Institutional and societal calendars of the Roman Rite

Institutional and societal calendars of the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church are lists of saints' feast days and other liturgical celebrations, organized by calendar date, that apply to members of individual institutes of consecrated life[a] and societies of apostolic life of pontifical right that worship according to the Roman Rite of the Latin Church. They are "particular calendars" that build off of the General Roman Calendar.

Institutes and societies edit

Augustinians edit

Includes the Discalced Augustinians and the Augustinian Recollects

Benedictines edit

According to the Calendar of the Benedictine Confederation (additional feasts may vary among congregations, or even among monasteries within a same congregation):[1][2]

Brothers Hospitallers edit

  • 20 January: Conversion of Saint John of God – Memorial
  • 12 February: Blessed José Olallo Valdés, religious – Optional Memorial
  • 8 March: Saint John of God, religious and founder – Solemnity
  • 24 April: Saint Benedict Menni, priest – Memorial
  • 26 April: Our Lady of Good Counsel – Optional Memorial
  • 1 May: Saint Richard Pampuri, religious – Memorial
  • 3 June: Saint Juan Grande Román, religious – Memorial
  • 10 June: Blessed Joseph Kugler, religious – Optional Memorial
  • 28 August: Saint Augustine of Hippo, bishop and Doctor of the Church – Feast
  • 25 October: Blessed Braulio María Corres and companions, martyrs – Memorial
  • 5 November: Commemoration of the Faithful Departed of the Order
  • 17 November: Patronage of Our Lady over the Hospitaller Order – Solemnity
  • 28 November: Translation of the Relics of Saint John of God – Optional Memorial

Brothers of the Christian Schools (Lasallians) edit

Camillians edit

  • 10 May: Blessed Enrico Rebuschini, priest – Memorial
  • 22 May: Blessed Maria Domenica Brun Barbantini, religious – Optional Memorial
  • 14 July: Saint Camillus de Lellis, priest and founder – Solemnity
  • 26 September: Blessed Luigi Tezza, priest – Memorial
  • 16 October: Blessed Giuseppina Vannini, virgin – Optional Memorial
  • 25 October or the Sunday before the Solemnity of All Saints: Dedication of the Church (if the date is unknown) – Solemnity
  • 16 November: Our Lady, Health of the Sick – Feast

Capuchins edit

Besides the celebrations listed in the Common Franciscan Calendar, the Capuchin Proper Calendar is as follows:

  • 5 January: Blessed Diego José of Cádiz, religious – Optional Memorial (6 Jan. in the USA)
  • 12 January: Saint Bernard of Corleone, religious – Memorial
  • 4 February: Saint Joseph of Leonessa, priest – Memorial
  • 9 February: Blessed Leopold of Alpandeire, religious – Optional Memorial
  • 21 April: Saint Conrad of Parzham, religious – Memorial
  • 24 April: Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen, priest – Feast
  • 30 April: Blessed Benedict of Urbino, priest – Optional Memorial
  • 8 May: Blessed Jeremiah of Walachia, religious – Optional Memorial
  • 11 May: Saint Ignatius of Làconi, religious – Memorial
  • 12 May: Saint Leopold Mandić, priest – Memorial
  • 18 May: Saint Felix of Cantalice, religious – Feast
  • 19 May: Saint Crispin of Viterbo, religious – Memorial
  • 27 May: Blessed José Tous y Soler, priest – Optional Memorial
  • 2 June: Saint Felix of Nicosia, religious – Memorial
  • 8 June: Blessed Nicholas of Gèsturi, religious – Optional Memorial
  • 12 June: Blessed Florida Cevoli, nun – Optional Memorial
  • 16 June: Blessed Anazet Koplinski and Companions, martyrs – Optional Memorial
  • 26 June: Blessed Andrew Hyacinth Longhin, bishop – Optional Memorial
  • 26 June: Blessed Yaccoub el-Haddad of Ghazir, priest – Optional Memorial
  • 10 July: Saint Veronica Giuliani, nun – Feast
  • 21 July: Saint Lawrence of Brindisi, priest and Doctor of the Church – Feast
  • 27 July: Blessed Mary Magdalen Martinengo, nun – Optional Memorial
  • 28 July: Blessed Mary Teresa Kowalska, nun and martyr – Optional Memorial
  • 30 July: Blessed Solanus Casey, priest – Optional Memorial
  • 7 August: Blesseds Agathangelo and Cassian, priests, martyrs – Optional Memorial
  • 13 August: Blessed Mark of Aviano, priest – Optional Memorial
  • 18 August: Blessed Capuchin Martyrs of Rochefort, priests, martyrs – Optional Memorial
  • 23 August: Blessed Bernard of Offida, religious – Optional Memorial
  • 2 September: Blessed Apollinaris of Posat, priest, martyr – Optional Memorial
  • 19 September: Saint Francis Mary of Camporosso, religious – Memorial
  • 22 September: Saint Ignatius of Santhià, priest – Memorial
  • 23 September: Saint Pio of Pietrelcina (Padre Pio), priest – Solemnity
  • 26 September: Blessed Aurelio of Vinalesa and Companions, martyrs – Optional Memorial
  • 28 September: Blessed Innocent of Berzo, priest – Optional Memorial
  • 12 October: Saint Seraphin of Montegranaro, religious – Memorial
  • 13 October: Blessed Honorat Kożmiński, priest – Optional Memorial
  • 25 October: Blessed María Jesús Masiá Ferragut and Companions, martyrs – Optional Memorial
  • 31 October: Saint Angelo of Acri, priest – Memorial
  • 6 November: Blessed Andrew of Palazuelo and Companions, martyrs – Optional Memorial
  • 2 December: Blessed Mary Angela Astorch, nun – Optional Memorial
  • 10 December. Blessed Arsenio of Trigolo, priest – Optional Memorial

