Glossary term
The Liturgical Colors
The colors of the vestments and altar cloths that mark the seasons and feasts of the liturgical year.
Liturgy
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Liturgy
Formation through the structure, symbolism, and historical continuity of the Church.
Glossary term
The colors of the vestments and altar cloths that mark the seasons and feasts of the liturgical year.
Glossary term
The garments worn by ordained and instituted ministers in the liturgy, which signify the office each exercises and give visible beauty to the sacred action.
Liturgical year
The Church's yearly cycle, which unfolds the whole mystery of Christ from the Incarnation to Pentecost and to the expectation of his return, and sanctifies time itself.
Optional memorial
The Most Holy Name of Jesus — an optional memorial of the General Roman Calendar celebrated during Christmas.
Feast
The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary — a feast of the General Roman Calendar celebrated during Ordinary Time.
Liturgical season
The eight days from Christmas Day through January 1, during which the Church prolongs the celebration of the Nativity and closes with the Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God.
Liturgical season
The eight days from Easter Sunday through the Second Sunday of Easter, each celebrated as a solemnity of the Lord, prolonging the one day of Resurrection.
Marriage rite
The liturgical book and rite by which a baptized man and woman exchange consent before the Church, entering the covenant that Christ has raised to the dignity of a sacrament.
Funeral rite
The Church's rites for the dead, in which she commends the deceased to God's mercy, comforts the mourners, and proclaims the hope of resurrection given in baptism.
Mass structure
The Church's process for initiating adults, whose Lenten scrutinies purify the elect and whose goal is the celebration of Baptism, Confirmation, and the Eucharist at the Easter Vigil.
Symbolism
The great candle blessed at the Easter Vigil and marked with the cross, the Alpha and the Omega, and the year, which stands as the sign of the risen Christ, the light of the world.
Memorial
The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary — a memorial of the General Roman Calendar celebrated during Ordinary Time.
Memorial
The Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary — a memorial of the General Roman Calendar celebrated during Ordinary Time.
Glossary term
Solemnity, feast, obligatory memorial, optional memorial, and weekday: the grades by which the Church orders her calendar and settles which celebration takes precedence.
Mass structure
The order of celebration by which infants and young children are baptized, freed from original sin, made children of God, and incorporated into the Church.
Mass structure
The rite by which the baptized are sealed with the Gift of the Holy Spirit through the laying on of hands and anointing with sacred chrism, ordinarily by the bishop.
Ordination rite
The liturgy by which a bishop, through the laying on of hands and the prayer of consecration, confers one of the three degrees of the sacrament of Holy Orders.
Mass structure
The liturgical book containing the prayers and rubrics for the celebration of Mass in the Roman Rite, in the Latin edition of 2002 and the English translation implemented in 2011.
Liturgical season
The three holiest days of the liturgical year: from the Mass of the Lord's Supper on Holy Thursday through Easter Vespers on Easter Sunday.
Glossary term
The chalice, paten, ciborium, monstrance, and other vessels that hold or carry the Body and Blood of Christ, together with the norms that govern their material and care.
Optional memorial
The Seven Holy Founders of the Servite Order — an optional memorial of the General Roman Calendar celebrated during Ordinary Time.
Mass structure
The public prayer of the Church that sanctifies the whole course of day and night, composed of psalms, Scripture, hymns, and intercessions distributed across the hours.
Mass structure
The Mass has two principal parts: the Liturgy of the Word and the Liturgy of the Eucharist, framed by Introductory Rites and Concluding Rites.
Memorial
[ USA ] Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children — a memorial of the General Roman Calendar celebrated during Ordinary Time.
Feast
[ USA ] Our Lady of Guadalupe — a feast of the General Roman Calendar celebrated during Advent.
Memorial
[ USA ] Thanksgiving — a memorial of the General Roman Calendar celebrated during Ordinary Time.
Optional memorial
[ US ] Blessed Junípero Serra, Priest — an optional memorial of the General Roman Calendar celebrated during Ordinary Time.
Memorial
[ US ] Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, Virgin — a memorial of the General Roman Calendar celebrated during Ordinary Time.
Optional memorial
[ US ] Blessed Miguel Agustín Pro, Priest and Martyr — an optional memorial of the General Roman Calendar celebrated during Ordinary Time.
Memorial
[ US ] Independence Day — a memorial of the General Roman Calendar celebrated during Ordinary Time.