Liturgical Calendar for 2014

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January 2014 Wed 1 Mary, Mother of God Solemnity Saints Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops, Doctors 3 January or The Most Holy Name of Jesus 4 January 2nd Sunday of Christmas The Epiphany of the Lord Solemnity 7 January or Saint Raymond of Penyafort, Priest 9 January 10 January Psalm week 2 Psalm week 1

Wed 8 8 January

Sat 11 11 January Sun 12 The Baptism of the Lord Feast Mon 13 Tue 14 Wed 15 Thu 16 Fri 17 Sun 19 Saint Antony, Abbot Psalm week 2 Sat 18 Saturday of week 1 of the year or Saturday memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary 2nd Sunday of the year Monday of week 1 of the year or Saint Hilary, Bishop, Doctor Psalm week 1

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 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, one hundred days each day if the devotion is made privately, three hundred days each day, if the devotion be in a public church or chapel, plenary indulgence for daily assistance at the public functions, under the usual conditions (Leo XIII, "Brief", 21 Dec., 1901; "Acta S. Sedis", XXXIV, 425). Sun 26 Saint Francis de Sales, Bishop, Doctor Psalm week 3 Sat 25 The Conversion of Saint Paul, Apostle Feast 3rd Sunday of the year

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

February 2014 Sat 1 Sun 2 Mon 3 Tue 4 Wed 5 Saint Agatha, Virgin, Martyr Thu 6 Fri 7 Sat 8 Sun 9 Saturday of week 4 of the year or Saint Jerome Emilian or Saint Josephine Bakhita, Virgin or Saturday memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary 5th Sunday of the year Psalm week 1 Saints Paul Miki and his Companions, Martyrs Saturday of week 3 of the year or Saturday memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary The Presentation of the Lord Feast Monday of week 4 of the year or Saint Ansgar (Oscar), Bishop or Saint Blaise, Bishop, Martyr Psalm week 4

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 Sun 16 Saints Cyril, monk, and Methodius, Bishop Psalm week 2 Sat 15 Saturday of week 5 of the year or Saturday memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary 6th Sunday of the year

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 Sun 23 Friday of week 6 of the year or Saint Peter Damian, Bishop, Doctor Psalm week 3 Sat 22 Saint Peter's Chair Feast 7th Sunday of the year

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-born from the temple (Numbers 18:15), and was purified by the prayer of Simeon the just, in the presence of Anna the 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 the fourth century by the pilgrim of Bordeaux, Egeria or Silvia. The day (14 February) was solemnly kept by a procession 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 latter circumstance proves that in Jerusalem Epiphany was then the feast of Christ's birth.

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 seven days; moreover she was to remain three and thirty days "in the blood of her purification"; for a maid-child the time which excluded the mother from sanctuary was even doubled. When the time (forty or eighty days) was over 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 her and so she was cleansed. (Leviticus 12:2-8)

March 2014 Sat 1 Sun 2 Mon 3 Tue 4 Thu 6 Fri 7 Sat 8 Sun 9 Friday after Ash Wednesday (commemoration of Saints Perpetua and Felicity, Martyrs) Saturday after Ash Wednesday (commemoration of Saint John of God, Religious) 1st Sunday of Lent Psalm week 1 Saturday of week 7 of the year or Saturday memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary 8th Sunday of the year Monday of week 8 of the year Tuesday of week 8 of the year or Saint Casimir Psalm week 4

Wed 5 Ash Wednesday

Mon 10 Monday of the 1st week of Lent Tue 11 Wed 12 Thu 13 Fri 14 Sat 15 Sun 16 2nd Sunday of Lent Psalm week 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 23 Psalm week 3

Annunciation painted by Vittore Carpaccio

March St. Joseph (feast, 19 March); indulgences, three hundred days daily for those who privately or publicly perform 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 of devotions may commence in February and be concluded 19 March (Pius IX, 18 July, 1877). March can be replaced by another month in case of legitimate impediment (Raccolta, 404). The practice of a triduum before the feast of St. Joseph has been recommended by Leo XIII (Encycl. "Quamquam pluries", 15 August, 1889).

