The sacred rhythm of the Church year
Wednesday of the thirteenth week of Ordinary Time
Junípero Serra
Thursday of the thirteenth week of Ordinary Time
Processus and Martinian
Saint Thomas, Apostle
Saturday of the thirteenth week of Ordinary Time
Elizabeth of Portugal, Pier Giorgio Frassati, Ulrich of Augsburg
Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Anthony Maria Zaccaria
Monday of the fourteenth week of Ordinary Time
Maria Goretti
Tuesday of the fourteenth week of Ordinary Time
Willibald of Eichstätt
Wednesday of the fourteenth week of Ordinary Time
Kilian of Würzburg and Companions
Thursday of the fourteenth week of Ordinary Time
Augustine Zhao Rong and Companions, Paulina Visintainer
Friday of the fourteenth week of Ordinary Time
Canute, Eric, and Olaf, Kings
Saint Benedict, Abbot
Benedict of Nursia
Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Louis and Zélie Martin
Monday of the fifteenth week of Ordinary Time
Henry II, Emperor
Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, Virgin
Camillus de Lellis
Saint Bonaventure, Bishop and Doctor of the Church
Thursday of the fifteenth week of Ordinary Time
Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Friday of the fifteenth week of Ordinary Time
Ceslaus of Poland
Saturday of the fifteenth week of Ordinary Time
Saint Simon of Lipnica
Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Macrina the Younger
Monday of the sixteenth week of Ordinary Time
Apollinaris of Ravenna
Tuesday of the sixteenth week of Ordinary Time
Lawrence of Brindisi
Saint Mary Magdalene
Thursday of the sixteenth week of Ordinary Time
Bridget of Sweden
Friday of the sixteenth week of Ordinary Time
Kinga of Poland, Charbel Makhluf
Saint James, Apostle
Christopher the Martyr, James the Greater
Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Anne, Mother of Mary, Joachim, Father of Mary
Monday of the seventeenth week of Ordinary Time
Titus Brandsma
Tuesday of the seventeenth week of Ordinary Time
Nazarius and Celsus
Saints Martha, Mary and Lazarus
Saint Lazarus of Bethany
Thursday of the seventeenth week of Ordinary Time
Peter Chrysologus
Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Priest
Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles
Tuesday of the thirteenth week of Ordinary Time
Wednesday of the thirteenth week of Ordinary Time
Thursday of the thirteenth week of Ordinary Time
Saint Thomas, Apostle
Saturday of the thirteenth week of Ordinary Time
Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Monday of the fourteenth week of Ordinary Time
Tuesday of the fourteenth week of Ordinary Time
Wednesday of the fourteenth week of Ordinary Time
Thursday of the fourteenth week of Ordinary Time
Friday of the fourteenth week of Ordinary Time
Saint Benedict, Abbot
Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Monday of the fifteenth week of Ordinary Time
Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, Virgin
Saint Bonaventure, Bishop and Doctor of the Church
Thursday of the fifteenth week of Ordinary Time
Friday of the fifteenth week of Ordinary Time
Saturday of the fifteenth week of Ordinary Time
Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Monday of the sixteenth week of Ordinary Time
Tuesday of the sixteenth week of Ordinary Time
Saint Mary Magdalene
Thursday of the sixteenth week of Ordinary Time
Friday of the sixteenth week of Ordinary Time
Saint James, Apostle
Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Monday of the seventeenth week of Ordinary Time
Tuesday of the seventeenth week of Ordinary Time
Saints Martha, Mary and Lazarus
Thursday of the seventeenth week of Ordinary Time
Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Priest
Saint Alphonsus Mary Liguori, Bishop and Doctor of the Church
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.
