Prayerbook, Prayers for all occasions, FeastDays of the General Roman Calendar

Italic print indicates feasts proper to the calendar of the United States. Lowercase abbreviation after some name indicates:

abbot, ab; apostle, ap; bishop, b; doctor, d; evangelist, e; martyr, m; pope, po; priest, pr; religious, r; virgin, v;

Capital letter in parentheses after some of the entries indicates: Solemnities (S); Feasts (F); and memorials (M). No letter indicates an optional memorial.

1.	Octave of Christmas
	Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God	(S)
2.	Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen	b/d (M)
4.	Elizabeth Ann Seton	b (M)
5.	John Newman	b (M)
6.	Bl. Andrew Bessette	r
7.	Raymond of Penyafort	pr
13.	Hilary of Poiters	b/d
17.	Anthony of Egypt	ab (M)
20.	Fabian	po/m
	Sebastian	m
21.	Agnes	v/m (M)
22.	Vincent	deacon/m
24.	Francis de Sales	b/d (M)
25.	Conversion of Paul	ap (F)
26.	Timothy and Titus	b (M)
27.	Angela Merici	v
28.	Thomas Aquinas	pr/d (M)
31.	John Bosco	pr (M)

Sunday between January 2 and January 8: Epiphany (S); Sunday after Epiphany: Baptism of the Lord (F)

2.	Presentation of the Lord	(F)
3.	Blaise	b/m
	Anskar	b
5.	Agatha	v/m (M)
6.	Paul Miki and companions	m (M)
8.	Jerome Emiliani
10.	Scholastic	v (M)
11.	Our Lady of Lourdes
14.	Cyril	m
	Methodius	b (M)
17.	Seven Founders of the Order of Servites
21.	Peter Damian	b/d
22.	Chair of Peter	ap (F)
23.	Polycarp	b/m (M)

4.	Casimir
7.	Perpetua and Felicity	m (M)
8.	John of God	r
17.	Patrick	b
18.	Cyril of Jerusalem	b/d
19.	Joseph, husband of Mary	(S)
23.	Turibius de Mongrovejo	b
25.	Annunciation	(S)

2.	Francis of Paola	hermit
4.	Isidore of Seville	b/d
5.	Vincent Ferrer	pr
7.	John Baptist de la Salle	pr (M)
11.	Stanislaus	b/m (M)
13.	Martin I	po/m
21.	Anselm	b/d
23.	George	m
24.	Fidelis of Sigmaringen	pr/m
25.	Mark	e (F)
28.	Peter Chanel	pr/m
29.	Catherine of Siena	v/d (M)
30.	Pius V	po

1.	Joseph the Worker
2.	Athanasius	b/d (M)
3.	Philip and James	ap (F)
12.	Nereus and Achilleus	m
	Pancras	m
14.	Matthias	ap (F)
15.	Isidore the Farmer
18.	John I	po/m
20.	Bernardino of Siena	pr
25.	Bede the Venerable	pr/d
	Gregory VII	po
	Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi	v
26.	Philip Neri	pr (M)
27.	Augustine of Canterbury	b
31.	Visitation	(F)

Sunday after Pentecost: Holy Trinity (S); Sunday after Holy Trinity: The Body and Blood of Christ (S); Friday after Trinity Sunday: Sacred Heart (S); Saturday after Trinity Sunday: Immaculate Heart of Mary

1.	Justin	m (M)
2.	Marcellinus and Peter	m
3.	Charles Lwanga and companions	m (M)
5.	Boniface	b/m (M)
6.	Norbert	b
9.	Ephraem	deacon/d
11.	Barnabas	ap (M)
13.	Anthony of Padua	pr/d (M)
19.	Romuald	ab
21.	Aloysius Gonzaga	r (M)
22.	Paulinus of Nola	b
	John Fisher	b/m
	Thomas More	m
24.	Birth of John the Baptist	(S)
27.	Cyril of Alexandria	b/d
28.	Irenaeus	b/m (M)
29.	Peter and Paul	ap (S)
30.	The Martyrs of Rome under Nero

3.	Thomas	ap (F)
4.	Elizabeth of Portugal
	U. S. Independence Day
5.	Anthony Zaccaria	pr
6.	Maria Goretti	v/m
11.	Benedict of Nursia	ab (M)
13.	Henry
14.	Bl. Kateri Tekakwitha	v
15.	Bonaventure	b/d (M)
16.	Camillus de Lellis	pr
	Our Lady of Mount Carmel
21.	Lawrence of Brindisi	pr/d
22.	Mary Magdalene	(M)
23.	Bridget of Sweden	r
25.	James	ap (F)
26.	Joachim and Anne, parents of Mary	(M)
29.	Martha	(M)
30.	Peter Chrysologus	b/d
31.	Ignatius of Loyala	pr (M)

