The sacred rhythm of the Church year
Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus, Virgin and Doctor of the Church
Remigius of Reims, Thérèse of Lisieux
The Holy Guardian Angels
Saturday of the twenty-sixth week of Ordinary Time
Saints André de Soveral and Ambrósio Francisco Ferro, Priests, and Companions, Martyrs, Saint Francis Borgia
Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Francis of Assisi
Monday of the twenty-seventh week of Ordinary Time
Faustina Kowalska
Tuesday of the twenty-seventh week of Ordinary Time
Bruno of Cologne, Marie-Rose Durocher
Our Lady of the Rosary
Thursday of the twenty-seventh week of Ordinary Time
Pelagia the Penitent
Friday of the twenty-seventh week of Ordinary Time
Denis and Companions, John Henry Newman, John Leonardi
Saturday of the twenty-seventh week of Ordinary Time
Blessed Mary Angela Truszkowska, Saint Thomas of Villanova
Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
John XXIII
Monday of the twenty-eighth week of Ordinary Time
Carlo Acutis
Tuesday of the twenty-eighth week of Ordinary Time
Honorat Koźmiński
Wednesday of the twenty-eighth week of Ordinary Time
Callixtus I
Saint Teresa of Jesus, Virgin and Doctor of the Church
Teresa of Ávila
Friday of the twenty-eighth week of Ordinary Time
Gall of Switzerland, Gerard Majella, Hedwig of Silesia
Saint Ignatius of Antioch, Bishop and Martyr
Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Luke the Evangelist
Saints John de Brébeuf and Isaac Jogues, Priests, and Companions, Martyrs
Tuesday of the twenty-ninth week of Ordinary Time
Paul of the Cross, Wendelin of Trier
Wednesday of the twenty-ninth week of Ordinary Time
Ursula of Cologne and Companions
Thursday of the twenty-ninth week of Ordinary Time
John Paul II
Friday of the twenty-ninth week of Ordinary Time
John of Capistrano
Saturday of the twenty-ninth week of Ordinary Time
Anthony Mary Claret
Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Saint Anthony of Saint Anne Galvão, Anniversary of the Dedication of Consecrated Churches
Monday of the thirtieth week of Ordinary Time
Demetrius of Thessaloniki
Tuesday of the thirtieth week of Ordinary Time
Gonçalo of Lagos
Saints Simon and Jude, Apostles
Thursday of the thirtieth week of Ordinary Time
Abraham of Rostov
Friday of the thirtieth week of Ordinary Time
Alphonsus Rodriguez
Saturday of the thirtieth week of Ordinary Time
Wolfgang of Regensburg
Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Monday of the twenty-sixth week of Ordinary Time
Saints Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, Archangels
Saint Jerome, Priest and Doctor of the Church
Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus, Virgin and Doctor of the Church
The Holy Guardian Angels
Saturday of the twenty-sixth week of Ordinary Time
Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Monday of the twenty-seventh week of Ordinary Time
Tuesday of the twenty-seventh week of Ordinary Time
Our Lady of the Rosary
Thursday of the twenty-seventh week of Ordinary Time
Friday of the twenty-seventh week of Ordinary Time
Saturday of the twenty-seventh week of Ordinary Time
Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Monday of the twenty-eighth week of Ordinary Time
Tuesday of the twenty-eighth week of Ordinary Time
Wednesday of the twenty-eighth week of Ordinary Time
Saint Teresa of Jesus, Virgin and Doctor of the Church
Friday of the twenty-eighth week of Ordinary Time
+1Saint Ignatius of Antioch, Bishop and Martyr
Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Saints John de Brébeuf and Isaac Jogues, Priests, and Companions, Martyrs
Tuesday of the twenty-ninth week of Ordinary Time
Wednesday of the twenty-ninth week of Ordinary Time
Thursday of the twenty-ninth week of Ordinary Time
Friday of the twenty-ninth week of Ordinary Time
Saturday of the twenty-ninth week of Ordinary Time
Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Monday of the thirtieth week of Ordinary Time
Tuesday of the thirtieth week of Ordinary Time
Saints Simon and Jude, Apostles
Thursday of the thirtieth week of Ordinary Time
Friday of the thirtieth week of Ordinary Time
Saturday of the thirtieth week of Ordinary Time
On the First Sunday of Advent, four Sundays before Christmas — so the Church's year opens in late November or early December, not in January.
Advent, Christmas, Lent, the Sacred Paschal Triduum, Easter and Ordinary Time. Ordinary Time is the longest, and falls in two stretches: between Christmas and Lent, and between Pentecost and Advent.
Green for Ordinary Time, violet for Advent and Lent, white for Christmas, Easter and most feasts of the Lord, Our Lady and non-martyr saints, and red for Pentecost, Palm Sunday, Good Friday and the martyrs.
They are ranks. A solemnity is the highest and keeps its own Mass with Gloria and Creed; a feast ranks below it; a memorial lower still, and an optional memorial may be kept or passed over at the priest's discretion.
A day on which the faithful are bound to attend Mass and to rest from work that would hinder it. Every Sunday is one, along with a handful of solemnities that vary by country.