Liturgical Calendar for 2014.pdf

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Liturgical Calendar for 2 14

Adoration of the Magi painted (Epiphany) by Albrecht Drer

January

The Holy Name of Jesus (feast of the Holy Name, second Sunday after Epiphany); indulgences, onehundred days each day if the devotion is made privately, three hundred days each day, if the devotion be ina public church or chapel, plenary indulgence for daily assistance at the public functions, under the usualconditions (Leo XIII, "Brief", 21 Dec., 1901; "Acta S. Sedis", XXXIV, 425).

January 2014

Wed 1 Mary, Mother of GodSolemnity

Thu 2Saints Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops, Doctors

Psalmweek 1

Fri 3 3 January or The Most Holy Name of Jesus

Sat 4 4 January

Sun 52nd Sunday of Christmas

Psalmweek 2

Mon 6 The Epiphany of the LordSolemnityTue 7 7 January or Saint Raymond of Penyafort, Priest

Wed 8 8 January

Thu 9 9 January

Fri 10 10 January

Sat 11 11 January

Sun 12 The Baptism of the LordFeast

Mon 13 Monday of week 1 of the year or Saint Hilary, Bishop, Doctor Psalmweek 1

Tue 14

Wed 15

Thu 16

Fri 17 Saint Antony, Abbot

Sat 18 Saturday of week 1 of the year or Saturday memorial of the Blessed Virgin MarySun 19

2nd Sunday of the yearPsalmweek 2

Mon 20 Monday of week 2 of the year or Saint Fabian, Pope, Martyr or Saint Sebastian,Martyr

Tue 21 Saint Agnes, Virgin, Martyr

Wed 22 Wednesday of week 2 of the year or Saint Vincent, Deacon, Martyr

Thu 23

Fri 24 Saint Francis de Sales, Bishop, Doctor

Sat 25 The Conversion of Saint Paul, ApostleFeast

Sun 263rd Sunday of the year

Psalmweek 3

Mon 27 Monday of week 3 of the year or Saint Angela Merici, Virgin

Tue 28 Saint Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Doctor

Wed 29

Thu 30

Fri 31 Saint John Bosco, Priest


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Presentation in the Temple painted by Jan van Scorel

According to the Mosaic law a mother who had given birth to a man-child was considered unclean for sevendays; moreover she was to remain three and thirty days "in the blood of her purification"; for a maid-child thetime which excluded the mother from sanctuary was even doubled. When the time (forty or eighty days) wasover the mother was to "bring to the temple a lamb for a holocaust and a young pigeon or turtle dove for sin";if she was not able to offer a lamb, she was to take two turtle doves or two pigeons; the priest prayed for herand so she was cleansed. (Leviticus 12:2-8)

February 2014

Sat 1 Saturday of week 3 of the year or Saturday memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Sun 2 The Presentation of the LordFeast

Mon 3 Monday of week 4 of the year or Saint Ansgar (Oscar), Bishop or Saint Blaise,Bishop, Martyr

Psalmweek 4

Tue 4

Wed 5 Saint Agatha, Virgin, Martyr

Thu 6 Saints Paul Miki and his Companions, Martyrs

Fri 7Sat 8 Saturday of week 4 of the year or Saint Jerome Emilian or Saint Josephine

Bakhita, Virgin or Saturday memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Sun 95th Sunday of the year Psalm

week 1

Mon 10 Saint Scholastica, Virgin

Tue 11 Tuesday of week 5 of the year or Our Lady of Lourdes

Wed 12

Thu 13

Fri 14 Saints Cyril, monk, and Methodius, Bishop


Sun 166th Sunday of the year

Psalmweek 2

Mon 17 Monday of week 6 of the year or The Seven Holy Founders of the Servite Order

