A Liturgical Calendar

For the Year 2015With Links to the Lessons From the Revised Common Lectionary, as modified for use in Episcopal worship

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January 2015Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

         1The Holy Name

2 

3

4Second Sunday after Christmas

(Note: Episcopal readings differ from the "generic" RCL readings)

5 6The Epiphany

7 8Harriet Bedell, Deaconess and Missionary

9Julia Chester Emery, Missionary

10William Laud, Archbishop

11First Sunday after the Epiphany

12Aelred, Abbot

13Hillary, Bishop

14 15Martin Luther King, Jr.(alternate date)

16 17Antony, Abbot

18Second Sunday after the Epiphany

19Confession of St Peter, Apostle(transferred)

20Fabian, Bishop and Martyr

21Agnes, Martyr

22Vincent, Deacon and Martyr

23Phillips Brooks, Bishop

24Ordination of Florence Li Tim-Oi

25Third Sunday after the Epiphany

26Conversion of St Paul, Apostle(transferred)

27John Chrysostom, Bishop

28Thomas Aquinas, Priest and Friar

29 30  31

 February 2015Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

 1Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany

2Presentation of Jesus in the Temple

3Anskar, Archbishop

4Cornelius, the Centurion

5Martyrs of Japan

6 7

8Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany

9 10 11 12 13Absalom Jones, Priest

 14Cyril and Methodius, Monk and Bishop

15Last Sunday after Epiphany

16 17Janani LuwumArchbishop and Martyr

18Ash Wednesday

19 20 21

22First Sunday in Lent

23Polycarp, Bishop and Martyr

24St Matthias, Apostle

25 26 27George Herbert, Priest

28Anna Julia Haywood Cooper, Educator

March 2015Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

 1Second Sunday in Lent

 2Chad, Bishop of Lichfield

 3John and Charles Wesley, Priests

4   5 6 7Perpetua and her Companions, Martyrs

8Third Sunday in Lent

9Gregory, Bishop of

10 11 12Gregory the Great,

13James Theodore

14

Nyssa Bishop Holly, Bishop

15Fourth Sunday in Lent

16 17Patrick, Bishop

18Cyril, Bishop

19St Joseph

20Cuthbert, Bishop

21Thomas Ken, Bishop

22Fifth Sunday in Lent

23Gregory the Illuminator

24Oscar Romero, Archbishop, and the Martyrs of San Salvador

25The Annunciation

26 27Charles Henry Brent, Bishop

28

29Sunday of the Passion:Palm Sunday

30Monday in Holy Week

31Tuesday in Holy Week

   

April 2015Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

  1 Wednesday in Holy Week

2 Maundy Thursday(White is appropriate at the Eucharist)

3Good Friday(Black may be used)

4Holy SaturdayEaster Vigil

5Easter DayPrincipalEvening

6Monday in Easter Week

7Tuesday in Easter Week

8Wednesday in Easter Week

9Thursday in Easter Week

10Friday in Easter Week

11Saturday in Easter Week

12Second Sunday of Easter

13 14 15 16 17 18

19Third Sunday of Easter

20 21Anselm, Archbishop

22 23 24 25St Mark, Evangelist

26Fourth Sunday of Easter

27  28 29Catherine of Sienna

30

 May 2015Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1St Philip and St James, Apostles

2Athanasius, Bishop

3Fifth Sunday of Easter

4Monnica, Mother of Augustine

5 6 7 8Dame Julian of Norwich

9Gregory of Nazianzus, Bishop

10Sixth Sunday of Easter

11 12 13 14Ascension Day

15 16

17Seventh Sunday of Easter

18 19Dunstan, Archbishop

20Alcuin, Deacon and Abbott of Tours

21 22 23

24Day of PentecostWhitsunday

25Bede the Venerable

26Augustine, Archbishop

27 28 29 30

31First Sunday after PentecostTrinity Sunday

  June 2015Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

   1Visitation of the Blessed Virgin(transferred)

