{"id":41,"date":"2015-08-05T11:51:53","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T11:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liturgyoffice.org\/News\/?p=41"},"modified":"2015-08-05T11:51:53","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T11:51:53","slug":"liturgical-calendar-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/liturgyoffice.org\/News\/liturgical-calendar-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Liturgical Calendar 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The monthly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liturgyoffice.org.uk\/Calendar\/2016\/index.shtml\">Liturgical Calendar for 2016<\/a> has now been posted to the website.<\/p>\n<p>For those wishing to look ahead the draft\u00a0Calendar Notes for 2017 are available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liturgyoffice.org.uk\/Calendar\/index.shtml#Notes\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Additions to\u00a0the Calendar<\/h2>\n<p>The following celebrations have been added to the Universal Calendar: 11 October \u2013 St John XXIII, 22 October \u2013 St John Paul II. Both are Optional Memorials.<\/p>\n<h2>Changes to the Cycle of Prayer<\/h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liturgyoffice.org.uk\/Calendar\/Cycle\/Index.shtml\">Cycle of Prayer<\/a> is how the\u00a0Days of Special Prayer are organised with an encouragement that appropriate prayer and activity takes place within the season.<\/p>\n<p>The Bishops&#8217; Conference has made a number of changes to the Cycle of Prayer which are effective from 2016:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Education Day <\/b>to 2nd Sunday in September<\/li>\n<li><b>Day for Life <\/b>to the 3rd Sunday in June.<\/li>\n<li><b>Racial Justice Day<\/b> to 3 Sundays before the 1st Sunday of Lent<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Summary of dates 2016<\/h2>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Sundays: Year\u00a0C<br \/>\nWeekdays: Year II<\/p>\n<table style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>1st Sunday of Advent<\/td>\n<td>Sunday 29\u00a0November 2015<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Christmas<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Friday\u00a025 December 2015<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Epiphany of the Lord<\/td>\n<td>Sunday 3\u00a0January 2015<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Ash Wednesday<\/td>\n<td>Wednesday 10 February<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Easter Sunday<\/td>\n<td>Sunday 27\u00a0March<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Ascension of the Lord<\/td>\n<td>Sunday 8 May<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Pentecost<\/td>\n<td>Sunday 15\u00a0May<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Body and Blood of the Lord<\/td>\n<td>Sunday 29\u00a0May<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>St Peter &amp; St Paul<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Wednesday\u00a029 June<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>The Assumption<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Sunday 14 August<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>All Saints<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Tuesday\u00a01 November<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>All Souls<\/td>\n<td>Wednesday\u00a02 November<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The monthly Liturgical Calendar for 2016 has now been posted to the website. For those wishing to look ahead the draft\u00a0Calendar Notes for 2017 are available here. Additions to\u00a0the Calendar The following celebrations have been added to the Universal Calendar: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/liturgyoffice.org\/News\/liturgical-calendar-2016\/\"><em>Continue&nbsp;reading&nbsp;<span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5,9,17],"tags":[18],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4pC2Y-F","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/liturgyoffice.org\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/liturgyoffice.org\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/liturgyoffice.org\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liturgyoffice.org\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liturgyoffice.org\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/liturgyoffice.org\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42,"href":"https:\/\/liturgyoffice.org\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/liturgyoffice.org\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liturgyoffice.org\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liturgyoffice.org\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}