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Table of Rubrics governing Ritual and other Masses

The following table of rubrics governs when celebrations using the formularies from Ritual Masses, Masses for Various Needs and Occasions, Votive Masses, and Masses for the Dead are permitted within the liturgical year.

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V1 = Ritual Masses (General Instruction of the Roman Missal [hereafter, GIRM], no. 372).

Masses for various needs and occasions and votive Masses, in cases of serious need or pastoral advantage, at the direction of the local Ordinary or with his permission (GIRM, no. 374).

V2 = Masses for various needs and occasions and votive Masses, in cases of serious need or pastoral advantage, at the discretion of the rector of the church or the priest celebrant (GIRM, no. 376).

V3 = Masses for various needs and occasions and votive Masses chosen by the priest celebrant in favour of the devotion of the people (GIRM, no. 373, 375).

D1 = Funeral Mass (GIRM, no. 380).

D2 = Mass on the occasion of news of a death, final burial, or the first anniversary (GIRM, no. 381).

D3 = Daily Mass for the dead (GIRM, no. 381). When D1 and D2 are not permitted, neither is D3.

tick= permitted.

cross= not permitted

Table of Rubrics
V1V2V3D1D2D3
1.Solemnities of preceptcrosscrosscrosscrosscrosscross
2.Sundays in the seasons of Advent, Lent and Eastercrosscrosscrosscrosscrosscross
3.Holy Thursday, Easter Triduumcrosscrosscrosscrosscrosscross
4.Solemnities not of precept, All Soulscrosscrosscrosstickcrosscross
5.Ash Wednesday, weekdays of Holy Weekcrosscrosscrosstickcrosscross
6.Days in the octave of Eastercrosscrosscrosstickcrosscross
7.Sundays of Christmas and Sundays in Ordinary Timetickcrosscrosstickcrosscross
8.Feaststickcrosscrosstickcrosscross
9.Weekdays in the season of Advent

from 17 to 24 December
tickcrosscrossticktickcross
10.Days in the octave of Christmastickcrosscrossticktickcross
11.Weekdays in the season of Lenttickcrosscrossticktickcross
12.Obligatory memorialsticktickcrossticktickcross
13.Weekdays in the season of Advent to 16 Decemberticktickcrossticktickcross
14.Weekdays in the season of Christmas from 2 Januaryticktickcrossticktickcross
15.Weekdays in the season of Easterticktickcrossticktickcross
16.Weekdays in Ordinary Timeticktickticktickticktick
V1V2V3D1D2D3