2025 Ordo

Feasts & daily observances

Fasting Abstinence

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April 2025 ordo with feast, penitential observances, liturgical color, and rank.
Day	Wk	Feast / Observance	Fast	Abst.	Rank
1	Tue	Liturgical color: violet. 1 Tue Fasting Abstinence f2 Tuesday after Lent IV Office details Lauds Ben. “Why go ye about” Suffrage Hours Preces Vespers Mag. “But no man” Suffrage	Fasting	Abstinence	f2
2	Wed	Liturgical color: violet. 2 Wed Fasting Abstinence f2 Wednesday after Lent IV Office details Lauds Ben. “Master” Suffrage Hours Preces Vespers Mag. “A man” Suffrage	Fasting	Abstinence	f2
3	Thu	Liturgical color: violet. 3 Thu Fasting Abstinence f2 Thursday after Lent IV Office details Lauds Ben. “Jesus went” Suffrage Hours Preces Vespers Mag. “A great prophet” Com. St Isidore of Seville, Bishop, Confessor & Doctor “O Teacher right excellent”	Fasting	Abstinence	f2
4	Fri	Liturgical color: violet. 4 Fri Fasting Abstinence f2 Friday after Lent IV 1 commemoration St Isidore of Seville, Bishop, Confessor & Doctor Office details Lauds Ben. “Our friend” Com. St Isidore of Seville, Bishop, Confessor & Doctor “Well done” Vespers Mag. “Lord, if thou hadst been here” Com. St Isidore of Seville, Bishop, Confessor & Doctor “O Teacher right excellent”	Fasting	Abstinence	f2
5	Sat	Liturgical color: violet. 5 Sat Fasting Abstinence f2 Saturday after Lent IV Office details Lauds Ben. “He that followeth me” Suffrage Hours Preces Vespers I Vespers of Sunday of the Passion Mag. “I am one”	Fasting	Abstinence	f2
6	Sun	Liturgical color: violet. 6 Sun Abstinence 1cl Sunday of the Passion Office details Lauds Ben. “Jesus said” Hours Preces Vespers I Vespers of St Tikhon of Moscow, Bishop & Confessor Mag. “O thou Priest and Bishop” Com. Sunday of the Passion “I am one”		Abstinence	1cl
7	Mon	Liturgical color: white. 7 Mon Fasting Abstinence 1cl St Tikhon of Moscow, Bishop & Confessor 1 commemoration Monday after Passion Sunday Office details Lauds Ben. “Well done” Com. Monday after Passion Sunday “In the great day of the feast” Vespers II Vespers of preceding Mag. “The Lord loved him” Com. Monday after Passion Sunday “If any man thirst”	Fasting	Abstinence	1cl
8	Tue	Liturgical color: violet. 8 Tue Fasting Abstinence f2 Tuesday after Passion Sunday Office details Lauds Ben. “My time” Hours Preces Vespers Mag. “Go ye up”	Fasting	Abstinence	f2
9	Wed	Liturgical color: violet. 9 Wed Fasting Abstinence f2 Wednesday after Passion Sunday Office details Lauds Ben. “My sheep” Hours Preces Vespers Mag. “Many good works”	Fasting	Abstinence	f2
10	Thu	Liturgical color: violet. 10 Thu Fasting Abstinence f2 Thursday after Passion Sunday Office details Lauds Ben. “The Master saith” Hours Preces Vespers Mag. “With desire” Com. Our Lady of Sorrows “O holy Mary”Com. St Leo the Great, Bishop, Confessor & Doctor “O Teacher right excellent”	Fasting	Abstinence	f2
11	Fri	Liturgical color: violet. 11 Fri Fasting Abstinence f2 Friday after Passion Sunday 2 commemorations Our Lady of SorrowsSt Leo the Great, Bishop, Confessor & Doctor Office details Lauds Ben. “Now the feast day of the Jews” Com. Our Lady of Sorrows “Blessed art thou”Com. St Leo the Great, Bishop, Confessor & Doctor “Well done” Vespers Mag. “The chief priests” Com. Our Lady of Sorrows “All generations”Com. St Leo the Great, Bishop, Confessor & Doctor “O Teacher right excellent”	Fasting	Abstinence	f2
12	Sat	Liturgical color: violet. 12 Sat Fasting Abstinence f2 Saturday after Passion Sunday Office details Lauds Ben. “O Father, glorify thou me” Hours Preces Vespers I Vespers of Palm Sunday Mag. “Righteous Father” Com. St Hermengild, Martyr “This is a Martyr”	Fasting	Abstinence	f2
13	Sun	Liturgical color: violet. 13 Sun Abstinence 1cl Palm Sunday 1 commemoration St Hermengild, Martyr Office details Lauds Ben. “The multitudes” Com. St Hermengild, Martyr “He that hateth his life” Hours Preces Vespers II Vespers of preceding Mag. “For it is written” Com. St Justin, Martyr “This is a Martyr”Com. St Tiburtius, Valerian & Maximus, Martyrs “For theirs is the kingdom of heaven”		Abstinence	1cl
