{"id":2843,"date":"2026-08-18T06:49:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T13:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/?page_id=2272"},"modified":"2026-08-18T06:49:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T13:49:42","slug":"calendar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/liturgy\/calendar\/","title":{"rendered":"The Calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t<section class=\"section bf-threshold bf-img-1\" id=\"section_675468553\">\n\t\t<div class=\"section-bg fill\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\n\t\t<div class=\"section-content relative\">\n\t\t\t\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-1413306152\">\n\t<div id=\"col-62957751\" class=\"col medium-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner text-center\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t<div id=\"text-458574934\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n<!-- BLOOM_IMAGE_NEEDED: a wall of liturgical colours as folded cloth \u2014 violet, white, red, green, rose, black \u2014 stacked in a linen press, shot straight on --><br \/>\n<span class=\"bf-eyebrow\">THE CALENDAR<\/span><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"bf-h1\">The year is counted,<span class=\"bf-turn\">not decided.<\/span><\/h1>\n<div class=\"bf-rule\" style=\"margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"bf-lede\">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 &mdash; which is why the site looks different in March than it does in July, and why nobody here has to remember to change it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bf-actions\" style=\"margin-top:40px\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/today\/\" class=\"bf-btn bf-btn-primary\">Today&#8217;s worship <span class=\"bf-arrow\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/liturgy\/\" class=\"bf-btn bf-btn-ghost\">Back to the liturgy<\/a>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n<style>\n#section_675468553 {\n  padding-top: 90px;\n  padding-bottom: 90px;\n}\n@media (min-width:550px) {\n  #section_675468553 {\n    padding-top: 150px;\n    padding-bottom: 150px;\n  }\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n\n\t<section class=\"section bf-splitsec\" id=\"section_1729351182\">\n\t\t<div class=\"section-bg fill\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\n\t\t<div class=\"section-content relative\">\n\t\t\t\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-1188817877\">\n\t<div id=\"col-1344633724\" class=\"col medium-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t<div id=\"text-3958698075\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n<div class=\"bf-split bf-split-wide\">\n<div class=\"bf-split-media bf-img-2\"><span class=\"bf-ph\">Easter,<br \/>and everything<br \/>counted from it<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"bf-eyebrow bf-eyebrow-left\">WHY NOTHING GOES STALE<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"bf-h2\">One date is solved. <em>The rest follow.<\/em><\/h2>\n<div class=\"bf-rule\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"bf-p\">Easter is not looked up here. It is computed by the Gregorian computus &mdash; the arithmetic the Church has used since 1582 to fix Easter from the moon and the spring equinox &mdash; and it runs fresh every year the page loads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bf-p\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bf-p\">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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n<style>\n#section_1729351182 {\n  padding-top: 80px;\n  padding-bottom: 80px;\n}\n@media (min-width:550px) {\n  #section_1729351182 {\n    padding-top: 130px;\n    padding-bottom: 130px;\n  }\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n\n\t<section class=\"section bf-columnsec\" id=\"section_1356728075\">\n\t\t<div class=\"section-bg fill\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\n\t\t<div class=\"section-content relative\">\n\t\t\t\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-250319068\">\n\t<div id=\"col-105003578\" class=\"col medium-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t<div id=\"text-827270859\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n<div class=\"bf-calendar\"><p class=\"bf-cal-note\">The liturgical year of 2026. Easter falls on <strong>4 April<\/strong>, and every moveable date below is counted from it. Nothing here is stored or typed &mdash; it is calculated, which is why it is right for any year.