Purpose Sunday
With purpose Sundays (also theme or motto Sunday ) is known since the 1970s in the Catholic dioceses of the German language area specific thematically oriented Sundays, some also with a dedicated collection are connected. Some Purpose Sundays are celebrated internationally, others only in certain countries or dioceses. In some church areas there are 20-30 such special Sundays. However , it is up to the celebrant to decide whether he wants to celebrate Holy Mass with the concerns or with the texts of the theme Sunday .
Purpose Sundays mostly deal with general concerns that do not arise directly from the Eucharistic meaning and the festive form of Holy Mass. The text offers prepared for the services on these occasions, possibly in connection with a bishop's word to be read out, do not always take into account the liturgical character of the Sunday on which they fall. Within the church, they are therefore often criticized by liturgical scholars as unliturgical.
International
- January 1st: World Day of Peace (not on Sunday, but on the octave day of Christmas)
- 3rd Sunday of the year: Word of God Sunday
- 2nd Sunday of Easter: Mercy Sunday
- 4th Easter Sunday ( Good Shepherd Sunday ): World Day of Prayer for Spiritual Professions
- Penultimate Sunday in October: World Mission Sunday
Germany, Austria and Switzerland
- 1st Sunday in Advent: University Sunday with collection (Switzerland)
- 3rd Advent Sunday: "Brother in Need" with collection (Austria)
- Christmas: Adveniat Collection (Germany)
- Sunday between Christmas and New Year: Children's World Mission Day with collection (Germany)
- 2nd Sunday in January (or January 6th) Africa Day with collection (Germany)
- 2nd Sunday of the year: Family Sunday (Germany)
- Sunday between January 18 and 25: Sunday during the World Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (Germany, Austria, Switzerland)
- last Sunday in January: Bible Sunday (Germany)
- 1st to 5th Sunday of Lent: Fastenopfer Sundays (Switzerland)
- Friday before the 2nd Sunday of Lent: Family Fasting Day (Austria)
- 5th Sunday of Lent: Misereor Collection (Germany); Lenten offer with collection (Switzerland)
- a Sunday in May: Bible Sunday (Switzerland)
- a Sunday in May / June: Sunday of the week for life (Germany)
- 6th Easter Sunday: Day for the Persecuted Church (Germany)
- 7th Easter Sunday: Renovabis collection (Germany)
- 7th Easter Sunday: World Day of Social Communication (Austria, in Switzerland with collection)
- 2nd Sunday in June: Diaspora Sunday with collection (Germany)
- 3rd Sunday in June: Refugee Sunday with collection (Switzerland)
- Sunday around July 24th: Christophorus Sunday with collection (Austria)
- 2nd Sunday in September: World Media Day with collection (Germany, postponed to September on the 7th Sunday of Easter due to Renovabis collection)
- 3rd Sunday in September: Federal Thanksgiving, Penance and Prayer Day (Switzerland)
- penultimate Sunday in September: Foreign Citizen's Day (Germany, Switzerland)
- 1st Sunday in October or another Sunday in autumn: harvest festival (Germany, Austria, Switzerland)
- Sunday after November 4th: Borromeo Sunday ("Book Day") with collection (Germany)
- 2nd Sunday in November: Foreigners Sunday - Day of the Peoples (Switzerland)
- Sunday November 19: Caritas Sunday with collection (Austria)
Other special Sundays are more regionally in use and vary in terms of the dates. These are not liturgical celebrations, but secular days of remembrance with varying degrees of church participation. In Germany:
- World Migrants Day
- Refugees Day
- World Liver Day (last Sunday in January)
- Sports Sunday
- Sunday of road traffic (mostly before the summer holidays)
Poland
- 1st Sunday of June: Day of Gratitude
Comparable Sundays in the Protestant church
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans Bernhard Meyer SJ: Eucharist. History, theology, pastoral care (= church service. Handbook of liturgical science, part 4). Regensburg 1989, ISBN 3-7917-1200-4 , p. 509
- ↑ domradio.de: Pope surprises with decree on Word of God Sunday