A Catholic Life: Catholic Feast Days

Catholic Feast/Memorial Days are days set aside to remember important people and events through the course of Our faith from the time of Mary's birth all the way through today honoring the saints. The calendar of saints has been changed throughout Church history to remove some saints in order that others may be celebrated too. One of these changes occurred in 1969. Today, some Traditional Catholics like to follow the pre-1955 Calendar, some prefer the 1955 Calendar, and some prefer the 1962 Calendar. But remember, each canonized saint is given a feastday even if it is not celebrated universally.

Movable Feasts:

Traditional Calendar (1954):
January:

Jan 1st Feast of the Circumcision of Jesus
Jan 2nd Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus; Octave Day of St. Stephen Protomartyr
Jan 3rd Octave Day of St. John
Jan 4th Octave Day of the Holy Innocents
Jan 5th Vigil of the Epiphany; Com. of St. Telesphorus
Jan 6th The Epiphany of Our Lord
Jan 7th Within the Octave of the Epiphany
Jan 8th Within the Octave of the Epiphany
Jan 9th Within the Octave of the Epiphany
Jan 10th Within the Octave of the Epiphany
Jan 11th Within the Octave of the Epiphany; Com. of St. Hyginus
Jan 12th Within the Octave of the Epiphany
Jan 13th Octave Day of the Epiphany
Jan 14th St. Hilary of Poitiers; Com. of St. Felix of Nola
Jan 15th St. Paul the first Hermit; Com. of St. Maurus
Jan 16th St. Marcellus I
Jan 17th St. Anthony of Egypt
Jan 18th St. Peter's Chair at Rome; Com. of Sts. Paul and Prisca
Jan 19th Sts. Marius, Martha, Audifax, and Abachum; Com. of St Canute
Jan 20th St. Fabian; St. Sebastian
Jan 21st St. Agnes
Jan 22nd Sts. Vincent and Anastasius
Jan 23rd St. Raymond of Peñafort; Com. of St. Emerentiana; Betrothal of the Virgin Mary with St. Joseph (Mass in Some Places); St. Ildephonsus (Mass in Some Places)
Jan 24th St. Timothy
Jan 25th Conversion of St. Paul
Jan 26th St. Polycarp
Jan 27th St. John Chrysostom
Jan 28th St. Peter Nolasco; Com. of St. Agnes
Jan 29th St. Francis De Sales
Jan 30th St. Martina
Jan 31st St. John Bosco

Sunday in the Octave of the Epiphany: The most holy Family of Jesus, Mary, Joseph - Greater Double
February

Feb 1st St. Ignatius of Antioch
Feb 2nd Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Feb 3rd St. Blase
Feb 4th St. Andrew Corsini
Feb 5th St. Agatha
Feb 6th St. Titus; Com. of St. Dorothy
Feb 7th St. Romuald
Feb 8th St. John of Matha
Feb 9th St. Cyril of Alexandria; Com. of St. Apollonia
Feb 10th St. Scholastica
Feb 11th Apparition of Our Lady at Lourdes; World Day of Prayer for the Sick
Feb 12th Seven Founders of the Servite Order
Feb 13th Feria
Feb 14th St. Valentine
Feb 15th Sts. Faustinus and Jovita
Feb 16th Feria
Feb 17th Feria; Flight into Egypt (Mass in Some Places)
Feb 18th St. Simeon
Feb 19th Feria
Feb 20th Feria
Feb 21st Feria
Feb 22nd Saint Peter's Chair at Antioch; Com. of St. Paul
Feb 23rd St. Peter Damian; Com. of the Vigil of St. Matthias
Feb 24th St. Matthias
Feb 25th Feria
Feb 26th Feria; St. Margaret of Cortona (Mass in Some Places)
Feb 27th St. Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows
Feb 28th Feria

Note: In leap year, the Vigil of St. Matthias is kept on February 24, and any Feasts usually occurring from February 24 through 28 are kept one day later.
March

Mar 1st Feria
Mar 2nd Feria
Mar 3rd Feria
Mar 4th St. Casimir of Poland; Com. of Saint Lucius I
Mar 5th Feria
Mar 6th Ss. Perpetua and Felicity
Mar 7th St. Thomas Aquinas
Mar 8th St. John of God
Mar 9th St. Frances of Rome
Mar 10th The Forty Holy Martyrs of Sebaste
Mar 11th Feria
Mar 12th St. Gregory the Great, pope and doctor
Mar 13th Feria
Mar 14th Feria
Mar 15th Feria
Mar 16th Feria
Mar 17th St. Patrick of Ireland
Mar 18th St. Cyril of Jerusalem
Mar 19th St. Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Mar 20th Feria
Mar 21st St. Benedict
Mar 22nd Feria; St. Catherine of Genoa (Mass in Some Places)
Mar 23rd Feria
Mar 24th St. Gabriel the Archangel
Mar 25th The Solemnity of the Annunciation
Mar 26th Feria
Mar 27th St. John Damascene
Mar 28th St. John of Capistrano
Mar 29th Feria
Mar 30th Feria
Mar 31st Feria