14	Mon	Liturgical color: violet. 14 Mon Fasting Abstinence 1cl Monday in Holy Week 2 commemorations St Justin, MartyrSt Tiburtius, Valerian & Maximus, Martyrs Office details Lauds Ben. “O Father, glorify thou me” Com. St Justin, Martyr “He that hateth his life”Com. St Tiburtius, Valerian & Maximus, Martyrs “The very hairs of your head” Hours Preces Vespers Mag. “Thou couldest have no power”	Fasting	Abstinence	1cl
15	Tue	Liturgical color: violet. 15 Tue Fasting Abstinence 1cl Tuesday in Holy Week Office details Lauds Ben. “Now before the feast” Hours Preces Vespers Mag. “I have power”	Fasting	Abstinence	1cl
16	Wed	Liturgical color: violet. 16 Wed Fasting Abstinence 1cl Wednesday in Holy Week Office details Lauds Ben. “Simon, sleepest thou?” Hours Preces Vespers Mag. “A maid said unto Peter”	Fasting	Abstinence	1cl
17	Thu	Liturgical color: white. 17 Thu Fasting Abstinence 1cl Thursday of the Lord’s Supper Office details Lauds Ben. “Now he that betrayed him” Vespers II Vespers of preceding Mag. “As they were eating”	Fasting	Abstinence	1cl
18	Fri	Liturgical color: black. 18 Fri Fasting Abstinence 1cl Friday of the Preparation (Good Friday) Office details Lauds Ben. “They set up” Vespers II Vespers of preceding Mag. “When he had received”	Fasting	Abstinence	1cl
19	Sat	Liturgical color: white. 19 Sat Fasting Abstinence 1cl Holy Saturday Office details Lauds Ben. “The women” Vespers I Vespers of Sunday of the Resurrection Mag. “In the end of the sabbath”	Fasting	Abstinence	1cl
20	Sun	Liturgical color: white. 20 Sun 1cl Sunday of the Resurrection Office details Lauds Ben. “And very early in the morning” Vespers II Vespers of preceding Mag. “And when they looked”			1cl
21	Mon	Liturgical color: white. 21 Mon 1cl Monday in Easter Week Office details Lauds Ben. “Jesus himself” Vespers II Vespers of preceding Mag. “What manner of communications”			1cl
22	Tue	Liturgical color: white. 22 Tue 1cl Tuesday in Easter Week Office details Lauds Ben. “Jesus stood” Vespers II Vespers of preceding Mag. “Behold My Hands”			1cl
23	Wed	Liturgical color: white. 23 Wed 1cl Wednesday in Easter Week Office details Lauds Ben. “Cast the net” Vespers II Vespers of preceding Mag. “Jesus saith unto his disciples”			1cl
24	Thu	Liturgical color: white. 24 Thu 1cl Thursday in Easter Week Office details Lauds Ben. “Mary stood” Vespers II Vespers of preceding Mag. “They have taken”			1cl
25	Fri	Liturgical color: white. 25 Fri 1cl Friday in Easter Week Office details Lauds Ben. “The eleven disciples” Vespers II Vespers of preceding Mag. “All power” Com. St Cletus & Marcellinus, Martyrs “Light perpetual”			1cl
26	Sat	Liturgical color: white. 26 Sat 1cl Saturday before Low Sunday (Sabbato in Albis) 1 commemoration St Cletus & Marcellinus, Martyrs Office details Lauds Ben. “They ran both together” Com. St Cletus & Marcellinus, Martyrs “Daughters of Jerusalem” Vespers I Vespers of The Octave of Easter (Low Sunday) Mag. “The same day”			1cl
27	Sun	Liturgical color: white. 27 Sun 1cl The Octave of Easter (Low Sunday) Office details Lauds Ben. “The same day” Vespers I Vespers of St George, Martyr Mag. “Light perpetual” Com. The Octave of Easter (Low Sunday) “After eight days”			1cl
28	Mon	Liturgical color: red. 28 Mon 1cl St George, Martyr Office details Lauds Ben. “Daughters of Jerusalem” Vespers II Vespers of preceding Mag. “O ye holy and righteous” Com. St Mark, Evangelist “Light perpetual”			1cl
29	Tue	Liturgical color: red. 29 Tue 2cl St Mark, Evangelist Office details Lauds Ben. “Daughters of Jerusalem” Vespers II Vespers of preceding Mag. “O ye holy and righteous” Com. Octave Day of St George “Light perpetual”			2cl
30	Wed	Liturgical color: red. 30 Wed gd Octave Day of St George Office details Lauds Ben. “Daughters of Jerusalem” Vespers I Vespers of Ss Philip and James, Apostles Mag. “Let not your heart” Com. Octave Day of St George “O ye holy and righteous”			gd

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