3rd Sunday of Lent

Mon 24 Monday of the 3rd week of Lent Tue 25 The Annunciation of the Lord Solemnity Wed 26 Thu 27 Fri 28 Sat 29 Sun 30 4th Sunday of Lent Psalm week 4

Mon 31 Monday of the 4th week of Lent

April 2014 Tue 1 Wed 2 Wednesday of the 4th week of Lent (commemoration of Saint Francis of Paola, hermit) Thu 3 Fri 4 Sat 5 Sun 6 Mon 7 Tue 8 Wed 9 Thu 10 Fri 11 Sat 12 Sun 13 Palm Sunday Psalm week 2 Friday of the 5th week of Lent (commemoration of Saint Stanislaus, Bishop, Martyr) Friday of the 4th week of Lent (commemoration of Saint Isidore, Bishop, Doctor) Saturday of the 4th week of Lent (commemoration of Saint Vincent Ferrer, Priest) 5th Sunday of Lent Monday of the 5th week of Lent (commemoration of Saint John Baptist de la Salle, Priest) Psalm week 1

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 or Saint Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort, Priest Tue 29 Saint Catherine of Siena, Virgin, Doctor Wed 30 Wednesday of the 2nd week of Eastertide or Saint Pius V, Pope Psalm week 2

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 the Epistles of St. Paul. Easter morning is so rich in incident, and so crowded with interested persons, that its complete history presents a rather complicated tableau. It is not surprising therefore, that the partial accounts contained in each of the Four Gospels appear at first sight hard to harmonize. But whatever exegetic view as to the visit to the sepulchre by the pious women and the appearance of the angels we may defend, we cannot 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 in Galilee; according to St. Mark, He was seen by Mary Magdalen, by the two disciples at Emmaus, and the Eleven before his Ascension into heaven; according to St. Luke, He walked with the disciples to Emmaus, appeared to Peter and 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 of Tiberias. St. Paul (1 Corinthians 15:3-8) enumerates another series of apparitions of Jesus after His Resurrection; he was seen by Cephas, by the Eleven, by more than 500 brethren, many of whom were still alive at the time of the Apostle's writing, by James, by all the Apostles, and lastly by Paul himself.

May 2014 Thu 1 Fri 2 Sat 3 Sun 4 Mon 5 Tue 6 Wed 7 Thu 8 Fri 9 Sat 10 Sun 11 4th Sunday of Easter Psalm week 4 Thursday of the 2nd week of Eastertide or Saint Joseph the Worker Saint Athanasius, Bishop, Doctor Saints Philip and James, Apostles Feast 3rd Sunday of Easter Monday of the 3rd week of Eastertide Psalm week 3

Mon 12 Monday of the 4th week of Eastertide or Saints Nereus and Achilleus, Martyrs or Saint Pancras, Martyr Tue 13 Tuesday of the 4th week of Eastertide or Our Lady of Ftima Wed 14 Saint Matthias, Apostle Feast Thu 15 Fri 16 Sat 17 Sun 18 5th Sunday of Easter Psalm week 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 his Companions, Martyrs Thu 22 Thursday of the 5th week of Eastertide or Saint Rita of Cascia Fri 23 Sat 24 Sun 25 6th Sunday of Easter Psalm week 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 Lord Solemnity Fri 30 Sat 31 The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Feast

Ascension of Christ by painted by Garofalo 1520

May: The Blessed Virgin Mary. The May devotion in its present form originated at Rome where Father Latomia of the Roman College of the Society of Jesus, to counteract infidelity and immorality among the students, made a vow at the end of the eighteenth century to devote the month of May to Mary. From Rome the practice spread to the other Jesuit 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 an entire month. Indulgences three hundred days each day, by assisting at a public function or performing the devotion in private, plenary indulgence on any day of the month or on one of the first eight days of June under the usual conditions (Pius VII, 21 March, 1815, for ten years; 18 June, 1822 in perpetuum). 5