Friday after Passion Sunday: Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Greater Double

April

Apr 1st Feria
Apr 2nd St. Francis of Paola
Apr 3rd Feria
Apr 4th St. Isidore of Seville
Apr 5th St. Vincent Ferrer
Apr 6th Feria
Apr 7th Feria
Apr 8th Feria
Apr 9th Feria
Apr 10th Feria
Apr 11th St. Leo the Great
Apr 12th Feria
Apr 13th St. Hermenegild
Apr 14th St. Justin; Com. of Sts. Tiburtius, Valerian, and Maximus
Apr 15th Feria
Apr 16th Feria; St. Benedict Joseph Labre (Mass in Some Places)
Apr 17th St. Anicetus
Apr 18th Feria
Apr 19th Feria
Apr 20th Feria
Apr 21st St. Anselm
Apr 22nd Sts. Soter and Caius
Apr 23rd St. George
Apr 24th St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen
Apr 25th St. Mark the Evangelist & Greater Litanies (Major Rogation Day)
Apr 26th Sts. Cletus and Marcellinus; Our Lady of Good Counsel (Mass in Some Places)
Apr 27th St. Peter Canisius
Apr 28th St. Paul of the Cross; Com. of St. Vitalis
Apr 29th St. Peter of Verona
Apr 30th St. Catherine of Siena

Wednesday after the II Sunday after Easter: Solemnity of St. Joseph, C - Double of the I Class
Wednesday after the III Sunday after Easter: Octave Day of St. Joseph, C - Greater Double
May

May 1st St. Joseph, the Worker
May 2nd St. Athanasius
May 3rd Finding of the Holy Cross; Com. of St. Alexander I, Sts. Eventius and Theodulus, and St. Juvenal
May 4th St. Monica
May 5th St. Pius V
May 6th St. John before the Latin Gate
May 7th St. Stanislaus
May 8th Apparition of St. Michael the Archangel
May 9th St. Gregory Nazianzen
May 10th St. Antoninus; Com. of Sts. Gordian and Epimachus
May 11th Sts. Philip and James
May 12th Sts. Nereus, Achilleus, Domitilla and Pancras
May 13th St. Robert Bellarmine
May 14th St. Boniface, Martyr
May 15th St. John Baptist de la Salle; St. Isidore the Farmer (Mass in Some Places)
May 16th St. Ubaldus; St. John Nepomucene (Mass in Some Places)
May 17th St. Pascal Baylon
May 18th St. Venantius of Camerino
May 19th St. Peter Celestine; Com. of St. Pudentiana
May 20th St. Bernardine of Siena
May 21st Feria
May 22nd St. Rita of Cascia (Mass in Some Places)
May 23rd Feria; St. John Baptist de Rossi (Mass in Some Places)
May 24th Feria; Our Lady Help of Christians (Mass in Some Places)
May 25th St. Gregory VII; Com. of St. Urban I
May 26th St. Phillip Neri; Com. of St. Eleutherius
May 27th St. Bede the Venerable; Com. of Saint John I
May 28th St. Augustine of Canterbury
May 29th St. Mary Magdalene de Pazzi
May 30th St. Felix I; St. Ferdinand III (Mass in Some Places); St. Joan of Arc (Mass in Some Places)
May 31st Queenship of Mary; Our Lady Queen of All Saints and Mother of Fair Love (Mass in Some Places); Our Lady Mediatrix of All Graces (Mass in Some Places)

