Liturgical day

Liturgical day ( Latin dies liturgicus ) is the generic term in the liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church for the various days of the church year and its liturgical celebration in Holy Mass and in the Liturgy of the Hours . The basic order of the church year of 1969 defines: “The liturgical day extends from midnight to midnight; however, the celebration of Sundays and solemn festivals begins on the evening of the previous day. ”A day liturgically begins with Matins at night and ends with Compline, Sundays and solemn festivals begin with the first Vespers the evening before.

The term was first used in 1960 in the Codex Rubricarum Breviarii ac Missalis Romani of the Congregation for Rites , through which a significant simplification in the ranking of the liturgical celebrations was made. Since the reorganization of the Catholic church year through the basic order of the church year in the course of the liturgical reform after the Second Vatican Council , the following names have been used for the different liturgical days :

Sunday (Dominica)
Solemnity (Sollemnitas)
Solid (Festum)
Obligatory day of remembrance (memoria obligatoria)
Remembrance day not required (Memoria ad libitum)
Day of the week (Feria)

Individual evidence

^ Basic order of the church year and the New Roman General Calendar , No. 3. digital
↑ Code des Rubriques II - De die liturgico in genere , No. 4ff.
^ Philipp Harnoncourt : The calendar. Festivals and feasts of the saints. In: Hansjörg Auf der Maur : Celebrating in the rhythm of time II / 1. Regensburg 1994, ( Church service. Handbuch der Liturgiewwissenschaft , edited by Hans Bernhard Meyer , Part 6.1), p. 53.

[1] Basic order of the church year and the New Roman General Calendar , No. 3. digital

[2] Code des Rubriques II - De die liturgico in genere , No. 4ff.

[3] Philipp Harnoncourt : The calendar. Festivals and feasts of the saints. In: Hansjörg Auf der Maur : Celebrating in the rhythm of time II / 1. Regensburg 1994, ( Church service. Handbuch der Liturgiewwissenschaft , edited by Hans Bernhard Meyer , Part 6.1), p. 53.