The sacred rhythm of the Church year
Friday of the fourth week of Easter
Saint Joseph the Worker, Peregrine Laziosi
Saint Athanasius, Bishop and Doctor of the Church
Athanasius of Alexandria
Fifth Sunday of Easter
James the Less, Philip the Apostle
Monday of the fifth week of Easter
Florian of Lorch, Ladislas of Gielniów
Tuesday of the fifth week of Easter
Gotthard of Hildesheim
Wednesday of the fifth week of Easter
Dominic Savio
Thursday of the fifth week of Easter
John of Beverley
Friday of the fifth week of Easter
Pope Boniface IV
Saturday of the fifth week of Easter
Pachomius the Great
Sixth Sunday of Easter
Damien of Molokai, John of Ávila
Monday of the sixth week of Easter
Ignatius of Laconi
Tuesday of the sixth week of Easter
Nereus and Achilleus, Pancras of Rome
Wednesday of the sixth week of Easter
Our Lady of Fátima
Saint Matthias, Apostle
Friday of the sixth week of Easter
Saint Isidore the Farmer
Saturday of the sixth week of Easter
Saint Andrew Bobola, Saint John of Nepomuk
The Ascension of the Lord
Monday of the seventh week of Easter
John I, Pope and Martyr
Tuesday of the seventh week of Easter
Ivo of Kermartin
Wednesday of the seventh week of Easter
Bernardine of Siena
Thursday of the seventh week of Easter
Christopher Magallanes and Companions
Friday of the seventh week of Easter
Joaquina de Vedruna, Saint Rita of Cascia
Saturday of the seventh week of Easter
John Baptist de Rossi
Pentecost Sunday
Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church
Saint Philip Neri, Priest
Wednesday of the eighth week of Ordinary Time
Augustine of Canterbury
Thursday of the eighth week of Ordinary Time
Germanus of Paris
Friday of the eighth week of Ordinary Time
Paul VI
Saturday of the eighth week of Ordinary Time
Ferdinand III of Castile, Joan of Arc
The Most Holy Trinity
Fourth Sunday of Easter
Monday of the fourth week of Easter
Tuesday of the fourth week of Easter
Saint Catherine of Siena, Virgin and Doctor of the Church
Thursday of the fourth week of Easter
Friday of the fourth week of Easter
Saint Athanasius, Bishop and Doctor of the Church
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
Monday of the sixth week of Easter
Tuesday of the sixth week of Easter
Wednesday of the sixth week of Easter
Saint Matthias, Apostle
Friday of the sixth week of Easter
Saturday of the sixth week of Easter
The Ascension of the Lord
Monday of the seventh week of Easter
Tuesday of the seventh week of Easter
Wednesday of the seventh week of Easter
Thursday of the seventh week of Easter
Friday of the seventh week of Easter
Saturday of the seventh week of Easter
Pentecost Sunday
Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church
Saint Philip Neri, Priest
Wednesday of the eighth week of Ordinary Time
Thursday of the eighth week of Ordinary Time
Friday of the eighth week of Ordinary Time
Saturday of the eighth week of Ordinary Time
The Most Holy Trinity
Saint Justin, Martyr
Tuesday of the ninth week of Ordinary Time
Saints Charles Lwanga and Companions, Martyrs
Thursday of the ninth week of Ordinary Time
Saint Boniface, Bishop and Martyr
Saturday of the ninth 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.
