New Liturgical year which one?

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I know the Daily Mass readings are on a 3 year cycle, A, B & C which year are we in now? and starting with this Advent which year will we be in then? A, B, or C? Thanks. The New Liturgical year does start with Advent right? Thanks
 
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dizzy_dave:
I know the Daily Mass readings are on a 3 year cycle, A, B & C which year are we in now? and starting with this Advent which year will we be in then? A, B, or C? Thanks. The New Liturgical year does start with Advent right? Thanks
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We will be in Cycle C with Advent
 
We begin Cycle A on the first Sunday of Advent, November 28, 2004. with most of the gospel readings taken from Matthew. On the Monday after the Baptism of the Lord, January 9, 2005, when Ordinary time begins we will be in year I of the 2-year cycle of daily readings.

If you “lose track of” the Sunday readings, most gospels in Year A come from Matthew, Year B from Mark (with John filling out the rest of the year, since this is a short gospel), and Year C from Luke. The readings in Lent Year A are specific gospels from John that are meant to be used for RCIA, (and which can be used in any year for proclamation of the word to catechumens); the gospels in the Easter season are from John, and the second reading in the Easter season is from the Acts of the Apostles. during Advent and Christmas all three years, of course there are lots of readings from Luke since he has most of the infancy narrative.

The first reading for Sunday (old testament) was chosen to correlate with the gospel. the second reading (epistle) just goes in order so that almost the entire New Testament is proclaimed, so sometimes it does not seem to have much connection with the other two readings. The daily OT reading also goes in order so that most of the OT is read over the time period.
Your Daily Roman Missal has a table in front with the cycle of daily and Sunday readings (mine goes up to 2010). the missalette in Church for Advent probably will have a little article up front someplace about this also. Your missal, and also your Catholic bible has the Lectionary cycle also.

there is a “master book” called the Ordo which has all this, plus the dates of principal feasts and solemnities (based on the date of Easter) and beginnings of each liturgical season, calendar of saints, for use in determining which readings and prayers to use for the Mass and Liturgy of the Hours. Each diocese publishes its own copy, with local usages for saint days, holy days etc. I just saw the Ordo on line someplace, probably either catholic.net or catholic.org, I would guess adoremus also has it on-line.
 
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dizzy_dave:
I know the Daily Mass readings are on a 3 year cycle, A, B & C which year are we in now? and starting with this Advent which year will we be in then? A, B, or C? Thanks. The New Liturgical year does start with Advent right? Thanks
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Actually, the Sunday Mass readings are on a 3 year cycle (A, B, and C). The Daily Mass readings are on a 2 year cycle (1 and 2).

From next Sunday, the First Sunday of Advent, will be Cycle A. The Daily Mass readings for Advent are proper to the Season, and do not vary from year to year. There are also specific readings for the Christmas Season.

Ordinary Time begins from the Baptism of the Lord on January 9th 2005, and we will be in Cycle 1 (a simple way to remember this, is cycle 1 in odd number years and cycle 2 in even.).
 
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dizzy_dave:
I know the Daily Mass readings are on a 3 year cycle, A, B & C which year are we in now? and starting with this Advent which year will we be in then? A, B, or C? Thanks. The New Liturgical year does start with Advent right? Thanks
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The daily Mass readings are on a 2 year cycle: 1 and 2 while the Sunday readings are on a three cycle: A B and C. From this Advent we read Cycle C (or 3) on Sundays and Feastdays and Cycle 1 during the Ordinary Season of the liturgical year.

Happy Yuletide to all!
 
I think we’re coming up on the Year of the Rooster.🙂

But seriously, we’ve got two posts that say Cycle A is starting, and two that claim Cycle C is starting. What gives?
 
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We will be in Cycle C with Advent
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I can’t believe I did that. The chart lists Advent 2004 - C and Advent 2005 - A and I just read it as beginning Advent (November) 2004 =C.
I’m just glad I didn’t say “D”!!!

Were finished with C and beginning A.
 
Go to my website and download the liturgical cycle calendar.

catholic_traveller.tripod.com/mass_times/id4.html

It is a zipped Excel file.

With that you can calculate all the litugical dates past and future - Easter, Advent, moveable Feasts just by keying in the year in question.

The date format is British, just reformat to US if required.
 
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