January 1 THE HOLY NAME OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST 2 3 4 5 EVE OF THE EPIPHANY 6 THE EPIPHANY OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST 7 8 9 10 William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1645 11 12 Aelred, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 13 Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, c. 367 14 15 16 17 Antony, Abbot in Egypt, 356 EVE OF THE CONFESSION OF SAINT PETER THE APOSTLE 18 THE CONFESSION OF SAINT PETER THE APOSTLE 19 Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095 20 Fabian, Bishop and Martyr of Rome, 250 21 Agnes, Martyr at Rome, 304 22 Vincent, Deacon of Saragossa and Martyr, 304 23 24 EVE OF THE CONVERSION OF SAINT PAUL 25 THE CONVERSION OF SAINT PAUL THE APOSTLE 26 Timothy and Titus, Companions of Saint Paul 27 28 Thomas Aquinas, Priest and Friar, 1274 29 30 Charles, King of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1649 31 February 1 Brigid, Abbess at Kildare, 523 EVE OF THE PRESENTATION 2 THE PRESENTATION OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE 3 Blase, Bishop and Martyr, c. 316 4 Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865 5 The Martyrs of Japan, 1597 6 7 Cornelius the Centurion 8 9 10 Scholastica, Religious, 542 11 12 13 Absalom Jones, Priest, 1818 14 Cyril, Monk, and Methodius, Bishop, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869, 885 15 Thomas Bray, Priest and Missionary, 1730 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Polycarp, Bishop and Martyr of Smyrna, 156 EVE OF SAINT MATTHIAS THE APOSTLE 24 SAINT MATTHIAS THE APOSTLE 25 26 27 George Herbert, Priest, 1633 28 29 John Cassian, Abbot at Marseilles, 433 March 1 David, Bishop of Menevia, Wales, c. 544 2 Chad, Bishop of Lichfield, 672 3 4 5 6 7 Perpetua and her Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 202 8 9 Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, c. 394 10 11 12 Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, 604 13 14 15 16 17 Patrick, Bishop and Missionary of Ireland, 461 18 Cyril, Bishop of Jerusalem, 386 EVE OF SAINT JOSEPH 19 SAINT JOSEPH 20 Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne, 687 21 Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1556 22 James De Koven, Priest, 1879 23 Gregory the Illuminator, Bishop and Missionary of Armenia, c. 332 24 Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath and Wells, 1711 EVE OF THE ANNUNCIATION 25 THE ANNUNCIATION OF OUR LORD TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY 26 27 28 29 Charles Wesley, Priest, 1788, and John Keble, Priest, 1866 30 31 John Donne, 1631 April 1 Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, 1872 2 James Lloyd Breck, Priest, 1876 3 4 Martin Luther King, Jr., Civil Rights Leader, 1968 5 6 7 8 William Augustus Muhlenberg, Priest, 1877 9 William Law, Priest, 1761, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Pastor and Theologian, 1945 10 11 George Augustus Selwyn, Bishop of New Zealand, and of Lichfield, 1878 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Martyr, 1012 20 21 Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1109 22 23 24 Genocide Remembrance Day EVE OF SAINT MARK THE EVANGELIST 25 SAINT MARK THE EVANGELIST 26 27 28 29 Catherine of Siena, 1380 30 EVE OF SAINT PHILIP AND SAINT JAMES, APOSTLES May 1 SAINT PHILIP AND SAINT JAMES, APOSTLES 2 Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, 373 3 4 Monnica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387 5 6 7 8 Dame Julian of Norwich, c. 1417 9 Gregory of Nazianzus, Bishop of Constantinople, 389 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988 20 Alcuin, Deacon, and Abbot of Tours, 804 21 22 23 24 Jackson Kemper, First Missionary Bishop in the United States, 1870 25 Bede, the Venerable, Priest, and Monk of Jarrow, 735 26 Augustine, First Archbishop of Canterbury, 605 27 28 29 30 EVE OF THE VISITATION 31 THE VISITATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY The First Book of Common Prayer, 1549, is appropriately observed on a weekday following the Day of Pentecost. June 1 Justin, Martyr at Rome, c. 167 2 The Martyrs of Lyon, 177 3 The Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 4 5 Boniface, Archbishop of Mainz, Missionary to Germany, and Martyr, 754 6 7 8 9 Columba, Abbot of Iona, 597 10 Ephrem of Edessa, Syria, Deacon, 373 EVE OF SAINT BARNABAS THE APOSTLE 11 SAINT BARNABAS THE APOSTLE 12 13 14 Basil the Great, Bishop of Caesarea, 379 15 16 Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham, 1752 17 18 Bernard Mizeki, Catechist and Martyr in Mashonaland, 1896 19 20 21 22 Alban, First Martyr of Britain, c. 304 23 EVE OF THE NATIVITY OF SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST 24 THE NATIVITY OF SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST 25 26 27 Cyril, Patriarch of Alexandria, 444 28 Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons, c. 202 EVE OF SAINT PETER AND SAINT PAUL, APOSTLES 29 SAINT PETER AND SAINT PAUL, APOSTLES 30 July 1 2 3 4 INDEPENDENCE DAY 5 6 Jan Hus, Priest and Martyr, 1415 7 8 9 10 11 Benedict of Nursia, Abbot of Monte