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The General Roman Calendar, printed, for instance, in the Roman Missal, assigns feasts of saints to only about half the days of the year. It contains only a relatively very few of the saints recognized by the Roman Catholic Church, whose official list of saints is the 776-page volume Roman Martyrology (although not all saints appear in the Martyrology). This assigns several saints to each day of the year and gives a very brief description of each saint or group of saints.

As well as the General Roman Calendar, there are national and diocesan calendars, as well as calendars of religious congregations and even of continents. These add other saints, or transfer the celebration of a particular saint to another date.

"Feria" is a Latin word that, in ecclesiastical usage, means "weekday", and refers to a day which is not a Sunday and not a Feast, for example, Tuesday in the Third Week of Ordinary Time. ("Ferial" is an adjective formed from "feria" and is used in connection with a noun, as in the phrase "ferial Mass".) "Memorial", "Feast" and "Solemnity" refer to degrees of celebration of a saint: among other differences, the Gloria is said or sung at a Feast, but not normally at a Memorial, and the Creed is added on Solemnities.

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General Roman Calendar

As already stated, the saints celebrated in one country are not necessarily celebrated everywhere. The General Roman Calendar contains only those celebrations that are intended to be observed throughout the world, in application of the decision of the Second Vatican Council: "Lest the feasts of the saints should take precedence over the feasts which commemorate the very mysteries of salvation, many of them should be left to be celebrated by a particular Church or nation or family of religious; only those should be extended to the universal Church which commemorate saints who are truly of universal importance."[Sacrosanctum Concilium, 111].

Variations from the following list of celebrations should be indicated not here but, below, under the heading "National Calendars".

January (General Calendar)

February (General Calendar)

March (General Calendar)

April (General Calendar)

May (General Calendar)

June (General Calendar)

July (General Calendar)

August (General Calendar)

September (General Calendar)

October (General Calendar)

November (General Calendar)

December (General Calendar)

National Calendars

Only variations from the General Roman Calendar for celebrations according to the Roman Rite are given here. Eastern Rite Catholic Churches have completely different liturgical calendars.

The calendars for England, Greece, and Wales are complete and up to date. Others require attention.

  • January 4: St. Elizabeth Seton (Archdiocese of Halifax) - Memorial
  • January 6: Bl. Andre Bessette - Optional Memorial
  • January 12: St. Margaret Bourgeoys - Memorial
  • March 19: St. Joseph, Patron of Canada - Solemnity
  • April 18: Bl. Marie-Anne Blodin - Optional Memorial
  • April 26: Our Lady of Good Counsel (Catholic Womens League) - Optional Memorial
  • April 30: Bl. Marie of the Incarnation - Optional Memorial
  • May 4: Bl. Marie-Leonie Paradis - Optional Memorial
  • May 6: Bl. Francois de Laval - Optional Memorial
  • May 8: Bl. catherine of Saint Augustine - Optional Memorial
  • May 21: St. Eugene de Mazenod - Optional Memorial
  • May 24: Bl. Louis-Zephirin Moreau - Optional Memorial
  • July 14: Bl. Kateri Tekakwitha - Optional Memorial
  • July 26: St. Anne and St. Joachim, parents of Mary - Feast
  • August 5: Bl. Frederic Janssoone - Optional Memorial
  • September 4: Bl. Dina Belanger - Optional Memorial
  • September 23: Bl. Emilie Tavernier-Gamelin - Optional Memorial
  • September 26: Sts. John de Brebeuf, Isaac Jogues & Comp. - Feast
  • October 6: Bl. Marie-Rose Durocher - Optional Memorial
  • October 16: St. Marie-Marguerite d'Youville - Memorial
  • December 12: Our Lady of Guadalupe - Feast

 

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