Office of Worship
Diocese of Lansing Calendar for 2025–2026
Please find below the full set of Calendar Notes from the Diocese of Lansing’s Office of Worship
Please note the following details:
Jubilee Year Ends in Local Dioceses
- December 28, 2025 (Sunday) – The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph
Mass for the Closing of the Jubilee Year at the Cathedral of Saint Mary, 11 am
Rite of Election
February 21, 2026 (Saturday) – Rite of Election/Call to Cont. Conversion
- 9:30 am – St. Joseph, Dexter
- 2 pm – St. Matthew, Flint
February 22, 2026 (Sunday) – Rite of Election/Call to Cont. Conversion
- 3 pm –Saint Martha, Okemos
Easter Vigil
April 4, 2026 (Saturday) – The Easter Vigil in the Holy Night
- The “entire celebration of the Easter Vigil takes place at night”; based on local twilight, the 2026 Easter Vigil should not begin before 9:00 pm
- “‘The entire celebration of the Easter Vigil takes place at night. It should not begin before nightfall; it should end before daybreak on Sunday.’ This rule is to be taken according to its strictest sense.”
–CDWDS, Paschale Solemnitatis, 78.
- After the time of sunset is ascertained, “another 45 minutes or one hour should be added to that time in order to determine the approximate time of nightfall.”
–USCCB, Instruction on Easter Vigil
Mandatory Use of Anointing of the Sick Ritual Book
April 5, 2026 – Easter Sunday
- Mandatory use of the Order of the Anointing of the Sick and of Their Pastoral Care is required.
Catechumens – Rite for Entrance Into the Catechumenate
May 24, 2026 (Sunday) – Pentecost Sunday
- Unbaptized adults should celebrate the Rite for Entrance into the Catechumenate before this date so as to be a catechumen from “at least the Easter time of one year until the beginning of the Easter Time of the next year” (Nation Statutes, Norm 4).
Ordinations Combined – Change in Date
June 6, 2026 (Saturday) – Ordination of Priests & Deacons
–at 10:30 am at Saint Thomas Aquinas, E. Lansi