Cassino, c. 540 12 13 14 15 Bonaventure, Bishop and Friar,1274 16 17 William White, Bishop of Pennsylvania, 1836 18 19 Macrina, Monastic and Teacher, 379 20 21 EVE OF SAINT MARY MAGDALENE 22 SAINT MARY MAGDALENE 23 24 Thomas a Kempis, Priest, 1471 EVE OF SAINT JAMES THE APOSTLE 25 SAINT JAMES THE APOSTLE 26 The Parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary 27 William Reed Huntington, Priest, 1909 28 29 Mary and Martha of Bethany 30 William Wilberforce, Abolitionist, 1833 31 August 1 Joseph of Arimathaea 2 3 4 5 EVE OF THE TRANSFIGURATION 6 THE TRANSFIGURATION OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST 7 John Mason Neale, Priest, 1866 8 Dominic, Priest and Friar, 1221 9 10 Laurence, Deacon, and Martyr at Rome, 258 11 Clare, Abbess at Assisi, 1254 12 Florence Nightingale, Nurse, Social Reformer, 1910 13 Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down, Connor, and Dromore, 1667 14 Jonathan Myrick Daniels, Seminarian and Witness for Civil Rights, 1965 EVE OF THE ASSUMPTION 15 THE ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY 16 17 18 19 20 Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, 1153 21 22 23 EVE OF SAINT BARTHOLOMEW THE APOSTLE 24 SAINT BARTHOLOMEW THE APOSTLE 25 Louis, King of France, 1270 26 27 Thomas Gallaudet, Priest, 1902, with Henry Winter Syle, Priest, 1890, Missioners to the Deaf 28 Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, 430 29 The Beheading of John the Baptist 30 31 Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, 651 September 1 2 The Martyrs of New Guinea, 1942 3 4 5 6 7 EVE OF THE NATIVITY OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY 8 THE NATIVITY OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY 9 Constance, Nun, and her Companions, 1878 10 Alexander Crummell, Priest, 1898 11 September 11 Requiem 12 John Henry Hobart, Bishop of New York, 1830 13 John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople, 407 EVE OF HOLY CROSS DAY 14 HOLY CROSS DAY 15 Cyprian, Bishop and Martyr of Carthage, 258 16 Ninian, Bishop in Galloway, c. 430 17 18 Edward Bouverie Pusey, Priest, 1882 19 Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690 20 John Coleridge Patteson, Bishop of Melanesia, and his Companions, Martyrs, 1871 EVE OF SAINT MATTHEW, APOSTLE AND EVANGELIST 21 SAINT MATTHEW, APOSTLE AND EVANGELIST 22 23 24 25 Sergius, Abbot of Holy Trinity, Moscow, 1392 26 Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, 1626 27 28 EVE OF SAINT MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS 29 SAINT MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS 30 Jerome, Priest and Monk of Bethlehem, 420 October 1 Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, c. 530 2 3 4 Francis of Assisi, Friar, 1226 5 6 William Tyndale, Priest, and Martyr, 1536 7 8 9 Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, 1253 10 11 Philip, Deacon and Evangelist 12 13 14 Samuel I. J. Schereschewsky, Bishop of Shanghai, 1906 15 Teresa of Avila, Nun, 1582 16 Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley, Bishops and Martyrs, 1555 17 Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, and Martyr, c. 115 EVE OF SAINT LUKE THE EVANGELIST 18 SAINT LUKE THE EVANGELIST 19 Henry Martyn, Priest, and Missionary to India and Persia, 1812 20 21 22 EVE OF SAINT JAMES OF JERUSALEM 23 SAINT JAMES OF JERUSALEM, BROTHER OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, AND MARTYR, c. 62 24 25 26 Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, 899 27 EVE OF SAINT SIMON AND SAINT JUDE, APOSTLES 28 SAINT SIMON AND SAINT JUDE, APOSTLES 29 James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, and his Companions, Martyrs, 1885 30 31 EVE OF ALL SAINTS’ DAY November 1 ALL SAINTS’ DAY 2 ALL SOULS’ DAY Requiem Masses are offered on the first five weekdays following All Souls’ Day for the intentions of the parish community. 3 Richard Hooker, Priest, 1600 4 5 6 7 Willibrord, Archbishop of Utrecht, Missionary to Frisia, 739 8 9 10 Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461 11 Martin, Bishop of Tours, 397 12 Charles Simeon, Priest, 1836 13 14 Consecration of Samuel Seabury, First American Bishop, 1784 15 16 Margaret, Queen of Scotland, 1093 17 Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200 18 Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 19 Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, 1231 20 Edmund, King of East Anglia, Martyr, 870 21 22 23 Clement, Bishop of Rome, c. 100 24 25 James Otis Sargent Huntington, Priest and Monk, 1935 26 27 28 Kamehameha and Emma, King and Queen of Hawaii, 1864, 1885 29 EVE OF SAINT ANDREW THE APOSTLE 30 SAINT ANDREW THE APOSTLE December 1 Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, 1637 2 3 4 John of Damascus, Priest, c. 760 5 Clement of Alexandria, Priest, c. 210 6 Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c. 342 7 Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, 397 EVE OF THE CONCEPTION 8 THE CONCEPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY 9 10 11 12 Anniversary of the Dedication of the Church, 1895 13 Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, c.