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