY LECTIONARY CYCLE B ? The liturgical calendar below notes all Sundays and holy days of obligation; however, due to the continuing coronavirus pandemic, there is WEEKDAY LECTIONARY CYCLE no obligation to attend Mass, whether on Sundays or on holy days of obligation, until further notice from the diocesan bishop.