October - Popular Feast Days
This entry was posted on October 1, 2015
.OCTOBER 2015: MONTH OF THE HOLY ROSARY
October, the month of the Holy Rosary, celebrates the spiritual beauty of the Rosary, emphasizing the need for prayer, fasting and sacrifice. The Rosary is a prayer. The rosary (notice lowercase) is a tool for this specific prayer. The Rosary is a Christocentric setting for Lectio Divina, that is, a meditation on the Life of Christ, particularly His Ministry, Passion, Death and Resurrection. The Rosary is the prayer of the saints, and has a is easy to pray. It offers hope and healing.
Dates in BOLD are Holy Days of Obligation for October:
Oct. 1: St. Therese Lisieux
Oct. 2: St. Leger
Oct. 3: St. Menna
Oct. 4: Twenty - Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, St. Francis of Assisi
Oct. 5: St. Flora
Oct. 6: St Bruno
Oct. 7: Pope St. Mark
Oct. 8: St. Benedicta
Oct. 9: St. Demetrius
Oct. 10: St. Gereon
Oct. 11: Twenty - Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time, St. Kenneth
Oct. 12: St. Wilfrid
Oct. 13: St. Edward the Confessor
Oct. 14: St. Calixtus
Oct. 15: St. Severus
Oct. 16: St. Kiara
Oct. 17: St. John the Dwarf
Oct. 18: Twenty - Nineth Sunday in Ordinary Time, St. Luke
Oct. 19: St. Laura
Oct. 20: St. Acca
Oct. 21: St.Gaspar
Oct. 22: St. Philip
Oct. 23: St. Oda
Oct. 24: St. Senach
Oct. 25: Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time, St. Cyrinus
Oct. 26: St. Bean
Oct. 27: St. Abraham the Poor
Oct. 28: St. Jude Thaddaeus
Oct. 29: St. Anne
Oct. 30: St. Herbert
Oct. 31: St. Wolfgang