The Ordo for

Sunday 28 March 2027

March 2027

Psalter: Week 1

Mar 28
Sunday

Lunar
day: 20

white	Easter Sunday - the Pasch of the Lord	Solemnity with Octave
	Roman Stational Church: St Mary Major
	Mass of the day, gloria, Easter sequence, Creed or Renewal of Baptismal Promises, Preface of Easter I ("on this Easter day") special Communicantes and Hanc igitur; double alleluia at dismissal.
	Readings: Ac 10:34, 37-43 Ps 118:1-2, 16-17, 22-23 Col 3: 1-4 or 1 Cor 5: 6b-8 Jn 20:1-9 Alternative gospel: Mk 16:1-7 At an evening Mass, Luke 24: 13-35 may be used.

	Mass is to be celebrated on with great solemnity. It is appropriate that the penitential rite on this day take the form of a sprinkling with water blessed at the Vigil, during which a song of baptismal character should be sung. The entrance stoups to the church should also be filled with the same water. [PS 97] The Paschal Candle burns at all Hours and Masses today. It is kept in the sanctuary near the altar or ambo until Pentecost Sunday. [PS 99]
OP	Hours of Easter Sunday.
	The Easter Vigil takes the place of the Office of Readings. The chant Christus resurgens may be sung at the end of Vespers, followed by Regina caeli, with or without a procession. Where it is the custom, the tradition of "Baptismal Vespers" with a procession to the font is to be diligently observed. (IGLH, 213)
	The Martyrology reading begins with the proclamation of the Resurrection, "This day, which was made by the Lord ..." and then follows the announcement of the date, moon and saints of tomorrow.
OP	After Night Prayer the paschal candle is extinguished. It remains by the ambo or altar, and is lit throughout the Easter season at Mass and at the principal hours of the Office until Pentecost inclusive.
OP	Plenary indulgence under usual conditions for brethren who renew, at least privately, their resolve to fulfil faithfully the duties of their vocation.
OP	The weekly conventual Mass for the Dead is omitted this week. (LCO 71 § II)
	Anniversary of fr. Thomas Patrick Fitzgerald (2005)

Variables for the Current Year

Sunday Readings Since 1969, in order to open a richer selection of the Holy Scriptures to the faithful, the Sunday readings have been arranged in a three-year cycle. St Matthew’s Gospel is read in Year A, St Mark’s in Year B, and St Luke’s in Year C. St John’s Gospel is read in all years, in Lent and Eastertide principally.: Cycle B
Weekday Readings Since 1969, in order to open a richer selection of the Holy Scriptures to the faithful, the weekday readings have been arranged in a two-year cycle.: Cycle I
Dominical Letter The Dominical Letter enables one to determine easily which days of the year are Sundays.: c
Golden Number The Golden Number indicates the current year in the metonic or nineteen-year cycle of the moon. It is used in determining the date of Easter.: 14
Epact The epact indicates the ‘age’ of the moon at the start of the solar year. For example, an epact of xi (that is, eleven) means that 1 January will be the twelfth day of the lunar month. If the epact is an asterisk (*), 1 January is an ecclesiastical new moon.: 22
Solar Cycle The solar cycle lasts twenty-eight years, because in the Julian calendar, in any year the days fall on the same day of the week as they did 28 years ago.: 20
Letter of the Martyrology The letter of the Martyrology is used in conjunction with a table at the head of each day’s reading in that book, indicating the correct day of the lunar month to be announced.: C
Roman Year of Indiction The Roman emperor Diocletian (284–305) established the practice of taking a census for taxation purposes every fifteen years, a period that became known as the cycle of indiction. In the early middle ages these cycles were taken to have begun with the accession of Constantine in 312, and were widely used to date correspondence, charters and other documents. (To find the year of indiction, add 3 to the year AD, then divide by 15. A zero remainder indicates year 15.): 5
Julian Period Invented by Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540–1609), the Julian period combines the solar, metonic and indiction cycles in a period of 7,980 years, beginning on 1 January 4713 BC.: Year 6740
Years since the confirmation of the Order The Order was confirmed by Pope Honorius III on 22 December 1216.: 811
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Dominic Holy Father Dominic died in the Lord in Bologna on 6 August 1221. His feast day is kept on 3 August in Australia and New Zealand, and on 8 August in the General Roman Calendar.: 806

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