THE TRADITIONAL EPIPHANY PROCLAMATION
In ancient times before calendars were common, most people did not know the dates for the upcoming liturgical year. On Epiphany Sunday, it was traditional to proclaim the dates of the major feasts of the coming liturgical year after the Gospel. For the year 2023, it is as follows:
Dear brothers and sisters, the glory of the Lord
has shone upon us, and shall ever be manifest among us,
until the day of his return.
Through the rhythms of times and seasons,
let us celebrate the mysteries of salvation.
Let us recall the year’s culmination,
the Easter Triduum of the Lord:
his last supper, his crucifixion, his burial,
and his rising celebrated
between the evening of the sixth of April
and the evening of the ninth of April.
EASTER SUNDAY being on the ninth of April.
Each Easter—as on each Sunday—
the Holy Church makes present the great and saving deed
by which Christ has forever conquered sin and death.
From Easter are reckoned all the days we keep holy.
ASH WEDNESDAY, the beginning of Lent,
will occur on the twenty-second day of February.
The ASCENSION OF THE LORD will be commemorated on
Thursday, the eighteenth day of May.