The sacred rhythm of the Church year
Thursday of the second week of Easter
Saint Joseph the Worker, Peregrine Laziosi
Saint Athanasius, Bishop and Doctor of the Church
Athanasius of Alexandria
Saints Philip and James, Apostles
Third Sunday of Easter
Florian of Lorch, Ladislas of Gielniów
Monday of the third week of Easter
Gotthard of Hildesheim
Tuesday of the third week of Easter
Dominic Savio
Wednesday of the third week of Easter
John of Beverley
Thursday of the third week of Easter
Pope Boniface IV
Friday of the third week of Easter
Pachomius the Great
Saturday of the third week of Easter
Damien of Molokai, John of Ávila
Fourth Sunday of Easter
Ignatius of Laconi
Monday of the fourth week of Easter
Nereus and Achilleus, Pancras of Rome
Tuesday of the fourth week of Easter
Our Lady of Fátima
Saint Matthias, Apostle
Thursday of the fourth week of Easter
Saint Isidore the Farmer
Friday of the fourth week of Easter
Saint Andrew Bobola, Saint John of Nepomuk
Saturday of the fourth week of Easter
Paschal Baylon
Fifth Sunday of Easter
John I, Pope and Martyr
Monday of the fifth week of Easter
Ivo of Kermartin
Tuesday of the fifth week of Easter
Bernardine of Siena
Wednesday of the fifth week of Easter
Christopher Magallanes and Companions
Thursday of the fifth week of Easter
Joaquina de Vedruna, Saint Rita of Cascia
Friday of the fifth week of Easter
John Baptist de Rossi
Saturday of the fifth week of Easter
Mary, Help of Christians
Sixth Sunday of Easter
Bede the Venerable, Gregory VII, Pope, Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi
Saint Philip Neri, Priest
Tuesday of the sixth week of Easter
Augustine of Canterbury
Wednesday of the sixth week of Easter
Germanus of Paris
Thursday of the sixth week of Easter
Paul VI
Friday of the sixth week of Easter
Ferdinand III of Castile, Joan of Arc
The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Second Sunday of Easter or Sunday of Divine Mercy
Monday of the second week of Easter
Saint Catherine of Siena, Virgin and Doctor of the Church
Wednesday of the second week of Easter
Thursday of the second week of Easter
Saint Athanasius, Bishop and Doctor of the Church
Saints Philip and James, Apostles
Third Sunday of Easter
Monday of the third week of Easter
Tuesday of the third week of Easter
Wednesday of the third week of Easter
Thursday of the third week of Easter
Friday of the third week of Easter
Saturday of the third week of Easter
Fourth Sunday of Easter
Monday of the fourth week of Easter
Tuesday of the fourth week of Easter
Saint Matthias, Apostle
Thursday of the fourth week of Easter
Friday of the fourth week of Easter
Saturday of the fourth week of Easter
Fifth Sunday of Easter
Monday of the fifth week of Easter
Tuesday of the fifth week of Easter
Wednesday of the fifth week of Easter
Thursday of the fifth week of Easter
Friday of the fifth week of Easter
Saturday of the fifth week of Easter
Sixth Sunday of Easter
Saint Philip Neri, Priest
Tuesday of the sixth week of Easter
Wednesday of the sixth week of Easter
Thursday of the sixth week of Easter
Friday of the sixth week of Easter
The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
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.