June 2014 Sun 1 Mon 2 Tue 3 Wed 4 Thu 5 Fri 6 Sat 7 Sun 8 Mon 9 Tue 10 Wed 11 Saint Barnabas, Apostle, Martyr Thu 12 Fri 13 Saint Antony of Padua, Priest, Doctor Sat 14 Saturday of week 10 of the year or Saturday memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary Sun 15 The Most Holy Trinity Solemnity Mon 16 Tue 17 Wed 18 Thu 19 Corpus Christi Solemnity Fri 20 Sat 21 Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, Religious Sun 22 12th Sunday of the year Psalm week 4 Monday of week 11 of the year Psalm week 3 Pentecost Monday of week 10 of the year or Saint Ephraem, Deacon, Doctor Psalm week 2 Saint Boniface, Bishop, Martyr Friday of the 7th week of Eastertide or Saint Norbert, Bishop 7th Sunday of Easter Monday of the 7th week of Eastertide or Saints Marcellinus and Peter, Martyrs Saints Charles Lwanga and his Companions, Martyrs Psalm week 3

Mon 23 Monday of week 12 of the year Tue 24 The Birthday of Saint John the Baptist Solemnity Wed 25 Thu 26 Fri 27 Sun 29 The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus Solemnity Psalm week 1 Sat 28 The Immaculate Heart of Mary Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles Solemnity

Mon 30 Monday of week 13 of the year or The First Martyrs of the See of Rome 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. to all the bishops, 21 July, 1899. Indulgences: (a) seven years and seven quarantines each day for performing the devotion publicly or privately; (b) if the devotion is practised daily in private, or if a person assists at least ten 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 quoties on the thirtieth of June or the last Sunday of June (26 Jan., 6 1908) in those churches where the month of June is celebrated solemnly. Pius X (8 Aug., 1906) urged a daily sermon, or at least for eight days in the form of a mission (26 Jan., 1908); (d) to those priests, who preach the sermons at the solemn functions in June in honour of the Sacred Heart and to the rectors of the churches 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 solemn celebration of the month of June ("Acta Pontificia", IV, 388, 8 Aug., 1906).

July 2014 Tue 1 Wed 2 Thu 3 Fri 4 Sat 5 Sun 6 Mon 7 Tue 8 Wed 9 Wednesday of week 14 of the year or Saint Augustine Zhao Rong and his Companions, Martyrs Thu 10 Fri 11 Sun 13 Saint Benedict, Abbot Psalm week 3 Sat 12 Saturday of week 14 of the year or Saturday memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary 15th Sunday of the year Saint Thomas, Apostle Feast Friday of week 13 of the year or Saint Elizabeth of Portugal Saturday of week 13 of the year or Saint Antony Mary Zaccaria, Priest or Saturday memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary 14th Sunday of the year Monday of week 14 of the year Psalm week 2

Mon 14 Monday of week 15 of the year or Saint Camillus of Lellis, 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 Sat 19 Saturday of week 15 of the year or Saturday memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary Sun 20 16th Sunday of the year Psalm 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 Sun 27 Saint James, Apostle Feast Psalm week 1 Sat 26 Saint Joachim and Saint Anne, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary 17th Sunday of the year

Mon 28 Monday of week 17 of the year 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 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 Jesus Christ. Indulgences, for the public devotion: seven years and seven quarantines each day; plenary indulgence on any day in July or 1-8 August, after having assisted eight times at a public function under the 7 usual conditions; if the devotion be held privately three hundred days each day with plenary indulgence on 31 July, or 1-8 of August (Pius IX, 4 June, 1850). For this practice any other month or any period of thirty days during the year may be chosen (Raccolta, 178).