2The Martyrs of Lyons

3The Martyrs of Uganda

4The First Book of Common Prayer

5Boniface, Archbishop and Martyr

6

7Second Sunday after PentecostProper 5

8 9Columba, Abbot

10Ephrem of Edessa

11St Barnabas, Apostle

12Enmegahbowh, Priest and Missionary

13

14Third Sunday after Pentecost

15Evelyn Underhill

16Joseph Butler,

17 18Bernard Mizeki,

19 20

Proper 6 Bishop Martyr

21Fourth Sunday after PentecostProper 7

22Alban, Martyr

23 24Nativity of St John, the Baptist

25 26 27

28Fifth Sunday after PentecostProper 8

29St Peter and St Paul, Apostles

30      

 July 2015Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

    1 2 3 4

Independence Day

5Sixth Sunday after PentecostProper 9

6 7 8 9 10 11Benedict of Nursia, Abbot

12Seventh Sunday after PentecostProper 10

13 14 15 16 17William White, Bishop

18

19Eighth Sunday after PentecostProper 11

20Stanton, Bloomer, Truth, Tubman

21 22Mary Magdalene

23 24Thomas a Kempis, Priest

25St James, Apostle

26Ninth Sunday after PentecostProper 12

27William Reed Huntington, Priest

28 29Mary and Martha of Bethany

30William Wilberforce

31Ignatius of Loyola  

August 2015Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

         1Joseph of

Arimathea

 2Tenth Sunday after PentecostProper 13

3 4 5 6The Transfiguration

7John Mason Neale, Priest

8Dominic, Priest and Friar

9Eleventh Sunday after PentecostProper 14

10Laurence, Deacon and Martyr

11Clare, Abbess

12Florence Nightingale

13Jeremy Taylor, Bishop

14Jonathan Myrick Daniels

15St Mary, the Virgin

16Twelfth Sunday after PentecostProper 15

17 18William Porcher Dubose, Priest

19 20Bernard, Abbot

21 22

23Thirteenth Sunday after PentecostProper 16

24St Bartholomew, Apostle

25Louis, King of France

26 27Thomas Gallaudet and Henry Winter Syle

28Augustine, Bishop of Hippo

29

30Fourteenth Sunday after PentecostProper 17

31Aidan, Bishop

       

  September 2015Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

    1David Pen dleton Oakerhater, Deacon

2Martyrs of New Guinea

3 4Paul Jones, 1941

5

6Fifteenth Sunday after PentecostProper 18

7Labor Day

8 9Constance, Nun, and her Companions

10Alexander Crummell

11 12John Henry Hobart, Bishop

13Sixteenth Sunday after

14Holy Cross Day

15 16Ninian, Bishop

17Hildegard of Bingen

18Edward Bouverie

19Theodore of Tarsus,

PentecostProper 19

Pusey, Priest Archbishop

20Seventeenth Sunday after PentecostProper 20

21St Matthew, Evangelist

22Philander Chase, Bishop

23 24 25Sergius, Abbot

26Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop

27Eighteenth Sunday after PentecostProper 21

28 29St Michael and All Angels

30Jerome,Priest and Monk

     

 October 2015Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

        1Remigius, Bishop

2 3

4Nineteenth Sunday after PentecostProper 22

5 6William Tyndale, Priest

7 8 9Robert Grosseteste, Bishop

10Vida Duncan Scudder, Educator and Witness for Peace

11Twentieth Sunday after PentecostProper 23

12 13 14Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky, Bishop

15Teresa of Avila, Nun

16Latimer, Ridley, and Cranmer

17Ignatius, Bishop and Martyr

18Twenty First Sunday after Pentecost   Proper 24

19St Luke, Evangelist(transferred)

20 21 22 23St James of Jerusalem

24

25Twenty Second Sunday after PentecostProper 25

26Alfred the Great

27 28St Simon & St Jude, Apostles

29James Hannington, Bishop, and his Companions

30 31Vigil of All Saints(White for vigil)

November 2015

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1All Saints

2Commemoration of All Faithful Departed

3Richard Hooker, Priest

4 5 6William Temple, Archbishop

7Willibrord, Archbishop

8Twenty Fourth Sunday after PentecostProper 27

9 10Leo the Great, Bishop

11Martin, Bishop of Tours

12Charles Simeon, Priest

13 14Consecration of Samuel Seabury

15Twenty Fifth Sunday after PentecostProper 28

16Margaret, Queen of Scotland

17Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln

18Hilda, Abbess of Whitby

19Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary

20Edmund, King of East Anglia

21

22Last Sunday after Pentecost:Christ the King

23Clement, Bishop

24 25James Otis Sargent Huntington, Priest and Monk

26Thanksgiving Day

27 28Kamehameha and Emma

29First Sunday of Advent

30St Andrew, Apostle

       

