Solemnities, Feast Days, Memoriae ...
in December 2020
1 December - Bl Charles de Foucauld
3 December - St Francis Xavier
4 December - St Clement of Alexandria & St John Damascene
6 December - 2nd Sunday of Advent
7 December - St Ambrose of Milan
8 December - Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary
9 December - St Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin
10 December - Our Lady of Loreto
12 December - Our Lady of Guadalupe
14 December - St John of the Cross
21 December - St Peter Canisius
25 December - Solemnity of the Nativity of Our Lord, Christmas Day
26 December - St Stephen (the First Martyr)
27 December - Feast of the Holy Family
(also on this date St John, Apostle & Evangelist)
28 December - Holy Innocents, Martyrs
in January 2020
1 January - Solemnity of Mary Most Holy, Mother of God
53rd World Day of Peace - Peace as a journey of hope: dialogue, reconciliation & ecological conversion
2 January - St Basil the Great & St Gregory Nazianzen, Doctors of the Church
3 January - St Joseph Mary Tomasi
4 January - St Elizabeth Ann Seton & St Angela of Foligno
5 January - St John Neumann & St Charles of St Andrew Houben
6 January - Solemnity of the Epiphany
10 January - St Gregory of Nyssa, Cappadocian Father of the Church
12 January - Feast of the Baptism of the Lord - 1st Luminous Mystery of the Rosary
(this date also feast of St Marguerite Bourgeoys)
13 January - St Hilary of Poitiers
18-25 January - Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
19 January - St Frances de Sales
20 January - Bl Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi
22 January - St Vincent Pallotti
Bl William Joseph Chaminade
24 January - St Francis de Sales, Doctor of the Church
25 January - Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul the Apostle
26 January - 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
(this date also feast of Ss Timothy & Titus)
27 January - St Enrique de Ossó y Cervelló, Patron saint of Catechists
28 January - St Thomas Aquinas, the 'Angelic' Doctor of the Church
30 January - St Mutien-Marie Wiaux FSC
31 January - St John Bosco
in February 2020
2 February - Feast of the Presentation of the Lord & 24th World Day for Consecrated Life
8 February - St Josephine Bakhita
9 February - St Miguel Febres Cordero
10 February - St Scholastica
11 February - Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes & 28th World Day for the Sick
14 February - Ss Cyril & Methodius, Patrons of Europe
15 February - St Claude de la Colombière
20 February - Ss Jacinta & Francisco Marto
21 February - St Peter Damian
22 February - Chair of St Peter
26 February - Ash Wednesday & the beginning of Lent
St Paula of St Joseph Calasanz
in March 2020
1 March - 1st Sunday of Lent
(also feast of St David of Wales on this date)
2 March - St Nicholas Owen, martyr
18 March - St Cyril of Jerusalem, Bishop & Doctor of the Church
19 March - Solemnity of St Joseph, Husband of Mary
25 March - Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord
30 March - St John Climacus, monk
in April 2020
4 April - St Isidore, bishop & Doctor of the Church
5 April - Palm Sunday
6 April - St Juliana of Cornillon, apostle of the Blessed Sacrament
9 April - Holy Thursday - beginning of Easter Triduum with the Mass of the Last Supper
10 April - Good Friday
11 April - Holy Saturday
(this date is also the feast of St Stanislaus)
12 April - Easter Sunday - Day 1 of Octave of Easter
19 April - Feast of Divine Mercy - Day 8 of Octave of Easter
21 April - St Anselm, bishop & Doctor of the Church
26 April - III Sunday of Easter
28 April - St Louis Marie de Montfort & St Gianna Beretta Molla
29 April - St Catherine of Siena, Doctor of the Church
30 April - St Joseph Cottolengo
in Mary's month of May, 2020
1 May - St Joseph the Worker
2 May - St Athanasius, Bishop & Father of the Church
3 May - IV Sunday of Easter
(this date is also the feast of Saints Philip & James, Apostles)
4 May - Holy Martyrs of England and Wales
8 May - Our Lady of the Rosary (Pompeii, Italy, 875)
9 May - St George Preca
10 May - V Sunday of Easter
(this date is also the feast of St John of Avila, & St Damien de Veuster)
12 May - St Leopold Mandić of Castelnuovo, Capuchin priest, 'Apostle of Unity'
St Germanus of Constantinople
13 May - Our Lady of Fatima
14 May - St Matthias, Apostle
17 May - VI Sunday of Easter
18 May - St Leonard Murialdo
19 May - St Crispin of Viterbo
21 May - Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord (40 days after Easter Sunday)
22 May - St Rita of Cascia
24 May - VII Sunday of Easter
25 May - St Bede the Venerable, Father of the Church
St Maria Madalena de' Pazzi
26 May - St Philip Neri
27 May - St Augustine of Canterbury
29 May - St Paul VI & Bl Joseph Gérard, 'Apostle of Lesotho'
30 May - St Joan of Arc
St Joseph Marello
31 May - Solemnity of Pentecost
(this date is also the feast of The Visitation of Mary to her cousin Elizabeth)
in the month of the Sacred Heart, June 2020
1 June - Mary, the Mother of the Church
(this date is also the feast of St Justin, Martyr)
3 June - Charles Lwanga, Kizito & the Uganda Martyrs
4 June - Feast of Jesus, the Eternal High Priest
5 June - St Boniface, Bishop & Martyr
7 June - Holy Trinity Sunday
9 June - St Ephrem
11 June - Solemnity of Corpus Christi
(this date is also the feast of St Barnabas Apostle & St Paula Frassinetti)
13 June - St Anthony of Padua, Priest & Doctor of the Church
19 June - Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
20 June - Immaculate Heart of Mary
22 June - Ss John Fisher & Thomas More, Martyrs,
