Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 86 views

    Solemnities Feasts Memorials

    Uploaded by

    Arabella Grace Roxas
    The document outlines the categories of solemnities, feasts, and memorials that are observed in the Church year. The most important solemnities include Easter, Christmas, Pentecost, and Epiphany. Feasts honor specific events in the lives of Jesus and Mary or commemorate saints, and replace Sunday liturgy if they fall on a Sunday. Memorials are the highest number of commemorations and are either obligatory or optional depending on their significance.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Solemnities Feasts Memorials

    Uploaded by

    Arabella Grace Roxas
    86 views3 pages
    The document outlines the categories of solemnities, feasts, and memorials that are observed in the Church year. The most important solemnities include Easter, Christmas, Pentecost, and Epiphany. Feasts honor specific events in the lives of Jesus and Mary or commemorate saints, and replace Sunday liturgy if they fall on a Sunday. Memorials are the highest number of commemorations and are either obligatory or optional depending on their significance.

    Original Description:

    Church

    Original Title

    SOLEMNITIES FEASTS MEMORIALS

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    The document outlines the categories of solemnities, feasts, and memorials that are observed in the Church year. The most important solemnities include Easter, Christmas, Pentecost, and Epiphany. Feasts honor specific events in the lives of Jesus and Mary or commemorate saints, and replace Sunday liturgy if they fall on a Sunday. Memorials are the highest number of commemorations and are either obligatory or optional depending on their significance.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as docx, pdf, or txt
    86 views3 pages

    Solemnities Feasts Memorials

    Uploaded by

    Arabella Grace Roxas
    The document outlines the categories of solemnities, feasts, and memorials that are observed in the Church year. The most important solemnities include Easter, Christmas, Pentecost, and Epiphany. Feasts honor specific events in the lives of Jesus and Mary or commemorate saints, and replace Sunday liturgy if they fall on a Sunday. Memorials are the highest number of commemorations and are either obligatory or optional depending on their significance.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as docx, pdf, or txt
    of 3

    SOLEMNITIES, FEASTS & MEMORIALS

     Solemnities

    The most important days of the Church year are


    solemnities. Some of these are designated as holy
    days of obligation. The four most important
    solemnities in order, are:
     Easter Sunday - the first Sunday after the first
    full moon after March 21
     Christmas Day* - December 25
     Pentecost - 7 Sundays after Easter Sunday
     Epiphany - January 6 in many parts of the world;
    or transferred to the first Sunday after January
    1
    The other solemnities of the Church year are:
     Mary, Mother of God* - January 1
     St. Joseph - March 19
     Holy Thursday (Mass of the Lord's Supper) - 3
    evenings before Easter Sunday
     Good Friday (Commemoration of the Lord's
    Passion) - 2 days before Easter Sunday
     Ascension of the Lord* - 40th day of the Easter
    season in many parts of the world; or
    transferred to the 6th Sunday of Easter (43rd
    day)
     The Most Holy Trinity (Trinity Sunday) - 8
    Sundays after Easter Sunday
     The Body and Blood of Christ - the Thursday
    after Trinity Sunday in many parts of the world;
    or transferred to 9 Sundays after Easter Sunday
     The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary* -
    August 15
     All Saints* - November 1
     Christ, King of the Universe - 5 Sundays before
    Christmas Day
     The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed
    Virgin Mary* - December 8

     Feasts

    Feasts, the next in importance, are specific days


    that the Church gives special honor to certain
    events in the life of Jesus or Mary; commemorates
    major saints, including the evangelists, other
    apostles, and archangels; and marks historical
    events such as the Conversion of St. Paul and the
    Dedication of the Lateran Basilica. Readings are
    specific to the Feast. A Feast pertaining to the Lord
    that falls on a Sunday in Ordinary Time replaces the
    Sunday liturgy.

     Memorials
    Memorials are the last category, and highest
    number, of special commemorations during the
    Church year. These celebrations of a saint or
    saints are designated either as obligatory (as St.
    Elizabeth Ann Seton,
    January 4) or optional (as St. Blaise, February 3) and
    are sometimes observed in specific dioceses or
    regions, or by religious communities. Only the
    memorials of those saints who are of universal
    significance are observed by the whole Church and
    marked in the general liturgical calendar. During
    Lent, all memorials of saints are commemorations,
    with limited celebration. A solemnity, feast, Sunday,
    Ash Wednesday, Holy Week, and an Easter Octave
    day take precedence over a memorial.

    You might also like