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Aug 27, 2016 · May 29: Saint Paul VI, Pope—Optional Memorial. May 30: All Saints for Today. The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ—Solemnity. Thursday after Holy Trinity or, where this is not a holy day of obligation, on the following Sunday. In the United States it is always transferred to the Sunday after the Most Holy Trinity.
29 St. Peter and St. Paul. 30 First Martyrs of the Church of Rome. July. 1 Blessed Junipero Serra. 3 St. Thomas. 4 St. Elizabeth of Portugal. 5 St. Anthony Zaccaria.
Apr 29, 2021 · St Stephen, First Martyr – Feast Day – December 26 2024. Saint of the Day for December 26 2024. Saint of the Day for December 25 2024. Christmas (Nativity of the Lord) – Feast Day – December 25 2024. Saint of the Day for December 24 2024. Saint of the Day for December 23 2024. St John of Kanty (Cantius) – Feast Day – December 23 2024.
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A solemnity holds the highest rank among Church celebrations and there are 24 days so marked on the annual liturgical calendar. It is a day that recalls and glorifies an important event in the life of Jesus and the most significant mysteries of the Catholic Christian faith: Christmas, Epiphany, Easter (the Easter Octaves including Divine Mercy Sund...
Celebrations identified on the Church calendar as a feast typically honor a special saint, such as one of the apostles. Other saints assigned a specific feast day include Sts. Simon and Jude, St. Stephen, the Holy Angels. Important events in Christian history are likewise identified as feasts: the Baptism of the Lord, the Conversion of St. Paul, th...
The third category of celebrations and those most representative of what we call “feast days” are properly known as memorials. Memorials are identified as either obligatory, those that must be celebrated universally on an assigned day, or optional, meaning it is up to the celebrant as to whether that particular saint is celebrated. All memorials ar...
If we look carefully at the Church liturgical calendar, there are some days that have no celebration assigned; no solemnity, no feast, no memorial. Such days are known as a “ferial” days, from a Latin word meaning free. In ancient Rome the term referred to a holiday, especially for slaves. On the liturgical calendar, a ferial day is always on a wee...
The documents of the Second Vatican Council reflect on the importance of Sunday: “The Lord’s Day is the original feast day.… Other celebrations, unless they be truly of greatest importance shall not take precedence over the Sunday which is the foundation and kernel of the whole liturgical year” (Sacrosanctum Concilium, No. 106).
All Christians are called to be saints. Saints are persons in heaven (officially canonized or not), who lived heroically virtuous lives, offered their life for others, or were martyred for the faith, and who are worthy of imitation. In official Church procedures there are three steps to sainthood: a candidate becomes "Venerable," then "Blessed ...
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Saints are the heroes of the Catholic faith. They lived lives in holiness, dedicated to serving God and spreading His message of salvation. Indeed, many Catholic saints courageously met their deaths simply because of their faith. Today, the saints serve as examples for all Catholics, showing us how to lead a more satisfying, more spiritual life ...