Tue 18

Wed 19

Thu 20

Fri 21 Friday of week 6 of the year or Saint Peter Damian, Bishop, Doctor

Sat 22 Saint Peter's ChairFeast


Psalmweek 3

Mon 24 Monday of week 7 of the year

Tue 25

Wed 26

Thu 27

Fri 28

Forty days after the birth of Christ Mary complied with this precept of the law, she redeemed her first-bornfrom the temple (Numbers 18:15), and was purified by theprayer ofSimeon the just,in the presence of Annathe prophetess (Luke 2:22). No doubt this event, the first solemn introduction of Christ into the house of God,was in the earliest times celebrated in the Church of Jerusalem. We find it attested for the first half of thefourth century by the pilgrim of Bordeaux, Egeria or Silvia. The day (14 February) was solemnly kept by aprocession to the Constantinian basilica of the Resurrection, a homily on Luke 2:22., and the Holy Sacrifice.But the feast then had no proper name; it was simply called the fortieth day after Epiphany. This lattercircumstance proves that in Jerusalem Epiphany was then the feast of Christ's birth.
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Annunciation painted by Vittore Carpaccio

March

St. Joseph (feast, 19 March); indulgences, three hundred days daily for those who privately or publiclyperform same pious practice in honour of St. Joseph, during the month, a plenary indulgence on any day of

the month under the usual conditions (Pius IX, "Rescript Congr. Indulg.", 27 April, 1865). This month ofdevotions may commence in February and be concluded 19 March (Pius IX, 18 July, 1877). March can bereplaced by another month in case of legitimate impediment (Raccolta, 404). The practice of a triduumbefore the feast of St. Joseph has been recommended by Leo XIII (Encycl. "Quamquam pluries", 15 August,1889).

March 2014



Psalmweek 4


Tue 4 Tuesday of week 8 of the year or Saint Casimir

Wed 5 Ash Wednesday

Thu 6

Fri 7 Friday after Ash Wednesday (commemoration of Saints Perpetua and Felicity ,Martyrs)

Sat 8 Saturday after Ash Wednesday (commemoration of Saint John of God, Religious)

Sun 91st Sunday of Lent Psalm

week 1

Mon 10 Monday of the 1st week of Lent

Tue 11

Wed 12

Thu 13

Fri 14

Sat 15

Sun 162nd Sunday of Lent

Psalmweek 2

Mon 17 Monday of the 2nd week of Lent (commemoration of Saint Patrick, Bishop,Missionary)

Tue 18 Tuesday of the 2nd week of Lent (commemoration of Saint Cyril of Jerusalem,Bishop, Doctor)

Wed 19 Saint Joseph, husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary Solemnity

Thu 20

Fri 21

Sat 22

Sun 233rd Sunday of Lent Psalm

week 3

Mon 24 Monday of the 3rd week of Lent

Tue 25 The Annunciation of the LordSolemnity

Wed 26

Thu 27

Fri 28Sat 29

Sun 304th Sunday of Lent

Psalmweek 4

Mon 31 Monday of the 4th week of Lent


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Resurrection of Christ and Women at the Tomb painted by FraANGELICO, .

The main sources which directly attest the fact of Christ's Resurrection are the Four Gospels and theEpistles of St. Paul. Easter morning is so rich in incident, and so crowded with interested persons, that itscomplete history presents a rather complicated tableau. It is not surprising therefore, that the partial accountscontained in each of the Four Gospels appear at first sight hard to harmonize. But whatever exegetic view asto the visit to the sepulchre by the pious women and the appearance of the angels we may defend, wecannot deny the Evangelists' agreement as to the fact that the risen Christ appeared to one or more persons.According to St. Matthew, He appeared to the holy women, and again on a mountain inGalilee;according toSt. Mark, He was seen by Mary Magdalen, by the two disciples at Emmaus, and the Eleven before hisAscension into heaven; according to St. Luke, He walked with the disciples to Emmaus, appeared to Peterand to the assembled disciples in Jerusalem; according to St. John, Jesus appeared to Mary Magdalen, to

the ten Apostles on Easter Sunday, to the Eleven a week later, and to the seven disciples at the Sea ofTiberias. St. Paul (1 Corinthians 15:3-8) enumerates another series of apparitions of Jesus after HisResurrection; he was seen by Cephas, by the Eleven, by more than 500 brethren, many of whom were stillalive at the time of the Apostle's writing, by James, by all the Apostles, and lastly by Paul himself.

