53 prayers
Feasts, Holidays & Seasons
Prayers for the days of the year: feast days, Holy Week and Easter, Christmas and Epiphany, and national holidays and anniversaries.
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April 1 Prayer
April Fools’ Day is mostly harmless: a fake spider in the lunchbox, a news site announcing…
Feasts, Holidays & SeasonsApril 2 Prayer
On the evening of 2 April 2005, the vigil of Divine Mercy Sunday, Pope John Paul…
Feasts, Holidays & SeasonsApril 22 Prayer
The first Earth Day was held on 22 April 1970, when millions of Americans turned out…
Feasts, Holidays & SeasonsApril 7 Prayer
John Baptist de La Salle was a wealthy young priest in Reims, France, with a promising…
Feasts, Holidays & SeasonsApril 9 Prayer
At dawn on 9 April 1945, at the Flossenbürg concentration camp in Bavaria, the German pastor…
Feasts, Holidays & SeasonsApril Prayer Guide
Catholic tradition gives each month a devotion, and April’s is the Holy Eucharist. It is a…
Feasts, Holidays & SeasonsAugust 26 Prayer
In Poland, 26 August is one of the biggest feasts of the year. Pilgrims walk for…
Feasts, Holidays & SeasonsAugust 27 Prayer
On 27 August the Church remembers St Monica, and the next day her son, St Augustine.…
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December 1 Prayer
On 1 December 1916, Charles de Foucauld was shot dead outside his hermitage at Tamanrasset in…
Feasts, Holidays & SeasonsDecember 13 Prayer
Before dawn on 13 December, in homes, schools and churches across Sweden, the lights go off…
Feasts, Holidays & SeasonsDecember 21 Prayer
On 21 December, the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, the Church sings…
Feasts, Holidays & SeasonsDecember 23 Prayer
The O Antiphons of Advent reach their last one on 23 December: O Emmanuel. For a…
Feasts, Holidays & SeasonsDecember Prayer Guide
December belongs to waiting. For the first three or four weeks, the Church is in Advent,…
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February 14 Prayer
Most people know 14 February as Valentine’s Day. On the Catholic calendar, it’s also the feast…
Feasts, Holidays & SeasonsFebruary 3 Prayer
February 3 is the day Catholics line up after Mass with their necks bared, for the…
Feasts, Holidays & SeasonsFebruary Prayer Guide
February is short and often grey, but it’s full of feasts. It opens with St Brigid…
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Halloween Prayer
Christians feel differently about Halloween. Some love it as a harmless night of costumes and candy;…
Feasts, Holidays & SeasonsHappy Halloween Prayer
Halloween is a Christian name. It is short for All Hallows’ Eve, the night before All…
Feasts, Holidays & SeasonsHe Has Risen Prayer
On the first Easter morning, the women came to the tomb with spices, expecting to anoint…
Feasts, Holidays & SeasonsHoly Thursday Prayer
On the night before he died, Jesus did three things the Church remembers every Holy Thursday.…
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July 10 Prayer
By 10 July, summer is in full swing. School is out, families are on the road,…
Feasts, Holidays & SeasonsJuly 14 Prayer
Kateri Tekakwitha was born in 1656 in a Mohawk village in what is now upstate New…
Feasts, Holidays & SeasonsJuly 21 Prayer
Lawrence of Brindisi was a Capuchin friar with an extraordinary memory. He was said to know…
Feasts, Holidays & SeasonsJune 17 Prayer
Adam Chmielowski lost a leg fighting in the Polish uprising of 1863 and became a talented…
Feasts, Holidays & SeasonsJune 22 Prayer
In 1534, King Henry VIII demanded that his subjects swear an oath accepting his new marriage…
Feasts, Holidays & SeasonsJune 25 Prayer
Most of the world’s goods, by volume, travel by sea. The phone in your pocket, the…
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March 10 Prayer
Around the year 320, in Sebaste in Armenia, forty Roman soldiers of the Twelfth Legion refused…
Feasts, Holidays & SeasonsMarch 3 Prayer
Katharine Drexel was one of the richest young women in America. Her father, a Philadelphia banker,…
Feasts, Holidays & SeasonsMay 23 Prayer
May is Mary’s month. In Catholic parishes and schools, children process with flowers and crown a…
Feasts, Holidays & SeasonsMay 26 Prayer
St Philip Neri once walked through the streets of Rome with half his beard shaved off,…
Feasts, Holidays & SeasonsMay 29 Prayer
Giovanni Battista Montini was elected pope in June 1963, in the middle of the Second Vatican…
Feasts, Holidays & SeasonsMay 4 Prayer
On 4 May, fire stations around the world remember St Florian, the Roman officer drowned around…
Feasts, Holidays & SeasonsMay 6 Prayer
On 6 May 1527, mutinous troops of the Holy Roman Emperor stormed Rome. On the steps…
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Never Forget 911 Prayer
On the morning of 11 September 2001, nearly three thousand people were killed when hijacked planes…
Feasts, Holidays & SeasonsNovember 17 Prayer
Elizabeth was a Hungarian princess, married at fourteen to Ludwig of Thuringia in Germany. It was…
Feasts, Holidays & SeasonsNovember 23 Prayer
On 23 November 1927, in Mexico City, a 36-year-old Jesuit priest named Miguel Pro was led…
Feasts, Holidays & SeasonsNovember 24 Prayer
Between the 1600s and the late 1800s, many thousands of Christians in Vietnam were killed for…
Feasts, Holidays & SeasonsNovember 5 Prayer
Zechariah and Elizabeth were an elderly couple who had prayed for a child for years. Luke…
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Prayer For 4th Of July
The first Catholic bishop in the United States wrote a prayer for the new government in…
Feasts, Holidays & SeasonsPrayer For Flag Day
Flag Day, 14 June, marks the day in 1777 when the Second Continental Congress adopted the…
Feasts, Holidays & SeasonsPrayer For MLK Day
Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist preacher before he was anything else. He was the…
Feasts, Holidays & SeasonsPrayer For Presidents Day
Presidents’ Day began as a celebration of George Washington’s birthday, 22 February. Since 1971 it has…
Feasts, Holidays & SeasonsPrayer For Valentines Day
We know almost nothing for certain about St Valentine. Early records mention at least one, possibly…
Feasts, Holidays & SeasonsPrayer For VBS
Vacation Bible School is a summer tradition in thousands of churches: a week of songs with…
Feasts, Holidays & SeasonsPrayer Inauguration Day
Every four years on 20 January, a President of the United States takes the oath of…
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September 13 Prayer
John was such a gifted preacher in Antioch that people called him Chrysostomos, “golden mouth.” Crowds…
Feasts, Holidays & SeasonsSeptember 22 Prayer
Around 22 September, day and night are almost equal in length. The autumn equinox marks the…
Feasts, Holidays & SeasonsSeptember 27 Prayer
Vincent de Paul started out as a priest who wanted a comfortable career. He was ambitious,…