Carmelites edit

Carthusians edit

According to the Proper Rite and Calendar of the Carthusian Order approved on 30 November 2018:[4]

  • 3 January: Blessed Ayrald, monk and bishop – Optional Memorial
  • 14 January: Blessed Odo, monk and bishop – Optional Memorial
  • 4 February: Blessed Lanuin, monk – Optional Memorial
  • 22 April: Saint Hugh of Grenoble, bishop
  • 4 May: Saints John, Augustine, Robert and Blessed Companions, monks and martyrs
  • 10 May: Blessed Nicholas Albergati, monk and bishop – Optional Memorial
  • 24 May: Blessed William of Fenol, monk
  • 25 June: Blessed John of Spain, monk
  • 26 June: Saint Anthelm, monk and bishop
  • 6 July: Saint Rosaline, virgin and nun
  • 14 July: Blessed Boniface, monk and bishop – Optional Memorial
  • 16 July: Blessed Claudius and Lazarus, and other Carthusian Martyrs
  • 5 August: Blessed William Horn, monk and martyr
  • 7 September: Saint Stephen, monk and bishop – Optional Memorial
  • 6 October: Saint Bruno, monk – Solemnity
  • 8 October: Saint Artold, monk and bishop – Optional Memorial
  • 13 November: All the saints of the Carthusian Order, monks and nuns
  • 14 November: The Departed Members of the Carthusian Order
  • 17 November: Saint Hugh of Lincoln, monk and bishop
  • 25 November: Blessed Beatrice, virgin and nun

Cistercians edit

According to the Proper Masses and Calendar of the Cistercian Order:[5]

Claretians edit

Discalced Carmelites edit

Dominicans edit

Franciscans edit

From the Franciscan Supplement to the Roman Missal. [6]

Note: Saints in the Franciscan Order are classified into First Order (members of male congregations such as the Order of Friars Minor [OFM], as well as the Conventual [OFMConv] and Capuchin Franciscans [OFMCap]), Second Order (cloistered female congregations, such as the Poor Clares), and Third Order (lay associates and other religious congregations that follow the Franciscan charism). The postnominals after the liturgical ranking signify celebrations proper to a particular branch or branches of the Franciscan family.

