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Ends. Easter Sunday. Frequency. Annual. Holy Week ( Filipino: Mahal na Araw; Spanish: Semana Santa) is a significant religious observance in the Philippines for the Catholic majority, the Iglesia Filipina Independiente or the Philippine Independent Church, and most Protestant groups. One of the few majority Christian countries in Asia ...
The liturgical year, also called the church year, Christian year, ecclesiastical calendar, or kalendar, [ 1][ 2] consists of the cycle of liturgical days and seasons that determines when feast days, including celebrations of saints, are to be observed, and which portions of scripture are to be read.
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 ...
Holy Week ( Koinē Greek: Ἁγία καὶ Μεγάλη Ἑβδομάς, romanized: Agia ké Megale Evdomas, lit. 'Holy and Great Week') is the most sacred week in the liturgical year in Christianity. [ 1][ 2] For all Christian traditions, it is a moveable observance. In Eastern Christianity, which also calls it Great Week, it is the week ...
3 June: Saints Charles Lwanga and companions, martyrs – Feast. 5 August: Our Lady of Africa – Memorial. 28 August: Saint Augustine of Hippo, bishop and doctor of the Church – Feast. 9 September: Saint Peter Claver, priest – Memorial. 3 October: Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus, virgin and doctor of the Church – Feast.
International Commission on English in the Liturgy. The International Commission on English in the Liturgy ( ICEL) is a commission set up by a number of episcopal conferences of English-speaking countries for the purpose of providing English translations of the liturgical books of the Roman Rite, the originals of which are in Latin. [1]
The General Instruction of the Roman Missal ( GIRM )—in the Latin original, Institutio Generalis Missalis Romani ( IGMR )—is the detailed document governing the celebration of Mass of the Roman Rite in what since 1969 is its normal form. Originally published in 1969 as a separate document, it is printed at the start of editions of the Roman ...
Christmastide, also known as Christide, is a season of the liturgical year in most Christian churches. For the Catholic Church , Lutheran Church , Anglican Church , Methodist Church and some Orthodox Churches, Christmastide begins on 24 December at sunset or Vespers , which is liturgically the beginning of Christmas Day .