January 2015 - Popular Feast Days
This entry was posted on January 1, 2015
.January 2015: MONTH OF THE HOLY NAME OF JESUS
For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. (Philippians 2:10)
Among the Ten Commandments, God ordered that His name shall not be said in vain. Adam was given authority to name creatures. Many names in Bible are changed when something new is happening. What is it about a name and naming that commands so much respect and power?
Names say "this is what I am in my essence", and thus, informs all who hear and speak it the person's purpose. God's name tell us who He is. "Jesus" is the syncopated variant of "Yəhōshūaʿ " meaning, "God is help".
Dates in BOLD are Holy Days of Obligation:
Jan. 1: The Octave Day of Christmas Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God
Jan. 2: St. Basil the Great, St. Gregory Nazianzus;
January 3: St. Genevieve;
Jan. 4: The Epiphany of the Lord, St. Elizabeth Anne Seton;
Jan. 5: St. John Neumann
Jan. 6: St. Andre Bessette
Jan. 7: St. Reinold
Jan. 8: St. Gulda
Jan. 9: St. Honorius
Jan. 10: Blessed Anna of the Angels
Jan. 11: First Sunday of Ordinary Time, The Baptism of the Lord
Jan. 12: St. Alexander
Jan. 13: St Andrew of Trier
Jan. 14: St. Felix
Jan. 15: St. Paul the Hermit
Jan. 16: St. Melas
Jan. 17: St. Anthony the Abbot
Jan. 18: Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, St. Margaret of Hungary
Jan. 19: St. Henry
Jan. 20: St. Fabian
Jan. 21: St. Agnes
Jan. 22: Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children, St. Vincent the Deacon
Jan. 23: St. Barnard
Jan. 24: St. Francis De Sales
Jan. 25: Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, St. Donatus
Jan. 26: St. Timothy, St. Titus
Jan. 27: St. Marius
Jan. 28: St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Flavian
Jan. 29: St. Dallan
Jan. 30: St. Hippolytus
Jan. 31: St. John Bosco