<\/p><div class=\"bf-cal-table\"><div class=\"bf-cal-row bf-season-advent\"><span class=\"bf-cal-sw\"><\/span><span class=\"bf-cal-season\">Advent<\/span><span class=\"bf-cal-dates\">29 Nov 2025 &ndash; 23 Dec 2025<\/span><span class=\"bf-cal-colour\">Violet<\/span><\/div><div class=\"bf-cal-row bf-season-christmas\"><span class=\"bf-cal-sw\"><\/span><span class=\"bf-cal-season\">Christmastide<\/span><span class=\"bf-cal-dates\">24 Dec 2025 &ndash; 12 Jan 2026<\/span><span class=\"bf-cal-colour\">White<\/span><\/div><div class=\"bf-cal-row bf-season-green\"><span class=\"bf-cal-sw\"><\/span><span class=\"bf-cal-season\">Time after Epiphany<\/span><span class=\"bf-cal-dates\">13 Jan 2026 &ndash; 30 Jan 2026<\/span><span class=\"bf-cal-colour\">Green<\/span><\/div><div class=\"bf-cal-row bf-season-lent\"><span class=\"bf-cal-sw\"><\/span><span class=\"bf-cal-season\">Septuagesima<\/span><span class=\"bf-cal-dates\">31 Jan 2026 &ndash; 16 Feb 2026<\/span><span class=\"bf-cal-colour\">Violet<\/span><\/div><div class=\"bf-cal-row bf-season-lent\"><span class=\"bf-cal-sw\"><\/span><span class=\"bf-cal-season\">Lent<\/span><span class=\"bf-cal-dates\">17 Feb 2026 &ndash; 20 Mar 2026<\/span><span class=\"bf-cal-colour\">Violet<\/span><\/div><div class=\"bf-cal-row bf-season-passion\"><span class=\"bf-cal-sw\"><\/span><span class=\"bf-cal-season\">Passiontide<\/span><span class=\"bf-cal-dates\">21 Mar 2026 &ndash; 27 Mar 2026<\/span><span class=\"bf-cal-colour\">Oxblood<\/span><\/div><div class=\"bf-cal-row bf-season-passion\"><span class=\"bf-cal-sw\"><\/span><span class=\"bf-cal-season\">Holy Week<\/span><span class=\"bf-cal-dates\">28 Mar 2026 &ndash; 3 Apr 2026<\/span><span class=\"bf-cal-colour\">Oxblood<\/span><\/div><div class=\"bf-cal-row bf-season-easter\"><span class=\"bf-cal-sw\"><\/span><span class=\"bf-cal-season\">Eastertide<\/span><span class=\"bf-cal-dates\">4 Apr 2026 &ndash; 12 May 2026<\/span><span class=\"bf-cal-colour\">White<\/span><\/div><div class=\"bf-cal-row bf-season-easter\"><span class=\"bf-cal-sw\"><\/span><span class=\"bf-cal-season\">Ascensiontide<\/span><span class=\"bf-cal-dates\">13 May 2026 &ndash; 22 May 2026<\/span><span class=\"bf-cal-colour\">White<\/span><\/div><div class=\"bf-cal-row bf-season-pentecost\"><span class=\"bf-cal-sw\"><\/span><span class=\"bf-cal-season\">Pentecost<\/span><span class=\"bf-cal-dates\">23 May 2026 &ndash; 29 May 2026<\/span><span class=\"bf-cal-colour\">Red<\/span><\/div><div class=\"bf-cal-row bf-season-green is-now\"><span class=\"bf-cal-sw\"><\/span><span class=\"bf-cal-season\">Time after Pentecost<em>Today<\/em><\/span><span class=\"bf-cal-dates\">30 May 2026 &ndash; 27 Nov 2026<\/span><span class=\"bf-cal-colour\">Green<\/span><\/div><div class=\"bf-cal-row bf-season-advent\"><span class=\"bf-cal-sw\"><\/span><span class=\"bf-cal-season\">Advent<\/span><span class=\"bf-cal-dates\">28 Nov 2026 &ndash; 23 Dec 2026<\/span><span class=\"bf-cal-colour\">Violet<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n<style>\n#section_1356728075 {\n  padding-top: 80px;\n  padding-bottom: 80px;\n}\n@media (min-width:550px) {\n  #section_1356728075 {\n    padding-top: 130px;\n    padding-bottom: 130px;\n  }\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n\n\t<section class=\"section bf-declsec bf-light\" id=\"section_1372322223\">\n\t\t<div class=\"section-bg fill\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\n\t\t<div class=\"section-content relative\">\n\t\t\t\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-340223056\">\n\t<div id=\"col-609327139\" class=\"col medium-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t<div id=\"text-1736360559\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n<div class=\"bf-decl\">\n<p class=\"bf-decl-art\">On keeping the calendar as it stands<\/p>\n<p class=\"bf-decl-t\">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. <em>Where a commemoration is kept, the day itself says so, and says why.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n<style>\n#section_1372322223 {\n  padding-top: 80px;\n  padding-bottom: 80px;\n}\n@media (min-width:550px) {\n  #section_1372322223 {\n    padding-top: 130px;\n    padding-bottom: 130px;\n  }\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n\n\t<section class=\"section bf-todaysec\" id=\"section_764931345\">\n\t\t<div class=\"section-bg fill\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\n\t\t<div class=\"section-content relative\">\n\t\t\t\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-914989887\">\n\t<div id=\"col-969605721\" class=\"col medium-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t<div id=\"text-2212706793\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n<div class=\"bf-today-grid\">\n<div class=\"bf-today-card\">\n<div class=\"bf-today-date\">The colours, and what they mean<\/div>\n<div class=\"bf-legend\"><div class=\"bf-legend-row bf-season-advent\"><span class=\"bf-legend-sw\"><\/span><span class=\"bf-legend-name\">Violet<\/span><span class=\"bf-legend-what\">Advent and Lent. Preparation, and a colour that does not pretend to be cheerful.<\/span><\/div><div class=\"bf-legend-row bf-season-christmas\"><span class=\"bf-legend-sw\"><\/span><span class=\"bf-legend-name\">White<\/span><span class=\"bf-legend-what\">Christmastide, Eastertide, and the feasts of Our Lady. Joy, and the light coming back.<\/span><\/div><div class=\"bf-legend-row bf-season-green\"><span class=\"bf-legend-sw\"><\/span><span class=\"bf-legend-name\">Green<\/span><span class=\"bf-legend-what\">The time after Epiphany and after Pentecost. Ordinary time, which is most of a life.<\/span><\/div><div class=\"bf-legend-row bf-season-pentecost\"><span class=\"bf-legend-sw\"><\/span><span class=\"bf-legend-name\">Red<\/span><span class=\"bf-legend-what\">Pentecost and the martyrs. Fire, and blood.<\/span><\/div><div class=\"bf-legend-row bf-season-passion\"><span class=\"bf-legend-sw\"><\/span><span class=\"bf-legend-name\">Oxblood<\/span><span class=\"bf-legend-what\">Passiontide and Holy Week. The images are veiled and the church goes quiet.