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LITURGICAL DAYS

The Church attempts to live out the mystery of Christ and salvation history

within the year. As such it designates specific days of the year to celebrate the

chief events of this mystery. Additionally the Church commemorates the lives of

great saints by designating certain days of the year to remember them. These days

are both an act of remembrance, as well as a way to instruct the faithful by making

the calendar reflect the life of Christ.

These days of commemoration and instruction have been classified according to

their importance. They are called, in order of precedence: solemnities, feasts, and

memorials.

SOLEMNITIES: Solemnities are the great events of the Church, but they must

not be confused with holy days of obligation. For example the solemnities of St.Joseph the Husband of Mary, and Saints Peter and Paul are indeed solemnities but

not holy days. The general calendar is the calendar used for the majority of the

Roman Rite.

There are 24 solemnities in the general calendar. Certain religious orders, such as

Dominicans and Carmelites have a slightly different list of solemnities.

Solemnities begin with evening prayer (Vespers) the night before, unlike other

liturgical days, which begin at midnight. For that reason the evening prayer before

a solemnity is called evening prayer I, while that celebrated on the solemnity itself

is called evening prayer II. Some solemnities have their own vigil masses, whichare celebrated after evening prayer I. Every day in the Octave of Easter is a

solemnity. Some solemnities have a fixed date on which they are celebrated, such

as Christmas, which is always the 25th of December. Other solemnities are

moveable, such as Easter, which is based on the Vernal Equinox. Solemnities

usually take precedence over weekdays in the liturgy and in most cases over

Sunday. If a solemnity takes precedence over the day it lands on, the readings and

prayers are for the solemnity and not for that day. For instance, this year the

solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary falls on the Wednesday

after the 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Therefore, on that day the readings and

prayers will be for the Assumption rather than for the Wednesday after the 19th

Sunday in Ordinary Time in the liturgical calendar.

FEASTS: Down one step from solemnities are feasts. Feasts are celebrated within

the normal liturgical day of midnight to midnight. There are 25 feasts listed in the

general calendar. All feasts, except Holy Family, are fixed in date. Like



solemnities, feasts sometimes take precedence over the liturgy for the day they fall

on. Not all feasts are of equal stature. The "feasts of the Lord" take precedence

over Sundays of Christmas and Ordinary Time, but the feasts of the Blessed Virgin

Mary do not. All feasts take precedence over all weekdays except Ash Wednesday;

Weekdays of Holy Week (including the Triduum) and days within the octave of

Easter.

MEMORIALS: Lower in importance than solemnities and feasts are memorials.

There are 159 memorials listed in the general calendar, and six more that are

celebrated only in the dioceses of the United States. Many of the days dedicated in

memory of a saint are memorials. All memorials are fixed in date. Memorials can

be either obligatory or optional. Of the 165 memorials celebrated in the US, 71 are

listed as obligatory and 94 are listed as optional. As the name implies, the celebrant

may choose to use the prayers for an optional memorial or not.

Many of the memorials, both optional and obligatory, have specific written prayers

for each individual saint or other occasion for use at Mass. These prayers are

known as the "proper" for the occasion. Some saints do not have specific prayers.

There are generic prayers written for each category of saint being honored in a

memorial. These generic prayers are known as the "common" for the occasion.

Those such honored will usually fall into the category of: Saint, pope, bishop,

priest, religious, virgin, or martyr. For instance St. Blase, which is an optional

memorial, is both a bishop and a martyr. Therefore the readings can be either from

the common for bishops or the common for martyrs.

The liturgical celebrations of solemnities, feasts, and memorials enhance the

richness of the Church's calendar. These enhancements turn the calendar into a

living history lesson of the life of Christ and his Church.

DATE SOLEMNITIES FEASTS MEMORIALSOPTIONAL

MEMORIALS

January 1Mary Mother of God (1) Holy Day

of Obligation

January 2

SS. Basil the Great

and Gregory Nazianzen, bishops

and doctors

January 4St. Elizabeth Ann

Seton*

January 5 St. John Neumann



bishop*

January 6 Bl Andre Bessette

Movable.

