Catholic Liturgical Calendar
Feast days, saints, holy days of obligation and the seasons of the Church year. Tap any day to learn about it and find a Rosary to pray.
What the colors mean
- White joy and purity: Christmas and Easter, feasts of the Lord, Mary, the angels, and saints who were not martyrs
- Red blood and fire: the Lord’s Passion (Palm Sunday, Good Friday), the Holy Spirit (Pentecost), apostles and martyrs
- Green hope and growth: Ordinary Time, when the Church follows Christ’s public ministry week by week
- Violet penance and preparation: Advent and Lent
- Rose joy breaking through the penance: Gaudete Sunday (3rd of Advent) and Laetare Sunday (4th of Lent), optional
- Holy day of obligation
- Fast or abstinence
- Bold solemnity or feast · italic optional memorial
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Holy days of obligation
Only the U.S. holy days of obligation, each with a reminder at 6 PM the evening before.
All feasts and saints
Every solemnity, feast and memorial, including optional memorials, with the story of each saint or feast.
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About this calendar
This calendar follows the current General Roman Calendar together with the Proper Calendar for the Dioceses of the United States of America (USCCB). Movable feasts are calculated from the date of Easter each year.
Holy days of obligation in the U.S. are Mary, Mother of God (Jan. 1), the Ascension, the Assumption (Aug. 15), All Saints (Nov. 1), the Immaculate Conception (Dec. 8) and Christmas (Dec. 25), in addition to every Sunday. When Jan. 1, Aug. 15 or Nov. 1 falls on a Saturday or a Monday, the obligation to attend Mass is lifted. The Immaculate Conception, patronal feast of the United States, is always obligatory; when Dec. 8 is a Sunday of Advent it moves to Monday, Dec. 9, and the obligation moves with it. In Hawaii, only Christmas and the Immaculate Conception are holy days of obligation.
The Ascension is kept on the Seventh Sunday of Easter in most U.S. dioceses. The ecclesiastical provinces of Boston, Hartford, New York, Omaha and Philadelphia keep it on Thursday, forty days after Easter. Epiphany is kept on the Sunday between Jan. 2 and 8, and Corpus Christi on the Sunday after Trinity Sunday.
Fasting and abstinence: Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are days of fasting (ages 18–59) and abstinence from meat (age 14 and up). The Fridays of Lent are days of abstinence. All Fridays of the year are days of penance.
1962 calendar notes: where a celebration falls on a different date in the traditional (1962) Roman calendar, the day’s note shows it, for those who also follow the Extraordinary Form.
Your diocese may add its own celebrations (for example, the dedication of the cathedral or a local patron), so check your parish bulletin. For the official calendar and daily readings, see the USCCB liturgical calendar and daily readings.
The write-ups on this page are original to OrateRosarium and offered as a help to devotion. OrateRosarium is a private aid to personal prayer and is not affiliated with any diocese.