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The Twenty-fifth Day of December, Innumeris transactis saeculis a creatione mundi, quando in principio Deus creavit caelum et terram et hominem formavit ad imaginem suam; when ages beyond number had run their course from the creation of the world, when God in the beginning created heaven and earth, and formed man in his own likeness;
The General Roman Calendar (GRC) is the liturgical calendar that indicates the dates of celebrations of saints and mysteries of the Lord (Jesus Christ) in the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church, wherever this liturgical rite is in use. These celebrations are a fixed annual date, or occur on a particular day of the week.
The Sunday between November 27 and December 3: 3–4 weeks 2: Nativity: December 25: 1–2 weeks 3: Epiphany (Denha) The Sunday between January 2 and 6; otherwise January 6, if no such Sunday exists: 4–9 weeks 4: Great Fast (Sawma Rabba) The 7th Sunday before Easter [note 1] 7 weeks 5: Resurrection (Qyamta) Easter Sunday: 7 weeks 6: Apostles ...
The phrase "the Lord's day" appears only one time in the New Testament, [13] in Revelation 1:10 which was written near the end of the first century.It is the English translation of the Koine Greek Kyriake hemera.
Each day in the Catholic liturgical calendar has a rank. The five basic ranks for the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite, in descending order of importance, are as follows: Solemnity — the highest ranking type of feast day. It commemorates an event in the life of Jesus or Mary, or celebrates a Saint important to the whole Church or the local ...
27 December: Saint Stephen's Day: Divine Liturgy: Acts 6:8–15; 7:1–5, 47–60: Matthew 21:33–42 29 December: Holy Innocents' Day: Divine Liturgy: 2 Corinthians 5:15–21: Matthew 2:13–23 30 December-5 January: Saturday before Theophany: Divine Liturgy: 1 Timothy 3:14–4:5: Matthew 3:1–11 1 January: Feast of the Circumcision of Christ ...
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The Sundays of Advent and Lent and those that follow up to Low Sunday, and also Pentecost Sunday, were to be celebrated as doubles of the first class, outranking all feasts; but when feasts of the first class occurred on the second, third or fourth Sunday of Advent, Masses of the feast were permitted except the conventual Mass. Sundays previously celebrated in the Semi-Double rite were raised ...