Liturgical Calendar

June 2023

Month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

• Optional Sequence, Lauda Sion, before the Gospel
• Holy Communion and Worship of the Eucharist Outside of Mass is the guiding document to reference for this devotion and other forms of devotion toward the Eucharist.
• You may commission the Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion today. Please see Book of Blessings, Chapter 63.
  
  Eucharistic Revival Year 2 - Year of the Parish
  • Start of the 2nd phase of the Eucharistic Revival
  • All parishes are encouraged to organize their own Eucharistic Procession to inaugurate this second phase.
  • All faithful are invited to participate. First Communicants are encouraged to attend in their first communion attire.    
  • A procession with Blessed Sacrament is recommended after one of the Masses.
  • Please refer to the Order for Solemn Exposition of the Holy Eucharist for the ritual.  For more resources, click here. 

• Ritual Masses (i.e. Celebration of Matrimony) are not permitted. 
• Funeral Masses are permitted.
• The Gloria is sung or recited.
• The Creed is said.
• Parishioners are invited after Mass to pray the Litany of the Holy Name of Jesus, or publish the litany on the parish website or bulletin.

• The Gloria is not sung or said.
• The Creed is not said. 

• Without diminishing the primacy of Sunday in Ordinary Time, remember that it is also Father's Day.
• A special blessing may be given to Fathers. The blessing is available on the Book of Blessings, Chapter 56, “Order of Blessing for Fathers on Father’s Day.”
  • For those who are fathers, we ask for wisdom and humility in the face of the task of parenting. Give them the strength to do well by their children and by You, We pray to the Lord.
  • Por todos los que son papás, pedimos sabiduría y humildad en su tarea de ser papá. Dales la fuerza para hacer el bien ante sus hijos y ante Dios, Roguemos al Señor.

• Vestments: White
• The Gloria is sung.
• The Creed is said.

• Archbishop José H. Gomez will celebrate Mass for the Feast of Saint Josemaría Escrivá, priest, at the Cathedral on Saturday June 24th at 11:00 AM. 
• There will be a brief blessing with a first-class Relic of St. Josemaría. 
• For more information, please click here.

• Peter's Pence Collection is today.

• Vestments: Red
• The Gloria is sung.
• The Creed is said.

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July 2023

Month of the Precious Blood of Jesus

• When the Mass for Independence Day is used, the Gloria should be either said or sung. 
• The Optional Memorial of St. Elizabeth of Portugal is perpetually transferred from July 4 to 5. 
• PN For the general intercessions, one may use the adaptation of the prayer composed by Archbishop John Carroll for the inauguration of George Washington, as found in BB, no. 1965. See also HB, 176.
• Independence Day may also be appropriately acknowledged in the Homily, Universal Prayer, and closing hymn during the liturgy.

• For resources, click here.
• Pope Francis has established throughout the Church the celebration of the World Day for Grandparents and Elderly on the fourth Sunday of July, near the liturgical memorial of Saints Joachim and Anne, the grandparents of Jesus.

• Let one of the Masses on Sunday July 23, be dedicated to celebrating the Day with grandparents and the elderly of the parish or community. 
• To encourage the presence of the elderly at the Mass, community members can be involved to arrange transportation for those who are unable to move on their own. 
• During the celebration, young people from the parish or community can deliver the Holy Father's message to grandparents and the elderly. 
• Liturgical celebrations of the Day on July 23 and the days immediately preceding and following can be planned within hospitals and residences for the elderly involving, where possible and in compliance with health regulations, members of the parish so that the masses are appropriately animated. 
• The collection from the Day's Masses can be dedicated to support projects in favor of poor elderly people in one's community. 
• Grandparents' Book of Remembrance: Invite parishioners to share the names of Grandparents and elderly members of their family who are no longer with us in a Parish Book of Remembrance. The book can be brought to the sanctuary at the start of Mass on the weekend of July 22/23.

• For all of us elders, that we may become creators of the revolution of tenderness and that we may teach everyone to look at their brothers and sisters with the same gaze that we look at our dear grandchildren. Let us pray. 
• For young people, that they may go with joy to meet the elderly and show them God's tenderness. For the world to be filled with the overflowing joy of a new embrace between the young and the old! Let us pray. 
• For all of us grandfathers and grandmothers, that even in old age we may bear fruits of wisdom for our families and that we may learn to pass on the treasure of faith to our grandchildren and to the new generations. Let us pray. 
• That all of us, grandparents and elders, will not be afraid to intercede for the salvation of the world, just as Abraham did, that peace will come everywhere and especially in Ukraine. Let us pray. 
• For the Church, which everywhere today celebrates the World Day dedicated to them, to be more and more a welcoming home for grandparents and the elderly. For Pope Francis that the Lord will bless and protect his ministry. Let us pray. 

• The Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments expanded the Memorial of St. Martha to become the Memorial of Saints Martha, Mary and Lazarus. 
• The Gospel for this memorial is proper (Lectionary no. 607). The first reading may be taken from the weekday, the reading found at the link below, or from the Common of Holy Men and Women, nos-737-742. 
• The interim mass formularies in English and Spanish are found here.  

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