January 3 – Calendar Memorial: The Most Holy Name of Jesus Saint Anterus, Pope, Martyr (– †3 January 236) – France – Saint Genevieve, Virgin, Patron Saint of Paris - Optional Memorial – India – Blessed Kuriakose Elias Chavara, Priest - Optional Memorial – Ireland – Saint Munchin, Bishop, Patron of Limerick- Optional Memorial – Puerto Rico – Most Holy Name of Jesus or Our Lady of Bethlehem - Optional Memorials - Devotion - Immaculate Heart Of Mary: First Saturday Devotion The Promises attached to the Devotion of the Immaculate Heart of Mary - First Saturdays 1. Salvation of our own soul To all those who, on the First Saturday of five consecutive months ... fulfill all the conditions requested, I promise to assist them at the hour of death with all the graces necessary for the salvation of their soul. This little devotion practised with a good heart, is then enough to procure infallibly for us - ex opere operato so to speak - as with the sacraments - the grace of final perseverance, of eternal salvation! And this promise is without any exclusion, limitation, restriction. To all who ..... I promise. Heaven for eternity for five Holy Communions! – Happy Birthday – Lajolo, Cardinal Giovanni , President Emeritus of the Governatorate of Vatican City State Italy, (Novara, Italy, 3 January 1935 – age 80) January 4 - