Third Sunday of Advent

Dominica III Adventus

SundayThe original feast day — the Lord’s Day, kept every week since the resurrection. Only a solemnity or a feast of the Lord may displace one, and in Advent, Lent and Easter Time not even those. RoseWorn twice a year — Gaudete Sunday, the third of Advent, and Laetare Sunday, the fourth of Lent — where the fast lightens and the end is in sight. Holy day of obligationA day on which the faithful are bound to take part in Mass, and to keep from work that would prevent it. Every Sunday, and the other days each conference of bishops has determined. In Germany and Switzerland, a day that binds only in some dioceses or cantons is not marked here.CIC can. 1246