<\/span><\/div><div class=\"bf-legend-row bf-season-gaudete\"><span class=\"bf-legend-sw\"><\/span><span class=\"bf-legend-name\">Rose<\/span><span class=\"bf-legend-what\">Gaudete and Laetare, once each in Advent and Lent. A single Sunday of relief.<\/span><\/div><div class=\"bf-legend-row bf-season-requiem\"><span class=\"bf-legend-sw\"><\/span><span class=\"bf-legend-name\">Black<\/span><span class=\"bf-legend-what\">Requiems and All Souls. Black trimmed in silver, which is what a Requiem set actually is.<\/span><\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"bf-eyebrow bf-eyebrow-left\">WHY THE SITE CHANGES COLOUR<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"bf-h2\">The page dresses <em>for the day.<\/em><\/h2>\n<div class=\"bf-rule\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"bf-p\">Colour in the Roman Rite is not decoration. It tells you what kind of day you have walked into before anyone says a word &mdash; penitential or festal, martyr or confessor, mourning or rising. Every season in the legend beside this carries its own accent through the whole site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bf-p\">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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n<style>\n#section_764931345 {\n  padding-top: 80px;\n  padding-bottom: 80px;\n}\n@media (min-width:550px) {\n  #section_764931345 {\n    padding-top: 130px;\n    padding-bottom: 130px;\n  }\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n\n\t<section class=\"section bf-numbersec bf-light\" id=\"section_578502717\">\n\t\t<div class=\"section-bg fill\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\n\t\t<div class=\"section-content relative\">\n\t\t\t\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-1827704854\">\n\t<div id=\"col-1136111355\" class=\"col medium-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t<div id=\"text-3122746598\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n<span class=\"bf-eyebrow bf-eyebrow-left\">THE RUNNING RECORD<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"bf-h2\">What the calendar <em>has actually produced.<\/em><\/h2>\n<div class=\"bf-rule\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"bf-numbers\">\n<div class=\"bf-num\">\n<div class=\"bf-num-v\">168<\/div>\n<div class=\"bf-num-l\">Daily Offerings<br \/>published<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bf-num\">\n<div class=\"bf-num-v\">26<\/div>\n<div class=\"bf-num-l\">Sunday Masses<br \/>offered<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bf-num\">\n<div class=\"bf-num-v\">360<\/div>\n<div class=\"bf-num-l\">Days without<br \/>a break<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n<style>\n#section_578502717 {\n  padding-top: 80px;\n  padding-bottom: 80px;\n}\n@media (min-width:550px) {\n  #section_578502717 {\n    padding-top: 130px;\n    padding-bottom: 130px;\n  }\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n\n\t<section class=\"section bf-faqsec\" id=\"section_385178480\">\n\t\t<div class=\"section-bg fill\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\n\t\t<div class=\"section-content relative\">\n\t\t\t\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-1430315017\">\n\t<div id=\"col-1646847380\" class=\"col medium-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t<div id=\"text-1078606656\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n<span class=\"bf-eyebrow bf-eyebrow-left\">HOW THE YEAR WORKS<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"bf-h2\">Five things worth <em>knowing about time here.<\/em><\/h2>\n<div class=\"bf-rule\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"accordion bf-faq\">\n\t<div id=\"accordion-3692087316\" class=\"accordion-item\">\n\t\t<a id=\"accordion-3692087316-label\" class=\"accordion-title plain\" href=\"#accordion-item-why-does-the-site-look-different-from-one-month-to-the-next?\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"accordion-3692087316-content\">\n\t\t\t<button class=\"toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle\"><i class=\"icon-angle-down\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/button>\n\t\t\t<span>Why does the site look different from one month to the next?<\/span>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<div id=\"accordion-3692087316-content\" class=\"accordion-inner\" aria-labelledby=\"accordion-3692087316-label\">\n\t\t\tBecause the season changed. Colour, accent, and the framing around the text follow the day the calendar computes, not a design preference. Nobody switches it over by hand.\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div id=\"accordion-3155604592\" class=\"accordion-item\">\n\t\t<a id=\"accordion-3155604592-label\" class=\"accordion-title plain\" href=\"#accordion-item-what-makes-a-feast-moveable?\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"accordion-3155604592-content\">\n\t\t\t<button class=\"toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle\"><i class=\"icon-angle-down\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/button>\n\t\t\t<span>What makes a feast moveable?