Religious Calendar Year 2014 - Jewish, Christian and Muslim Religious Days of Note

Jewish, Christian and Muslim (1)

Religious Days of Note

and

Marian Feast Days

For Calendar Year 2014

JANUARY

1st Solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God

3rd First Friday of the Month and Most Holy Name of Jesus

4th First Saturday of the Month

5th Solemnity of The Epiphany of The Lord (2)

12th Baptism of The Lord

13th Birthday of the Prophet Muhammad according to Sunni Muslims

18th Birthday of the Prophet Muhammad according to Shia Muslims

22nd Day of Penance in the US (3)

23rd [Mary's Wedding] (4)

25th Conversion of St. Paul

26th Sts. Timothy and Titus

31st St. John Bosco

(1) All Muslim religious Holy Days are dependent on Lunar cycles thus are different every year. For more details on Special Muslim Days find the link at end of this Document.

(2) In 2014, this Solemnity falls on Sunday, January 5. The Epiphany is not a Holiday of Obligation in the United States, and so it is always celebrated on the Sunday between January 2 and 8 instead of specifically on January 6th (UNLYC, no. 37).

(3) January 22 has been designated by the U.S. Bishops as a "particular day of penance for violations to the dignity of the human person committed through acts of abortion, and of prayer for the full restoration of the legal guarantee of the right to life."

(4) [ ] Denotes Feast Days which do not appear in the most current Vatican Roman Missal

FEBRUARY

1st First Saturday of the Month

2nd Presentation of The Lord (Candlemas)

7th First Saturday of the Month

11th Our Lady of Lourdes

20th [Our Lady of Tears]

24th Discovery of the Head of John the Baptizer (Celebrated by the Orthodox Church)

MARCH

1st First Saturday of the Month 5th Ash Wednesday

7th First Friday of the Month

16th Feast of Purim (Defeat of plot to destroy the Jews of Persia)

19th Feast of St. Joseph - Husband of Mary

24th Gabriel the Archangel (traditional)

APRIL

4th First Friday of the Month

5th First Saturday of the Month

11th Feast of the Seven Sorrows of Mary (Friday before Palm Sunday)

13th Palm Sunday

14th Celebration of Passover by Jewish Communities

17th Last Passover Meal

18th Holy Friday

19th Holy Saturday 20th Easter Sunday

25th St. Mark the Evangelist 26th Mary, Mother of Good Counsel

27th Divine Mercy Sunday

25th St. Mark the Evangelist 26th Mary, Mother of Good Counsel

MAY

1st St. Joseph, Worker

2nd First Friday of the Month

3rd First Saturday of the Month and Sts. Philip and James the Lesser - Apostles

8th [Mary, Mediatrix of all Graces]

13th [Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament and First Apparition of Our Lady at Fátima]

14th St. Matthias - Apostle

21st [Mary, Mother of Light]

24th [Mary, Help of Christians and Mary of the Path]

29th Ascension of Our Lord

30th St. Joan of Arc (victim of fanaticism within the Roman Catholic Church)

31st Mary, Queen of the Apostles (Saturday during the Octave following Ascension Day) and also on the.....

31st Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (used to be on July 2nd) as well as Mary, Queen of all Saints + Our Lady of the Most Holy Mountain + Mary, Mother of Wonderful Love

Need to update from here on down

JUNE

4th First day of Shavuot - (Shavuot marks the giving of the Torah on Mt. Sinai)

6th First Friday of the Month

7th First Saturday of the Month

8th Feast of Pentecost

9th [Mary, Mother of Grace]

13th St. Anthony of Lisbon (Padua)

15th Trinity Sunday 19th Actual Feast of Corpus Christi

22nd Feast of Corpus Christi celebrated today for convenience purposes.

24th Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist

27th Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and [Mary of Perpetual Help]

28th Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (Saturday after Sacred Heart of Jesus)

and also on

28th Ramadan Starts

29th Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul - Apostles

30th First Martyrs of the Roman Church

JULY

3rd St. Thomas - Apostle

4th First Friday of the Month and St. Elizabeth (Queen) of Portugal and U.S. Celebration of Independence Day 5th First Saturday of the Month and [Feast of the Seven Joys of Mary]

9th Mary, Miraculous Mother

11th St. Benedict - Patron of Europe

13th Mary, Mystical Rose (Rosa Mystica)] and Revelation of the Secret of FÃ¡tima

16th Our Lady of Mount Carmel and Scapular Feast Day

17th Feast of Mary's Humility

22nd St. Mary Magdalene

25th St. James the Greater - Apostle

26th Saints Anne and Joachim - Grandparents of Jesus and Mary, Mother of Mercy (Saturday before 4th Sunday of July)