Closest Sundayto January 6

Epiphany of the

Lord† (2)

January 7St. Raymond of

Penyafort, priest

January 9

Jesus Nazareno –

Black Nazarene(Quiapo, in the

Philippines)

Movable.

Sunday after Jan6

Baptism of the

Lord

January 13 St. Hilary, bishopand doctor

January 17 St. Anthony, abbot

January 20

St. Fabian, pope and

martyr; Sebastian,martyr

January 21St. Agnes, virgin,

martyr

Movable date.3rd Sunday

Sto. Nino (in thePhilippines)

January 22 St. Vincent, deaconand martyr

January 24St. Francis de Sales,

bishop and doctor

January 25The Conversionof St. Paul

January 26SS. Timothy and

Titus, bishops,

January 27Angela Merici,virgin

January 28

St. Thomas

Aquinas, priest and

doctor

January 31St. John Bosco, priest,

February 2Presentation of

the Lord



February 3

St. Blase, bishop and

martyr; Ansgar,

bishop

February 5St. Agatha, virginand martyr

February 6

St. Paul Miki and

companions,

martyrs

February 8 St. Jerome Emiliani

February 10St. Scholastica,

virgin

February 11 Our Lady of Lourdes

February 14SS. Cyril, monk and

Methodius, bishop

February 17Seven Founders of the Orders of

Servites

February 21St. Peter Damian,

bishop and doctor

February 22The Chair of St.

Peter apostle

February 23St. Polycarp, bishop

and martyr

March 4 St. Casimir

March 7SS. Perpetua andFelicity, martyrs

March 8St. John of God,

religious

March 9St. Frances of Rome,religious

March 17 St. Patrick, bishop

March 18

St. Cyril of

Jerusalem, bishop

and doctor

March 19St. Joseph husbandof Mary (3)

March 23St. Turibius de

Mongrovejo, bishop

March 25The Annunciation(4)



Movable. First

Sunday after the

first full moonafter the vernal

equinox.

Easter Sunday (5)

Movable. Easter Sunday to 2ndSunday of

Easter inclusive

Octave of Easter (6)

April 2St. Francis of Paola,

hermit

April 4St. Isadore, bishopand doctor

April 5St. Vincent Ferrer,

priest

April 7St.John Baptist de laSalle, priest

April 11St. Stanislaus,

bishop and martyr

April 13St. Martin I, pope

and martyr

April 21St. Anselm, bishopand doctor

April 19Divine Mercy

(Philippines)

April 23 St. George, martyr

April 24St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen, priest

and martyr

April 25St. Mark

Evangelist

April 28St. Peter Chanel, priest and martyr

April 29

St. Catherine of

Siena, virgin anddoctor

April 30 St. Pius V, pope

May 1St. Joseph the

Worker

May 2St. Athanasius,

bishop and doctor



May 3

SS. Philip and

James the

Apostles

May 12SS. Nereus andAchilleus, martyrs;

Pancras, martyr

May 14St. Matthias

Apostle

May 15 St. Isidore*

May 18St. John I, pope and

martyr

May 20St. Bernadine of

Siena, priest

May 25

Venerable Bede,

priest and doctor;St. Gregory VII,

pope:Mary Magdalene de

Pazzi, virgin

May 26St. Philip Neri,

priest

May 27St. Augustine of Canterbury, bishop

May 31The Visitation of

the BVM

Movable. Fortydays after Easter

Ascension of the

Lord† (7) Holy Dayof Obligation

Movable. Nine

days after

Ascension.

Pentecost (8)

Movable. First

Sunday after

Pentecost.

The Holy Trinity (9)

Movable.Thursday after

Holy Trinity.

Corpus Christi† (10)

Movable. Friday

followingsecond Sunday

after Pentecost.

Sacred Heart of Jesus (11)

Movable. Immaculate Heart of



Saturday

following

second Sundayafter Pentecost.

