Everything this church publishes is dated by the 1962 liturgical calendar. The season, the rank of the day, and the colour you see behind this text are computed rather than chosen — which is why the site looks different in March than it does in July, and why nobody here has to remember to change it.
Easter is not looked up here. It is computed by the Gregorian computus — the arithmetic the Church has used since 1582 to fix Easter from the moon and the spring equinox — and it runs fresh every year the page loads.
Every moveable date then counts from that one. Septuagesima falls before it, Ash Wednesday forty-six days before it, Ascension on the fortieth day after, Pentecost on the fiftieth, and the long green stretch of the year afterward takes its numbering from there. Fix Easter and the whole moveable year falls into place behind it.
This is the practical reason nothing on this site is ever out of date. There is no table typed in by hand for the current year and no annual chore anyone can forget. The 1962 liturgical calendar is recomputed, not maintained.
The liturgical year of 2026. Easter falls on 4 April, and every moveable date below is counted from it. Nothing here is stored or typed — it is calculated, which is why it is right for any year.
On keeping the calendar as it stands
This church keeps the calendar of 1962 as it is, including what the reforms of 1955 had already removed from it. Suppressed vigils and octaves are not quietly restored to make a year look fuller. Where a commemoration is kept, the day itself says so, and says why.
Colour in the Roman Rite is not decoration. It tells you what kind of day you have walked into before anyone says a word — penitential or festal, martyr or confessor, mourning or rising. Every season in the legend beside this carries its own accent through the whole site.
The legend is generated from the same calendar the propers come from, so it cannot drift out of step with what is published. Each pairing of text and background has been checked for contrast in both the dark and the paper surfaces, in every season, because a page nobody can read is a page that was never really published.
Whatever the calendar computed this morning, the text for it is published and open. You do not have to know the season to start reading in it.
Nothing is saved to your name. Press Esc to close.
If you are in danger tonight, these answer faster than we can, at any hour. Nothing on this page is more important than the four numbers below.