28th Mary, Queen of Peace and End of Ramadan

AUGUST

1st First Friday of the Month

2nd First Saturday of the Month; and
[Mary of the Angels] 5th Feast of Our Lady of Snows; and
Dedication of St. Mary Major Basilica - Rome; and
Tish'a B'Av - Jewish fast commemorating the destruction of the two Temples

6th Transfiguration of Our Lord; and
Anniversary of the Nuclear Devastation in Hiroshima, Japan

13th [Mary, Refuge of Sinners]

15th Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

22nd The Queenship of Mary

24th St. Bartholomew - Apostle 29th Martyrdom of John the Baptist

30th Mary, Health of the Sick (Saturday before last Sunday in August)

SEPTEMBER

3rd Mary, Mother of the Good Shepherd

5th First Friday of the Month

6th First Saturday of the Month

8th The Birthday of Our Lady 12th The Holy Name of Mary

14th The Triumph of the Cross (A date of even greater eschatological importance.)

15th Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows

21st St. Matthew - Evangelist

23rd Conception of John the Baptist (Celebrated by the Orthodox Church)

24th Our Lady of Ransom

25th Beginning of Rosh HaShanh at sundown

27th Mary, Protector of Orphans

29th Archangels Michael, Gabriel & Raphael

OCTOBER

1st Feast of the Veil of Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos (Celebrated by the Orthodox Church) and the First day of the Hajj (1) (Muslims)

2nd Guardian Angels

3rd First Friday of the Month

4th First Saturday of the Month and Yom Kippur - Day of Atonement (2) (Judaism) and Eid al-Adha - Day of Sacrifice (3) (Muslims)

6th Last day of the Hajj (Muslims) 7th Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary

9th First day of the Feast of Sukkot (4) - a.k.a Feast of Booths or Feast of Tabernacles (Judaism)

11th Feast of the Motherhood of Mary begins Feast of Tabernacles (Judaism)

13th The Miracle at Fatima

15th St. Teresa of Jesus (Avila) and ends Feast of Tabernacles (Judaism)

16th [Feast of Mary's Purity] and Eighth Day of Assembly (Judaism)

17th Day of Celebrating the Torah (Judaism)

18th St. Luke - Evangelist

20th Mary, Wonderful Mother

26th Mary, Mother of the Dying (4th Sunday in October)

28th Sts. Simon and Jude - Apostles

(1) The Hajj is an annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca. Additional information

(2) Is the holiest day of the year for the Jews. Its central themes are atonement and repentance. Additional information

(3) The festival remembers the prophet Ibrahim's (Abraham) willingness to sacrifice his son when God ordered him to. Additional information

(4) It is one of the three biblically mandated festivals on which Jews were commanded to make a pilgrimage to the Temple in Jerusalem. Additional information

NOVEMBER

1st All Saints Day and First Saturday of the Month

2nd All Souls Day

3rd Ashura (recalls an event circa OCT. 20, 680 CE in Iraq when an army of the Umayyad regime martyred a group of 70 individuals who refused to submit to the Caliph. One of the martyrs was Imam Husain, the youngest grandson of Prophet Muhammad.)

7th First Friday of the Month

8th Feast of Mary, Our Shelter and Our Lady of All Graces (1st Saturday after All Saints Day)

9th Dedication of Basilica of St. John of Lateran

15th Mary, Mother of Divine Providence (Saturday before 3rd Sunday in November)

18th Consecration of the two Basilicas honoring St. Peter and St. Paul

21st Mary's Presentation

22nd End of the celebration of Al-Hijra / Muharram [First month of the Islamic calendar]

23rd Christ the King

27th Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal (Paris)

27th Thanksgiving Day in the US

30th St. Andrew - Apostle and First Sunday of Advent

DECEMBER

5th First Friday of the Month

6th First Saturday of the Month

8th Rosa Mystica Hour of Grace and Feast of the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady

10th [Our Lady of Loretto]

12th Our Lady of Guadalupe (Patroness of the Americas)

17th through 24th Chanukah [Festival of Lights] The Jewish festival of rededication of the Holy Temple

18th [Mary's Expectation]

25th Christmas Day

26th St. Stephen - First Martyr

27th St. John - Apostle and Evangelist

28th Feast of the Holy Innocents

30th Feast of Holy Family

31st Last Day of the Year 2013 plus Silvester I, Pope (1st Pope after the deliverance of Catholic Church to Emperor Constantine)

NOTES

For more details on Jewish Religious Dates Click Here

For more details on Muslim Religious Dates Click Here