Mary

June 1 St. Justin, martyr

June 2SS. Marcellinus and

Peter, martyrs

June 3St. Charles Lwangaand companions,

martyrs

June 5St. Boniface, bishop

and martyr

June 6 St. Norbert, bishop

June 9St. Ephrem, deacon

and doctor

June 11St. Barnabas,

apostle

June 12Immaculate Heart

of the BVM

June 13

St. Anthony of

Padua, priest and

doctor

June 19 St. Romuald, abbot

June 21

St. Aloysius

Gonzaga, religious

June 22

St. Paulinus of Nola,

bishop; St. John

Fisher, bishop andmartyr; St. Thomas

More, martyr

June 24Birth of John the

Baptist (12)

June 27St. Cyril of Alexandria, bishop

and doctor

June 28St. Irenaeus, bishop

and martyr

June 29SS. Peter and Paul,

apostles (13)

June 30First Martyrs of the

Church of Rome



July 3St. Thomas,

Apostle

July 4St. Elizabeth of

Portugal

July 5St. Anthony

Zaccaria, priest

July 6St. Maria Goretti,

virgin and martyr

July 11 St. Benedict, abbot

July 13 St. Henry

July 14Blessed KatyeriTakakwitha, virgin*

July 15St. Bonaventure,

bishop and doctor

July 16Our Lady of MountCarmel

July 18St. Camillus de

Lellis, priest††

July 21

St. Lawrence of

Brindisi, priest anddoctor

July 22 St. Mary Magdalene

July 23 St. Bridget, religious

July 25 St. James theApostle

July 26SS. Joachim andAnne, parents of

Mary

July 29 St. Martha

July 30

St. Peter

Chrysologus, bishopand doctor

July 31St. Ignatius of

Loyola, priest

August 1St. AlphonsisLiguori, bishop and

doctor

August 2St. Eusebius of

Vercelli, bishop

August 4 St. John Mary



Vianney, priest

August 5Dedication of Saint

Mary Major

August 6TheTransfiguration

August 7

St. Sixtus II, pope

and martyr and

companions,martyrs; St. Cajetan,

priest

August 8 St. Dominic, priest

August 10

St. Lawrence,

deacon andmartyr

August 11 St. Clare, virgin

August 13

SS. Pontian, pope

and martyr, and

Hippolytus, priestand martyr

August 14

St. Maximilian

Kolbe, priest,

martyr

August 15The Assumption of the BVM (14) Holy

Day of Obligation

August 16St. Stephen of

Hungary

August 19St. John Eudes,

priest

August 20St. Bernard, abbot

and doctor

August 21 St. Pius X, pope

August 22Queenship of theBVM

August 23 St. Rose of Lima,virgin

August 24St. Bartholomew,apostle

August 25St. Louis; St. Joseph

Calasanz, priest

August 27 St. Monica



August 28St. Augustine,

bishop and doctor

August 29Martyrdom of St.

John the Baptist

September 3

St. Gregory the

Great, pope and

doctor

September 8The Birth of theBVM

September 9St. Peter Claver,

priest*

September 13

St. John

Chrysostom, bishopand doctor

September 14 Triumph of theHoly Cross

September 15Our Lady of

Sorrows

September 16

SS. Cornelius, popeand martyr, and

Cyprian, bishop and

martyr

September 17St. RobertBellarmine, bishop

and doctor

September 19St. Januarius, bishop

and martyr

September 20

St. Andrew Kim

Taegon, St. Paul

Chong Hasang and

companions

September 21

St. Matthew,

apostle and

evangelist

September 26 SS. Cosmas andDamian, martyrs

September 27St. Vincent de Paul,

priest

September 28

St. Wenceslaus,

martyr ,St. Lorenzo Ruiz

(Philippines)



September 29

SS. Michael,

Gabriel, and

Raphael,archangels

September 30

St. Jerome, priest

and doctor

October 1

St. Theresa of the

Child Jesus, virgin,doctor

October 2The Guardian

Angels

October 4 St. Francis of Assisi

October 6 St. Bruno, priest

October 7Our Lady of the

Rosary

October 9

St. Denis, bishop and

martyr, and

companions,martyrs;

St. John Leonardi,

priest

October 14St. Callistus I, popeand martyr

October 15

St. Teresa of Jesus

(Avila), virgin and

doctor

October 16

St. Hedwig,religious;

