August - Popular Feast Days
This entry was posted on August 1, 2015
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AUGUST 2015: MONTH OF THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY
August, the month of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, remembers the miracle of Redemption through the participation of the faithful. Mary, Jesus' Mother, said yes to God perfectly. This came about as a result of grace, and no sin stained her soul, her heart. From Conception to her Dormition, Mary remained Immaculate. Her love for God, "her fiat" and beautiful interior life, is honored by Catholics. There are a variety of devotions available for consecration to her Immaculate Heart. Traditionally, her heart is depicted pierced with seven wounds or swords, in reverence to her seven sorrows.
Dates in BOLD are Holy Days of Obligation for August:
Aug. 1: St. Alphonsus Marie Ligori
Aug. 2: Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, St. Eusebius of Vercelli
Aug. 3: St Lydia Purpuraria
Aug. 4: St. John Vianney
Aug. 5: St. Addal
Aug. 6: The Transfiguration of the Lord
Aug. 7: St. Cajetan
Aug. 8: St. Dominic
Aug. 9: Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, St. Edith Stein
Aug. 10: St. Lawerence
Aug. 11: St. Clare
Aug. 12: St. Michael My
Aug. 13: St. Hippolytus
Aug. 14: St. Maximilian Kolbe
Aug. 15: Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Aug. 16: Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time, St. Stephen the Great
Aug. 17: St. Clare Montefalco
Aug. 18: St. Helena
Aug. 19: St. John Eudes
Aug. 20: St. Bernard Clairvoux
Aug. 21: St. Pius X
Aug. 22: St. Andrew the Scot
Aug. 23: Twenty First Sunday In Ordinary Time, St. Philip Benizi
Aug. 24: St. Bartholomew
Aug. 25: St. Louis King of France
Aug. 26: St. Teresa of Jesus Jornet Ibars
Aug. 27: St. Monica
Aug. 28: St. Augustine of Hippo
Aug. 29: St. Sabina
Aug. 30: Twenty Second Sunday of Ordinary Time, St. Rumon
Aug. 31: St. Raymond Nonnatus