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The Catholic Church's liturgical calendar, from US Catholic Bishops Archived February 7, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, or from O.S.V. publishing Archived November 13, 2013, at the Wayback Machine. Universalis – A liturgical calendar of the Catholic Church including the Liturgy of the Hours and the Mass readings.
The last Sunday of Ordinary Time is the Solemnity of Christ the King, with the Sunday before that being the Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, with the ordinal numbers counting backwards from that point. [5] Due to the configuration of the calendar year, Ordinary Time may have a total of either 33 or 34 weeks.
In the liturgical books, the document General Roman Calendar, which lists not only fixed celebrations but also some moveable ones, is printed immediately after the document Universal Norms on the Liturgical Year and the Calendar, [2] [3] which states that "throughout the course of the year the Church unfolds the entire mystery of Christ and ...
The feast is a relatively recent addition to the liturgical calendar, instituted in 1925 by Pope Pius XI for the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church. In 1970, its Roman Rite observance was moved from October to the last Sunday of Ordinary Time and thus to the end of the liturgical year. The earliest date on which the Feast of Christ the King can ...
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 ...
According to the national calendar of the United States, [28] as requested by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and approved by the Holy See: 4 January: Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, religious – Memorial; 5 January: Saint John Neumann, bishop – Memorial; 6 January: Saint André Bessette, religious – Optional Memorial
Volume III: Ordinary Time, Weeks 1 to 17; Volume IV: Ordinary Time, Weeks 18 to 34; The liturgical books for the celebration of the Liturgy of the Hours in Latin are those of the editio typica altera (second typical edition) promulgated in 1985 and re-issued by the Vatican Publishing House – Libreria Editrice Vaticana – in 2000 and 2003.
Accordingly, if in Ordinary Time one of them falls on a Sunday, the Sunday celebration gives way to it; but the Sundays of Advent, Lent and Eastertide take precedence over all other solemnities, which are then transferred to another day, [5] along with the precept to attend Mass. [6] [7] Occasionally, the Feast of the Sacred Heart may fall on ...