April 2014

Tue 1

Wed 2 Wednesday of the 4th week of Lent (commemoration of Saint Francis of Paola,hermit)

Thu 3

Fri 4 Friday of the 4th week of Lent (commemoration of Saint Isidore, Bishop, Doctor)

Sat 5 Saturday of the 4th week of Lent (commemoration of Saint Vincent Ferrer, Priest)

Sun 65th Sunday of Lent Psalm

week 1Mon 7 Monday of the 5th week of Lent (commemoration of Saint John Baptist de la Salle,

Priest)

Tue 8

Wed 9

Thu 10

Fri 11 Friday of the 5th week of Lent (commemoration of Saint Stanislaus, Bishop,Martyr)

Sat 12

Sun 13Palm Sunday

Psalmweek 2

Mon 14 Monday of Holy Week

Tue 15 Tuesday of Holy Week

Wed 16 Wednesday of Holy Week

Thu 17 Maundy Thursday

Fri 18 Good Friday

Sat 19 Holy Saturday

Sun 20 Easter Sunday

Mon 21 Easter Monday

Tue 22 Easter Tuesday

Wed 23 Easter Wednesday

Thu 24 Easter Thursday

Fri 25 Easter Friday

Sat 26 Easter Saturday

Sun 27 Divine Mercy Sunday (2nd Sunday of Easter)

Mon 28 Monday of the 2nd week of Eastertide or Saint Peter Chanel, Priest, Martyr orSaint Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort, Priest

Psalmweek 2

Tue 29 Saint Catherine of Siena, Virgin, Doctor

Wed 30 Wednesday of the 2nd week of Eastertideor Saint Pius V, Pope
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Ascension of Christby painted by Garofalo 1520

May: The Blessed Virgin Mary. The May devotion in its present form originated at Rome where FatherLatomia of the Roman College of the Society of Jesus, to counteract infidelity and immorality among thestudents, made a vow at the end of the eighteenth century to devote the month of May to Mary. From Romethe practice spread to the otherJesuit colleges and thence to nearly every Catholic church of the Latin rite(Albers, "Bluethenkranze", IV, 531 sq.). This practice is the oldest instance of a devotion extending over anentire month. Indulgences three hundred days each day, by assisting at a public function or performing thedevotion in private, plenary indulgence on any day of the month or on one of the first eight days of Juneunder the usual conditions (Pius VII, 21 March, 1815, for ten years; 18 June, 1822 in perpetuum).

May 2014

Thu 1 Thursday of the 2nd week of Eastertide or Saint Joseph the Worker

Fri 2 Saint Athanasius, Bishop, Doctor

Sat 3 Saints Philip and James, Apostles Feast

Sun 43rd Sunday of Easter

Psalmweek 3

Mon 5 Monday of the 3rd week of Eastertide

Tue 6

Wed 7Thu 8

Fri 9

Sat 10

Sun 114th Sunday of Easter

Psalmweek 4

Mon 12 Monday of the 4th week of Eastertide or Saints Nereus and Achilleus, Martyrs orSaint Pancras, Martyr

Tue 13 Tuesday of the 4th week of Eastertide or Our Lady of Ftima

Wed 14 Saint Matthias, ApostleFeast

Thu 15

Fri 16

Sat 17

Sun 18 5th Sunday of Easter Psalmweek 1

Mon 19 Monday of the 5th week of Eastertide

Tue 20 Tuesday of the 5th week of Eastertide or Saint Bernardine of Siena, Priest

