January 2022
January is the Month, the Church Dedicates to the Most Holy Name of Jesus & the Most Holy Family
Ejaculatory Prayers to the Holy Family.
[An Indulgence of 300 days every time the three following ejaculatory prayers are said, to obtain a happy death. For saying any one of them, 100 days Indulgence]
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph,
I give you my heart, my soul, and, my life.
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph,
assist me in my last agony.
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph,
may I die in peace in your blessed company.
Taken from: A Catholic’s Vade Mecum, Edition 1851.
Invocation of the Most Holy Name of JESUS.
“ JESUS! ”
(An Indulgence of twenty-five days is granted for each devout invocation)
Non-Sunday Holy Days of Obligation
Saint Pope Pius X promulgated on 2 July 1911, the Motu Proprio, Supremi Disciplinae, relating to Holy Days of obligation. It reduced the number of non-Sunday holy days of Obligation from 36 to 8, which are as follows:
1. December 8th: The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary
2. December 25th: Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ (Christmas)
3. January 1st: Circumcision of the Lord and Octave of the Nativity
4. January 6th: Epiphany of the Lord
5. Thursday after the 5th Sunday after Easter: The Ascension of the Lord
6. June 29th: Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles
7. August 15th: Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
8. November 1st: All Saints
In the United States four of these feasts are abolished as holidays of obligation, namely Epiphany, Corpus Christi, St. Joseph, and SS. Peter and Paul.
There is no obligation for fast or abstinence on a holy day of obligation, even if it falls on a Friday.
Below listed are the feasts falling in January 2022:
ANNO DOMINI 2 0 2 2
January 1: FIRST SATURDAY/Circumcision of the Lord, Double of the II Class (HOLY DAY OF OBLIGATION); Octave of the Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ.
January 2: The Most Holy Name of Jesus, Double of the II Class.
January 3: Mass of the Season
January 4: Mass of the Season
January 5: Commemoration of St. Telesphorus Pope and Martyr.
January 6: Epiphany of the Lord, Double of the I Class (HOLY DAY OF OBLIGATION - Not in U.S.A.).
[PART I – The Adoration of the Magi]
[PART II – History and Significance of the Feast of the Epiphany]
[PART III – Balaam's Prophecy, and the Expectation of the Gentiles]
January 7: FIRST FRIDAY/Mass of the Season
January 8: Mass of the Season
January 9: The Most Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, Joseph, Greater Double.
January 10: Mass of the Season
January 11: Commemoration of St. Hyginus Pope and Martyr.
January 12: Mass of the Season
January 13: Commemoration of the Baptism of our Lord, Greater Double.
January 14: St. Hilary (of Poitiers), Bishop, Confessor, and Doctor of the Church, Double; Commemoration of St. Felix (of Nola), Priest and Martyr.
January 15: St. Paul, First Hermit, Confessor, Double; Commemoration of St. Maurus, Abbot.
January 16: II Sunday after Epiphany, Double; Commemoration of St. Marcellus I Pope and Martyr.
January 17: St. Anthony (of Egypt), Abbot, Double.
January 18: Chair of St. Peter Apostle at Rome, Greater Double; Commemoration of St. Paul Apostle; Commemoration of St. Prisca Virgin and Martyr.
January 19: Commemoration of Ss. Marius, Martha, Audifax, and Abachum Martyrs; Commemoration of St. Canute, Martyr.
January 20: Ss. Fabian Pope and Sebastian Martyrs, Double.
January 21: St. Agnes, Roman Virgin and Martyr, Double.
January 22: Ss. Vincent and Anastasius Martyrs, Simple.
January 23: III Sunday after Epiphany, Double; Commemoration of St. Raymund of Peñafort Confessor; Commemoration of St. Emerentiana Virgin and Martyr.
January 24: St. Timothy Bishop and Martyr, Double.
January 25: Conversion of St. Paul Apostle, Greater Double; Commemoration of St. Peter.
January 26: St. Polycarp Bishop and Martyr, Double.
January 27: St. John Chrysostom Bishop, Confessor, and Doctor of the Church, Double.
January 28: St. Peter Nolasco Confessor, Double; Commemoration of St. Agnes Virgin and Martyr (second feast).
January 29: St. Francis de Sales Bishop, Confessor, and Doctor of the Church, Double.
January 30: IV Sunday after Epiphany, Double; Commemoration of St. Martina Virgin and Martyr.
January 31: St. John Bosco Confessor, Double.
“Our help is in the NAME of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.”
(Ps, cxxiii. 8)