1.	Alphonsus Liguori	b/d (M)
2.	Eusebius of Vercelli	b
4.	John Vianney	pr (M)
5.	Dedication of St. Mary Major
6.	Transfiguration	(F)
7.	Sixtus II and companions	po/m
	Cajetan	pr
8.	Dominic	pr (M)
10.	Laurence	deacon/m (F)
11.	Clare	v (M)
13.	Pontian	po/m
	Hippolytus	pr/m
14.	Maximilian Mary Kolbe	pr/m (M)
15.	Assumption	(S)
16.	Stephen of Hungary
19.	John Eudes	pr
20.	Bernard	ab/d (M)
21.	Pius X	po (M)
22.	Queenship of Mary	(M)
23.	Rose of Lima	v
24.	Bartholomew	ap (F)
25.	Louis; Joseph Calasanz	pr
27.	Monica	(M)
28.	Augustine	b/d (M)
29.	Beheading of John the Baptist	m (M)

3.	Gregory the Great	po/d
8.	Birth of Mary	(F)
9.	Peter Claver	pr (M)
13.	John Chrysostom	b/d (M)
14.	Triumph of the Cross	(F)
15.	Our Lady of Sorrows	(M)
16.	Cornelius	po/m
	Cyprian	b/m (M)
17.	Robert Bellarmine	b/d
19.	Januarius	b/m
20.	Andrew Kim Taegon	pr/m
	Paul Chong Hasang and companions	m (M)
21.	Matthew	ap/e (F)
25.	Cosmas and Damian	m
27.	Vincent de Paul	pr (M)
28.	Wenceslaus	m
	Lawrence Ruiz and companions	m
29.	Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, archangels	(F)
30.	Jerome	pr/d (M)

1.	Therese of Lisieux	v (M)
2.	Guardian Angels	(M)
4.	Francis of Assisi	(M)
6.	Bruno	pr
	Bl. Marie Rose Durocher	v
7.	Our Lady of the Rosary	(M)
9.	Denis	b/m
	companions	m
	John Leonardi	pr
14.	Callistus I	po/m
15.	Teresa of Avila	v/d (M)
16.	Hedwig	r
	Margaret Mary Alacoque	v
17.	Ignatius of Antioch	b/m (M)
18.	Luke	e (F)
19.	Isaac Jogues and John de Brebeuf	pr/m
	and companions	m (M)
	Paul of the Cross	pr
23.	John of Capistrano	pr
24.	Anthony Claret	b
28.	Simon and Jude	ap (F)

1.	All Saints'	(S)
2.	All Souls'
3.	Martin de Porres	r
4.	Charles Borromero	b (M)
9.	Dedication of St. John Lateran	(F)
10.	Leo the Great	po/d (M)
11.	Martin of Tours	b (M)
12.	Josaphat	b/m (M)
13.	Frances Xavier Cabrini	v (M)
15.	Albert the Great	b/d
16.	Margaret of Scotland	v
	Gertrude	v
17.	Elizabeth of Hungary	r (M)
18.	Dedication of the Churches of Peter and Paul	ap
21.	Presentation of Mary	(M)
22.	Cecilia	v/m (M)
23.	Clement I	po/m
	Columban	ab
30.	Andrew	ap (F)

Last Sunday in Ordinary Time: Christ the King (S); Fourth Thursday: Thanksgiving Day

3.	Francis Xavier	pr (M)
4.	John Damascene	pr/d
6.	Nicholas	b
7.	Ambrose	b/d (M)
8.	Immaculate Conception	(S)
11.	Damasus I	po
12.	Our Lady of Guadalupe	(M)
	Jane Frances de Chantal	r
13.	Lucy	v/m (M)
14.	John of the Cross	pr/d (M)
21.	Peter Canisius	pr/d
23.	John of Kanti	pr
25.	Christmas	(S)
26.	Stephen, first martyr	(F)
27.	John	ap/e (F)
28.	Holy Innocents	m (F)
29.	Thomas Becker	b/m
31.	Sylvester I	po

Communion with the saints. "It is not merely by the title of example that we cherish the memory of those in heaven; we seek, rather, that by this devotion to the exercise of fraternal charity the union of the whole Church in the Spirit may be strengthened. Exactly as Christian communion among our fellow pilgrims brings us closer to Christ, so our communion with the saints joins us to Christ, from whom as from its fountain and head issues all grace, and the life of the People of God itself."

We worship Christ as God's Son; we love the martyrs as the Lord's disciples and imitators, and rightly so because of their matchless devotion towards their king and master. May we also be their companions and fellow disciples.

When the Church keeps the memorials of martyrs and other saints during the annual cycle, she proclaims the Paschal mystery in those "who have suffered and have been glorified with Christ. She proposes them to the faithful as examples who draw all men to the Father through Christ, and through their merits she begs for God's favors.