Wed 21 Wednesday of the 5th week of Eastertide or Saint Christopher Magallanes and hisCompanions, Martyrs

Thu 22 Thursday of the 5th week of Eastertide or Saint Rita of Cascia

Fri 23

Sat 24


Psalmweek 2

Mon 26 Saint Philip Neri, Priest

Tue 27 Tuesday of the 6th week of Eastertide or Saint Augustine of Canterbury, Bishop

Wed 28

Thu 29 The Ascension of the LordSolemnity

Fri 30

Sat 31 The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin MaryFeast
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Pentecost painted by El Greco

June

The Sacred Heart. This devotion, long privately practised, was approved by Pius IX, 8 May, 1873 (Rescr.auth., n. 409), and urgently recommended by Leo XIII in a letter addressed by the Cardinal Prefect S.R.C. toall the bishops, 21 July, 1899. Indulgences: (a) seven years and seven quarantines each day for performingthe devotion publicly or privately; (b) if the devotion is practised daily in private, or if a person assists at leastten times at a public function, a plenary indulgence on any day in June or from 1 -8 July (Decr. Urbis et orbis,30 May, 1902); (c) the indulgence toties quotieson the thirtieth of June or the last Sunday of June (26 Jan.,

June 2014


Psalmweek 3

Mon 2 Monday of the 7th week of Eastertide or Saints Marcellinus and Peter, Martyrs

Tue 3 Saints Charles Lwanga and his Companions, Martyrs

Wed 4

Thu 5 Saint Boniface, Bishop, Martyr

Fri 6 Friday of the 7th week of Eastertide or Saint Norbert, Bishop

Sat 7Sun 8 Pentecost

Mon 9Monday of week 10 of the year or Saint Ephraem, Deacon, Doctor

Psalmweek 2

Tue 10

Wed 11 Saint Barnabas, Apostle, Martyr

Thu 12

Fri 13 Saint Antony of Padua, Priest, Doctor


Sun 15 The Most Holy TrinitySolemnity

Mon 16Monday of week 11 of the year

Psalmweek 3

Tue 17

Wed 18Thu 19 Corpus ChristiSolemnity

Fri 20

Sat 21 Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, Religious


week 4


Tue 24 The Birthday of Saint John the BaptistSolemnity

Wed 25

Thu 26

Fri 27 The Most Sacred Heart of JesusSolemnity

Sat 28 The Immaculate Heart of Mary

Sun 29Saints Peter and Paul, ApostlesSolemnity Psalm

week 1Mon 30 Monday of week 13 of the year or The First Martyrs of the See of Rome

1908) in those churches where the month of June is celebrated solemnly. Pius X (8 Aug., 1906) urged adaily sermon, or at least for eight days in the form of a mission (26 Jan., 1908); (d) to those priests, whopreach the sermons at the solemn functions in June in honour of the Sacred Heart and to the rectors of thechurches where these functions are held, the privilege of the Gregorian Altar on the thirtieth of June (Pius X,8 Aug., 1906); (e) plenary indulgence for each Communion in June and to those who promote the solemncelebration of the month of June ("Acta Pontificia", IV, 388, 8 Aug., 1906).


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Saint James Apostle painted by Rembrandt

July

The Precious Blood (feast of the Precious Blood; first Sunday of July). This devotion was propagated by Bl.Caspar Buffalo (d. at Rome, 28 Dec., 1837), founder of the Congregation of the Precious Blood of JesusChrist. Indulgences, for the public devotion: seven years and seven quarantines each day; plenaryindulgence on any day in July or 1-8 August, after having assisted eight times at a public function under the

July 2014

Tue 1

Wed 2

Thu 3 Saint Thomas, ApostleFeast

Fri 4 Friday of week 13 of the year or Saint Elizabeth of Portugal

Sat 5 Saturday of week 13 of the year or Saint Antony Mary Zaccaria, Priest orSaturday memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary


week 2Mon 7 Monday of week 14 of the year

Tue 8

Wed 9 Wednesday of week 14 of the year or Saint Augustine Zhao Rong and hisCompanions, Martyrs