August 2014 Fri 1 Sat 2 Sun 3 Mon 4 Tue 5 Thu 7 Fri 8 Sat 9 Sun 10 Saint Alphonsus Mary de Liguori, Bishop, Doctor Saturday of week 17 of the year or Saint Eusebius of Vercelli, Bishop or Saint Peter Julian Eymard or Saturday memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary 18th Sunday of the year Saint John Mary Vianney, Priest Tuesday of week 18 of the year or Dedication of the Basilica of Saint Mary Major Thursday of week 18 of the year or Saints Sixtus II, Pope, and his Companions, Martyrs or Saint Cajetan, Priest Saint Dominic, Priest Saturday of week 18 of the year or Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein), Virgin, Martyr or Saturday memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary 19th Sunday of the year Psalm week 3 Psalm week 2

Wed 6 The Transfiguration of the Lord Feast

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 Mary Solemnity Sat 16 Saturday of week 19 of the year or Saint Stephen of Hungary or Saturday memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary Sun 17 20th Sunday of the year Psalm week 4

Mon 18 Monday of week 20 of the year 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 Saturday memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary Sun 24 21st 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 Assunta (Assumption painted by Titian (151618). Regarding the day, year, and manner of Our Lady's death, nothing certain is known. The earliest known literary 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 vary between 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 in favour of Ephesus. The first six centuries did not know of the tomb of Mary at Jerusalem. 8 Wed 27 Saint Monica Thu 28 Saint Augustine, Bishop, Doctor Fri 29 Sun 31 The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist Psalm week 2 Sat 30 Saturday of week 21 of the year or Saturday memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary 22nd Sunday of the year

September 2014 Mon 1 Tue 2 Wed 3 Saint Gregory the Great, Pope, Doctor Thu 4 Fri 5 Sat 6 Sun 7 Mon 8 Tue 9 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 Cross Feast Mon 15 Our Lady of Sorrows Psalm week 4 Saturday of week 22 of the year or Saturday memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary 23rd Sunday of the year The Birthday of the Blessed Virgin Mary Feast Tuesday of week 23 of the year or Saint Peter Claver Psalm week 3 Monday of week 22 of the year

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

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; plenary indulgence on any day of September or 1-8 October under the usual conditions (Leo XIII, "Raccolta", 27 Jan., 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 the feasts retained in the Pian breviary, published in 1568; but among the earliest petitions from particular churches to be allowed, as a supplement to this breviary, the canonical celebration of local feasts, was a request 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 documents published by Dr. Schmid (in the "Tbinger Quartalschrift", 1884), adds on the same authority that "Toledo sent to Rome a rich proprium and 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 the Guardian Angels."

Fri 19

Friday of week 24 of the year or Saint Januarius, Bishop, Martyr

Sat 20 Saints Andrew Kim Taegon, Priest, and Paul Chong Hasang, and their Companions, Martyrs Sun 21 25th Sunday of the year Psalm week 1

Mon 22 Monday of week 25 of the year Tue 23 Saint Pio of Pietrelcina Wed 24 Thu 25 Fri 26 Sun 28 Friday of week 25 of the year or Saints Cosmas and Damian, Martyrs Psalm week 2 Sat 27 Saint Vincent de Paul, Priest 26th Sunday of the year

Mon 29 Saints Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, Archangels Feast Tue 30 Saint Jerome, Priest, Doctor

October 2014 Wed 1 Saint Thrse of the Child Jesus, Virgin, Doctor Thu 2 Fri 3 Sat 4 Sun 5 Mon 6 Tue 7 Wed 8 Thu 9 Fri 10 Sat 11 Saturday of week 27 of the year or Saturday memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary Sun 12 28th Sunday of the year Mon 13 Monday of week 28 of the year 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, Virgin Fri 17 Saint Ignatius of Antioch, Bishop, Martyr Psalm week 4 Thursday of week 27 of the year or Saints Denis, Bishop, and his Companions, Martyrs or Saint John Leonardi, Priest The Holy Guardian Angels Friday of week 26 of the year Saint Francis of Assisi 27th Sunday of the year Monday of week 27 of the year or Saint Bruno, Priest Our Lady of the Rosary Psalm week 3

