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The Revised Common Lectionary ( RCL) is a lectionary of readings or pericopes from the Bible for use in Christian worship, making provision for the liturgical year with its pattern of observances of festivals and seasons. It was preceded by the Common Lectionary, assembled in 1983, itself preceded by the COCU Lectionary, published in 1974 by ...
Canon law of theCatholic Church. The General Roman Calendar is the liturgical calendar that indicates the dates of celebrations of saints and mysteries of the Lord ( Jesus Christ) in the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church, wherever this liturgical rite is in use. These celebrations are a fixed annual date, or occur on a particular day of the week.
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 1928 Book of Common Prayer [note 1] was the official primary liturgical book of the U.S.-based Episcopal Church from 1928 to 1979. An edition in the same tradition as other versions of the Book of Common Prayer used by the churches within the Anglican Communion and Anglicanism generally, it contains both the forms of the Eucharistic liturgy and the Daily Office, as well as additional ...
Easter time is the period of 50 days, spanning from Easter Sunday to Pentecost Sunday. [ 13] It is celebrated as a single joyful feast, called the "great Lord's Day". [ 14] Each Sunday of the season is treated as a Sunday of Easter. In some traditions, Easter Sunday is the first Sunday of Eastertide and the following Sunday (Low Sunday) is the ...
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]
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.