Catholic Calendar 2024-2025

Please see below for key dates of feasts, festivals and solemnities in the Church’s calendar.

 

September 2024

World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation – 1st 

The Birthday of the Blessed Virgin Mary – Feast – 7th

Education Day – 8th 

The Most Holy Name of Mary – 12th

The Exaltation of the Holy Cross – Feast – 14th

St. Matthew – Feast – 21st

St. Pius of Pietrelcina (Padre Pio) – 23rd

Harvest – 22nd

Our Lady of Walsingham – Feast – 24th)

St. Vincent de Paul – 27th

[In other years: Sts. Michael, Gabriel and Raphael – Feast – 29th] 

St. Jerome – 30th

 

October 2024
St. Therese of Lisieux – 1st

Holy Guardian Angels – 2nd

St. Francis of Assisi – 4th 

St. Faustina Kowalska – 5th 

Harvest Fast Day – 6th

Our Lady of the Rosary – 7th

St. John Henry Newman – 9th

[In other years: St. Edward the Confessor – 13th]

St. Teresa of Ávila – 15th

St. Luke – Feast – 18th

World Mission Day – 20th 

St. John Paul II – 22nd

 

November 2024

All Saints – Solemnity – 1st (Holy Day of Obligation)

All Souls – 2nd

Dedication of the Lateran Basilica – Feast – 9th 

Remembrance Sunday – 10th

[In other years: St. Hilda of Whitby – 17th]

World Day of the Poor – 17th

St. Cecilia – 22nd 

Youth Sunday/Christ the King – Solemnity – 24th 

St. Andrew – Feast – 30th

 

December 2024

First Sunday of Advent – 1st

Migrants’ Day – 3rd 

St. Nicholas – 6th 

2nd Sunday of Advent – 8th 

The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary – Solemnity – 9th

3rd Sunday of Advent – 15th

4th Sunday of Advent – 22nd

The Nativity of the Lord – Solemnity – 25th (Holy Day of Obligation)

St. Stephen, the first Martyr – Feast – 26th

St. John – 27th 

The Holy Innocents, Martyrs – Feast – 28th

The Holy Family – Feast – 29th

 

January 2025
Mary, Mother of God – Solemnity – 1st

The Epiphany of the Lord – Solemnity – 5th (Holy Day of Obligation – moved to Sunday this year)

The Baptism of the Lord – Feast – 12th

Peace Sunday – 19th

Sunday of the Word of God – 26th 

St. John Bosco – 31st 

 

February 2025

The Presentation of the Lord – Feast – 2nd 

World Day for the Sick/Our Lady of Lourdes – 11th

Racial Justice Day – 16th 

St. Peter’s Chair – Feast – 22nd

 

March 2025

St. David – Feast – 1st

Ash Wednesday – 5th 

1st Sunday of Lent – 9th 

Lent Fast Day – 14th

2nd Sunday of Lent – 16th

St. Patrick – Feast – 17th

St. Joseph, Husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary – Solemnity – 19th

3rd Sunday of Lent – 23rd 

The Annunciation of the Lord – Solemnity – 25th

4th Sunday of Lent (Laetare) – 30th 

 

April 2025

5th Sunday of Lent – 6th 

Palm Sunday – 13th 

Maundy Thursday – 17th 

Good Friday – 18th 

Holy Saturday – 19th 

Easter Sunday – 20th 

Divine Mercy Sunday – 27th

[In other years: St. Mark – Feast – 25th]

St. George – Solemnity – 28th 

St. Catherine of Siena – 29th

 

May 2025
[In other years: The English Martyrs – Feast – 4th]

World Day of Prayer for Vocations – 11th 

Our Lady of Fatima – 13th

[In other years: St. Bede – 25th]

The Ascension of the Lord – Solemnity – 29th (Holy Day of Obligation)

The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary – Feast – 31st

 

June 2025

Pentecost – 8th

Our Lord Jesus Christ the Eternal High Priest – Feast – 12th

St. Anthony – 13th

The Most Holy Trinity – Solemnity – 15th 

Corpus Christi – Solemnity – 22nd 

The Nativity of John the Baptist – Solemnity – 24th

[In other years: Our Lady of Perpetual Help (Patron of the Diocese) – Feast – 27th]

The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus – Solemnity – 27th 

The Immaculate Heart of Mary –28th

Sts. Peter and Paul – Solemnity – 29th (Holy Day of Obligation)

 

July 2025
St. Benedict – Feast – 11th

Sea Sunday – 13th

Our Lady of Mount Carmel – 16th

St. Mary Magdalene – Feast – 22nd

Sts. Joachim and Anne, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary – 26th

Sts. Martha, Mary and Lazarus – 29th

 

August 2025
St. Jean Vianney – 4th

The Transfiguration of the Lord – Feast – 6th

Blessed Nicholas Postgate, Martyr – 7th

St. Maximilian Kolbe – 14th

The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary – Solemnity – 15th (Holy Day of Obligation)

Our Lady, Mother and Queen – 22nd

[In other years: St. Aiden, Bishop and Missionary, and the saints of Lindisfarne – 31st]