Nevertheless, the basic rule of thumb is this: Sundays, other Solemnities, Holy Week, and the Octave of Easter always take precedence. These are followed by Feasts, weekdays of Advent December , days within the Octave of Christmas, weekdays of Lent, obligatory memorials, optional memorials, weekdays of Advent through December 16 , other weekdays of the Christmas Season, other weekdays of the Easter Season, and weekdays in Ordinary Time.
Skip to main content. Technically, the divisions are as follows: Solemnities are the celebrations of greatest importance. Feasts are of secondary importance in our liturgical calendar and are celebrated on a particular day.
These feasts do not have a first vespers or Vigil Mass on the prior evening. An exception would be the feasts of the Lord which occur on Sundays in Ordinary Time and Sundays in the Christmas season. For example, the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord February 2 has its own first vespers.
Feast of the Immaculate Conception. Sebastian India Stes. Pastors and parents are to see to it that children, while not bound to the law of fast and abstinence, are educated and introduced to an authentic sense of penance. On Fridays, when abstinence is not required by law, acts of penance, especially works of charity and exercises of piety are suggested. Abstinence from meat is especially recommended but under no obligation by law.
Accordingly, the entire celebration of this vigil should take place at night, that is, it should either begin after nightfall or end before the dawn of Sunday General Norms for the Liturgical Year and the Calendar, no.
Easter Vigil should not begin before pm CDT. Friday, January 1 [1]. Saturday, January 1 [1]. Epiphany Our Lord's manifestation to the world through the visit of the magi.
Patrick and the Annunciation. In the United States , the number of feasts was not everywhere the same; the Council of Baltimore wanted only four feasts, but the decree was not approved by Rome ; the third Plenary Council of Baltimore , by a general law, retained six feasts: Christmas , New Year's Day, Ascension , Assumption, the Immaculate Conception, and All Saints. Peter and Paul and Corpus Christi were transferred to the next following Sunday. In the city of Rome the following feasts are of double precept i.
Joseph , Annunciation, Ascension , St. John the Evangelist. The civil law in Italy acknowledges: Epiphany, Ascension , Sts. Demetrius 26 Oct.
Michael 8 Nov. Nicholas 6 Dec. Anne 9 Dec. Stephen 27 Dec. Basil , St. Gregory , St. John Chrysostom 30 Jan. George 23 Apr. John, Sts. Elias 20 July , Transfiguration 6 Aug. John 29 Aug. The Russians have only nine ecclesiastical Holy Days which do not fall on a Sunday, viz. But they have fifty festivals birthdays, etc. Division of feasts Feasts are divided: According to external celebration feriatio : festa fori , or feasts of precept, with double obligation , to rest from work and to hear Mass; festa chori , which are kept only in the liturgy, by the celebration of Mass, and the recitation of the Divine Office.
Besides these there were, and still are, in some dioceses e. According to extension: Universal feasts, celebrated everywhere, at least in the Latin Church ; particular feasts, celebrated only by certain religious orders, countries, provinces, dioceses or towns.
These latter are either prescribed by the general rubrics , like the patronal feasts, or are specially approved by the Apostolic See , and prescribed by bishops or synods , for particular countries or dioceses festa pro aliquibus locis in the Breviary. The universal feasts are contained in the Roman Calendar.
0コメント