Is it allowed to celebrate a Saint not on the calendar at mass?

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Interesting–I usually go by them too. But the USCCB’s calendar does not include her (and it was even updated to include Paul VI):


(their site also has 2020 and 2021, and none include her)

Wikipedia has her on the Missionaries of Charity calendar.

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Catholic Culture, while listing her as an optional memorial, in their text seem to imply its the Missionaries of Charity who will be doing so formally, but it isn’t clear.

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Thursday of the Twenty-Second Week of Ordinary Time: Optional Memorial of St. Teresa of Calcutta - September 05, 2019 - Liturgical Calendar

Today the Missionaries of Charity and their friends will be celebrating the feast day of newly canonized St. Teresa of Calcutta. September 5th is the anniversary of her death, and at present is acknowledged as her feast day. St. Laurence Justinian was one of the great Italian Saints of the
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The Catholic Culture calendar does contain some errors. I wrote them an e-mail earlier this year upon discovering that they still had St. Jose Gabriel del Rosario Brochero, the “gaucho priest”, listed as a “Blessed” despite his being canonized way back in 2016. I think they have since corrected that page.

Aside from that, I’m guessing maybe whoever updates the Catholic Culture page, like us, has not been able to find out info about St. Teresa of Calcutta being on the Universal Calendar. If indeed she isn’t there yet, it’s a bit odd given that not only are there statues of her all over the place in US churches and cathedrals (and she’s also popular for kids’ religious booklets and pamphlets because she helped the poor), but also she has wide visibility as a holy person even outside the Church. I had the car radio on the other day and caught five minutes of some Protestant preacher - I think it may have been my favorite, Gayle Erwin - asking people to name the worst person ever and the holiest person ever for an exercise he was doing, and of course the worst person was Hitler and the holiest person was Mother Teresa.

Nevertheless, as TomH1 said, you could have Mass in honor of her - or any other saint - as a votive Mass under the GIRM rules, on Sept 5. I would presume that given her popularity in USA, a lot of churches choose this option.
  1. Votive Masses of the mysteries of the Lord or in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary or of the Angels or of any given Saint or of all the Saints may be said for the sake of the faithful’s devotion on weekdays in Ordinary Time, even if an optional memorial occurs. It is not, however, allowed to celebrate as Votive Masses, those that refer to mysteries related to events in the life of the Lord or of the Blessed Virgin Mary, with the exception of the Mass of the Immaculate Conception, since their celebration is an integral part of the unfolding of the liturgical year.
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LITURGY Q & A: Options for Votive Masses - ZENIT - English

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It is licit to celebrate any saint in the Martyrology, whether on the calendar or not, as long as there is no outranking feast. This applies both to Mass and the Liturgy of the Hours. You treat it as an optional memorial. If there are no proper texts, you use the text from the common according to the “kind” of saint (martyr, virgin, pastor etc.). Note that the Martyrology contains all known saints, not just martyrs, despite the name of the book.
 
Tis_Bearself said:
and of course the worst person was Hitler and the holiest person was Mother Teresa.
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Of course they said Hitler was, though that’s just a natural response people have from it being shoved down their throats so much. He most certainly was not, in fact Stalin and Mao were probably more “evil” 20th century people. Himmler was even worse than Hitler.
 
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