Moveable Feasts & Rules of Fasting and Abstinence
Calendar for April, A.D. 2004

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April  A.D. 2004
Month of the Holy Ghost

Dominical Letter: dc;  Golden Number 10;  Epact: viii;  Roman Indiction: 12

Sunday
Glorious Mysteries

Monday
Joyful Mysteries

Tuesday
Sorrowful Mysteries

Wednesday
Glorious Mysteries

Thursday
Joyful Mysteries

Friday
Sorrowful Mysteries

Saturday
Glorious Mysteries

    Lent begins on February 25th, Ash Wednesday.  As noted the weekdays  (Ferials) of Lent are traditionally observed with the Lenten Fast; one full meal and two collations.  Days of abstinence are marked with a fish.  All of the days of Lent should be observed with extra prayer, meditation, spiritual reading, and good works.

    § A plenary indulgence is granted under the usual conditions on each Friday of Lent and Passiontide to those who after Holy Communion piously recite the prayer before a crucifix, "Look down upon me, good and gentle Jesus";  on other days of the year the indulgence is partial.  (Enchiridion #22)

1
Feria [Fast]
Stn: St. Apollinaris
Purple 3rd Cl.
2
7 Sorrows BVM [Fast]
First Friday
Com: Feria
Stn: St. Stephen
St. Francis of Paulo, C
White 3rd Cl.
3
Our Lady of Hope
First Saturday
Com: Feria Stn: St. John at the Latin gate
White 3rd Cl.
4
Palm Sunday
Stn: St. John Lateran
Blessing of Palms
St. Isidore, B.C.DC
Purple 1st Cl.
5
Feria [Fast]
Stn: St. Praxedes
St. Vincent Ferrer, C
Purple 1st Cl.
6
Feria [Fast]
Stn: St. Prisca
Purple 1st Cl.
7
Feria [Fast]
(Spy Wednesday)
Stn: St. Mary Major
Purple 1st Cl.
8
Holy Thursday [Fast]
Stn: St. John Lateran
Mass of Chrism (sede), of Reposition
White 1st Cl.
9
Good Friday [Fast]
Stn: Holy Cross in Jerusalem
Mass of Presanctified
Black 1st Cl.
10
Holy Saturday
Stn: St. John Lateran
Fast & abstain to end of vigil Mass
Purple/White 1st Cl.
11
* Easter Sunday
Stn: St. Mary Major
St. Leo I, P.DC
White 1st Cl.
12
Easter Monday
Stn: St. Peter
St. Julius I, P
White 1st Cl.
13
Easter Tuesday
Stn: St. Paul extra muros
St. Hermenegild, M
White 1st Cl.
14
Easter Wednesday
Stn: St. Lawrence extra muros
St. Justin, M
Sts. Tiburtus, Valerian, & Maximian
White 1st Cl.
15
Easter Thursday
Stn: 12 Apostles
White 1st Cl.
16
Easter Friday
Stn: St. Mary of the Martyrs
Dispense Abstinence
White 1st Cl.
17
Easter Saturday
Stn: St. John Lateran
St. Anicetus, P.M
White 1st Cl.
18 
Low Sunday
Stn: St. Pancratius
White 1st Cl.
19
St. Leo IX, P
White 3rd Cl.
20
St. Agnes of Montepulciano, V
White 3rd Cl.
21
14th Anniversary  Consecration OLGH
St. Anselm, B.C.DC
White 1st Cl.
22
Sts. Soter & Caius, PP.MM
Red 3rd Cl.
23
St. George, M
Patron of Scouts
Red 3rd Cl.
24
St. Fidelis Sigmaringen, M
Red 3rd Cl.
25
2nd Sunday of Easter
St. Mark, Ap.Ev.
Stn: St. Peter's
Greater Litanies
White 1st Cl.
26
Mother of Good Counsel
Sts. Cletus & Marcellinus, MM
White 3rd Cl.
27
St. Peter Canisius, DC
White 3rd Cl.
28
St. Paul of the Cross, C
St. Louis de Montfort, C.DC
White 3rd Cl.
29
St. Peter, Martyr
Red 3rd Cl.
30
St. Catherine of Sienna, V.DC
White 3rd Cl.
 
*Easter Week, April 11-17, is the octave of Easter, a privileged octave of the first order.  The proper Mass given in the Missal is said on each day, with the Credo, Preface of Easter, and a proper Communicántes and Hanc ígitur.  "Ite, missa est, allelúja, allelúja" and "Deo grátias, allelúja, allelúja" replace the "Benedicámus Dómino" of Lent.

     Catholics are required to Confess their serious sins and receive Holy Communion at least once between the First Sunday of Lent and Trinity Sunday.

Sunday
Glorious Mysteries

Monday
Joyful Mysteries

Tuesday
Sorrowful Mysteries

Wednesday
Glorious Mysteries

Thursday
Joyful Mysteries

Friday
Sorrowful Mysteries

Saturday
Glorious Mysteries

  

 


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