Jesuits edit

Mercedarians edit

  • 17 April: Blessed Marianna of Jesus Navarro, virgin – Memorial
  • 27 April: Saint Peter Armengol, religious and martyr – Memorial
  • 13 May: Saint Peter Nolasco, religious and founder – Solemnity
  • 9 July: Most Holy Redeemer – Feast
  • 28 August: Saint Augustine, bishop and Doctor of the Church – Feast
  • 31 August: Saint Raymund Nonnatus, priest – Feast
  • 19 September: Saint Mary of Cervellon, virgin – Memorial (Feast for Nuns)
  • 24 September: Our Lady of Mercy – Solemnity
  • 25 October: Dedication of the Church (if date is unknown) – Solemnity
  • 6 November: All the Saints of the Order – Feast
  • 7 November: Commemoration of All of the Faithful Departed of the Order
  • 14 November: Saint Serapion, religious and martyr – Memorial
  • 6 December: Saint Peter Paschasius, bishop and martyr – Memorial

Missionaries of Charity edit

Missionaries of the Precious Blood edit

Murialdines edit

  • 19 March: Saint Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Titular and Principal Patron of the Congregation of St. Joseph – Solemnity
  • 1 May: Saint Joseph the Worker – Feast
  • 18 May: Saint Leonardo Murialdo, priest and founder of the congregation – Solemnity

Oratorians edit

Passionists edit

Pauline Family edit

  • Saturday after the Ascension: Our Lady, Queen of the Apostles – Feast
  • 30 June: Saint Paul the Apostle, Patron Saint of the Congregation – Solemnity
  • 3 September: Our Lady, Mother of the Good Shepherd – Memorial
  • 4 September: Saint Gregory the Great, pope and Doctor of the Church – Memorial
  • 22 October: Blessed Timothy Giaccardo, priest – Memorial
  • Last Sunday of October: Jesus, Divine Master – Solemnity
  • 26 November: Blessed James Alberione, priest and founder – Feast

Piarists edit

  • 6 February: Saint Dorothy, virgin and martyr – Optional Memorial
  • 26 February: Saint Paula Montal, virgin – Optional Memorial
  • 8 March: Saint Faustino Míguez, priest – Optional Memorial
  • 18 March: Blessed Celestina Donati, virgin – Optional Memorial
  • 8 May: Our Lady, Mother of God of the Pious Schools – Feast
  • 15 July: Saint Pompilio María Pirrotti, priest – Memorial
  • 25 August: Saint Joseph Calasanctius, priest and founder – Solemnity
  • 12 September: Most Holy Name of Mary – Feast
  • 17 September: Blessed Anthony Mary Schwartz, priest – Optional Memorial
  • 19 September: Blessed María Baldillou and companions, martyrs – Optional Memorial (Memorial for Nuns)
  • 22 September: Blessed Dionisio Pamplona, priest and companions, martyrs – Memorial
  • 17 October: Blessed Peter Casani, priest – Memorial
  • 25 October: Dedication of the Church (if date is unknown) – Solemnity
  • 3 November: Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed of the Order
  • 4 November: Commemoration of All the Departed Family, Benefactors of the Order
  • 6 November: Commemoration of All the Departed Priests of the Order
  • 7 November: Commemoration of All the Departed Nuns of the Order
  • 27 November: Patronage of Saint Joseph Calasanctius – Optional Memorial