Thu 10

Fri 11 Saint Benedict, Abbot



week 3

Mon 14 Monday of week 15 of the year or Saint Camillus of Lelli s, Priest

Tue 15 Saint Bonaventure, Bishop, Doctor

Wed 16 Wednesday of week 15 of the year or Our Lady of Mount Carmel

Thu 17

Fri 18



week 4

Mon 21 Monday of week 16 of the year or Saint Laurence of Brindisi, Priest, Doctor

Tue 22 Saint Mary Magdalen

Wed 23 Wednesday of week 16 of the year or Saint Bridget of Sweden, Religious

Thu 24 Thursday of week 16 of the year or Saint Charbel Makhlouf, Priest

Fri 25 Saint James, ApostleFeast

Sat 26 Saint Joachim and Saint Anne, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary


Psalmweek 1


Tue 29 Saint Martha

Wed 30 Wednesday of week 17 of the year or Saint Peter Chrysologus, Bishop, Doctor

Thu 31 Saint Ignatius Loyola, Priest

usual conditions; if the devotion be held privately three hundred days each day with plenary indulgence on31 July, or 1-8 of August (Pius IX, 4 June, 1850). For this practice any other month or any period of thirtydays during the year may be chosen (Raccolta, 178).


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Assunta (Assumption painted by Titian (151618).

Regarding the day, year, and manner of Our Lady's death, nothing certain is known. The earliest knownliterary reference to the Assumption is found in the Greek work De Obitu S. Dominae. Catholic faith,however, has always derived our knowledge of the mystery from Apostolic Tradition. Epiphanius (d. 403)acknowledged that he knew nothing definite about it (Haer., lxxix, 11). The dates assigned for it varybetween three and fifteen years after Christ's Ascension. Two cities claim to be the place of her departure:Jerusalem and Ephesus. Common consent favours Jerusalem, where her tomb is shown; but some argue infavour of Ephesus. The first six centuries did not know of the tomb of Mary at Jerusalem.

August 2014

Fri 1 Saint Alphonsus Mary de Liguori, Bishop, Doctor

Sat 2 Saturday of week 17 of the year or Saint Eusebius of Vercelli, Bishop or SaintPeter Julian Eymard or Saturday memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary


Psalmweek 2

Mon 4 Saint John Mary Vianney, Priest

Tue 5 Tuesday of week 18 of the year or Dedication of the Basilica of Saint Mary Major

Wed 6 The Transfiguration of the LordFeastThu 7 Thursday of week 18 of the year or Saints Sixtus II, Pope, and his Companions,Martyrs or Saint Cajetan, Priest

Fri 8 Saint Dominic, Priest

Sat 9 Saturday of week 18 of the year or Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (EdithStein), Virgin, Martyr or Saturday memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary


Psalmweek 3

Mon 11 Saint Clare, Virgin

Tue 12 Tuesday of week 19 of the year or Saint Jane Frances de Chantal, Religious

Wed 13 Wednesday of week 19 of the year or Saints Pontian, Pope, and Hippolytus ,Priest, Martyrs

Thu 14 Saint Maximilian Kolbe, Priest, Martyr

Fri 15 The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin MarySolemnity

Sat 16 Saturday of week 19 of the year or Saint Stephen of Hungary or Saturdaymemorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary


week 4


Tue 19 Tuesday of week 20 of the year or Saint John Eudes, Priest

Wed 20 Saint Bernard, Abbot, Doctor

Thu 21 Saint Pius X, Pope

Fri 22 Our Lady, Mother and Queen

Sat 23 Saturday of week 20 of the year or Saint Rose of Lima, Virgin or Saturdaymemorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Sun 2421st Sunday of the year Psalm

week 1

Mon 25 Monday of week 21 of the year or Saint Louis or Saint Joseph of Calasanz, Priest

