Dear Brothers and Sisters:
As we have with joy celebrated the Birth and Epiphany of our Lord Jesus Christ, so through the year we will continue to celebrate the mysteries of our salvation, culminating in Christ's Resurrection on Easter Day. From that date of Easter are derived the dates of most of our other feasts and commemorations, and it is an ancient custom at this time to proclaim the times and the seasons of the liturgical year.
In this year of our Lord two thousand nine, there will be four Sundays after the Epiphany, until Septuagesima Sunday on the eighth day of February. On the twenty-fifth day of February, the day called Ash Wednesday, we will commence the great and holy fast of Lent. On the tenth day of April, the Church will mark with appropriate soleminty the crucifixion and death of our Lord Jesus, and on the twelfth day of April we will gather to celebrate with all holy joy His glorious Resurrection from the dead.
The Ascension of our Lord into heaven will be recalled forty days thereafter, on the twenty-first day of May; and the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles at Pentecost will be celebrated on the thirty-first day of May. The feast of the Most Holy Trinity will be observed on the seventh day of June.
There will be twenty-four Sundays after Trinity, until on the twenty-ninth day of November a new year of grace will begin. And so, through the times and the seasons, the pilgrim Church on earth proclaims the paschal mystery of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who is the Lord of all time and all history, to whom be ceaseless praise, world without end!
Amen
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November 30, 2008
