Proper Prayers of the Traditional Latin Mass
This list contains many of the major festal, common and votive Masses from the Traditional (Tridentine) Missal.
Our library of Proper Prayers is still growing, so not all feasts on the list below have active links.
The Season of Advent
1st Sunday of Advent - The First Sunday of Advent, the fourth Sunday before Christmas, is the first day of the Liturgical Year. Masses of this season are celebrated in violet vestments. While Advent is a penitential season and the Gloria in Excelsis is omitted, the joyous Alleluia is retained after the Gradual.
2nd Sunday of Advent
3rd Sunday of Advent - This Sunday is known as Gaudete Sunday after the first word of the Latin Introit. In common with Mid-Lent Sunday, the priest may celebrate the Masses in rose-coloured vestments. Rose is a paler kind of violet and expresses some relaxation in the penitential season of Advent.
Ember Wednesday of Advent - The Ember days have been instituted by the Church to thank God for blessings obtained during the year and to implore further graces for the new season. Ember Days are also a penitential preparation for those who are about to be ordained. Of the four sets of Ember Days during the year, those of Advent occur after the Third Sunday of Advent.
Ember Friday of Advent
Ember Saturday of Advent
4th Sunday of Advent
Vigil of Christmas [24 Dec]
The Season of Christmas
Christmas Day [25 Dec]
Sunday in Octave of Christmas
Octave Day of Christmas (The Circumcision) [01 Jan]
The Holy Name of Jesus - This Feast is kept on the First Sunday of the year; but if this Sunday falls on 1st, 6th or 7th January, the feast is kept on 2nd January. First celebrated by the Franciscans in the 16th Century, Pope Innocent XIII added this solemnity to the universal calendar in 1721.
The Epiphany [06 Jan] - The Feast of the Epiphany was kept in the East from the third century and its observance spread to the West towards the end of the fourth. The word 'Epiphany' means 'manifestation' and, like Christmas, represents the mystery of God appearing in visible form.
Time after Epiphany
The Holy Family - The Feast of the Holy Family was approved as a feast for Canada by Pope Leo XIII in 1893. Its celebration was extended to the Universal Church by Pope Benedict XV, who ordered it to be celebrated on the Sunday after the Feast of the Epiphany.-
The Baptism of Christ [13 Jan]
1st Sunday after Epiphany - The Mass of the 1st Sunday after Epiphany is celebrated on another day of the week, since Pope Benedict XV extended the Feast of the Holy Family to the universal Church, and ordered its celebration always to be kept on the Sunday within the octave of the Epiphany.
2nd Sunday after Epiphany
3rd Sunday after Epiphany
4th Sunday after Epiphany
5th Sunday after Epiphany
6th Sunday after Epiphany
The Season of Septuagesima
Septuagesima Sunday
Sexagesima Sunday
Quinquagesima Sunday
The Season of Lent
Ash Wednesday
1st Sunday of Lent
2nd Sunday of Lent
3rd Sunday of Lent
4th Sunday of Lent
Passiontide
Passion Sunday
Palm Sunday
Monday of Holy Week
Tuesday of Holy Week
Wednesday of Holy Week
Maundy Thursday
Good Friday
Holy Saturday
The Season of Easter
Easter Sunday
Low Sunday
2nd Sunday after Easter
3rd Sunday after Easter
4th Sunday after Easter
5th Sunday after Easter
Rogation Days
Vigil of the Ascension
Ascension Day
Sunday after Ascension Day
Vigil of Pentecost
Pentecost Sunday
Whit-Monday
Whit-Tuesday
Ember Wednesday of Pentecost Week
Whit-Thursday
Ember Friday of Pentecost Week
Ember Saturday of Pentecost Week
Time after Pentecost
Trinity Sunday
1st Sunday after Pentecost
Corpus Christi
2nd Sunday after Pentecost
The Sacred Heart of Jesus
3rd Sunday after Pentecost
4th Sunday after Pentecost
5th Sunday after Pentecost
6th Sunday after Pentecost
7th Sunday after Pentecost
8th Sunday after Pentecost
9th Sunday after Pentecost
10th Sunday after Pentecost
11th Sunday after Pentecost
12th Sunday after Pentecost
13th Sunday after Pentecost
14th Sunday after Pentecost
15th Sunday after Pentecost
16th Sunday after Pentecost
17th Sunday after Pentecost
Ember Wednesday in September
Ember Friday in September
Ember Saturday in September
18th Sunday after Pentecost
19th Sunday after Pentecost
20th Sunday after Pentecost
21st Sunday after Pentecost
22nd Sunday after Pentecost
23rd Sunday after Pentecost
24th Sunday after Pentecost
Christ the King
Last Sunday after Pentecost
Sundays after Pentecost (Supplementary Mass No 1)
Sundays after Pentecost (Supplementary Mass No 2)
Sundays after Pentecost (Supplementary Mass No 3)
Sundays after Pentecost (Supplementary Mass No 4)
Sanctoral Cycle
Saint Marcellus I [16 Jan] - Saint Marcellus I defended the rights of the Church with heroic resistance. On this account he was exiled by the heretical Maxentius. He died in 310 AD.