Tue 26

Wed 27 Saint Monica

Thu 28 Saint Augustine, Bishop, Doctor

Fri 29 The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist


Sun 3122nd Sunday of the year

Psalmweek 2


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St. Michael Fighting the Devil painted by Agnolo Bronzino

September

The Seven Dolours of the Blessed Virgin Mary (feast of the Seven Dolours, third Sunday in September);indulgences, three hundred days each day and the devotions may be performed in public or private; plenaryindulgence on any day of September or 1-8 October under the usual conditions (Leo XIII, "Raccolta", 27Jan., 1888, 232).

Feast of the Archangels

This feast, like many others, was local before it was placed in the Roman calendar. It was not one of thefeasts retained in the Pian breviary, published in 1568; but among the earliest petitions from particularchurches to be allowed, as a supplement to this breviary, the canonical celebration of local feasts, was arequest from Cordova in 1579 for permission to have a feast in honour of the guardian angels. (Bumer,

"Histoire du Breviaire", II, 233.) Bumer, who makes this statement on the authority of original documentspublished by Dr. Schmid (in the "Tbinger Quartalschrift", 1884), adds on the same authority that "Toledosent to Rome a rich propriumand received the desired authorization for all the Offices contained in it,Valencia also obtained the approbation in February, 1582, for special Offices of the Blood of Christ and theGuardian Angels."

September 2014


Tue 2

Wed 3 Saint Gregory the Great, Pope, Doctor

Thu 4

Fri 5


Sun 723rd Sunday of the year

Psalm week

3Mon 8 The Birthday of the Blessed Virgin MaryFeast

Tue 9 Tuesday of week 23 of the year or Saint Peter Claver

Wed 10

Thu 11

Fri 12 Friday of week 23 of the year or The Most Holy Name of Mary

Sat 13 Saint John Chrysostom, Bishop, Doctor

Sun 14 The Exaltation of the Holy CrossFeast

Mon 15 Our Lady of Sorrows Psalm week4

Tue 16 Saints Cornelius, Pope, and Cyprian, Bishop, Martyrs

Wed 17 Wednesday of week 24 of the year or Saint Robert Bellarmine, Bishop, Doctor

Thu 18

Fri 19 Friday of week 24 of the year or Saint Januarius, Bishop, MartyrSat 20 Saints Andrew Kim Taegon, Priest, and Paul Chong Hasang, and their Companions,

Martyrs


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Tue 23 Saint Pio of Pietrelcina

Wed 24

Thu 25

Fri 26 Friday of week 25 of the year or Saints Cosmas and Damian, Martyrs

Sat 27 Saint Vincent de Paul, Priest


Psalm week2

Mon 29 Saints Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, ArchangelsFeast

Tue 30 Saint Jerome, Priest, Doctor


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Saint Thrse of the Child Jesus, Virgin, Doctor

October

The Holy Rosary (feast of the Holy Rosary, first Sunday in October). Leo XIII personally instituted thispractice in an Encyclical (1 Sept., 1883) in which he admonished the faithful to dedicate the month ofOctober to the Queen of the Holy Rosary in order to obtain through her intercession the grace that God mayconsole and defend His Church in her sufferings, and for nineteen years he published an encyclical on this

subject. By the decree of the Congregation of Rites (20 Aug., 1885; 26 Aug., 1886; 2 Sept., 1887) heordained that every year during the entire month of October, including the first and second of November, inevery cathedral and parochial church, and in all other churches and chapels which are dedicated to theBlessed Virgin Mary, five decades of the Rosary and the Litany of Loreto are to be recited, in the morningduring Mass or in the afternoon whilst the Blessed Sacrament is exposed, and by the encyclical letter of 15August, 1889, a prayer in honour of St. Joseph was added. Indulgences (S. C. Indulg., 23 July, 1898): (a)seven years and seven quarantines every day for the public or private recitation of five decades; (b) plenaryindulgence on the feast of the Holy Rosary or during the octave for those who during the entire octave recitedaily five decades and fulfil the other usual conditions; (c) plenary indulgence on any other day of the monthfor those who, after the octave of the feast, recite for at least ten days five decades ("Raccolta", 354; Albers,"Bluethenkrnze", III, 730 sq.). Also in October there are devotions in honour of St. Francis of Assisi (feast, 4

