Moveable Feasts & Rules of Fasting and Abstinence
Calendar for December, A.D. 2003

Calendar

December, 2003
January, 2004
February, 2004
March, 2004
April, 2004
May, 2004
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December, 2004
January, 2005
February, 2005

December  A.D. 2003
Month of the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady

Dominical Letter: e;  Golden Number 9;  Epact: xxvii;  Roman Indiction: 11

Sunday
Glorious Mysteries

Monday
Joyful Mysteries

Tuesday
Sorrowful Mysteries

Wednesday
Glorious Mysteries

Thursday
Joyful Mysteries

Friday
Sorrowful Mysteries

Saturday
Glorious Mysteries

  1
St. Eligius, C
Patron of metalworkers
White 3rd Cl.
2
St. Bibiana, V.M
Red 3rd Cl.
3
St. Francis Xavier
Apostle to the Indies
White 3rd Cl.
4
St. Peter Chrysologus, B.DC
White 3rd Cl.
5
Bl. Bartholomew Fanti, Conf. O.N., St. Sabbas, Ab.(Mem.)
First Friday
White 3rd Cl.
6
First Saturday
St. Nicholas, B
White 3rd Cl.
7
2nd Sunday of Advent

Stn: Holy Cross in Jerusalem
St. Ambrose, B.DC
Com: Vigil
Purple 1st Cl.
8
IMMACULATE
CONCEPTION
Holy Day of Obligation
White 1st Cl.
(General Absolution & Plenary Indulgence)
9
White 3rd Cl.
10
Our Lady of Loretto
Patroness of Airmen
White 3rd Cl.
11
B. Frank, Conf. O.N.
St. Damasus, P (Comm.)
White 3rd Cl.
Plenary Indulgence)
12
Our Lady of Guadalupe
Empress of the Americas
White 3rd Cl.
13
St. Lucy, V.M
Red 3rd Cl.
14
3rd Sunday of Advent "Gaudete"

Stn: St. Peter
Rose/Purple 1 Cl.
15
Octave of the Imm. Conception
White 3rd Cl.
16
Bl. Marie d'Anges, V., O.N.
St. Eusebius of Vercelli, B.M. (Comm.)
White 3rd Cl.
17
Ember Day
Stn: St. Mary Major
Advent Ferial
Purple 2nd Cl
18
Expectancy BVM
White 2nd Cl.
19
Ember Day
Stn: 12 Apostles
Advent Ferial
Purple 2nd Cl.
20
Ember Day
Stn: St. Peter
Purple 2nd Cl
21
Fourth  Sunday of Advent

Stn: 12 Apostles
St. Thomas, Ap
Purple 1st Cl.
22
St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, V
White 2nd Cl.
23
Advent Ferial
Purple 2nd Cl.
24
Vigil of Christmas
Stn: St. Mary Major
Fast
Purple 1st Cl.
25
CHRISTMAS

Stns: 1. Mary Major (crib); 2. St. Anastasia
3. Mary Major
White 1st Cl.
(General Absolution & Plenary Indulgence)
26
St. Stephen, Protomartyr
Stn: On the Caelian hill
Red 2nd Cl.
27
St. John, Ap
Stn: St. Mary Major
White 2nd Cl.
28 Sunday
Holy Innocents

Stn: St. Paul extra muros
Red 2nd Cl.
29
St. Thomas a Becket, B.M
Red 3rd Cl.
30
Of the Octave
White 3rd Cl.
31
St. Sylvester, P
White 3rd Cl.
Te Deum for the year's end.

A plenary indulgence is granted under the usual conditions to those who sing or recite the Te Deum on the last day of the year, and to those who sing or recite the Veni, Creator on the first day of the new year.  (Enchiridion #60, #61)

Sunday
Glorious Mysteries

Monday
Joyful Mysteries

Tuesday
Sorrowful Mysteries

Wednesday
Glorious Mysteries

Thursday
Joyful Mysteries

Friday
Sorrowful Mysteries

Saturday
Glorious Mysteries

  


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