<\/span>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<div id=\"accordion-3155604592-content\" class=\"accordion-inner\" aria-labelledby=\"accordion-3155604592-label\">\n\t\t\tIts date is counted from Easter rather than fixed to a day of the month. Easter itself moves with the moon and the equinox, so everything counted from it moves too. Fixed feasts &mdash; the patronal feast of St. Mary Magdalene on 22 July, for instance &mdash; land on the same calendar date every year.\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div id=\"accordion-606263462\" class=\"accordion-item\">\n\t\t<a id=\"accordion-606263462-label\" class=\"accordion-title plain\" href=\"#accordion-item-why-the-1962-books-rather-than-a-modern-calendar?\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"accordion-606263462-content\">\n\t\t\t<button class=\"toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle\"><i class=\"icon-angle-down\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/button>\n\t\t\t<span>Why the 1962 books rather than a modern calendar?<\/span>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<div id=\"accordion-606263462-content\" class=\"accordion-inner\" aria-labelledby=\"accordion-606263462-label\">\n\t\t\tBecause that is the rite this church keeps, and keeping it means keeping its reckoning of the year with it. Using the old propers on a new calendar would produce something that is neither.\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div id=\"accordion-2143628658\" class=\"accordion-item\">\n\t\t<a id=\"accordion-2143628658-label\" class=\"accordion-title plain\" href=\"#accordion-item-is-this-the-same-calendar-rome-uses?\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"accordion-2143628658-content\">\n\t\t\t<button class=\"toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle\"><i class=\"icon-angle-down\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/button>\n\t\t\t<span>Is this the same calendar Rome uses?<\/span>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<div id=\"accordion-2143628658-content\" class=\"accordion-inner\" aria-labelledby=\"accordion-2143628658-label\">\n\t\t\tNo. Rome&#8217;s ordinary calendar is a later one, and the Church of Bloom is not in communion with Rome in any case &mdash; it claims no Roman faculties, no jurisdiction, and no Roman recognition of its orders. The 1962 liturgical calendar is kept here in this church&#8217;s own right.\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div id=\"accordion-2578349666\" class=\"accordion-item\">\n\t\t<a id=\"accordion-2578349666-label\" class=\"accordion-title plain\" href=\"#accordion-item-do-i-need-to-believe-in-god-for-a-calendar-to-matter?\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"accordion-2578349666-content\">\n\t\t\t<button class=\"toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle\"><i class=\"icon-angle-down\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/button>\n\t\t\t<span>Do I need to believe in God for a calendar to matter?<\/span>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<div id=\"accordion-2578349666-content\" class=\"accordion-inner\" aria-labelledby=\"accordion-2578349666-label\">\n\t\t\tNo. Marking time is something people do whether or not they are sure about God, and a year with a shape to it turns out to help many who are certain of nothing. Read the day and take what is there.\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n<style>\n#section_385178480 {\n  padding-top: 80px;\n  padding-bottom: 80px;\n}\n@media (min-width:550px) {\n  #section_385178480 {\n    padding-top: 130px;\n    padding-bottom: 130px;\n  }\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n\n\t<section class=\"section bf-ctasec\" id=\"section_907467822\">\n\t\t<div class=\"section-bg fill\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\n\t\t<div class=\"section-content relative\">\n\t\t\t\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-285224819\">\n\t<div id=\"col-1689009245\" class=\"col medium-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner text-center\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t<div id=\"text-1700754972\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n<span class=\"bf-eyebrow\">WHERE THE YEAR IS STANDING<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"bf-h2\">Today already has<br \/><em>a name and a colour.<\/em><\/h2>\n<p class=\"bf-lede\" style=\"margin:0 auto 36px\">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.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bf-actions\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/today\/\" class=\"bf-btn bf-btn-primary\">Read today <span class=\"bf-arrow\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/liturgy\/what-you-need\/\" class=\"bf-btn bf-btn-ghost\">What you need<\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n<style>\n#section_907467822 {\n  padding-top: 80px;\n  padding-bottom: 80px;\n}\n@media (min-width:550px) {\n  #section_907467822 {\n    padding-top: 130px;\n    padding-bottom: 130px;\n  }\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2841,"menu_order":20,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2843","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2863,"href":"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2843\/revisions\/2863"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}