The Ordo for
Sunday 2 November 2025
November 2025
| Psalter: Week 3 |
| Nov 2 Sunday | Lunar day: 11 |
| Thirty-First Sunday of the Year | ||
| violet or black | Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed | Commemoration |
| Mass 1, 2 or 3 of the Commememoration. Preface of Christian Death I - V. | ||
| Readings from the Masses for the Dead. (Australian Lectionary, vol. III, pp. 849-890.) Vol. II of the Lectioary (pp. 966-969) contains the following, though these are suggestions only: | ||
| Is 25:6-9; Ps 26: 1-4, 7-9, 13-14. R. v. 1. Alt. R. v. 13; Rm 5: 5-11; Lk 7: 11-17. | ||
| Hours of the Sunday. However, Vespers from the Office of the Dead may be celebrated with the participation of the faithful. | ||
| A priest may celebrate or concelebrate three Masses today, but may accept only one stipend. The second Mass is offered for all the faithful departed, and the third for the intentions of the Holy Father. | ||
| A single plenary indulgence applicable to the faithful departed may be gained today under the usual conditions of Confession, Holy Communion and prayer for the pope's intentions by visiting a church and praying there the Lord's Prayer and the Creed. | ||
| OP | L.C.O. 70 § I. Between the Commemoration of all the Faithful Departed and Advent, every priest shall celebrate one Mass for deceased brothers, sisters, familiars and benefactors. Brothers who are not priests shall participate in one Mass. | |
Variables for the Current Year
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Sunday Readings
Since 1969, in order to open a richer selection of the Holy Scriptures to the faithful, the Sunday readings have been arranged in a three-year cycle. St Matthew’s Gospel is read in Year A, St Mark’s in Year B, and St Luke’s in Year C. St John’s Gospel is read in all years, in Lent and Eastertide principally.
- Cycle C
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Weekday Readings
Since 1969, in order to open a richer selection of the Holy Scriptures to the faithful, the weekday readings have been arranged in a two-year cycle.
- Cycle I
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Dominical Letter
The Dominical Letter enables one to determine easily which days of the year are Sundays.
- e
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Golden Number
The Golden Number indicates the current year in the metonic or nineteen-year cycle of the moon. It is used in determining the date of Easter.
- 12
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Epact
The epact indicates the ‘age’ of the moon at the start of the solar year. For example, an epact of xi (that is, eleven) means that 1 January will be the twelfth day of the lunar month. If the epact is an asterisk (*), 1 January is an ecclesiastical new moon.
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Solar Cycle
The solar cycle lasts twenty-eight years, because in the Julian calendar, in any year the days fall on the same day of the week as they did 28 years ago.
- 18
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Letter of the Martyrology
The letter of the Martyrology is used in conjunction with a table at the head of each day’s reading in that book, indicating the correct day of the lunar month to be announced.
- P
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Roman Year of Indiction
The Roman emperor Diocletian (284–305) established the practice of taking a census for taxation purposes every fifteen years, a period that became known as the cycle of indiction. In the early middle ages these cycles were taken to have begun with the accession of Constantine in 312, and were widely used to date correspondence, charters and other documents. (To find the year of indiction, add 3 to the year AD, then divide by 15. A zero remainder indicates year 15.)
- 3
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Julian Period
Invented by Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540–1609), the Julian period combines the solar, metonic and indiction cycles in a period of 7,980 years, beginning on 1 January 4713 BC.
- Year 6738
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Years since the confirmation of the Order
The Order was confirmed by Pope Honorius III on 22 December 1216.
- 809
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Years since the passing of our Holy Father Dominic
Holy Father Dominic died in the Lord in Bologna on 6 August 1221. His feast day is kept on 3 August in Australia and New Zealand, and on 8 August in the General Roman Calendar.
- 804