St. Margaret Mary

Alacoque, virgin

October 17St. Ignatius of Antioch, bishop and

martyr

October 18St. Luke

Evangelist

Oct 19

SS. Isaac Jogues

and John de

Brebeuf, priests and

martyrs and their companions,

martyrs*

St. Paul of the Cross,

priest

October 23 St. John of



Capistrano, priest

October 24St. Anthony Claret,

bishop

October 28SS. Simon andJude, apostles

November 1All Saints (15) Holy

Day of Obligation

November 2 All Souls**(16)

November 3St. Martin de Porres,

religious

November 4St. CharlesBorromeo, bishop

November 9

The Dedication

of the Lateran

Basilica in Rome

November 10St. Leo the Great,

pope and doctor

November 11St. Martin of Tours,

bishop

November 12St. Josaphat, bishopand martyr

November 13St. Frances Xavier

Cabrini, virgin*

November 15St. Albert the Great,

bishop and doctor

November 16

St.Margaret of

Scotland; St

Gertrude, virgin

November 17St. Elizabeth of Hungary, religious

November 18

Dedication of the

churches of SS.

Peter and Paul,apostles

November 21The Presentation of

the BVM

November 22St. Cecilia, virgin

and martyr

November 23St. Clement I, popeand martyr; St

Columban, abbot



November 24

St. Andrew Dung-

Lac, priest and

martyr and hiscompanions,

martyrs

Movable. LastSunday inOrdinary Time.

Christ the King (17)

November 30St. Andrew the

Apostle

December 3St. Francis Xavier,

priest

December 4St. John Damascene,

priest and doctor

December 6 St. Nicholas, bishop

December 7St. Ambrose, bishop

and doctor

December 8

The ImmaculateConception of the

BVM (18) Holy Day

of Obligation

December 11 St. Damascus I, pope

December 12Our Lady of Guadalupe*

St. Jane Frances deChantel, religious

December 13 St. Lucy, virgin andmartyr

December 14St. John of theCross, priest and

doctor

December 21St. Peter Canisius,

priest and doctor

December 23St. John of Kanty, priest

December 25

Nativity of the Lord

(Christmas) (19)Holy Day of Obligation

December 26St. Stephen, first

martyr

December 27St. John Apostle

and Evangelist



December 28Holy Innocents

martyrs

December 29St. Thomas Becket,

bishop and martyr

Movable.

Sunday within

the Octave of

Christmas or if there is no

Sunday within

the Octave,December 30th.

Holy Family

December 31 St. Sylvester I, pope

†Celebrated on the closest Sunday.

*Proper to Dioceses of the United States of America††Celebrated on July 14 in the Universal Calendar

**All Souls day has the precedence of a solemnity but is not categorized as are other Liturgical

Days

Published by The Minnesota St. Thomas More Chapter of Catholics United for the Faith, August 2001.

POPULAR FILIPINO LITURGICAL ACTIVITIES

ADVENT

- Advent Wreath (4 Sunday Masses)

- Immaculate Conception

- Christmas Decors (Lantern, Christmas Tree, Belen)

- Christmas Carols/Party

- Simbang Gabi (Misa de Gallo)

- Panunuluyan

CHRISTMAS



- Christmas Mass

- Nuche Buena

- Christmas Party

- Gift Giving

- New Year Mass (Mary Mother of God)

- Epiphany Sunday Mass

ORDINARY I

- Sunday Masses

- Black Nazarene

- Sto. Nino

LENT

- Ash Wednesday Mass

- Sunday Masses

- Prayer, Fasting, Abstinence, Almsgiving

- Palm Sunday Mass

- Pabasa/Pasyon

TRIDUUM

- Kumpisalang Bayan

- Bisita Iglesia

- Station of the Cross

- 7 Last Words

- Easter Vigil Mass

- Easter Sunday Mass



- Salubong

EASTER

- Octave of Easter

- Sunday Masses

- Flores de Mayo

- Sta. Cruzan

ORDINARY II

- Sunday Masses

- Rosary Month

- All Saints Day (Undas)

- Christ the King

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