Liturgical Calendar 2024 - 2025 | Year C — Weekday Cycle Year I

Important Days, Holy Days, Feast Days & Solemnities in the Church

• Solemnity of Mary, The Holy Mother Of God Wednesday, January 01, 2025 New Year's Day - Our Lady's divine maternity
• Ash Wednesday March 05, 2025 The first day of Lent (day of fasting and abstinence)
• Palm Sunday of the Passion of Our Lord April 13, 2025
• Holy Thursday April 17, 2025 Maundy Thursday - Mass of the Lord's Supper
• Good Friday April 18, 2025 Our Lord's Passion and Death (day of fasting and abstinence)
• Easter Vigil Saturday, April 19, 2025 Holy Saturday (Paschal Vigil)
• Easter Sunday April 20, 2025 Resurrection Sunday - The Solemnity of the Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ - Solemnity of Solemnities
• 2nd Sunday of Easter April 27, 2025 Divine Mercy Sunday
• 7th Sunday of Easter June 01, 2025 Ascension of Our Lord
• Solemnity of Pentecost Sunday, June 08, 2025 The Gift of the Holy Spirit
• 11th Sunday Ordinary Time June 15, 2025 Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity
• 12th Sunday Ordinary Time June 22, 2025 Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ - Feast of Corpus Christi - Our Lord's Real Presence in the Blessed Sacrament
• Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Into Heaven Friday, August 15, 2025
• All Saints Day Saturday, November 01, 2025
• 34th Sunday Ordinary Time November 23, 2025 Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe - Feast of Christ the King
• First Sunday of Advent November 30, 2025 (symbolizes Hope) 1st Sunday of Church Year
• Feast of the Immaculate Conception Monday, December 08, 2025 The Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary
• Solemnity of the Nativity of Our Lord Thursday, December 25, 2025 Christmas

Other Moveable Feast Days

• Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord Tuesday, March 25, 2025
• Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus Friday, June 27, 2025
• The Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary Saturday, June 28, 2025

For a more detailed list including Stations of the Cross on Lenten Fridays, Liturgical seasons (Advent, Christmas, Ordinary Time, Lent, Paschal Triduum, Easter, Ordinary Time after Pentecost Sunday), go to:

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Why the Holy Mass is SO Powerful

“The Mass is the most perfect form of prayer!” Pope Paul VI

The Mass is a Gift from Jesus that He Commands Us to Celebrate

The Mass is the Re-presentation of Jesus’ Death and Resurrection

Mass is a Communal, Family Prayer

Mass is where Jesus is Really, Truly Present in the Eucharist

What are the purposes for which the Mass is offered?

First, to adore God as our Creator and Lord.

Second, to thank God for His many favours.

Third, to ask God to bestow His blessings on all men.

Fourth, to satisfy the justice of God for the sins committed against Him.

At the hour of death the Holy Masses you have heard devoutly will be your greatest consolation.

Holy Days of Obligation

On Sundays and other holy days of obligation, the faithful are obliged to participate in the Holy Mass. - (Canon Law 1244-1253)

Holy days of obligation are feast days on which Catholics are required to attend Holy Mass and to avoid (to the extent that they are able) servile work. The faithful go to Mass on these days to rejoice. The Church invites the faithful to Mass on these holy days to recall that there is a reason to rejoice -

"For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life." (John 3: 16.)

From this perspective, holy days of obligation are a gift. The faithful take a step back from preoccupations to remember what is true, good, and beautiful.

Remember the sabbath day and keep it holy. For six days you shall labour and do all your work. But the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God; you shall not do any work—you, your son, or your daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the alien resident in your towns. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but rested the seventh day; therefore, the Lord blessed the sabbath day and consecrated it.

Exodus 20: 8 - 11

Every Sunday, the Lord's Day, is recognized as a holy day of obligation and Catholics are bound to participate in Holy Mass on Sunday or at an anticipated Mass on Saturday in the late afternoon or evening.

There are 10 Holy Days of Obligation in the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church:

• Solemnity of Mary, The Holy Mother Of God - January 1
• Epiphany - January 6
• Solemnity of St. Joseph - March 19
• Ascension of Our Lord
• Corpus Christi, the Most Holy Body & Blood of Christ
• Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul - June 29
• Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Into Heaven - August 15
• All Saints Day - November 1
• Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary - December 8
• Christmas, the Nativity of Our Lord - December 25

Ref: Holy Days of Obligation, Liturgical Calendar, Most Important Solemnities & Feasts