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September 28, 2021Ordinariate parishes, communities, and pre-Ordinariate groups are able to order the “2022 Ordo Kalendar” for the Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter (U.S. and Canada) from John Covert. These calendars reflect the Ordinariate’s Anglican liturgical patrimony in the Catholic Church and help Catholics in the Ordinariate fully live out the liturgical year.
“These ‘ordo calendars’ depict in full color what is shaping up each month, and they are often hung in our kitchens and offices and church sacristies,” Covert states on the ordering website.
“For over half a century, calendars in this format have been available in a number of different editions,” he said, “[O]ne for Episcopalians following the standard calendar, another for those who preferred a higher ‘Churchman’s’ ordo, one with the Catholic calendar of the USCCB, plus editions for Methodists, Lutherans, and other Christians.”
The 2022 Ordo Kalendars come with two options. The first option is a standard top featuring an image of Our Lady of Walsingham [see above] in which there is empty space for a Do-It-Yourself personalized label.
The other option is to personalize the Kalendar in which the top can be replaced with one’s own design [see St. Luke's example]. Parish personalization is free for any order of 50 or more calendars. Personalized orders of fewer than 42 calendars require a $25 fee.
Covert’s calendars are made with the same computer program used to generate the official ordo of the Ordinariate of the Chair of St Peter, so the two are in sync.
“Our Ordo Kalendars will include the extensive differences in the calendar which are part of the Anglican Patrimony: Sundays after Epiphany, Sundays after Trinity, the season of Pre-Lent with its three “-gesima” Sundays, the Rogation and Ember Days, and a number of additional saints,” Covert states.
The standard OCSP edition is called the “Walsingham Edition,” while the Canadian edition of this calendar is called the “Saint John the Baptist Edition.”
Each Kalendar has a a calendar guide on the last calendar page, which includes a helpful explanation of the Sunday observance, holy days of (joyful) obligation, the seasons of the Church year, as well as solemnities, feasts, and memorials (obligatory and optional). The guide also explains abstinence and fasting, and when they are obligatory in the OCSP.
Since the Ordo Kalendars are part of a service, not a business, all orders must be placed and paid for in advance as Covert prints only an exact number of calendars.
The ordering deadline for the OCSP Kalendars is November 2, 2021. Calendars will ship in November and December to arrive by the Second Sunday of Advent.
The Kalendar project also helps support the OCSP’s mission. Covert explains on his site that “All payments received after subtracting printing and mailing costs are donated to the Bishop’s Appeal.”
Last year, the 2021 Kalendar raised $741 for the Bishop’s Appeal.
Online ordering for the OCSP 2022 Ordo Kalendar and all other details are available at ordo.covert.org.
Peter Jesserer Smith is vice president of the Anglicanorum Coetibus Society.
