Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time is the sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time in the Roman Rite, celebrated in green with its own prayers and three-year cycle of Sunday readings.[1]
Place in the liturgical year
This celebration marks the sixth numbered Sunday of Ordinary Time. Ordinary Time unfolds the mystery of Christ in the Church outside the distinctive preparatory and festal seasons of Advent, Christmas Time, Lent, and Easter Time.
Its civil date changes from year to year with the placement of Easter and the resumption of Ordinary Time after Pentecost. The numbered weeks are continuous across the interruption for Lent and Easter, so not every early or late numbered Sunday occurs in every civil year.
Readings and prayer
The Roman Lectionary assigns this Sunday a distinct set of readings in Years A, B, and C. The Gospel sequence and the accompanying Old Testament and apostolic readings disclose Christ's mystery across the three-year cycle; the weekday cycle does not replace these Sunday propers.[2]
The Mass uses the proper collect, readings, responsorial psalm, Gospel acclamation, prayer over the offerings, and prayer after Communion appointed for the Sunday. The Liturgy of the Hours likewise observes the Sunday office for the corresponding week of the psalter.
Rank and precedence
A Sunday in Ordinary Time is a celebration of the Lord's Resurrection and is ordinarily the principal celebration of the day. A solemnity of higher precedence can replace it under the universal table of liturgical days; a feast or memorial ordinarily cannot.[3]
References
- 1.General Instruction of the Roman Missal — Universal norms for celebrating Mass in the Roman Rite
- 2.Lectionary for Mass — The Roman Rite cycle of readings for Sundays, solemnities, feasts, and weekdays
- 3.Universal Norms on the Liturgical Year and the Calendar — Universal norms governing seasons, Sundays, ranks, precedence, and the calendar