What's your favorite feast day?

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And Christmas and Easter are a given, really… Who doesn’t love those? I mean which is/are your favorite/s of the smaller ones?

I love All Saints Day, and St. Patrick’s Day and the feast OL Guadalupe is big very in our house…

So how’s about you? :):)🙂
 
My favorite feast days are:

The Immaculate Conception (December 8)-if it weren’t for Our Lady, we wouldn’t have Jesus.

Christmas-love the fact that God became Man to save us.

Easter-love the fact that Our Lord loved us so much to die and rise from the dead so that we could join Him in heaven.

All Saints Day-a day to remember all my favorite Saints! 😃

St. Patrick’s Day-I’d better remember this one, because my late father (100% Irish-American, born on this day) would lean down from heaven and slap me one!
 
newadvent.org/cathen/06021b.htm

New Advent on Ecclesiastical Feasts

"In the United States, the number of feasts was not everywhere the same; the Council of Baltimore wanted only four feasts, but the decree was not approved by Rome; the third Plenary Council of Baltimore (1884), by a general law, retained six feasts:

Christmas, New Year’s Day,
Ascension,
Assumption,
the Immaculate Conception,
and All Saints.

Sts. Peter and Paul
and Corpus Christi were transferred to the next following Sunday.

In the city of Rome the following feasts are of double precept (i.e. hearing Mass, and rest from work):

Christmas,
New Year’s Day,
Epiphany,
Purification,
St. Joseph,
Annunciation,
Ascension,
St. Philip Neri (26 May),
Corpus Christi,
Nativity of the B.V.M.,
All Saints,
Conception of the B.V.M.,
St. John the Evangelist.

The civil law in Italy acknowledges: Epiphany, Ascension, Sts. Peter and Paul, Assumption, Nativity, Conception, Christmas, and the patronal feasts."
 
"The Greek Church at present observes the following Holy Days:

Nativity of Mary,
Exaltation of the Cross (14 Sept.),
St. Demetrius (26 Oct.),
St. Michael (8 Nov.),
Entrance of Mary into the Temple (21 Nov.),
St. Nicholas (6 Dec.),
Conception of St. Anne (9 Dec.),
Nativity of Christ,
Commemoration of Mary (26 Dec.),
St. Stephen (27 Dec.),
Circumcision (1 Jan.),
Epiphany,
the Doctors St. Basil, St. Gregory, St. John Chrysostom (30 Jan.),
the Meeting of Christ and Simeon (2 Febr.),
Annunciation, St. George (23 Apr.),
Nativity of St. John, Sts. Peter and Paul, St. Elias (20 July),
Transfiguration (6 Aug.),
Assumption,
Beheading of St. John (29 Aug.),
the Monday after Easter and Pentecost,
Ascension of Christ, and the patronal feasts."
 
"The Russians have only nine ecclesiastical Holy Days which do not fall on a Sunday, viz.:

Nativity,
Epiphany,
Ascension,
Transfiguration,
Purification,
Annunciation,
Assumption,
Presentation of Mary (21 Nov.),
and the Exaltation of the Cross.

But they have fifty festivals (birthdays, etc.) of the imperial family, on which days not even a funeral can be held."
 
Lamafacaja said:
And Christmas and Easter are a given, really… Who doesn’t love those? I mean which is/are your favorite/s of the smaller ones?
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Pentecost! The descent of the Holy Spirit, the preaching of Saint Peter, the beginning of the conversion of the peoples of the world to Christ: Pentecost was and should be counted among the greatest of the feasts of the Church.
 
Hi all,
The day I like best is the Feast Day of St John the Baptist, June 24th.
It is also my nephew (and godson’s) birthday.
God Bless,
Colmcille.
 
Why is it so difficult to find a complete list of Catholic feast days on the internet?

I copied off that list from New Advent and it doesn’t have Pentecost on it.
 
I was wondering when someone was going to list All Souls. Its tough for me to pick just a few. I’d have to list Jan. 1 through Dec. 31.
 
Besides all of Holy Week, I like August 28, the feast of St. Hermes. My family name.
 
Too many to choose…

Some that stand out:

-Holy Name of Jesus
-Candlemas
-St Blaise
-St Scholastica
-Ash Wed
-St Joseph
-St Benedict
-Easter Vigil
-Sacred Heart
-Precious Blood
-Our Lady of Mt Carmel
-Immaculate Heart
-Exaltation of the Holy Cross
-Most Holy Name of Mary
-Holy Guardian Angels
-Holy Rosary
-Maternity of the BVM
-All Saints
-All Souls
-Immaculate Conception
-St Lucy (my b day)
-Christmas (specifically Midnight Mass)
 
MikeDunphy said:
Pentecost! The descent of the Holy Spirit, the preaching of Saint Peter, the beginning of the conversion of the peoples of the world to Christ: Pentecost was and should be counted among the greatest of the feasts of the Church.
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This is for you, Mike. 🙂

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Barbkw said:
Why is it so difficult to find a complete list of Catholic feast days on the internet?

I copied off that list from New Advent and it doesn’t have Pentecost on it.
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I’d guess New Advent omitted Easter and Pentecost because they are always on Sundays.
 
My favourite feast day is unalterably that which honours St. Michael the Archangel (along with his companions). He is the greatest general in history; for, although he has no logistics to speak of, he is fighting the most habitual deceiver in the Universe. This is an uphill battle, for that evil being (who led the first rebellion against God) has mastered all lies and corruptions. To have a day on which we can honour Saint Michael gives me unspeakable joy. It is also great to meditate on the presence of that “lesser Trinity”: wisdom in Gabriel, healing in Raphael, and strength in Michael.

It gives wondrous glory to God to thank His servants 🙂
 
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This is for you, Mike. 🙂
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I don’t believe I’ve ever seen a Pentecost Cake before. Cute Idea.

I have some fondness for the two smaller feast days which my family celebrated with their own distinctive foods: Saint Patrick’s Day (corned beef), and Saint Nicholas’ Day (candy, left in our shoes).
 
Hm. There’s so many to pick from :eek:

Here’s a few:

-July 11th (Saint Benedict)
-February 10th (Saint Scholastica)
-September 29th (Saints Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael)
-November 1st (All Saints Day)
-November 2nd (All Souls Day)
-March 19th (Saint Joseph)
-December 8th (Immaculate Conception)
-August 15th (Assumption)
-Pentecost
-Ascension
-The Triduum
 
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