The Liturgical Calendar

Colours of the Liturgical Year  Green - Ordinary Time Violet - Advent & Lent, Mass for Life, Funerals  Red - Passion, Holy Spirit, Martyrs, Pentecost, Confirmation  White - Easter & Christmas, Feasts of Our Lord & non-martyrs, Funerals Rose - 3rd Sunday of Advent and 4th Sunday of Lent  Black - Funerals Masses for the Dead and All Souls

Priests Vestments

Ordinary Time In the Church's liturgical calendar there are two periods known as "ordinary time". These times are used to celebrate various feast days and saints days.

Advent Advent - The liturgical season of four weeks devoted to preparation for the coming of Christ at Christmas

Christmas Christmas - The feast of the Nativity, the birth of Jesus

Lent The penitential season of Lent is the period of forty week-days beginning on Ash Wednesday. It is a season of the Church year that commemorates the forty days Jesus fasted and prayed in the wilderness before He began His public ministry of preaching for repentance. Six Sundays are within the season; the last, Passion Sunday, marks the beginning of Holy Week. Holy Thursday begins the Triduum (three days) before Easter day, which includes Good Friday and Holy Saturday.

Ash Wednesday – First day of Lent

Palm Sunday

Easter Easter - The greatest and oldest Christian feast, which celebrates Christ's Resurrection from the dead. Easter is the "feast of feasts", the solemnity of solemnities, the "Great Sunday". Christians prepare for it during Lent and Holy Week, and catechumens usually receive the Sacraments of Christian Initiation (Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist) at the Easter Vigil

Holy Thursday

Good Friday – The Passion

Holy Saturday

Jesus’ Resurrection – Easter Sunday