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the free encyclopedia regulation for the liturgy of the roman catholic church part of a series on the canon law of the catholic church ius vigens current law 1983 code of canon law code of canons of the eastern churches ad tuendam fidem ex corde ecclesiae indulgentiarum doctrina praedicate evangelium veritatis gaudium custom matrimonial nullity trial reforms of pope francis documents of the second vatican council christus dominus lumen gentium optatam totius orientalium ecclesiarum presbyterorum ordinis sacrosanctum concilium precepts of the church legal history jus antiquum c 33 1140 ancient church orders didache the apostolic constitutions canons of the apostles collections of ancient canons collectiones canonum dionysianae collectio canonum quadripartita collectio canonum quesnelliana collectio canonum wigorniensis gelasian decree symmachian forgeries pseudo isidorian decretals donation of constantine gregorian reform lay investiture controversy dictatus papae libertas ecclesiae 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apostolic life decretum laudis catholic church portal law portal v t e the ranking of liturgical days in the roman rite is a regulation for the liturgy of the catholic church it determines for each liturgical day which observance has priority when liturgical dates and times coincide or occur which texts are used for the celebration of the holy mass and the liturgy of the hours and which liturgical color is assigned to the day or celebration ranks edit each day in the catholic liturgical calendar has a rank the five basic ranks for the ordinary form of the roman rite in descending order of importance are as follows solemnity the highest ranking type of feast day it commemorates an event in the life of jesus or mary or celebrates a saint important to the whole church or the local community the mass of a solemnity has proper readings and prayers the gloria and credo are recited and occasionally there will be use of incense a processional hymn and procession and a recessional hymn recession outside of advent lent and eastertide a solemnity falling on a sunday is celebrated in place of the sunday the equivalent type in the older tridentine or extraordinary form of the roman rite and the 1962 missal of pope john xxiii would be a i class feast feast the rank of secondary liturgical days including lesser events in the life of jesus mary or an apostle theologically speaking or for major saints the gloria is recited but not the credo and there are proper readings and prayers for the feast a feast pertaining to the lord e g transfiguration falling on a sunday during ordinary time replaces the sunday liturgy and such will have the credo recited at mass the equivalent in the older tridentine or extraordinary form of the roman rite and the 1962 missal of pope john xxiii would be a ii class feast memorial the commemoration of a saint of lesser importance many memorials are optional or only observed in specific dioceses regions or nations the equivalent in the extraordinary form would be a iii class feast seasonal weekday a weekday in advent christmastide lent or eastertide on which no solemnity feast or memorial happens to be observed on weekdays of lent memorials are celebrated as optional memorial and such liturgy of lent shall be used the equivalent in the extraordinary form would be i ii and iii class ferial days and the even older tridentine forms would be classified as major ferials feria or ferial weekday a weekday in ordinary time on which no solemnity feast or memorial happens to be observed the equivalent in the extraordinary form would be a iv class ferial and in the older tridentine forms would be minor ferials all holy days of obligation on a global level are also solemnities however not all solemnities are holy days of obligation for example the nativity of the lord jesus christmas 25 december is a solemnity which is always a holy day of obligation whereas the nativity of saint john the baptist 24 june is not a holy day of obligation on a local level the reverse is also possible e g in germany the global feast of st stephen 26 december is a holy day of obligation without being raised to solemnity history edit the ranking of feast days of saints and of christian mysteries such as the ascension of the lord which had grown from an original division between doubles and simples 1 what the original meaning of the term double may have been is not entirely certain some think that the greater festivals were thus styled because the antiphons were doubled at the major hours i e they were repeated twice others with more probability point to the fact that before the ninth century in certain places for example at rome it was customary on the greater feast days to recite two sets of matins the first for the week day the second for the feast hence such days were known as doubles 1 the catholic encyclopedia of 1907 shows the incremental crowding of the calendar with the following table based on the official revisions of the roman breviary in 1568 1602 1631 and 1882 and on the situation in 1907 1 pope date doubles i class doubles ii class greater doubles doubles semidoubles total pius v 1568 19 17 0 53 60 149 clement viii 1602 19 18 16 43 68 164 urban viii 1631 19 18 16 45 78 176 leo xiii 1882 21 18 24 128 74 275 pius x 1907 23 27 25 133 72 280 in 1907 when in accordance with the rules in force since the time of pope pius v feast days of any form of double if impeded by occurrence falling on the same day 2 with a feast day of higher class were transferred to another day this classification of feast days was of great practical importance for deciding which feast day to celebrate on any particular day pope pius x changed things considerably in his 1911 reform of the roman breviary further retouches were made by pope pius xii in 1955 a major revision was done by pope john xxiii in 1960 which divided the days into four classes the previous major and minor doubles and semidoubles became feasts of the iii class 3 and the previous simples had already in 1955 been reduced to commemorations within a iv class feria it is this form that was authorized to use in the motu proprio summorum pontificum for those who follow this use the decree cum sanctissima by the cdf in 2020 in effect created a new class of feasts while most feasts of the iii class can now on a voluntary basis be replaced by the celebration of newer saints a special number of important ones cannot and these in turn can be celebrated in lent and passiontide again which in 1955 60 had been forbidden for iii class feasts 4 for details see the respective calendars the 1969 revision by pope paul vi divided feast days into solemnities the previous i class feasts feasts the previous ii class feasts and memorials the previous iii class feasts 5 and entirely did away with the practice of commemorations as hitherto known 6 in the memorials it introduced a new distinction between obligatory and optional memorials 7 an optional memorial means that the 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