The Liturgical Year

The year as a school of prayer — Advent's longing, Lent's penance, Easter's joy, the Spirit's fire, the long green growth of Ordinary Time.

The liturgical year is the great catechesis of the Church. Each season teaches a different posture: Advent teaches us to wait; Lent teaches us to fast and to weep; Easter teaches us to sing; Pentecost teaches us to be sent. Pray with the year — let the rhythm of the Church's prayer set the rhythm of yours. Many of these sections are still being assembled.

Advent

Four weeks of waiting. Pray the Angelus and the Sub Tuum Praesidium, and lean into the Marian devotion of the season.

Angelus 3 min Sub Tuum Praesidium Christmas Novena 10 min Rorate coeli 3 min Loving Mother of the Redeemer The O Antiphons 4 min Creator alme siderum 1 min En clara vox redarguit 1 min

Christmastide

Christmas Day through the Baptism of the Lord. Pray the Magnificat, sing the Te Deum.

Magnificat Te Deum Iesu, Redemptor omnium 2 min A solis ortus cardine 2 min Salvete, flores Martyrum 1 min Crudelis Herodes 1 min

Lent

Forty days of penance. Walk the Stations every Friday; meditate on the Seven Sorrows; examine more frequently and confess.

Stations of the Cross 30 min Chaplet of the Seven Sorrows 25 min Examination of Conscience 5 min Psalm 50 (Miserere) 4 min The Seven Penitential Psalms 20 min Audi, benigne Conditor 1 min O sol salutis 1 min

Holy Week & the Triduum

From Palm Sunday through Easter Vigil — the holiest days of the year.

O Salutaris Hostia Tantum Ergo 1 min Pange Lingua 3 min Stabat Mater 5 min Vexilla Regis 3 min Gloria, laus et honor 3 min Crux fidelis 8 min The Reproaches 8 min Exsultet 10 min

Eastertide

Fifty days of Easter joy. The Regina Caeli replaces the Angelus. The Divine Mercy Novena begins on Good Friday and finishes on the Sunday after Easter.

Regina Caeli 3 min Regina Caeli 3 min Divine Mercy Novena 15 min Way of Light 30 min Victimae paschali laudes 1 min Ad regias Agni dapes 2 min Aurora caelum purpurat 1 min Salutis humanae Sator 1 min Aeterne Rex altissime 2 min

Pentecost & Time After

The Holy Spirit Novena from Ascension Thursday to Pentecost — the original novena. After Pentecost: Trinity Sunday, Corpus Christi, the Sacred Heart.

Novena to the Holy Spirit 10 min Come, Holy Spirit, Creator Blest 5 min Veni, Sancte Spiritus 3 min Athanasian Creed 5 min Lauda Sion (Sequence) 7 min Beata nobis gaudia 2 min Iam sol recedit igneus 1 min

June — Sacred Heart

June is traditionally the month of the Sacred Heart, with the Solemnity falling on the Friday after the second Sunday after Pentecost.

Nine First Fridays 15 min Litany of the Sacred Heart 10 min Novena to the Sacred Heart 10 min

May & October — Marian Months

May, the month of Mary; October, the month of the Rosary. Pray the Rosary daily, and lean on the Litany of Loreto.

Holy Rosary 20 min Litany of Our Lady of Loreto 10 min

November — All Souls

All Saints (Nov 1), All Souls (Nov 2), and the duty of remembrance for the whole month.

Office of the Dead 15 min De Profundis (Psalm 130) 1 min Eternal Rest 1 min Dies irae 4 min