Ordinary Time
The long stretch after Pentecost, when the Church walks the everyday of faith. It carries the year's quiet feasts — the apostles, the great saints of summer, and Mary's late-summer solemnities — up to Christ the King.
This season’s great days are Most Holy Trinity (May 31), Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Jun 4), and Most Sacred Heart of Jesus (Jun 12).
The green, growing season
Ordinary Time is the Church's longest season — two stretches of green that frame the great feasts. The first runs from the Baptism of the Lord until Lent; the second, far longer, from Pentecost until the year closes with Christ the King.
It is called ordinary not because it is plain, but from the ordinal numbers that count its weeks. This is the season of growth — the everyday of the Christian life, lived in step with the saints whose memorials fill the calendar.
It is a good season to settle into a steady, unhurried rhythm of daily prayer at home.
Major feasts of Ordinary Time
Every feast in Ordinary Time
The celebrations that fall within Ordinary Time this year — solemnities and feasts of the Lord, and the memorials of the saints. Tap any day to open it.
- May 31Most Holy TrinitySolemnity
- Jun 4Most Holy Body and Blood of ChristSolemnity
- Jun 12Most Sacred Heart of JesusSolemnity
- Jun 24Nativity of John the BaptistSolemnity
- Jun 29Peter and PaulSolemnity · Apostles
- Jul 3Thomas ApostleFeast
- Jul 22Mary MagdaleneFeast
- Jul 25James ApostleFeast
- Aug 6Transfiguration of the LordFeast
- Aug 10Lawrence of RomeFeast · Deacon
- Aug 15Assumption of the Blessed Virgin MarySolemnity
- Aug 24Bartholomew ApostleFeast
- Sep 8Nativity of the Blessed Virgin MaryFeast
- Sep 14Exaltation of the Holy CrossFeast
- Sep 21Matthew ApostleFeast
- Sep 29Michael Gabriel and RaphaelFeast · Archangels
- Oct 28Simon and JudeFeast · Apostles
- Nov 1All SaintsSolemnity
- Nov 2Commemoration of All the Faithful DepartedSolemnity
- Nov 9Dedication of the Lateran BasilicaFeast
- Nov 22Our Lord Jesus Christ King of the UniverseSolemnity
- May 25Mary Mother of the ChurchMemorial
- May 26Philip NeriMemorial · Priest
- Jun 1Justin MartyrMemorial
- Jun 3Charles Lwanga and CompanionsMemorial · Martyrs
- Jun 5Boniface of MainzMemorial · Bishop
- Jun 11Barnabas ApostleMemorial
- Jun 13Immaculate Heart of MaryMemorial
- Jul 11Benedict of NursiaMemorial · Abbot
- Jul 15Bonaventure of BagnoregioMemorial · Bishop
- Jul 29Martha of Bethany Mary of Bethany and Lazarus of BethanyMemorial
- Jul 31Ignatius of LoyolaMemorial · Priest
- Aug 1Alphonsus Mary LiguoriMemorial · Bishop
- Aug 4John Mary VianneyMemorial · Priest
- Aug 8Dominic De GuzmanMemorial · Priest
- Aug 11Clare of AssisiMemorial · Virgin
- Aug 14Maximilian Mary Raymund KolbeMemorial · Priest
- Aug 20Bernard of ClairvauxMemorial · Abbot
- Aug 21Pius XMemorial · Pope
- Aug 22Queenship of the Blessed Virgin MaryMemorial
- Aug 27Monica of HippoMemorial
- Aug 28Augustine of HippoMemorial · Bishop
- Aug 29Passion of Saint John the BaptistMemorial
- Sep 3Gregory I the Great PopeMemorial
- Sep 15Our Lady of SorrowsMemorial
- Sep 16Cornelius I Pope and Cyprian of CarthageMemorial · Bishop, Martyrs
- Sep 23Pius Francesco ForgioneMemorial · Priest
- Sep 30Jerome of StridonMemorial · Priest
- Oct 1Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face of LisieuxMemorial · Virgin
- Oct 2Holy Guardian AngelsMemorial
- Oct 7Our Lady of the RosaryMemorial
- Oct 15Teresa of Jesus of AvilaMemorial · Virgin
- Oct 17Ignatius of AntiochMemorial · Bishop
- Nov 4Charles BorromeoMemorial · Bishop
- Nov 10Leo I the Great PopeMemorial
- Nov 11Martin of ToursMemorial · Bishop
- Nov 12Josaphat KuntsevychMemorial · Bishop
- Nov 17Elizabeth of HungaryMemorial · Religious
- Nov 21Presentation of the Blessed Virgin MaryMemorial
- Nov 24Andrew Dung Lac Priest and CompanionsMemorial · Martyrs
Shown for May 25 – November 28, 2026; dates of the season shift each year. You can also browse the full Church year.
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