Redemptorists edit

Society of St. Francis de Sales (Salesian Priests and Sisters) edit

  • 8 January: Blessed Titus Zeman, priest and martyr – Memorial
  • 15 January: Blessed Luigi Variara, priest – Memorial (Optional Memorial for the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (FMA) and the Volunteers of Don Bosco (VDB))
  • 22 January: Blessed Laura Vicuña – Optional Memorial (Memorial for FMA)
  • 24 January: Saint Francis of Sales, bishop and Doctor of the Church, Titular of the Congregation – Feast
  • 30 January: Blessed Bronislaus Markiewicz – Optional Memorial (For the Salesian Priests (SDB) only)
  • 31 January: Our Holy Father and Founder Saint John Bosco, priest, founder and patron of the Congregation – Solemnity
  • 1 February: Commemoration of all deceased Salesian Confreres (For SDB only)
  • 7 February: Blessed Pius IX, pope – Optional Memorial
  • 9 February: Blessed Eusebia Palomino Yenes, virgin – Optional Memorial (Memorial for FMA)
  • 25 February: Saint Luigi Versiglia, bishop and Saint Callistus Caravario, priest, Salesian Protomartyrs – Feast (Memorial for FMA and VDB)
  • 6 May: Saint Dominic Savio – Feast
  • 13 May: Saint Mary Domenica Mazzarello, virgin and cofoundress of the congregation – Feast (Solemnity for FMA)
  • 14 May: Commemoration of Deceased parents of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (FMA only)
  • 15 May: Our Lady of Fatima – Memorial (Optional for FMA and VDB)
  • 16 May: Saint Louis Orione, priest – Memorial
  • 18 May: Saint Leonardo Murialdo, priest – Optional Memorial
  • 24 May: Mary, Help of Christians, Principal Patroness of the Salesian Society of St. Francis de Sales (Salesians of Don Bosco), Principal Patroness and Titular of the Institute of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians – Solemnity
  • 25 May: Commemoration of Deceased Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (For FMA only)
  • 29 May: Blessed Joseph Kowalski, priest and martyr – Memorial (Optional Memorial for FMA and VDB)
  • 8 June: Blessed István Sándor, martyr – Memorial
  • 12 June: Blessed Francis Kesy and companions, martyrs – Optional Memorial
  • 23 June: Saint Joseph Cafasso, priest – Memorial
  • 7 July: Blessed Maria Romero Meneses, virgin – Optional Memorial (Memorial for FMA)
  • 2 August: Blessed Augustus Czartoryski, priest – Optional Memorial
  • 25 August: Blessed Maria Troncatti, virgin – Optional Memorial
  • 26 August: Blessed Zeferino Namuncura – Optional Memorial
  • 22 September: Blesseds Joseph Calasanz, Henry Saiz, Enrique Aparicio, priests and companions, martyrs – Memorial (Optional Memorial for VDB)
  • 5 October: Blessed Alberto Marvelli – Optional Memorial (For SDB only)
  • 13 October: Blessed Alexandrina da Costa, virgin – Optional Memorial
  • 15 October: Saint Teresa of Avila, virgin and Doctor of the Church, Secondary Patroness of the Daughters of Mary, Help of Christians - Feast (For FMA only)
  • 24 October: Saint Luigi Guanella, priest – Optional Memorial
  • 25 October: Dedication of the Church (if date of dedication is unknown) – Solemnity
  • 27 October: Dedication of the Basilica of Our Lady Help of Christians, Turin – Feast (Solemnity in the Basilica itself)
  • 29 October: Blessed Michael Rua, priest and first successor of Don Bosco – Memorial
  • 13 November: Saint Artémides Zatti, religious – Memorial (Optional Memorial for FMA)
  • 15 November: Blessed Maddalena Caterina Morano, virgin – Optional Memorial
  • 5 December: Blessed Philip Rinaldi, priest and third successor of Don Bosco – Memorial (Feast for VDB)

Salvatorians edit

Servites edit

  • 12 January: Saint Anthony Mary Pucci, priest – Feast
  • 15 January: Blessed James of Pieve, religious – Optional Memorial
  • 3 February: Blessed Joachim of Sienna – Memorial
  • 17 February: Seven Holy Founders of the Order – Solemnity
  • 19 February: Blessed Elizabeth Picenardi, virgin – Optional Memorial
  • Friday after the Fifth Sunday of Lent: Our Lady at the Foot of the Cross – Feast
  • 4 May: Saint Peregine Laziosi, religious – Feast
  • 8 May: Our Lady, Mother and Mediatrix of All Graces – Optional Memorial
  • 11 May: Blessed John Benincasa, religious – Optional Memorial
  • 12 May: Blessed Francis of Sienna, priest – Memorial
  • 30 May: Blessed James Bertoni, priest – Memorial
  • 19 June: Saint Juliana Falconieri, virgin – Feast (Solemnity for the Nuns)
  • 27 June: Blessed Thomas of Orvieto, religious – Optional Memorial
  • 1 July: Blessed Ferdinand Baccilieri, religious – Optional Memorial
  • 4 July: Blessed Ubaldus of Borgo Sansepolcro, priest – Optional Memorial
  • 13 July: Saint Clelia Barbieri, virgin – Memorial
  • 23 August: Saint Philip Benizi, religious – Feast
  • 28 August: Saint Augustine, bishop and Doctor of the Church – Feast
  • 31 August: Blessed Andrea of Borgo Sansepolcro, religious – Optional Memorial
  • 1 September: Blessed Giovanna of Firenze, virgin – Optional Memorial (Memorial for the Nuns)
  • 5 September: Blessed Maria Maddalena Starace, virgin – Optional Memorial
  • 6 September: Blessed Bonaventure of Forlì, priest – Memorial
  • 15 September: Our Lady of Sorrows, Principal Patroness of the Order – Solemnity
  • 17 September: Blessed Cecilia Eusepi, virgin – Optional Memorial
  • 22 September: Dedication of the Basilica of Monte Senario – Memorial
  • 3 October: Blessed María Guadalupe Ricart Olmos, virgin and martyr – Optional Memorial
  • 25 October: Blessed Giovannangelo Porro – Memorial
  • 16 November: All of Saints of the Order – Feast
  • 17 November: Commemoration of all the Faithful Departed of the Order
  • 10 December: Blessed Jerome of Sant'Angelo in Vado, priest – Optional Memorial
  • 15 December: Blessed Bonaventure of Pistoia, priest – Optional Memorial

