Liturgical Year and Calendar

The Office for Worship has compiled resources to help you facilitate an encounter with Jesus Christ in parish liturgies.

• • USCCB Liturgical Calendar 2024
  • USCCB Liturgical Calendar 2025
  • USCCB Liturgical Calendar 2026

 

Holy Days of Obligation 2026

Solemnity	Date	Day
Mary, Mother of God1	January 1	Thursday
The Ascension of the Lord2	May 17	Sunday
The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary	August 15	Saturday
All Saint’s Day	November 1	Sunday
The Immaculate Conception of The Blessed Virgin Mary	December 8	Tuesday
The Nativity of the Lord (Christmas)	December 25	Friday

¹This year, the obligation is lifted for the faithful in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
²The solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord is transferred from May 14th (Thurs) to Sunday, May 17th.

August 15, 2026 (Saturday Morning Mass)
Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
(not a Holy Day of Obligation this year)

• Liturgical Color: White
• Mass propers found in the Proper of Saints “At the Mass during the Day”
• Readings may be found here: MASS DURING THE DAY
• Funeral Mass is not permitted. Funeral Liturgy Outside the Mass may be used.
• Ritual Masses (ex. Weddings) are not permitted. The Order of Celebrating Matrimony outside of Mass (Liturgy of the Word) may be used for weddings.
• Sprinkling Rite may be used.
• Gloria is said or sung.
• Creed is prayed.
• Solemn Blessing no. 15 may be used.

48th Sacerdotal Anniversary of Archbishop José H. Gomez
May the Lord continue to guide him in his priestly ministry with courage, perseverance, and charity. 

***Any Mass at 4pm and after, the anticipatory Mass for the 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time is Celebrated***

November 1, 2026 (Sunday)

All Saint’s Day

Holy Day of obligation

• Funeral Masses are not permitted.
• Ritual Mass not permitted (Weddings, Quinceañeras, etc.).
• On Saturday evening (on, and after 4PM), any normally scheduled anticipated Masses should be for All Saints Day

December 8, 2026 (Tuesday)

The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Holy Day of obligation

• Funeral Mass are not permitted.
• Ritual Mass not permitted (Weddings, Quinceañeras, etc).

Reminder for Schools: “School communities are expected to offer the celebration of Mass as a school community on Holy Days of Obligation when those fall on a school day.” See section 4.3.5-Liturgical Education and Celebrations

Masses for the Dead

Funeral Masses may be celebrated on all days except Solemnities which are holy days, Sundays of Advent, Lent, or Easter, on Holy Thursday and Easter Tridiuum. Funeral rites on these days make use of liturgy of the Word, closing with the rite of Farewell, as found in the Order of Christian Funeral, Part I, no. 4 (nos. 177-203)

How to celebrate marriage, as directed by the Order of Celebrating Matrimony: 

33. In the celebration of Marriage within Mass, the rite described in Chapter I is used. In the celebration of Marriage without Mass, the rite should take place after a Liturgy of the Word according to the norm of Chapter II.
34. Whenever Marriage is celebrated within Mass, the Ritual Mass ‘The Celebration of Marriage’ is used with sacred vestments of the color white or of a festive color. On those days listed in nos. 1‑4 of the Table of Liturgical Days, however, the Mass of the day is used with its own readings, with inclusion of the Nuptial Blessing and, if appropriate, the proper formula for the final blessing. If, however, during Christmas and Ordinary Time, the parish community participates in a Sunday Mass during which Marriage is celebrated, the Mass of the Sunday is used.

Nevertheless, since a Liturgy of the Word adapted for the celebration of Marriage has a great impact in the handing on of catechesis about the Sacrament itself and about the duties of the spouses, when the Mass ‘For the Celebration of Marriage’ is not said, one of the readings may be taken from the texts provided for the celebration of Marriage (nos. 179‑222).

Those days numbered one through four are as follows:

1. Paschal Triduum
2. Sundays and major feasts in the seasons of Advent, Lent, and Easter
3. Solemnities of the Lord, Mary, or saints.
4. Observances of patrons appropriate to the nation or city, parish, or the parish’s dedication anniversary. Also, the founder of a religious order connected to the community.

These resources will be updated regularly.