What happened to the 7th week?

[Alma]

Please explain to me:

Someone please explain to me:

This year, Ash Wednesday came on the 6th week in Ordinary Time.

Ordinary Time was then ‘interrupted’ by Lent and then by Easter Time.

Now, after Pentecost, we continue the Ordinary Time.

Shouldn’t this week be the 7th week in Ordinary Time?
I saw in my Missal that starting this Monday, we are on the 8th week in Ordinary Time.
What happened to the 7th week?

 

[BartholomewB]

The same question was asked, and answered, just a few days ago right here in this forum, on a thread called *Liturgical Calendar, clear as mud. *Take a look, in particular, at post #5 by Tee Eff Emm.

 

[Joan_M]

Please explain to me:

Someone please explain to me:

This year, Ash Wednesday came on the 6th week in Ordinary Time.

Ordinary Time was then ‘interrupted’ by Lent and then by Easter Time.

Now, after Pentecost, we continue the Ordinary Time.

Shouldn’t this week be the 7th week in Ordinary Time?
I saw in my Missal that starting this Monday, we are on the 8th week in Ordinary Time.
What happened to the 7th week?

No, Week 8 is correct. The first Sunday of Advent is 4 Sundays before Christmas. The Sunday immediately before the First Sunday of Advent is Christ the King. Working backwards from that to today you arrive at Monday in the 8th week in ordinary time.

Things vary from year to year. Everything is fine.

 

[FrDavid96]

Please explain to me:

Someone please explain to me:

This year, Ash Wednesday came on the 6th week in Ordinary Time.

Ordinary Time was then ‘interrupted’ by Lent and then by Easter Time.

Now, after Pentecost, we continue the Ordinary Time.

Shouldn’t this week be the 7th week in Ordinary Time?
I saw in my Missal that starting this Monday, we are on the 8th week in Ordinary Time.
What happened to the 7th week?

At the end of Ordinary Time, we have the feast of Christ the King, preceded by the last 2 Sundays of O.T. Those last 2 Sundays have as their theme, the Final Judgement.

In order to keep those last 2 Sundays (rather than skip the last one and replace it with Christ the King), the Church skips the O.T. week after Pentecost (in this year, the 7th)–that only happens if we’re “short” one Sunday. It depends on the total number of Sundays in any given calendar year.*

The point is to ensure that we always have a 32nd and 33rd Sunday of O.T. before Christ the King (which begins the 34th week).

*Alternately, one could say that the Church only uses the full 34 weeks of O.T. in those years when they’re needed, because this happens less frequently. It doesn’t matter. It’s the same in the end.

 

[tee_eff_em]

The same question was asked, and answered, just a few days ago right here in this forum, on a thread called *Liturgical Calendar, clear as mud. *Take a look, in particular, at post #5 by Tee Eff Emm.

[post=12982701]Here[/post].

I am almost ashamed for my CALENDAR NERD CREDENTIALS[SUP]TM[/SUP] , but if you are curious I am “pretty sure” that when the year will end on Sunday or Monday December 31, all 34 weeks of Ordinary Time will be visited; in other years one week will be skipped around Lent/Easter. As [user]FrDavid96[/user] notes, the latter happens more frequently than the former.

And I deliberately express this rule in terms of the end of the year rather than the beginning in order to avoid special casing leap years.

tee
Armchair Liturgical Calendar Nerd

 

[marytk]

[post=12982701]Here[/post].

I am almost ashamed for my CALENDAR NERD CREDENTIALS[SUP]TM[/SUP] , but if you are curious I am “pretty sure” that when the year will end on Sunday or Monday December 31, all 34 weeks of Ordinary Time will be visited; in other years one week will be skipped around Lent/Easter. As [user]FrDavid96[/user] notes, the latter happens more frequently than the former.

And I deliberately express this rule in terms of the end of the year rather than the beginning in order to avoid special casing leap years.

tee
Armchair Liturgical Calendar Nerd

I was going to say something like this. Sometimes there are 53 Sundays in the year. If I add four weeks of Advent, Two in Christmas,

.six weeks of lent , seven weeks of Easter time and 34 of OT you get 53 “weeks” S then there are enough for the years when we have 53 Sundays. Other years we do skip a week from where we left off before Ash Wednesday to the day after Pentecost.