Here is my attempt at pulling together a family calendar of feasts, festivals and seasons, starting with the beginning of the liturgical year in December. I have put the movable feasts into the months in which they most often fall.
- Purple = Liturgical year
- Blue = Jewish year
- Green = secular or family events
Advent
St. Nicholas (6th)
St. Lucy (13th)
Hannukah
Christmas
January
New Year / Mary, Mother of God (1st)
Epiphany (6th)
Baptism of the Lord
February
Candlemas (2nd)
Valentine's Day (14th)
Purim - story of Esther
Shrove Tuesday (Pancake Day)
Ash Wednesday
Lent
March
Lent
Angel's birthday (15th)
St. Joseph (19th)
Mothering Sunday / Laetare Sunday
Lady Day / Annunciation (25th)
Tevye's birthday (29th)
April
Holy Week
Passover
Easter
St George's Day (23rd) - patron of England
May
Mary / May crowning
May Day (1st)
Ascension / Rogation Days - traditional time for blessing crops
Pentecost
Visitation (31st)
June
Little Cherub's birthday (8th)
Trinity Sunday
Corpus Christi
Sacred Heart
St. Alban (20th) - first British martyr
Birth of John the Baptist (24th) / Midsummer
Ss. Peter and Paul (29th) - Holy Day of Obligation in England and Wales
July
St. Benedict (11th) - patron of Europe
Ss. Joachim and Anne (26th) - Star's patron saint
August
Transfiguration (6th)
Star's birthday (13th)
Assumption (15th)
St. Helen (18th) - Angel's patron saint
September
Birthday of Blessed Virgin Mary (8th)
Triumph of the Cross (14th)
Rosh Hashanah - Jewish New Year
Yom Kippur - Day of Atonement
Our Lady of Walsingham (24th)
Michaelmas / Archangels (29th)
October
Harvest / Sukkot
Guardian Angels (2nd)
St. Francis (4th)
Our Lady of the Rosary (7th) - Little Cherub's patron saint
My birthday (15th)
Halloween / All Hallow's Eve (31st)
November
All Saints (1st)
All Souls (2nd)
Bonfire Night (5th)
St. Martin (11th)
St. Catherine (25th) - my patron saint
Christ the King
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