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January 2, 2017
Note: Dates of special significance to the Redemptorists are highlighted in red; dates related to Marian feasts (except the feast of Our Mother of Perpetual Help) are highlighted in blue.
Jan. 5: Feast day, St. John Neumann
Jan. 9: The Baptism of the Lord (transferred)
Jan. 14: Feast day, Blessed Peter Donders
Jan. 15: World Day of Migrants and Refugees
Jan. 18-25: Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
Jan. 22: Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children
Feb. 2: Candlemas; World Day for Consecrated Life
Feb. 11: Our Lady of Lourdes; World Day of the Sick
March 1: Ash Wednesday
March 15: Feast day, St. Clement Hofbauer
March 20: St. Joseph (transferred)
March 25: The Annunciation
April 9: Passion Sunday
April 13: Holy Thursday
April 14: Good Friday
April 16: Easter
April 23: Divine Mercy Sunday
April 26 (1866): icon of Our Mother of Perpetual Help restored to public veneration
May 7: World Day of Prayer for Vocations
May 13: Our Lady of Fatima
May 24: Day of Prayer for the Church in China
May 25: The Ascension (transferred to Sunday, May 28, in most U.S. dioceses)
May 28: The Ascension (transferred); World Communications Day
May 31: The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
June 4: Pentecost Sunday
June 11: Trinity Sunday
June 18: Corpus Christi (transferred)
June 23: Sacred Heart of Jesus; World Day of Prayer for the Sanctification of Priests
June 27: Our Mother of Perpetual Help
June 28: Feast day, Blessed Nicholas Charnetsky and companions, Redemptorist martyrs of Ukraine
June 30: Feast day, Blessed Gennaro Maria Sarnelli
Aug. 1: Feast day, St. Alphonsus Liguori, founder of the Redemptorists
Aug. 15: The Assumption
Aug. 22: The Queenship of Mary
Sept. 8: The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Sept. 15: Our Lady of Sorrows
Sept. 26: Feast day, Blessed Kaspar Stanggassinger
Oct. 5: Feast day, Blessed Francis X. Seelos
Oct. 7: Our Lady of the Rosary
Oct. 16: Feast day, St. Gerard Majella
Oct. 22: World Mission Sunday
Nov. 1: All Saints
Nov. 6: Feast day, Redemptorist martyrs of Cuenca, Spain
Nov. 5-11: National Vocation Awareness Week
Nov. 9 (1732): founding of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer (the Redemptorists)
Nov. 21: The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Nov. 23: Thanksgiving
Nov. 28: Giving Tuesday
Dec. 3: Advent begins
Dec. 8: Immaculate Conception
Dec. 11 (1866): Pius IX gives the Redemptorists the mandate to “make [Our Mother of Perpetual Help] known throughout the world”
Dec. 12: Our Lady of Guadalupe
Dec. 25: Christmas