October 2014

Wed 1 Saint Thrse of the Child Jesus, Virgin, Doctor

Thu 2 The Holy Guardian Angels

Fri 3 Friday of week 26 of the year

Sat 4 Saint Francis of Assisi

Sun 5 27th Sunday of the year Psalm week 3

Mon 6 Monday of week 27 of the year or Saint Bruno, Priest

Tue 7 Our Lady of the Rosary

Wed 8

Thu 9 Thursday of week 27 of the year or Saints Denis, Bishop, and his Companions, Martyrsor Saint John Leonardi, Priest

Fri 10




Tue 14 Tuesday of week 28 of the year or Saint Callistus, Pope, Martyr

Wed 15 Saint Teresa of vila, Virgin, Doctor

Thu 16 Thursday of week 28 of the year or Saint Hedwig, Religious or Saint Margaret Mary

Alacoque, VirginFri 17 Saint Ignatius of Antioch, Bishop, Martyr

Sat 18 Saint Luke, EvangelistFeast



Tue 21

Wed 22

Thu 23 Thursday of week 29 of the year or Saint John of Capistrano, Priest

Fri 24 Friday of week 29 of the year or Saint Antony Mary Claret, Bishop




Tue 28 Saints Simon and Jude, ApostlesFeast

Wed 29

Thu 30

Fri 31

Oct.); indulgences, three hundred days each day by assisting at the public devotions in honour of St. Francisin a church or public oratory; plenary indulgence on the feast of St. Francis or during the octave (11 June,1883, for ten years; 29 Feb., 1904, in perpetuum; "Acta Minorum", 1904, 106). Any other month may beselected instead of October
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All Souls' Dayby William Bouguereau

The Holy Souls in Purgatory (2 Nov., Commem. of all the Faithful Departed); indulgences, seven years andseven quarantines each day; plenary indulgence on any day of month under the usual conditions (Leo XIII,17 Jan., 1888). Popular devotion has also selected other mysteries and has dedicated January to the HolyChildhood and the hidden life of Jesus according to the Gospel of the first Sunday after Epiphany; March, to

the Holy Family, on account of the feast of St. Joseph and the Annunciation (25 March); August, to theMaternal Heart of Mary (feast on the Sunday after twenty-second of August); October, to the Holy Angels(feast, 2 Oct.); December, to the Immaculate Conception (feast, 8 Dec.). or to the Holy Child in the stable atBethlehem (25 Dec.). These practices, however, are not formally approved by the Church, nor enriched withindulgences.

These devotions, of course, vary with conditions in different countries. Though there is a wide variety,constantly changing, the prayers more commonly used are the litanies of the Holy Name, Sacred Heart, St.Joseph, the Blessed Virgin, the indulgenced prayers of the Raccolta, the rosary of the Dominicans. For theMay and June devotions, a short sermon or instruction usually follows, with Benediction of the BlessedSacrament concluding the services.

