The January calendar has been posted. We encourage you to notice and appreciate the richness of the meaningful liturgy of the pre-1955 liturgical celebrations, its clarity and encompassing way of presenting –through the hands of the priest– our prayers to the Lord, in unity with all the traditional intentions and orations the Holy Mother Church instructs us to recall in all Masses of the month. The pre-Bugnini liturgy is, without doubt, the best and most coherent way of defending our traditional Catholic faith in the present time.
The month of January is dedicated to the Holy Name of Jesus, and this great Feast is celebrated this year on Sunday, January 4. Also of note is the Feast of the Epiphany on January 6, Feast of the Holy Family on the 11th, and the Octave Day of the Epiphany on the 13th, which concludes, in the temporal cycle, the season of Christmas*.
January 5 is the feast day of St. John Neumann, C.Ss.R., Bishop and Confessor, and first American male to be canonized. Because the Vigil of the Epiphany on January 5 is privileged, our Society celebrates St. John Neumann’s feast on January 7. Another Redemptorist we remember this month is Bl. Peter Donders, C.Ss.R. whose feast day is January 14.
* According to the St. Andrew Daily Missal, Dom Gaspar Lefebvre, O.S.B., 1945, p. 125. Note that the season of Christmas, in the
sanctoral cycle, ends with the Feast of the Purification on February 2.
If you want to see calendar pages of other months in the current year or past years, you can view the Liturgical Calendars section of our website.