St Andrew Corsini [04 Feb]
The Annunciation [25 Mar]
St Jospeh the Worker [01 May]
Ss Philip and James [11 May]
Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary [31 May]
Vigil of the Nativity of St John the Baptist [23 Jun]
Nativity of St John the Baptist [24 Jun]
Vigil of Ss Peter and Paul [28 Jun]
Ss Peter and Paul [29 Jun]
Most Precious Blood of Our Lord [01 Jul]
The Visitation [02 Jul]
Our Lady of Mount Carmel [16 Jul] - On this day are commemorated the favours granted to the Brothers of our Lady of Mount Carmel, successors to those early Christians who built a chapel in her honour on Mount Carmel. The institution and habit of the Carmelite Order as now known are due to our Lady's instructions first to Saint Simon Stock and later to Pope Honorius III. She promised special protection in life and after death to all who adopted the Tertiary's rule and wore her habit.
St James the Greater [25 Jul]
St Anne [26 Jul]
The Transfiguration [06 Aug]
St John Mary Vianney [08 Aug]
Vigil of St Lawrence [09 Aug]
St Lawrence
Vigil of The Assumption [14 Aug]
The Assumption [15 Aug] - Mary was cared for by Saint John for twelve years after our Lord's Resurrection. Her life was spent in helping the Apostles and in praying for the conversion of the world. On the third day after Mary's death, when the Apostles gathered around her tomb, they found it empty. The sacred body had been carried up to the celestial paradise. Jesus Himself came to conduct her thither; the whole court of heaven came to welcome with songs of triumph the Mother of the Divine Word.
St Joachim [16 Aug]
St John Eudes [19 Aug] - Saint John Eudes, born in Normandy, was educated by the Jesuits. Ordained priest, he founded the Congregation of the Priests of Jesus and Mary, called Eudists, and the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity. As preacher, writer, and founder he promoted public devotion to the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. He died in 1680.
Immaculate Heart of Mary [22 Aug] - Mary began her journey along the road to perfection at a height to which other Saints arrived only at the end of a long life of saintliness. In all other children of Adam original sin prevented the divine generosity from having a free course. But Mary was created immaculate, and therefore the grace of God streamed into her soul without check of hindrance. Her sinlessness, her heavenly purity, directed every action, every movement to God. Her Heart was the pattern and model of all virtues, of all purity. Saints Timotheus, Hippolytus, and Sumphorian, although commemorated together, suffered in different persecutions: Timotheus under Maximian, Bishop Hippolytus under Alexander and the youth Symphorian under Aurelian.
St Bartholomew [24 Aug]
St Louis, King of France [25 Aug]
St Pius X [03 Sep]
Exaltation of the Holy Cross [14 Sep]
Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary [11 Oct] - To commemorate in the liturgy of the fifteenth centenary of the Council of Ephesus (held in 431), which vindicated the title of Theotokos or "Mother of God" for the Blessed Virgin Mary, Pope Pius XI instructed this feast to be observed by the whole Church in the year 1931.
All Saints' Day [01 Nov]
All Souls' Day [02 Nov]
The Immaculate Conception [08 Dec]
Common Masses of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Common of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Common of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Saturdays #1 - There are Five Masses of the Blessed Virgin Mary said, according to the season, as the Mass of the day on Saturdays when there is no other feast or greater feria. They may also be celebrated as Votive Masses on other occasions.
Common of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Saturdays #2
Common of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Saturdays #3
Common of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Saturdays #4
Common of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Saturdays #5
Common Masses of One of Several Holy Popes
Common of One or Several Holy Popes
Common Masses of Martyrs outside Paschal-time
Common of a Martyr-Bishop outside Paschal-time #1
Common of a Martyr-Bishop outside Paschal-time #2
Common of a Martyr not a Bishop #1
Common of a Martyr not a Bishop #2
Common of Several Martyrs Outside Paschal-time #1
Common of Several Martyrs Outside Paschal-time #2
Common of Several Martyrs Outside Paschal-time #3
Common Masses of Martyrs during Paschal-time
Common of One Martyr during Paschal-time
Common of Several Martyrs during Paschal-time
Common Masses of Confessors
Common of a Confessor Bishop #1
Common of a Confessor Bishop #2
Common of a Doctor
Common of a Confessor not a Bishop #1
Common of a Confessor not a Bishop #2
Common of an Abbot
Common Masses of Virgins
Common of a Virgin Martyr #1
Common of a Virgin Martyr #2
Common of Several Virgin Martyrs #1
Common of Several Virgin Martyrs #2
Common of a Virgin not a Martyr #1
Common of a Virgin not a Martyr #2
Common Masses of Holy Women
Common of Holy Woman Martyr not a Virgin
Common of a Holy Woman neither Virgin nor Martyr
Mass for the Dedication of a Church
Mass for the Dedication of a Church