Society of the Divine Word edit

Theatines edit

  • 4 January: Saint Giuseppe Maria Tomasi, priest – Feast
  • 8 May: Our Lady, Immaculate Mother – Feast
  • 16 June: Blessed Paolo Burali, bishop – Memorial
  • 7 August: Saint Cajetan, priest and founder – Solemnity
  • 14 September: Exaltation of the Holy Cross – Solemnity
  • 10 November: Saint Andrew Avelino, priest – Feast
  • 12 December: Blessed John Marinonio, priest – Memorial

Trinitarians edit

Vincentian Family edit

Includes the Congregation of the Mission and the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul

  • 4 January: Saint Elizabeth Anne Seton, religious – Memorial
  • 7 January: Blessed Lindalva Justo de Oliveira, virgin and martyr – Optional Memorial
  • 25 January: The Conversion of Saint Paul, anniversary of the Institution of the Congregation of Missions – Feast
  • 1 February: Blesseds Marie-Anne Vaillot and Otilia Baumgarten, virgins and martyrs – Optional Memorial
  • 3 February: Blessed Josephine Nicoli, virgin – Optional Memorial
  • 7 February: Blessed Rosalia Rendu, virgin – Optional Memorial
  • 26 April: Translation of the Relics of Saint Vincent de Paul – Optional Memorial
  • 9 May: Saint Louise de Marillac, religious and cofounder – Solemnity
  • 23 May: Saint Joanna Antide Thouret, virgin – Optional Memorial
  • 30 May: Blessed Martha Mary Wiecka, virgin – Optional Memorial
  • 26 June: Blessed Mary Magdalene Fontaine and companions, virgins and martyrs – Optional Memorial
  • 9 July: Saints Francis Regis Clet, Augustine Zhao Rong, priests and companions, martyrs – Memorial
  • 28 July: Saint Peter Chrysologus, bishop and Doctor of the Church – Optional Memorial
  • 30 July: Saint Justin de Jacobis, bishop – Memorial
  • 30 August: Blessed Ghebre Michael, priest and martyr —Memorial
  • 2 September: Blesseds Louis Joseph François and companions, priests and martyrs – Optional Memorial
  • 9 September: Blessed Frederic Ozanam – Optional Memorial
  • 11 September: Saint John Gabriel Perboyre, priest and martyr – Memorial
  • 27 September: Saint Vincent de Paul, priest and founder – Solemnity
  • Sunday before the Solemnity of All Saints: Dedication of the Church (if date is unknown) – Solemnity
  • 6 November: Blesseds Fortunata Velasco Tobar, priest, Melchora Adoración Cortés Bueno, José Martínez Pérez, virgins and companions, martyrs – Optional Memorial
  • 27 November: Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal – Feast
  • 28 November: Saint Catharine Labouré, virgin – Memorial
  • 10 December: Blessed Marco Antonio Durando, priest – Optional Memorial

See also edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ In Catholic canon law, the term "institutes of consecrated life" includes both religious institutes (including religious orders and congregations) and secular institutes.

References edit

  1. ^ "Proprium Missarum ad usum Confoederationis Ordinis S. Benedicti". 9 June 1975 – via Internet Archive.
  2. ^ "Thesaurus Liturgiae Horarum Monasticae". Scribd.
  3. ^ O.Carm. "St. Titus memorial approved as obligatory". ocarm.org. Retrieved 2023-06-14.
  4. ^ "Three Years of the New Carthusian Calendar of Saints". 30 November 2021.
  5. ^ "Proper Masses for the Use of the Cistercian Order (in Latin)" (PDF).
  6. ^ Franciscan Supplement to the Roman Missal (PDF). English Speaking Conference of the Order of Friars Minor. 2016. Retrieved 5 June 2023.