Holy days
The feasts of the year, with their dates. Half of them move with Easter and one moves with Advent, so this page works them out rather than being told.
The year
Every date worked out from Easter and from Advent.
- The Thursday forty days after Easter The Ascension of the Lord Holy Day of Obligation
- The Thursday after Trinity, kept on the Sunday Corpus Christi Holy Day of Obligation
- The Sunday before Advent Christ the King
Dates appear here when JavaScript is available. The rules above are what they are worked out from, and they do not change.
Why this page is not typed in
Easter moves, and half the year moves with it: Ash Wednesday is forty-six days before, the Ascension thirty-nine days after, Corpus Christi sixty. Christ the King does not hang off Easter at all — it is the Sunday before Advent, and Advent is counted back from Christmas.
So this site works the dates out rather than being told them, and will still be right long after whoever set it up has moved on.
What it does not decide is which feasts oblige. That is set by the bishops' conference, it differs between countries and it has changed within living memory — so it is stated in the parish's own configuration file, where the clergy can check it against the ordo, rather than being assumed by a website template.