June

June 1st St. Angela Merici
June 2nd Sts. Marcellinus and Peter; St. Erasmus
June 3rd Feria
June 4th St. Francis Caracciolo
June 5th St. Boniface, Bishop and Martyr
June 6th St. Norbert
June 7th Feria
June 8th Feria
June 9th Sts. Primus and Felician; Our Lady Mother of Grace (Mass in Some Places)
June 10th St. Margaret
June 11th St. Barnabas
June 12th St. John of San Facondo; Com. of Sts. Basilides, Cyrinus, Nabor, and Nazarius
June 13th St. Anthony of Padua
June 14th St. Basil the Great
June 15th Sts. Vitus, Modestus, and Crescentia
June 16th Feria; St. John Francis Regis (Mass in Some Places)
June 17th Feria
June 18th St. Ephrem; Com. of Sts. Mark and Marcellianus
June 19th St. Juliana Falconieri; Com. of Sts. Gervase and Protase
June 20th St. Silverius
June 21st St. Aloysius Gonzaga
June 22nd St. Paulinus
June 23rd Vigil of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist
June 24th Nativity of St. John the Baptist
June 25th St. William; Com. of Octave of St. John the Baptist
June 26th Sts. John and Paul; Com. of Octave of St. John the Baptist
June 27th Within the Octave of St. John the Baptist; Our Lady of Prompt Succor (Mass in Some Places)
June 28th St. Irenaeus of Lyons; Com. of Octave of St. John the Baptist and Vigil of Sts. Peter and Paul
June 29th Sts. Peter and Paul
June 30th Commemoration of Saint Paul; Com. of Saint Peter and of Octave of Saint John the Baptist

July

July 1st The Most Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Com. of the Octave day of St. John the Baptist.
July 2nd Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary; Com. of Ss Processus and Martinian
July 3rd St. Leo II; Commemoration of Octave of Sts. Peter and Paul; All Holy Popes (Mass in Some Places)
July 4th Within the Octave of Sts. Peter and Paul
July 5th St. Anthony Mary Zaccaria; Commemoration of Octave of Sts. Peter and Paul
July 6th Octave Day of Ss Peter and Paul
July 7th Sts. Cyril and Methodius; St. Lawrence of Brindisi (Mass in Some Places)
July 8th St. Elizabeth
July 9th Feria; St. Veronica of Giuliani (Mass in Some Places)
July 10th Seven Holy Brothers; Sts. Rufina and Secunda
July 11th St. Pius I
July 12th St. John Gualbert; Com. of Sts. Nabor and Felix
July 13th St. Anacletus
July 14th St. Bonaventure
July 15th St. Henry II
July 16th Our Lady of Mount Carmel
July 17th St. Alexius; Humility of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Mass in Some Places)
July 18th St. Camillus of Lellis; Commemoration of Sts. Symphorosa and Companions
July 19th St. Vincent de Paul
July 20th St. Jerome Emiliani; Com. of St. Margaret
July 21st St. Praxedes
July 22nd St. Mary Magdalene
July 23rd St. Apollinaris; Com. of St. Liborius
July 24th Vigil of St. James the Greater; Com. of St. Christina
July 25th St. James the Greater; Com. of St. Christopher
July 26th St. Anne
July 27th St. Pantaleon
July 28th Sts. Nazarius and Celsus; St. Victor I; St. Innocentius I
July 29th St. Martha; Com. of Sts. Felix II and Companions
July 30th Sts. Abdon and Sennen
July 31st St. Ignatius of Loyola

August

Aug 1st St. Peter's Chains; Com. of St. Paul and the Holy Machabees
Aug 2nd St. Alphonsus Liguori; Com. of Saint Stephen I
Aug 3rd Finding of St. Stephen
Aug 4th St. Dominic
Aug 5th Dedication of St. Mary Major (Our Lady of the Snows)
Aug 6th Transfiguration of Our Lord Jesus Christ; Com. of Sts. Xystus II, Felicissimus, and Agapitus
Aug 7th St. Cajetan; Com. of St. Donatus
Aug 8th Sts. Cyriacus, Largus, and Smaragdus
Aug 9th St. John Vianney; Com. of the Vigil of Saint Laurence and St. Romanus; St. Emygdius (Mass in Some Places)
Aug 10th St. Lawrence
Aug 11th Sts. Tiburtius and Susanna; St. Philomena (Mass in Some Places)
Aug 12th St. Clare of Assisi
Aug 13th Sts. Hippolytus and Cassian; Our Lady Refuge of Sinners (Mass in Some Places); St. John Berchmans (Mass in Some Places)
Aug 14th Vigil of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Aug 15th Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Aug 16th St. Joachim; St. Roch (Mass in Some Places)
Aug 17th St. Hyacintha of Mariscotti; Com. of Octave of the Assumption and Octave Day of Saint Laurance
Aug 18th Within the Octave of the Assumption; Com. of St. Agapitus; Empress Helena (Mass in Some Places)
Aug 19th St. John Eudes; Com. of Octave of the Assumption
Aug 20th St. Bernard of Clairvaux; Com. of Octave of the Assumption
Aug 21st St. Jane Frances de Chantal; Com. of Octave of the Assumption
Aug 22nd Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary; Com. of Sts. Timothy, Hippolytus and Symphorian
Aug 23rd St. Philip Benizi; Com. of the Vigil of St. Bartholomew
Aug 24th St. Bartholomew
Aug 25th St. Louis IX
Aug 26th St. Zephyrinus
Aug 27th St. Joseph Calasanctius
Aug 28th St. Augustine of Hippo; Com. of Saint Hermes
Aug 29th Martyrdom of St. John the Baptist; Com. of Saint Sabina
Aug 30th St. Rose of Lima; Com. of Sts. Felix and Adauctus
Aug 31st St. Raymond Nonnatus

