General Liturgical Calendar

 

JANUARY

1    THE CIRCUMCISION OF OUR LORD

       The Most Holy Name of Jesus:  Sunday between the Circumcision and the Epiphany or             January 2nd:

2    Octave Day of St Stephen

3    Octave Day of St John

4    Octave Day of the Holy Innocents

5    Vigil of the Epiphany

6    THE EPIPHANY OF OUR LORD

       The Feast of the Holy Family:  Sunday After Epiphany

7    Feria  (Flight of the Child Jesus into Egypt)

8    Feria

9    Feria

10  Feria

11  Feria (RIP-Abp Carmel Henry Carfora- 2nd Primate, 1958)

12  Feria

13  Octave Day of Epiphany / The Baptism of Our Lord

14  St Hilary

15  St Paul the First Hermit

16  St Marcellus

17  St Anthony the Abbot

18  St Peter’s Chair at Rome

19  St Marius, Martha, Audifax, Abichum

20  Sts Fabian & Sebastian

21  St Agnes

22  Sts Vincent & Anastasius

23  St Raymond Pennafort / The Espousals of the BVM

24  St Timothy

25  The Conversion of St Paul

26  St Polycarp

27  St John Chrysostom

28  St Peter Nolasco (RIP-Abp James Hubert Rogers-4th Primate, 1991)

29  St Francis de Sales - episcopal consecration of Bp Charles Jerome Bidjo, 2011 

30  St Martina

31  St John Bosco

 

FEBRUARY

1    St Ignatius of Antioch

2    The Purification of the BVM / The Presentation of Jesus in the Temple

3    St Blaise

4    St Andrew Corsini

5    St Agatha

6    St Titus

7    St Romuald

8    St John of Matha

9    St Cyril of Alexandria

10  St Scholastica

11  Our Lady of Lourdes

12  The Seven Holy Founders of the Servite Order

13  Feria (RIP-Abp Herve Lionel Quessy-5th Primate, 2008) 

14  St Valentine

15  Sts Faustinus and Jovita

16  Feria

17  Feria

18  St Simeon of Jerusalem

19  Feria

20  Feria

21  Feria

22  St Peter’s Chair at Antioch

23  St Peter Damian

24  St Matthias   (Vocation of St Francis of Assisi)

25  Feria

26  Feria

27  St Gabriel of the Sorrowful Virgin

      In Leap Year St Matthias is celebrated on February 25 and St Gabriel on February 28.

 

MARCH

1    Feria

2    Feria

3    Feria

4    St Casimir of Lithuania

5    Feria

6    Sts Perpetua & Felicitas

7    St Thomas Aquinas

8    St John of God

9    St Frances of Roma

10  The Forty Holy Martyrs of Sebaste

11  Feria

12  St Gregory the Great

13  Feria

14  Feria

15  Feria

16  Feria

17  St Patrick

18  St Cyril of Jerusalem - episcopal consecration of Bp Dieudonne Nitonde, 2007

19  St Joseph, Spouse of the BVM

20  Feria

21  St Benedict

22  Feria

23  Feria

24  St Gabriel the Archangel

25  The Annunciation of the BVM

26  Feria

27  St John Damascene

28  St John Capistran

29  Feria

30  Feria

31  Feria

 

APRIL

1    Feria

2    St Francis of Paula, Founder of the Minims

3    Feria

4    St Isidore of Seville

5    St Vincent Ferrer

6    Feria

7    Feria

8    Feria

9    Feria

10  Feria

11  St Leo the Great

12  Feria

13  St Hermenigild

14  St Justin Martyr

15  Feria

16  Feria

17  St Anicetus

18  Feria

19  Feria

20  Feria

21  St Anselm

22  Sts Soter & Caius

23  St George

24  St Fidelis of Sigmaringen

25  St Mark the Evangelist

26  Sts Cletus & Marcellinus

27  St Peter Canisius

28  St Paul of the Cross

29  St Peter of Verona

30  St Catherine of Siena

 

MAY

1    St Joseph the Worker

2    St Athanasius

3    The Invention (Finding) of the Holy Cross

4    St Monica / The Blessed English Martyrs

5    St Pius V

6    St John Before the Latin Gate (commemoration of Bp Cornelius Jansenius, 1638)

7    St Stanislaus of Cracow

8    The Apparition of St Michael the Archangel

9    St Gregory Nazianzen

10  St Antoninus

11  Sts Phillip & James

12  Sts Nereus, Achilleus & Companions

13  St Robert Bellarmine

14  St Boniface of Tarsus

15  St John Baptiste de la Salle

16  St Ubald of Gubbio

17  St Paschal Baylon

18  St Venantius of Camerino (RIP-Abp Edmund F Leeman, TOR-7th Primate, 2011)

19  St Peter Celestine

20  St Bernardine of Siena

21  Feria

22  Feria

23  Feria

24  ST VINCENT OF LERINS

25  St Gregory VII

26  St Phillip Neri

27  St Bede the Venerable

28  St Augustine of Canterbury

29  St Mary Magdalen dei Pazzi

30  St Felix I - episcopal consecration of Abp Edward J Ford, 1978

31  The Queenship of the BVM

 

