Come, ring out our joy to the Lord; hail the God who saves us, alleluia.
Year: C(I). Psalm week: 3. Liturgical Colour: Green.
Sunday of the Word of God in Australia
Pope Francis has declared the 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time to be Sunday of the Word of God.
The Australian Bishops have decided to move the celebration of the Sunday of the Word of God from the 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time to the first Sunday in February.
Liturgical colour: green
The theological virtue of hope is symbolized by the colour green, just as the burning fire of love is symbolized by red. Green is the colour of growing things, and hope, like them, is always new and always fresh. Liturgically, green is the colour of Ordinary Time, the orderly sequence of weeks through the year, a season in which we are being neither single-mindedly penitent (in purple) nor overwhelmingly joyful (in white).