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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

Untold numbers of miracles have been attributed to St. John Neumann’s intercession. If you’d like to ask his help, consider the following novena. First day St. John Neumann, obtain for me a solid faith in all the teachings of the Catholic Church, along with the light to know the emptiness of earthly possessions, along with the seriousness of my sins.