JUNE

1    St Angela Merici

2    Sts Peter & Marcellinus / St Erasmus

3    Feria

4    St Francis Caracciolo

5    St Boniface of Germany

6    St Norbert of Magdeburg   (RIP-Bp Beldon E Gannon, 2017)

7    Feria

8    Feria

9    Sts Primus & Felicianus  (RIP-Abp Bernard Mary Williams, 1952)

10  St Margaret, Queen of Scotland

11  St Barnabas

12  St John of Facundo

13  St Anthony of Padua

14  St Basil the Great

15  Sts Vitus, Modestus and Crescentia

16  Feria

17  St Gregory Barbarigo

18  St Ephraim the Syrian

19  St Juliana of Falconieri

20  St Silverius

21  St Aloysius Gonzaga

22  St Paulinus / St Alban

23  The Vigil of the Nativity of St John

24  The Nativity of St John the Baptist

25  St William

26  Sts John & Paul

27  Feria

28  St Irenaeus

29  Sts Peter & Paul

30  The Commemoration of St Paul

 

JULY

1    The Most Precious Blood of Jesus

2    The Visitation of the BVM

3    St Leo II

4    Feria

5    St Anthony Mary Zaccaria

6    Octave Day of Sts Peter & Paul

7    Sts Cyril & Methodius

8    St Elizabeth, Queen of Portugal

9    Sts John Fischer & Thomas More

10  The Seven Holy Brothers

11  St Pius I

12  St John Gualbert

13  St Anacletus

14  St Bonaventure

15  St Henry

16  Our Lady of Mount Carmel

17  St Alexis

18  St Camillus de Lellis

19  St Vincent de Paul

20  St Jerome Aemilianus

21  St Lawrence of Brindsi / St Praxedes

22  St Mary Magdalen

23  St Apollinaris

24  The Vigil of St James / St Christina

25  St James (the Greater) the Apostle (commemoration of Thomas a Kempis, 1471)

26  St Anne, Mother of the BVM

27  St Pantalaeon of Nicomedia

28  St Nazarius & Celsus, Victor I, Innocent I

29  St Martha

30  Sts Abdon & Sennen

31  St Ignatius Loyola

 

AUGUST

1    St Peter’s Chains / The Seven Holy Maccabees

2    St Alphonsus Mary de Liguori

3    The Finding of St Stephen (commemoration of Our Lady of Port Royal)

4    St Dominic (commemoration of Mere Angelique, 1661)

5    THE PROCLAMATION OF THE FAITH

6    The Transfiguration of Our Lord

7    St Cajetan (commemoration of Antoine Arnauld, 1694)

8   Sts Cyriacus & Companions

9    St John Mary Vianney

10  St Lawrence

11  Sts Tiburtius & Susanna  (RIP-Bp Irvin N Plant, 2021)

12  St Clare of Assisi

13  Sts Hippolytus & Cassian

14  The Vigil of the Assumption of the BVM - episcopal consecration of Bp Waldemar Maj,                                                                                                                                               2021

15  THE ASSUMPTION OF THE BVM 

16  St Joachim, Father of the BVM

17  St Hyacinth

18  St Agapitus

19  St John Eudes (commemoration of Blaise Paschal, 1662)

20  St Bernard of Clairvaux (commemoration of Geert Groote, 1384)

21  St Jane Frances de Chantal

22  The Immaculate Heart of Mary

23  St Phillip Benizi

24  St Bartholomew  (RIP-Abp Gerard G Shelley, 1980)

25  St Louis, King of France (RIP-Abp Hubert Augustus Rogers- 3rd Primate, 1976)

26  St Zephyrinus

27  St Joseph Calasanctius

28  ST AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO, PATRON SAINT OF THE ORCC

29  The Beheading of St John the Baptist

30  St Rose of Lima

31  St Raymond Nonnatus

 

SEPTEMBER

1    St Giles / The Twelve Holy Brothers

2    St Stephen, King of Hungary

3    St Pius X

4    Feria

5    St Lawrence Justinian

6    Feria

7    Feria

8    The Nativity of the BVM - episcopal consecration of Bp John O Finney, 2021

9    St Gorgonius of Nicomedia

10  St Nicholas of Tolentino

11  Sts Protus & Hyacinthus

12  The Most Holy Name of Mary - episcopal consecration Bp George Odhiamba, 2009

13  Feria

14  The Exaltation of the Holy Cross

15  The Seven Sorrows of the BVM

16  Sts Cornelius & Cyprian

17  The Sacred Stigmata of St Francis of Assisi

18  St Joseph of Cupertino

19  St Januarius & Companions

20  St Eustachius & Companions

21  St Matthew the Apostle and Evangelist

22  St Thomas of Villanova

23  St Linus

24  Our Lady of Ransom

25  Feria

26  Sts Cyprian & Justina

27  Sts Cosmas & Damian

28  St Wenceslaus, Duke of Bohemia

29  St Michael and all Angels - episcopal consecration of Bp Simonpeter Nnolumfu, 2010

30  St Jerome

 

OCTOBER

1    St Remigius of Rheims

2    The Holy Guardian Angels

3    St Teresa (Lisieux) of the Child Jesus

4    BESTOWAL OF THE AMERICAN EPISCOPATE / St Francis 

5    Sts Placidius & Companions

6    St Bruno

7    The Most Holy Rosary of the BVM

8    St Bridget of Sweden

9    St John Leonardi / St Denis & Companions

10  St Francis Borgia

11  The Maternity of the BVM

12  Feria

13  St Edward the Confessor, King of England

14  St Callistus

15  St Teresa of Avila -episcopal consecration of Bishop I Nicholas Plant, 2011

16  St Hedwig

17  FOUNDING OF THE NAORCC / St Margaret Mary Alacoque

18  St Luke the Evangelist

19  St Peter of Alcantara

20  St John Cantius

21  St Hilarion

22  Feria

23  St Anthony Mary Claret

24  St Raphael the Archangel

25  Sts Chrysanthus & Dara

26  St Evaristus

27  The Vigil of Sts Simon & Jude

28  Sts Simon & Jude the Apostles

29  Feria (commemoration of the Confessors of Port Royal, 1709)

30  Feria

31  The Vigil of All Saints

       Last Sunday in October – The Feast of Christ the King

 

NOVEMBER

1    ALL SAINTS

2    All Souls

3    ALL ULTRAJECTINE LUMINARIES & NOTABLES

4    St Charles Borromeo / Sts Vitalis & Agricola (commemoration of Antoine LeMaistre,            1658)

5    The Feast of the Holy Relics

6    The Vigil of St Willibrord

7    THE ARRIVAL OF THE ORCC IN AMERICA / ST WILLIBRORD

8    The Four Holy Crowned Martyrs

9    Dedication of the Archbasilica of Our Savior

10  St Andrew Avellino

11  St Martin of Tours

12  St Martin I

13  St Didacus (Diego)

14  St Josaphat  (commemoration of Antoine Le Maistre, 1658)

15  St Albertus Magnus

16  St Gertrude (commemoration of Pierre Nicole, 1695)

17  St Gregory Thaumaturgus (RIP-Abp Rudolphe de Landas Berghes- 1st Primate,

       1920)

18  The Dedication of the Basilicas of Sts Peter & Paul

19  St Elizabeth, Queen of Hungary

20  St Felix of Valois

21  The Presentation of the BVM

22  St Cecilia

23  St Clement

24  St John of the Cross

25  St Catherine of Alexandria

26  St Sylvester

27  Feria

28  Feria

29  The Vigil of St Andrew / St Saturninus

30  St Andrew the Apostle

 

DECEMBER

1    Feria

2    BL JOHN VAN RUYSBROECK / St Bibiana

3    St Francis Xavier

4    St Peter Chrysologus

5    St Sabbas

6    St Nicholas

7    St Ambrose

8    THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF THE BVM

9    Feria

10  St Melchiades 

11  St Damasus

12  Feria (RIP-Abp Arnold Harris Mathew, 1919)

13  St Lucy of Syracuse

14  Feria

15  Feria

16  St Eusebius of Vercelli

17  Feria [O Sapientia]

18  Feria [O Adonai]

19  Feria [O Radix Jesse]

20  Vigil of St Thomas [O Clavis David]

21  St Thomas the Apostle [O Oriens]

22  Feria [O Rex Gentium]

23  Feria [O Emmanuel]

24  The Vigil of the Nativity [O Virgo Virginum]

25  THE SOLEMN NATIVITY OF OUR LORD

26  St Stephen, Proto-Martyr

27  St John the Apostle and Evangelist

28  The Holy Innocents

29  THE PRESERVATION OF THE CHURCH / St Thomas, Canterbury

30  Feria

31  St Sylvester I