What's your favorite feast day?

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Saint Nicholas! I love St. Nicholas day - Speculaas and chocolate…mmmmm. Plus he was such a cool saint.

Holy Saturday’s probably my second favorite.
 
January 31st.
The Feast of Don Bosco!

My school has a party on that day. Mass first with the Salesian vocations director that comes down, and then we party the rest of the day.

I love DON BOSCO!
 
Nowhere_Man said:
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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In my missal and calender March 21 is the feast of St. Benedict and July 11 is the feast of Pius I
 
Christ the King! After all Jesus has been through, I like to think of Him in majesty and glory with all the regal trappings. Also, as a caring King, knowing and caring for all His subjects. His kingly intelligence and authority.

Finally, the fact that this King of the Universe loves me (!) simply blows me away.

Betsy
 
Besides the “obvious” choices, and I do love Christmas, Easter, and Pentecost, I’d choose the following:

– Exaltation of the Cross
– Christ the King
– Dedication of St. John Lateran (November 9; because how cool is it that the cathedral of Rome gets its own feast day in the Universal Church?)
– Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
 
Hunter53 said:
In my missal and calender March 21 is the feast of St. Benedict and July 11 is the feast of Pius I
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Are you using the 1962 Missal? In the old calendar, St. Benedict is March 21; in the new, he’s July 11. Pope St. Pius I is the same in both.
 
Hunter53 said:
In my missal and calender March 21 is the feast of St. Benedict and July 11 is the feast of Pius I
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You’re probably using a Pre-Vatican II missal, in which case his Feast Day is March 21. However, it was changed to July 11 in the new calendar because March 21 always fell during Lent, which was problematic because a Lenten weekday supersedes a III Class feast (maybe a II also, I’m not sure).
 
Too many.

I have particular devotion to St Joseph (how cool that he gets TWO feast days - March 19 and May 1! plus basically the whole month of March is a time to honour him specially)

and St Francis (October 4)

I love getting candles blessed on Candlemas as well (February 2)

and last year I was privileged to take part in our city’s huge Corpus Christi procession, that was pretty special.
 
Nowhere_Man said:
You’re probably using a Pre-Vatican II missal, in which case his Feast Day is March 21. However, it was changed to July 11 in the new calendar because March 21 always fell during Lent, which was problematic because a Lenten weekday supersedes a III Class feast (maybe a II also, I’m not sure).
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Yes I am using a pre V II missal, I did not realize that they had moved feasts around. That is to bad because He died on March 21, I see that they also moved the feast of John Vianney.
 
MikeDunphy said:
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).
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I love corned beef, too. Here’s for St. Patty’s then. 🙂

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LilyM said:
Too many.

I have particular devotion to St Joseph (how cool that he gets TWO feast days - March 19 and May 1! plus basically the whole month of March is a time to honour him specially)

and St Francis (October 4)

I love getting candles blessed on Candlemas as well (February 2)

and last year I was privileged to take part in our city’s huge Corpus Christi procession, that was pretty special.
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Yes that is a very special thing. I like that time of year (early summer), because everything slows down a bit and we all get a little bit of a break from the school routine.

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Then the feast of Christ the King kicks everything back into high gear until after Pentecost.
 
The feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary- I’m getting married on it next year!
The Marian feasts are my favorites.
 
Baptism – I love that the Holy Trinity is there and that beautiful line: “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”

Trinity Sunday – What a great day with this incredible mystery! I’m also happy that one of my patron saints, St. Thomas of Canterbury, had a role in this feast.

Transfiguration – another lovely line: “This is my beloved Son, hear him.”

Exaltation of the Holy Cross – even the name is awesome! And I am always taken by the line in the preface: “et qui in ligno vincebat, in ligno quoque vinceretur”.

For Marian: it has to be Our Lady of Guadalupe. I always think of her when I read the Book of Apocalypse.

take care,
amsjj 🙂

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Jesus, God and man,
imprisoned by love in Thy most holy Sacrament,
have mercy upon us.
– Blessed John Henry Newman, December 22, 1851
(LD, XIV, 511).
 
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