September

Sep 1st St. Giles; Com. of Holy Twelve Brothers
Sep 2nd St. Stephen, King of Hungary
Sep 3rd St. Pius X
Sep 4th Feria; St. Rose of Viterbo (Mass in Some Places)
Sep 5th St. Laurence Justinian
Sep 6th Feria
Sep 7th Feria
Sep 8th Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Sep 9th St. Gorgonius; St. Peter Claver
Sep 10th St. Nicholas of Tolentino
Sep 11th Sts. Protus and Hyacinth
Sep 12th Holy Name of Mary
Sep 13th Feria
Sep 14th Exaltation of the Holy Cross
Sep 15th Our Lady of Sorrows; Com. of St. Nicomedes
Sep 16th Sts. Cornelius and Cyprian; Com. of Ss Euphemia, Lucy, and Geminianus
Sep 17th Holy Stigmata of Saint Francis
Sep 18th St. Joseph of Cupertino
Sep 19th St. Januarius
Sep 20th St. Eustace and Companions; Com. of Vigil of St. Matthew
Sep 21st St. Matthew
Sep 22nd St. Thomas of Villanova; Com. of Sts. Maurice and Companions
Sep 23rd St. Linus; Com. of St. Thecla
Sep 24th Our Lady of Ransom
Sep 25th Feria
Sep 26th Sts. Cyprian and Justina
Sep 27th Sts. Cosmas and Damian
Sep 28th St. Wenceslaus
Sep 29th Dedication of Saint Michael the Archangel
Sep 30th St. Jerome

October

Oct 1st St. Remigius; St. Gregory the Immuninator (Mass in Some Places)
Oct 2nd Holy Guardian Angels
Oct 3rd St. Therese of Lisieux
Oct 4th St. Francis of Assisi
Oct 5th St. Placid and Companions
Oct 6th St. Bruno
Oct 7th Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary; Com. of St. Mark, Sts. Sergius and Bacchus, Sts. Marcellus and Apuleius
Oct 8th St Bridget of Sweden
Oct 9th St. Denis
Oct 10th St. Francis Borgia
Oct 11th The Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Oct 12th Feria
Oct 13th St. Edward, King of England
Oct 14th St. Callistus I
Oct 15th St. Teresa of Avila
Oct 16th St. Hedwig; Purity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Mass in Some Places)
Oct 17th St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
Oct 18th St. Luke the Evangelist
Oct 19th St. Peter of Alcantara
Oct 20th St. John of Kanty
Oct 21st St. Hilarion; Com. of St. Ursula and Companions
Oct 22nd Feria
Oct 23rd Feria; Feast of the Most Holy Redeemer (Mass in Some Places)
Oct 24th St. Raphael the Archangel
Oct 25th Sts. Chrysanthus and Daria
Oct 26th St. Evaristus
Oct 27th Vigil of Sts. Simon and Jude
Oct 28th Sts. Jude and Simon
Oct 29th Feria
Oct 30th Feria
Oct 31st Vigil of All Saints