November 2014

Sat 1 All SaintsSolemnity

Sun 2All Souls

Psalm week3

Mon 3 Monday of week 31 of the year or Saint Martin de Porres, Religious

Tue 4 Saint Charles Borromeo, Bishop

Wed 5

Thu 6

Fri 7Sat 8 Saturday of week 31 of the year or Saturday memorial of the Blessed Virgin

Mary

Sun 9Dedication of the Lateran BasilicaFeast Psalm week

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Mon 10 Saint Leo the Great, Pope, Doctor

Tue 11 Saint Martin of Tours, Bishop

Wed 12 Saint Josaphat, Bishop, Martyr

Thu 13 Thursday of week 32 of the year

Fri 14

Sat 15 Saturday of week 32 of the year or Saint Albert the Great, Bishop, Doctoror Saturday memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Sun 1633rd Sunday of the year Psalm week

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Mon 17 Saint Elizabe th of Hungary, ReligiousTue 18 Tuesday of week 33 of the year or Dedication of the Basilicas of Saints Peter

and Paul, Apostles

Wed 19

Thu 20

Fri 21 The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Sat 22 Saint Cecilia, Virgin, Martyr

Sun 23 Christ the King

Mon 24Saints Andrew Dng-Lcand his Companions, Martyrs

Psalm week2

Tue 25 Tuesday of week 34 of the year or Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Virgin, Martyr

Wed 26

Thu 27

Fri 28Sat 29 Saturday of week 34 of the year or Saturday memorial of the Blessed Virgin

Mary

Sun 301st Sunday of Advent Psalm week

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The Nativity painted by Franois BoucherThe earliest document commemorating this feast of the Nativity comes from the sixth century. St.Romanus,the great ecclesiastical lyrist of the Greek Church, composed for it a hymn (Card. Pitra, "Hymnogr. Graeca",Paris, 1876, 199) which is a poetical sketch of the apocryphal Gospel of St. James. St.Romanus was anative of Emesa in Syria, deacon of Berytus and later on at the Blachernae church in Constantinople, andcomposed his hymns between 536-556 (P. Maas in "Byzant. Zeitschrift", 1906). The feast may haveoriginated somewhere in Syria or Palestine in the beginning of the sixth century, when after the Council ofEphesus, under the influence of the "Apocrypha", the cult of the Mother of God was greatly intensified,especially in Syria. St. Andrew of Crete in the beginning of the eight century preached several sermons onthis feast (Lucius-Anrich, "Anfnge des Heiligenkultus", Tbingen, 1906, 468). Evidence is wanting to show

December 2014

Mon 1 Monday of the 1st week of Advent

Tue 2

Wed 3 Saint Francis Xavier, Priest

Thu 4 Thursday of the 1st week of Advent or Saint John Damascene, Priest, Doctor

Fri 5

Sat 6 Saturday of the 1st week of Adventor Saint Nicholas, Bishop

Sun 7 2nd Sunday of Advent Psalm week2

Mon 8 The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin MarySolemnity

Tue 9 Tuesday of the 2nd week of Advent or Saint Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin

Wed 10

Thu 11 Thursday of the 2nd week of Advent or Saint Damasus I, Pope

Fri 12 Friday of the 2nd week of Advent or Our Lady of Guadalupe

Sat 13 Saint Lucy, Virgin, Martyr

Sun 143rd Sunday of Advent

Psalm week3

Mon 15 Monday of the 3rd week of Advent

Tue 16

Wed 17 17 December

Thu 18 18 DecemberFri 19 19 December

Sat 20 20 December

Sun 214th Sunday of Advent

Psalm week4

Mon 22 22 December

Tue 23 23 December (commemoration of Saint John of Kty, Priest)

Wed 24 24 December

Thu 25 Christmas DaySolemnity

Fri 26 Saint Stephen, the first MartyrFeast

Sat 27 Saint John, Apostle, EvangelistFeast

Sun 28The Holy Family

Psalm week1

Mon 29 5th day within the octave of Christmas (commemoration of Saint Thomas Becket,Bishop, Martyr)

Tue 30 6th day within the octave of Christmas

Wed 31 7th day within the octave of Christmas (commemoration of Saint Silvester I, Pope)

why the eighth of September was chosen for its date. The Church of Rome adopted it in the seventh centuryfrom the East

Documents

Liturgical Calendar for 2014.pdf