Today is the XXIII Sunday after Pentecost, here is the beginning of the commentary from The Liturgical Year: Guéranger, Prosper, 1806-1875 “When the number of the Sundays after Pentecost is only twenty-three, the Mass for to-day is taken from the twenty-fourth and last Sunday ; and the Mass appointed for the twenty-third is said on the previous Saturday, or on the nearest day of the preceding week which is not impeded by a double or semi-double feast. But, under all circumstances, the antiphonary ends to-day. The Introits, Graduals, Communions, and Postcommunions, which are given below, are to be repeated on each of the Sundays till Advent, which vary in number each year. Our readers will remember that, in the time of St. Gregory, Advent was longer than we now have it and that, in those days, its weeks commenced in that part of the cycle which is now occupied by the last Sundays after Pentecost. This is one of the reasons for the lack of liturgical riches in the composition of the dominical Masses which follow the twenty-third.”

This year 2023, the previous Sundays were as listed below. If you were to celebrate all the former feasts this would give us two green Sundays, between the 10th September and the 29th October.

Back in 1876 in England we have the following from the Catholic Directory 1876. So no green Sunday between the 10th September and the 29th October inclusive,

After Southwark Cathedral was dedicated in 1894 we had the following. Images from the Catholic Directory 1913.

Perhaps Pius X had a point in his reforms of 1911-13…