St Paulinus of Nola, Bishop, St Joseph Cafasso
24 June - Birth of St John the Baptist
25 June - 39th anniversary of the reported apparitions of Our Lady in Medjugorje
also feast of St Maximus of Turin
26 June - St Josemaría Escrivá, Founder of Opus Dei
27 June - St Cyril of Alexandria, Bishop & Doctor of the Church
28 June - St Irenaeus, Father of the Church & Martyr
29 June - Ss Peter & Paul, Apostles
in July 2020
1 July - St Oliver Plunkett, Martyr
3 July - St Thomas, the Apostle
4 July - Bl Pier Giorgio Frassati
6 July - St Maria Goretti, Virgin & Martyr
9 July - St Veronica Giuliani
11 July - St Benedict of Norcia, Abbot, Patron of Europe
12 July - Louis & Zélie Martin, parents of St Thérèse of Lisieux
15 July - St Bonaventure, Doctor of the Church
16 July - Our Lady of Mount Carmel
18 July - St Simon of Lipnica
21 July - St Lawrence of Brindisi, Priest & Doctor of the Church
22 July - St Mary Magdalen
23 July - St Bridget of Sweden, Patron of Europe
24 July - St Charbel Makhlouf
25 July - St James, the Apostle
31 July - St Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Jesuits
in August 2020
1 August - St Alphonsus Liguori, Bishop & Doctor of the Church
2 August - 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time
(St Eusebius of Vercelli)
4 August - St John Mary Vianney, the Curé of Ars, Patron Saint of Priests
5 August - Dedication of Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome - Our Lady of Snows
6 August - Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord
7 August - St Cajetan of Tiene, Patron Saint of the unemployed
8 August - St Dominic Guzman, Founder of the Dominicans
9 August - 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time
(St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein), Martyr & Co-Patroness of Europe)
11 August - St Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of St Clare
13 August - St Maximus the Confessor
14 August - St Maximilian Maria Kolbe, Martyr of Love
15 August - Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
17 August - Our Lady of Knock
St Jeanne Delanoue (de la Croix)
19 August - St John Eudes, Priest
20 August - St Bernard of Clairvaux, Abbot & Father of the Church
21 August - St Pius X
22 August - Feast of the Queenship of Mary
23 August - St Rose of Lima
24 August - St Bartholomew, the Apostle
26 August - Our Lady of Częstochowa
28 August - St Augustine, Bishop & Father of the Church
29 August - Feast of the Beheading of St John the Baptist
30 August - 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time
(St Margaret Clitherow, Martyr)
in September 2020
3 September - St Gregory the Great, Pope & Father of the Church
5 September - St Mother Teresa of Calcutta
8 September - the Birthday of the Blessed Virgin Mary
9 September - Bl Jacob Desiré Laval
12 September - The Most Holy Name of Mary
13 September - St John Chrysostom, Bishop & Father of the Church
14 September - Feast of the Exultation of the Cross
15 September - Our Lady of Sorrows
St Catherine of Genoa
16 September - St Cyprian
17 September - St Hildegarde of Bingen, Doctor of the Church
St Robert Bellarmine, Bishop & Doctor of the Church
20 September - Ss Andrew Kim Taegon & companions, Korean martyrs
21 September - St Matthew, the Apostle & Evangelist
23 September - St Pio of Pietrelcina (Padre Pio)
24 September - Our Lady of Walsingham
29 September - Ss Michael, Gabriel & Raphael, the Archangels
30 September - St Jerome, Priest & Father of the Church
in the month of the Holy Rosary, October 2020
1 October - St Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, Doctor of the Church
St Romanus the Melodist
2 October - The Guardian Angels
4 October - 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time
(date also the feast of St Francis of Assisi)
5 October - St Faustina Kowalska
7 October - Our Lady of the Rosary
9 October - St John Henry Newman
St John Leonardi
11 October - 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time
(date also the feast of St John XXIII)
13 October - 103rd anniversary of Our Lady's final apparition in Fatima when there was a miracle of the sun
15 October - St Teresa of Jesus, Doctor of the Church
16 October - St Margaret Mary Alacoque (of the Devotion to the Sacred Heart)
17 October - St Ignatius of Antioch
19 October - Ss John de Brebeuf, Isaac Jogues, Noël Chabanel & their companions, Martyrs
22 October - St John Paul II
28 October - Saints Simon & Jude, Apostles
30 October - St Alphonsus Rodriguez SJ
in the month of prayer for the Holy Souls, November 2020
1 November - All Saints
2 November - All Souls
4 November - St Charles Borromeo
8 November - 32nd Sunday of the Year
(also on this date Bl John Duns Scotus, Franciscan priest & Theologian)
10 November - St Leo the Great, Pope & Doctor of the Church
12 November - St Theodore the Studite, Abbot
15 November - 33rd Sunday of the Year
(also on this date St Albert the Great, Doctor of the Church, Patron Saint of Scientists)
16 November - St Gertrude the Great, Abbess
17 November - St Elizabeth of Hungary
19 November - St Matilda of Hackeborn
21 November - Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
22 November - Feast of Christ, King of the Universe
23 November - St Clement of Rome, Pope & Martyr
St Columbanus
24 November - Ss Andrew Dung-Lac & his companions, Martyrs
25 November - St Catherine of Alexandria, Patron Saint of Philosophers & Students
27 November - St Catherine Labouré (of Rue du Bac & the Miraculous Medal)
29 November - 1st Sunday of Advent
(also on this date St Francis Antony Fasani)
30 November - St Andrew, Apostle