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A medieval manuscript fragment of Finnish origin, c. 1340 –1360, utilized by the Dominican convent at Turku, showing the liturgical calendar for the month of June. The calendar of saints is the traditional Christian method of organizing a liturgical year by associating each day with one or more saints and referring to the day as the feast day or feast of said saint.
The General Roman Calendar (GRC) is the liturgical calendar that indicates the dates of celebrations of saints and mysteries of the Lord (Jesus Christ) in the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church, wherever this liturgical rite is in use. These celebrations are a fixed annual date, or occur on a particular day of the week.
From the website of the Catholic Church in Finland [12] 19 January: Saint Henry, bishop and martyr – Solemnity; 3 February: Saint Ansgar, bishop – Memorial; 14 February: Saints Cyril, monk and Methodius, bishop – Feast; 29 April: Saint Catherine of Siena, virgin and doctor of the Church – Feast; 18 May: Saint Eric, martyr – Memorial
In addition to the national calendar of the United States, the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter contains a number of saints from the British Isles in its liturgical calendar; [1] this calendar now supplants the former one used by Anglican Use Catholics in the United States [2] prior to 2015.
John XXIII's General Roman Calendar of 1960 reduced the number of celebrations and completely abandoned the ranking as Doubles, Simples, etc. . The General Roman Calendar of 1969 has subsequent adjustments and is currently in general use in the Latin Church (the present General Roman Calendar, observed for instance by the Pope himself).
While the many Roman martyrs and popes that remained (the popes reduced from 38 to 15) [13] ensured that the tradition of a Roman calendar was preserved, the revised calendar also endeavored to maintain a certain geographical and chronological balance, by selecting from the martyrs inscribed in the 1960 calendar, the more famous ancient saints ...
In the Catholic Church, All Saints' Day is considered a holy day of obligation, meaning parishioners are required to attend Mass. If the holy day falls on a Saturday or a Monday, Mass attendance ...
The Catholic Church sets aside certain days and seasons of each year to recall and celebrate various events in the life of Christ and his saints. In its Roman Rite the liturgical year begins with Advent, the time of preparation for both the nativity of Christ, and his expected second coming at the end of time. [18]