01 January 2020
Word of Day: Solemnity
SOLEMNITY. The highest liturgical rank of a feast in the ecclesiastical
calendar. Besides the movable feasts such as Easter and Pentecost, fourteen
solemnities are celebrated in the universal Church, namely: Motherhood of God
(January 1), Epiphany (January 6), St. Joseph (March 19), Annunciation (March
25), Trinity Sunday (first after Pentecost), Corpus Christi (Thursday after
Trinity Sunday), Sacred Heart (Friday after the second Sunday after Pentecost),
St. John the Baptist (June 24), Sts. Peter and Paul (June 29), Assumption of
the Blessed Virgin (August 15), All Saints (November 1), Christ the King (Last
Sunday of the ecclesiastical year), Immaculate Conception (December 8), and
Christmas (December 25). (Etym. Latin sollemnis, stated, established,
appointed.)
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