FOR THE DIOCESES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 2023

LITURGICAL CALENDAR

FOR THE DIOCESES OF THE

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

2023

Committee on Divine Worship

LITURGICAL CALENDAR

FOR THE DIOCESES OF THE

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

2023

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee on Divine Worship

Cover Photo: Father Lorenzo Ato elevates the Eucharist during a Mass for Catholics of Peruvian ancestry at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City, Oct. 18, 2020. The liturgy was celebrated in honor of El Se?or de los Milagros (The Lord of the Miracles), an iconic image of the crucified Christ that has

survived multiple earthquakes over the centuries in Peru and is the focal point of massive processions in Lima each October. The processions occurred virtually in 2020 because of the

COVID-19 pandemic. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)

First printing, May 2021 Emendation, September 2022 (correction of Jan. 6, 2023 entry) Emendation, March 2023 (correction of Ascension observance)

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INTRODUCTION

Each year the Secretariat of Divine Worship of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops publishes the Liturgical Calendar for the Dioceses of the United States of America. This calendar is used by authors of ordines and other liturgical aids published to foster the celebration of the liturgy in our country. The calendar is based upon the General Roman Calendar, promulgated by Pope Saint Paul VI on February 14, 1969, subsequently amended by the Holy See, and the Proper Calendar for the Dioceses of the United States of America, approved by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.1 This calendar has been updated to reflect the names and titles of the various liturgical days in conformity with the Roman Missal, Third Edition. The General Instruction of the Roman Missal reminds us that in the cycles of readings and prayers proclaimed throughout the year in the sacred liturgy "the mysteries of redemption are celebrated so as to be in some way made present." Thus may each celebration of the Holy Eucharist which is served by this calendar be for the Church in the United States of America "the high point both of the action by which God sanctifies the world in Christ and of the worship that the human race offers to the Father, adoring him through Christ, the Son of God, in the Holy Spirit."2

Sincerely in Christ,

Rev. Andrew Menke Executive Director USCCB Secretariat of Divine Worship

1 For the significance of the several grades or kinds of celebrations, the norms of the Roman Calendar should be consulted (cf. Liturgy Documentary Series 6: Norms Governing Liturgical Calendars, Washington, DC: USCC, 1984). For information concerning the choice of texts and formularies, the General Instruction of the Roman Missal and the Introduction to the 1998 revised Lectionary for Mass (cf. Liturgy Documentary Series 1: Lectionary for Mass, Introduction, Washington, DC: USCC, 1998) should be consulted. 2 General Instruction of the Roman Missal, third edition, no. 16.

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