Common Service Book of the Lutheran Church Authorized by the United Lutheran Church in America Philadelphia The Board of Publication of The United Lutheran Church in America Copyright, 1919, By The United Lutheran Church in America _______________________________________________ THE CALENDAR Advent Sunday The Advent Season—Four Weeks St. Thomas, Apostle December 21 Christmas Day, The Nativity of our Lord December 25 St. Stephen, Martyr December 26 St. John, Apostle, Evangelist December 27 The Circumcision of our Lord January 1 The Epiphany of our Lord January 6 The Epiphany Season—One to Six Weeks The Transfiguration of our Lord Septuagesima Sunday Sexagesima Sunday Quinquagesima Sunday The Conversion of St. Paul January 25 The Presentation of our Lord February 2 St. Matthias, Apostle February 24 Ash Wednesday, The First Day of Lent The Lenten-tide—Forty-six Days Invocavit, 1st Sunday in Lent Reminiscere, 2d Sunday in Lent Oculi, 3d Sunday in Lent Laetare, 4th Sunday in Lent Judica, Passion Sunday Palmarum, 6th Sunday in Lent Monday in Holy Week Tuesday in Holy Week Wednesday in Holy Week Thursday in Holy Week Good Friday Saturday in Holy Week Easter Day, The Resurrection of our Lord The Easter Season—Forty Days The Annunciation March 25 Quasimodogeniti, 1st Sunday after Easter Misericordias, 2d Sunday after Easter Jubilate, 3d Sunday after Easter Cantate, 4th Sunday after Easter Rogate, 5th Sunday after Easter The Ascension of our Lord Exaudi, The Sunday after the Ascension St. Mark, Evangelist April 25 St. Philip and St. James, Apostles May 1 Whitsunday The Festival of the Holy Trinity The Trinity Season—Twenty-two to Twenty-seven Weeks The Nativity of St. John, the Baptist June 24 St. Peter and St. Paul, Apostles June 29 The Visitation July 2 St. James, the Elder, Apostle July 25 St. Bartholomew, Apostle August 24 St. Matthew, Apostle, Evangelist September 21 St. Michael and All Angels September 29 St. Luke, Evangelist October 18 St. Simon and St. Jude, Apostles October 28 The Festival of the Reformation October 31 All Saints’ Day November 1 St. Andrew, Apostle November 30 _______________________________________________________________________ This text was converted to ASCII format for Project Wittenberg by Joel Herndon and is in the public domain. You may freely distribute, copy or print this text. Please direct any comments or suggestions to: Rev. Robert E. Smith Walther Library Concordia Theological Seminary E-mail: smithre@mail.ctsfw.edu Phone: (260) 452-3149 Fax: (260) 452-2126 Surface Mail: 6600 N. Clinton St., Ft. Wayne, IN 46825 USA _______________________________________________________