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The most prominent Marian feast days in the General Roman Calendar are: [11] January 1: Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God. May 31 (in some locations July 2): The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Monday after Pentecost: The Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church.
Indiction of a Holy Year: The Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy 2015-2016 Also note In Coena Domini ("At the Lord's dinner"), a recurrent papal bull issued annually between 1363 and 1770, at first on Holy Thursday , later on Easter Monday .
The Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy ( Latin: Iubilaeum Extraordinarium Misericordiae) was a Catholic period of prayer held from 8 December 2015, the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, to 20 November 2016, the Feast of Christ the King. [1] Like previous jubilees, it was seen by the Church as a period for remission of sins and universal ...
Divine Mercy. Divine Mercy Sunday (also known as the Feast of the Divine Mercy) is a feast day that is observed in the Roman Rite calendar, as well as some Anglo-Catholics of the Church of England (it is not an official Anglican feast). It is celebrated on the Second Sunday of Easter, which concludes the Octave of Easter.
July 2, 1949 [51] Bishop André-Marie Charue [ de; fr; fi; lb] Diocese of Namur. Five children, ages 9 to 15, reported seeing 33 apparitions of Mary between November 1932 and January 1933. Mary asked for prayer and for the construction of a chapel as a place of pilgrimage, promising to convert sinners.
Her feast day is now celebrated on 8 October. Mysterii Paschalis. The 1969 revision of the liturgical year and the calendar in the Roman Rite states: "1 January, the Octave Day of the Nativity of the Lord, is the Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God, and also the commemoration of the conferral of the Most Holy Name of Jesus."
In 2015, at St. Peter's Basilica, in a Papal Bull of Indiction entitled Misericordiae Vultus ("The Face of Mercy"), Pope Francis proclaimed a Special and Extraordinary Holy Year Jubilee Year of Mercy, from December 8, 2015: Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, until November 21, 2016: the Solemnity of Our Lord ...
To avoid a Sunday before Holy Week, the next day (26 March) would be observed instead. In years such as 2016 and 2024 when 25 March fell within Holy Week or Easter Week, the Annunciation is moved to the Monday after the Octave of Easter, i.e., the Monday after the Second Sunday of Easter.