Important religious dates for 2020

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. 1: Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God

Jan. 5: Feast day, St. John Neumann 

Jan. 5: The Epiphany of the Lord

Jan. 12: The Baptism of the Lord (transferred)

Jan. 14: Feast day, Blessed Peter Donders

Jan. 18-25: Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

Jan. 22: Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children

Feb. 2: The Presentation of the Lord (Candlemas); World Day for Consecrated Life

Feb. 11: Our Lady of Lourdes; World Day of the Sick

February 26: Ash Wednesday

March 15: Feast day, St. Clement Hofbauer

March 19: St. Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary

March 25: The Annunciation of the Lord

April 5: Passion Sunday; World Youth Day

April 9: Holy Thursday

April 10: Good Friday

April 12: Easter

April 19: Divine Mercy Sunday

April 26 (1866): icon of Our Mother of Perpetual Help restored to public veneration

May 3: World Day of Prayer for Vocations

May 13: Our Lady of Fatima

May 24: Day of Prayer for the Church in China

May 24: The Ascension (transferred, most U.S. dioceses); World Communications Da

May 31: Pentecost Sunday; The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

June 1: The Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church

June 7: Trinity Sunday

June 14: Corpus Christi (transferred)

June 19: Sacred Heart of Jesus; World Day of Prayer for the Sanctification of Priests

June 20: The Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary

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. 6: The Transfiguration of the Lord

Aug. 15: The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Aug. 22: The Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Sept. 8: The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Sept. 15: Our Lady of Sorrows

Sept. 26: Feast day, Blessed Kaspar Stanggassinger

Sept. 27: World Day of Migrants and Refugees

Oct. 5: Feast day, Blessed Francis X. Seelos

Oct. 7: Our Lady of the Rosary

Oct. 16: Feast day, St. Gerard Majella

Oct. 18: World Mission Sunday

Nov. 1: All Saints

Nov. 1-7: National Vocation Awareness Week

Nov. 2: The Commemoration of the Faithful Departed (All Souls)

Nov. 6: Feast day, Redemptorist martyrs of Cuenca, Spain

Nov. 9 (1732): founding of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer (the Redemptorists)

Nov. 21: The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Nov. 22: Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe

Nov. 26: Thanksgiving

Nov. 29: Advent begins

Dec. 8: The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary

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: The Nativity of the Lord

Dec. 27: The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph