The sacred rhythm of the Church year
Wednesday of the twenty-second week of Ordinary Time
Beatrice da Silva, Bronisława of Poland
Thursday of the twenty-second week of Ordinary Time
Agricola of Avignon
Saint Gregory the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Church
Saturday of the twenty-second week of Ordinary Time
Blessed Mary Stella Mardosewicz and Companions, Virgins and Martyrs
Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mother Teresa
Monday of the twenty-third week of Ordinary Time
Magnus of Füssen
Tuesday of the twenty-third week of Ordinary Time
Melchior Grodziecki
The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Saint Peter Claver, Priest
Friday of the twenty-third week of Ordinary Time
Nicholas of Tolentino
Saturday of the twenty-third week of Ordinary Time
Protus and Hyacinth
Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
The Most Holy Name of Mary
Saint John Chrysostom, Bishop and Doctor of the Church
The Exaltation of the Holy Cross
Our Lady of Sorrows
Saints Cornelius, Pope, and Cyprian, Bishop, Martyrs
Friday of the twenty-fourth week of Ordinary Time
Hildegard of Bingen, Robert Bellarmine, Zygmunt Szczęsny Feliński
Saturday of the twenty-fourth week of Ordinary Time
Lambert of Maastricht
Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Januarius
Saints Andrew Kim Tae-gŏn, Priest, Paul Chŏng Ha-sang and Companions, Martyrs
Andrew Kim Taegon
Saint Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist
Wednesday of the twenty-fifth week of Ordinary Time
Maurice of Agaunum and Companions
Saint Pius of Pietrelcina, Priest
Pio of Pietrelcina
Friday of the twenty-fifth week of Ordinary Time
Saint Virgilius of Salzburg
Saturday of the twenty-fifth week of Ordinary Time
Saint Nicholas of Flüe
Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Cosmas and Damian
Saint Vincent de Paul, Priest
Tuesday of the twenty-sixth week of Ordinary Time
Lawrence Ruiz and Companions, Leoba of Tauberbischofsheim, Wenceslaus of Bohemia
Saints Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, Archangels
Saint Jerome, Priest and Doctor of the Church
Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time
Monday of the twenty-second week of Ordinary Time
Tuesday of the twenty-second week of Ordinary Time
Wednesday of the twenty-second week of Ordinary Time
Thursday of the twenty-second week of Ordinary Time
Saint Gregory the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Church
Saturday of the twenty-second week of Ordinary Time
Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time
Monday of the twenty-third week of Ordinary Time
Tuesday of the twenty-third week of Ordinary Time
The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Saint Peter Claver, Priest
Friday of the twenty-third week of Ordinary Time
Saturday of the twenty-third week of Ordinary Time
Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Saint John Chrysostom, Bishop and Doctor of the Church
The Exaltation of the Holy Cross
Our Lady of Sorrows
Saints Cornelius, Pope, and Cyprian, Bishop, Martyrs
Friday of the twenty-fourth week of Ordinary Time
Saturday of the twenty-fourth week of Ordinary Time
Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Saints Andrew Kim Tae-gŏn, Priest, Paul Chŏng Ha-sang and Companions, Martyrs
Saint Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist
Wednesday of the twenty-fifth week of Ordinary Time
Saint Pius of Pietrelcina, Priest
Friday of the twenty-fifth week of Ordinary Time
Saturday of the twenty-fifth week of Ordinary Time
Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Saint Vincent de Paul, Priest
Tuesday 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
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.