December 2015Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

     1Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon

2Channing Moore Williams, Missionary Bishop

3 4John of Damascus

5Clement of Alexandria, Priest

6Second Sunday of Advent

7Ambrose, Bishop

8 9 10 11 12

13Third Sunday of Advent

14 15 16 17 18 19

20Fourth Sunday of Advent

21St Thomas, Apostle

22 23 24Christmas Eve

25Christmas DayChristmas IChristmas IIChristmas III

26St Stephen, Deacon and Martyr

27First Sunday after Christmas

28St John, Apostle and Evangelist(transferred)

29Holy Innocents(transferred)

30Francis Joseph Gaudet, Educator and Prison Reformer

31

Notes:

The Sunday Lectionary is a three year cyclical lectionary. The year which begins with Advent 2014 and ends at Advent 2015 is Year B. The year which began at Advent 2013 and ends at Advent 2014 is Year A. The First Sunday of Advent 2015 begins Year C.

The Bible translation used is The New Revised Standard Version, copyright 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Church of Christ in the USA, and used by permission.

The collects and the Psalms are from the Book of Common Prayer. The collects use the contemporary wording.

The liturgical color appropriate for the day is indicated, when the color is green, red or purple, by the color of the numeral against a light grey background. When the liturgical color is white, the numeral is black against a white background.

On weekdays, other than major Holy Days, the color indicated is the color appropriate to the season. When celebrating the feast of a martyred saint, red is also appropriate.

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Last updated on April 10, 2014

[4] According to the national calendar of the United States, as requested by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and approved by the Holy See.

[2] Applies to Canada. Dates are according to the national calendar of Canada, as requested by the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) and approved by the Holy See.

Liturgical Year 2014-2015

The following is an animated image of the liturgical year 2014-2015 according to the Roman Catholic rite. It's called "liturgical year" or "Christian Year" at the time ranging from the first Sunday of Advent and the last week in Ordinary Time during which the Church celebrates the whole mystery of Christ from his birth to his second coming. One can say that the liturgical year consists of two times: strong times and ordinary time. The strong times are, Advent, Christmas, Lent and Easter, during which a particular mystery of salvation is celebrated. Ordinary Time, in turn, does not hold any particular mistery, but rather the same mystery of Christ in its fullness, especially on Sundays. Ordinary Time is divided into two parts throughout the liturgicaL year and in total lasts 33 or 34 weeks. Note that in the image below the corresponding date of 2015-03-01 has been highlighted.

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(Vatican Radio) On Saturday evening, Pope Francis celebrated Mass at the Roman church of “Ognissanti” – All Saints’ – in commemoration of

the 50th anniversary of the first Mass offered in Italian.

It was in the church of Ognissanti, fifty years ago, on the First Sunday of Lent, 1965, that Pope Paul VI offered the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass predominantly using the vernacular – the language of the people. Describing the event, Pope Paul said, “Across the world this date marks the first time a new way of praying, of celebrating Holy Mass has been inaugurated.”

In his homily on Saturday, Pope Francis recalled the Gospel account of the cleansing of the temple, and Jesus’ famous remark, “Do not make My Father’s house a marketplace!” This expression, the Pope said, did not just refer to those doing business in the temple; it refers to a certain type of religiosity. Jesus’ gesture is one of “cleansing, of purification.” God is not pleased with material offerings based on personal interests. Rather, Jesus is calling us to “authentic worship, to the correspondence between liturgy and life – a call that is true for every age, and also for us today.”

Recalling the Second Vatican Council’s constitution on the Liturgy, Sacrosanctum Concilium, Pope Francis said, “the Church is calling us to have and to promote an authentic liturgical life, so that there may be harmony between what the liturgy celebrates, and what we live in our daily existence.” The liturgy, he said, “is the privileged place to hear the voice of the

Lord, who guides us on the path of righteousness and Christian perfection.”

The liturgy, he continued, invites us to a journey of conversion and penance, especially during Lent, “the time of interior renewal, of the remission of sins, the time in which we are called to rediscover the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation, that makes us go from the darkness of sin to the light of grace and friendship with Jesus.” The Pope said we must never forget “the great strength that this Sacrament has for the Christian life: it makes us grow in union with God, makes us regain lost joy and experience the consolation of knowing we are personally welcomed by the merciful embrace of the Father.”

Pope Francis concluded his homily noting that the church of Ognissanti was built “thanks to the apostolic zeal of Saint Luigi Orione.” And he recalled that it was here, “in a certain sense,” that Blessed Paul VI “inaugurated the liturgical reform” with the celebration of the Mass “in the language of the people.” Pope Francis expressed his hope that this occasion would revive in everyone a great “love for the house of God.” 

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