Left to right, Father Kevin Murray, Father Paul Borowski, and Brother Gerard St. Hilaire. Father Murray and Brother Gerard are leading the new Redemptorist mission on the island of St. Vincent, West Indies.
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