Sat 18 Saint Luke, Evangelist Feast Sun 19 29th Sunday of the year Mon 20 Monday of week 29 of the year Tue 21 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 this practice in an Encyclical (1 Sept., 1883) in which he admonished the faithful to dedicate the month of October to the Queen of the Holy Rosary in order to obtain through her intercession the grace that God may console 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) he ordained that every year during the entire month of October, including the first and second of November, in every cathedral and parochial church, and in all other churches and chapels which are dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, five decades of the Rosary and the Litany of Loreto are to be recited, in the morning during Mass or in the afternoon whilst the Blessed Sacrament is exposed, and by the encyclical letter of 15 August, 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) plenary indulgence on the feast of the Holy Rosary or during the octave for those who during the entire octave recite daily five decades and fulfil the other usual conditions; (c) plenary indulgence on any other day of the month for 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 10 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 Psalm week 1

Sat 25 Saturday of week 29 of the year or Saturday memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary Sun 26 30th Sunday of the year Mon 27 Monday of week 30 of the year Tue 28 Saints Simon and Jude, Apostles Feast Wed 29 Thu 30 Fri 31 Oct.); indulgences, three hundred days each day by assisting at the public devotions in honour of St. Francis in 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 be selected instead of October Psalm week 2

November 2014 Sat 1 Sun 2 Mon 3 Tue 4 Wed 5 Thu 6 Fri 7 Sat 8 Sun 9 Saturday of week 31 of the year or Saturday memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary Dedication of the Lateran Basilica Feast Psalm week 4 All Saints Solemnity All Souls Monday of week 31 of the year or Saint Martin de Porres, Religious Saint Charles Borromeo, Bishop Psalm week 3

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, Doctor or Saturday memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary Sun 16 33rd Sunday of the year Psalm week 1

Mon 17 Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, Religious Tue 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

All Souls' Day by William Bouguereau

The Holy Souls in Purgatory (2 Nov., Commem. of all the Faithful Departed); indulgences, seven years and seven 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 Holy Childhood 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 the Maternal 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 at Bethlehem (25 Dec.). These practices, however, are not formally approved by the Church, nor enriched with indulgences. 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 the May and June devotions, a short sermon or instruction usually follows, with Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament concluding the services.

Mon 24

Saints Andrew Dng-Lc and his Companions, Martyrs

Psalm week 2

Tue 25 Tuesday of week 34 of the year or Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Virgin, Martyr Wed 26 Thu 27 Fri 28 Sat 29 Saturday of week 34 of the year or Saturday memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary Sun 30 1st Sunday of Advent Psalm week 1

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December 2014 Mon 1 Tue 2 Wed 3 Saint Francis Xavier, Priest Thu 4 Fri 5 Sat 6 Sun 7 Mon 8 Tue 9 Wed 10 Thu 11 Thursday of the 2nd week of Advent or Saint Damasus I, Pope Fri 12 Sun 14 Friday of the 2nd week of Advent or Our Lady of Guadalupe Psalm week 3 Sat 13 Saint Lucy, Virgin, Martyr 3rd Sunday of Advent Saturday of the 1st week of Advent or Saint Nicholas, Bishop 2nd Sunday of Advent The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary Solemnity Tuesday of the 2nd week of Advent or Saint Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin Psalm week 2 Thursday of the 1st week of Advent or Saint John Damascene, Priest, Doctor Monday of the 1st week of Advent

Mon 15 Monday of the 3rd week of Advent Tue 16 Wed 17 17 December Thu 18 18 December Fri 19 Sun 21 19 December Psalm week 4 Sat 20 20 December 4th Sunday of Advent

Mon 22 22 December Tue 23 23 December (commemoration of Saint John of Kty, Priest) Wed 24 24 December Thu 25 Christmas Day Solemnity Fri 26 Sun 28 Saint Stephen, the first Martyr Feast Psalm week 1 Sat 27 Saint John, Apostle, Evangelist Feast The Holy Family

The Nativity painted by Franois Boucher

The 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 a native of Emesa in Syria, deacon of Berytus and later on at the Blachernae church in Constantinople, and composed his hymns between 536-556 (P. Maas in "Byzant. Zeitschrift", 1906). The feast may have originated somewhere in Syria or Palestine in the beginning of the sixth century, when after the Council of Ephesus, 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 on this feast (Lucius-Anrich, "Anfnge des Heiligenkultus", Tbingen, 1906, 468). Evidence is wanting to show 12

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 century from the East