The Church's calendar
The Church measures time differently — not in months, but in seasons of waiting, feasting, fasting, and rejoicing. Solua keeps your prayer turning with the year, so every day meets you where the Church already is.
Today is Sunday in Ordinary Time — the Solemnity of Corpus Christi.
The shape of the year
Each season carries its own colour, its own silence and song. Together they walk the whole life of Christ — and your prayers walk it with them.
Late November – December 24
Adventus — “the coming”
A quiet keeping of watch. Four weeks of longing for the Light, when prayer grows still and expectant in the dark of the year.
December 25 – Baptism of the Lord
Nativitas — “the Light has come”
The waiting breaks into wonder. The Word made flesh, the star, the Magi — joy unhurried and warm, drawn out across a whole season.
Through the year · the green season
Per Annum — “walking with Christ”
The longest stretch, and the least dramatic — the daily following. Green for growth, for the slow, faithful work of an ordinary life of prayer.
Ash Wednesday – Holy Thursday
Quadragesima — “forty days”
A turning back. Forty days of fasting, almsgiving, and honest prayer that walks with Christ toward the Cross and the silence of the tomb.
Easter Sunday – Pentecost
Pascha — “He is risen”
Fifty days of Alleluia. The longest feast of all — the tomb is empty, death is undone, and prayer becomes pure thanksgiving and light.
Pentecost · solemnities & saints
Pentecoste — “the Spirit poured out”
Fire and wind, and the year's bright high points — the great solemnities and the feasts of the saints that rise like flame above the green.
Always in season
You never have to wonder what to pray today. Solua already knows the season, and meets you there.
Each morning Solua surfaces the Mass readings, the Mysteries, and the devotions proper to the day — already in the right season.
The whole app takes on the colour of the day — indigo for Advent, plum for Lent, gold at Easter — a quiet reminder of where the Church stands.
Solemnities, holy days, and the saints of the day arrive gently — so the high points of the year never slip past unnoticed.
Ordinary Time · Ninth Week
Wednesday · 21 min · led aloud
It moves on its own. When the season turns, so does Solua — no setting to change, nothing to remember.
Where we are now
The green season of growth, stretching from Pentecost to Advent. It is the long, faithful middle of the year: the everyday following of Christ, one quiet prayer at a time.
I never really felt the seasons before Solua. Now Lent feels like Lent, and Easter actually feels like fifty days of joy — not just one Sunday.
Father of two · Michigan
Free to begin. Let your prayer turn with the seasons of the Church — Solua brings the right day to you, every day.
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