The year teaches us how to live with Christ.
Catholics do not only remember the story of Jesus. We enter it, week by week, until waiting, feasting, repenting, rejoicing, and ordinary growth become part of how we pray and live.
The liturgical calendar puts the whole Church on the same page. It lets our four parishes worship with Catholics across Canada and around the world while giving families a practical rhythm for the year.
Now in Ordinary Time
Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time: June 14, 2026
Ordinary Time is the ordered green season of growth. The Sunday Gospel walks us through the life and teaching of Jesus so faith can take root in ordinary decisions.
Use the weekly bulletin and daily readings to stay with the Sunday Gospel through these quieter weeks.
How the Church year works
The calendar has its own logic. Sundays are the backbone, solemn feasts mark the great mysteries, and weekdays keep placing Scripture, saints, and prayer in front of ordinary life.
It begins with Advent
The Church year starts on the First Sunday of Advent, usually in late November or early December, before the civil calendar turns over.
It follows Christ's mysteries
The calendar keeps returning to the Incarnation, the Cross, the Resurrection, and the gift of the Holy Spirit, so the whole story forms us over time.
It teaches through colour
Violet, white, green, red, and rose are not decoration. They help the body notice whether the Church is waiting, feasting, repenting, growing, or marking martyrdom and the Spirit.
Major seasons
These are the main movements most parishioners will notice in Sunday Mass, music, vestment colour, prayer, and parish schedule.
Advent
Late November to December 24
Advent teaches waiting. For four weeks the Church prepares in joyful hope for the birth of Jesus and for his return.
At home, light the Advent wreath, pray more slowly, and keep space for confession before Christmas.
Christmas
December 25 to the Baptism of the Lord
Christmas celebrates the Son of God born in Bethlehem, the wonder of God coming close to all people.
Keep the feast beyond December 25. The Church lingers with the Holy Family, Mary, Epiphany, and the Baptism of the Lord.
Lent
Ash Wednesday through Holy Week
Lent is forty days of repentance, prayer, fasting, and almsgiving as the Church prepares for Easter.
Choose a concrete fast, give to the poor, make a confession, and come to the liturgies of Holy Week.
The Sacred Paschal Triduum
Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Vigil
The holiest days of the year unfold as one great liturgy of Christ's supper, passion, death, and resurrection.
Treat these days as the heart of the year. Come ready for silence, procession, veneration, fire, water, and the first Alleluia of Easter.
Easter
Easter Sunday to Pentecost
Easter is fifty days of resurrection joy, the fulfilment of God's promise and the centre of Christian hope.
Pray the Regina Caeli, renew baptismal promises, and let the season stretch joy across seven weeks.
Ordinary Time
The ordered green weeks of the year
Ordinary Time walks Sunday by Sunday through the life and teaching of Jesus, forming steady growth.
Read the coming Sunday Gospel during the week and bring one line of it into ordinary choices.
How this affects parish life
Sacred time becomes visible in ordinary parish details: what is sung, what colour the priest wears, when confession is offered, how the church is prepared, and which gatherings appear in the bulletin.
Mass and confession times
Seasonal schedules can change around Advent, Christmas, Lent, Holy Week, Easter, and holy days. Check the Mass times page before you travel.
Bulletins and announcements
The bulletin is where extra liturgies, reconciliation services, processions, missions, and parish events are gathered for the week.
Music and church environment
You will notice the season in vestment colour, hymns, silence, flowers, simpler or fuller decoration, and the prayers used at Mass.
Home practice
A parish season becomes easier to live when it enters the household: an Advent wreath, a Lenten fast, Easter prayer, or reading the Sunday Gospel at home.