Celebration of festivals

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In our church important festivals like Ascension,penticost,and sacred heart are not being celebrated with due importants but feasts of saints are celebrated with much impotance
 
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In our church important festivals like Ascension,penticost,and sacred heart are not being celebrated with due importants but feasts of saints are celebrated with much impotance
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Since when? It’s not like saints days are ever Holy Days of Obligation where we MUST attend Mass, unlike Ascension and Pentecost. 🤷 and anything else we do to acknowledge a given feast is supremely UNimportant next to going to Mass.

The last feast day celebration we had around here was a big procession for Corpus Christi, which we don’t have for any Saint’s day - I think that was celebrated with due importance!
 
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In our church important festivals like Ascension,penticost,and sacred heart are not being celebrated with due importants but feasts of saints are celebrated with much impotance
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By “our church” do you mean the universal Catholic Church, the Latin Rite, one of the Eastern Catholic Rites or the specific parish you belong to? This info would help to understand what you are trying to say.
 
Our church i mean is catholic churches in kerala Iam not against celebrating feasts of saints Here feasts of saints are celebrated in big way Mostly a week’s celebration big gathering attending these celebrations For novenas also lot of gathering attending.Feast like Pentecost no such importance being given actually Pentecost day is the foundation day of the church and feast of Sacred Heart of Jesus is also to be celebrated in big way:)
 
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In our church important festivals like Ascension,penticost,and sacred heart are not being celebrated with due importants but feasts of saints are celebrated with much impotance
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are you speaking of your parish? or of the church in general where you live? The universal church certainly ranks solmnities and feasts properly. Local custom may dictate veneration to certain patron saints or those where a local devotion is strong. If the people are not observing the Holy Days of Obligation that is a matter for the bishop and pastors to address, but there is no need to restrict expressions of popular piety on other occasions to do that. Sounds like some catechesis on the meaning of the major liturgical year feasts is in order. Can you come up with some ways to do this in your parish?
 
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