November

Nov. 1st All Saints
Nov. 2nd Commemoration of all the Faithful Departed (All Souls)
Nov. 3rd Within the Octave of All Saints
Nov. 4th St. Charles Borromeo; Com. of Octave of All Saints and Sts. Vitalis and Agricola
Nov. 5th Within the Octave of All Saint; The Sacred Relics (Mass in Some Places)
Nov. 6th Within the Octave of All Saints
Nov. 7th Within the Octave of All Saints
Nov. 8th Octave Day of All Saints; Com. of the Holy Four Crowned Martyrs
Nov. 9th Dedication of the Basilica of St. Saviour, Com. of St. Theodore
Nov. 10th St. Andrew Avellino, Theatine, Com. of Sts. Tryphon, Respicius, and Nympha
Nov. 11th St. Martin of Tours; Com. of St. Mennas
Nov. 12th St. Martin I
Nov. 13th Saint Didacus; St. Stanislaus Kostka
Nov .14th St. Josephat
Nov. 15th St. Albert the Great
Nov. 16th St. Gertrude the Great
Nov. 17th St. Gregory Thaumaturgus
Nov. 18th Dedication of the Basilicas of Sts. Peter and Paul
Nov. 19th St. Elisabeth of Hungary; Com. of St. Pontianus
Nov. 20th St. Felix of Valois
Nov. 21th Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Nov. 22th St. Cecilia
Nov. 23th St. Clement; Com. of St. Felicitas
Nov. 24th St. John of the Cross; Com. St. Chrysogonus
Nov. 25th St. Catherine of Alexandria
Nov. 26th Saint Sylvester; Com. of St. Peter of Alexandria; St. Leonard of Port Maurice (Mass in Some Places)
Nov. 27th Feria; Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal (Mass in Some Places)
Nov. 28th Feria
Nov. 29th Vigil of St. Andrew; Com. of St. Saturninus
Nov. 30th St. Andrew

December

Dec. 1st Feria
Dec. 2nd St. Bibiana
Dec. 3rd St. Francis Xavier
Dec. 4th St. Peter Chrysologus; Com of St. Barbara
Dec. 5th Com. of St. Sabbas
Dec. 6th St. Nicholas of Myra
Dec. 7th St. Ambrose; Com. of the Vigil of the Immaculate Conception
Dec. 8th Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Dec. 9th Within the Octave of the Immaculate Conception
Dec. 10th Within the Octave of the Immaculate Conception; St. Melchiades; Holy House of Loreta (Mass in Some Places)
Dec. 11th St. Damasus I; Com. of the Octave of the Immaculate Conception
Dec. 12th Within the Octave of the Immaculate Conception
Dec. 13th St. Lucy; Com of the Octave of the Immaculate Conception
Dec. 14th Within the Octave of the Immaculate Conception
Dec. 15th Octave Day of the Immaculate Conception
Dec. 16th St. Eusebius
Dec. 17th Feria
Dec. 18th Feria; Expectation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Mass in Some Places)
Dec. 19th Feria
Dec. 20th Vigil of St. Thomas the Apostle
Dec. 21st St. Thomas the Apostle
Dec. 22nd Feria
Dec. 23rd Feria
Dec. 24th Vigil of the Nativity of Our Lord
Dec. 25th Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ
Dec 26th St. Stephen the First Martyr; Com. of the Octave of the Nativity
Dec 27th St. John the Apostle; Com. of the Octave of the Nativity
Dec. 28th Holy Innocents; Com. of the Octave of the Nativity
Dec. 29th St. Thomas Becket
Dec. 30th Within the Octave of the Nativity
Dec. 31st St. Sylvester I; Com. of the Octave of the Nativity

Movable Masses in Some Places:

The Prayer of Christ (Tuesday after Septuagesima)
Commemoration of the Passion of Christ (Tuesday after Sexagesima) [outside link]
The Sacred Crown of Thorns (Friday after Ash Wednesday)
The Sacred Lance and Nails (Friday after the First Sunday in Lent)
The Holy Shroud (Friday after the Second Sunday in Lent)
The Five Holy Wounds (Friday after the Third Sunday in Lent)
The Precious Blood (Friday after the Fourth Sunday in Lent)
Our Lady Queen of the Apostles (Saturday after the Ascension)
The Eucharistic Heart of Jesus (Thursday the Sacred Heart)
The Immaculate Heart of Mary (Saturday after the Octave of the Sacred Heart of Jesus)
Our Lady Mother of Mercy (Saturday after the 4th Sunday of July)
Our Lady of Consolation (Saturday after the Feast of St. Augustine)
Our Lady Help of the Sick (Saturday after the last Sunday in August)
Our Lady Mother of Divine Providence (Saturday after the 3rd Sunday in November)

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Anonymous said...: In regards to your calendar of Catholic feast days, I do not understand why you continue to utilize what you call the "traditional" calendar.

Is that not simply a form of "cafeteria-Catholicism"; refusing to accept the current calendar as decreed by the Vatican?
Matthew said...: Catholics are free to use the traditional Catholic Calendar. Realize that different Rites in the Church have different calendars. The byzantines, for example, have both Old and New Calendars. The Roman Rite has several legitimate options. Saying that the Vatican has decreed for use to follow subsequent calendars is unfounded - there is no decree requiring such