A Liturgical Calendar For the Year 2015 With Links to the Lessons From the Revised Common Lectionary, as modified for use in Episcopal worship Return to The Lectionary Page. Month: | January | February | March | April | May | June | | July | August | September | October | November | Decemb er | January 2015 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesda y Thursday Friday Saturday 1 The Holy Name 2 3 4 Second Sunday after Christmas (Note: Episcopal 5 6 The Epiphany 7 8 Harriet Bedell, Deacones s and Missiona ry 9 Julia Chester Emery, Missiona ry 10 William Laud, Archbish op
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A Liturgical Calendar
For the Year 2015With Links to the Lessons From the Revised Common Lectionary, as modified for use in Episcopal worship
Return to The Lectionary Page.
Month:
| January | February | March | April | May | June |
| July | August | September | October | November | December |
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
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.
Return to The Lectionary Page.
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.
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.”
SPIRITUAL REFLECTION“Come to me, all who labor and are burdened, and I will refresh you”
From a treatise on John by Saint Augustine, bishop(Tract. 15, 10-12. 16-17: CCL 36, 154-156)
“A woman came”. […] Jesus says to her: “Give me water to drink. For his disciples had gone to the city to buy food. The Samaritan woman therefore says to him: How is it that you, though a Jew, ask me for water to drink, though I am a Samaritan woman? For Jews have nothing to do with Samaritans” (Jn 4:7-9). […] But the one who was asking for a drink of water was thirsting for her faith.
“Jesus answered her and said: If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, “Give me a drink,” perhaps you might have asked him and he would have given you living water” (Jn 4:10). He asks for a drink, and he promises a drink. He is in need, as one hoping to receive, yet he is rich, as one about to satisfy the thirst of others. He says: “If you knew the gift of God”. The gift of God is the Holy Spirit. But he is still using veiled language as he speaks to the woman and gradually enters into her heart. […]
“The woman says to him, Master, give me this drink, so that I may feel no thirst or come here to draw water” (Jn 4:15). Her need forced her to this labor, her weakness shrank from it. If only she could hear those words: “Come to me, all who labor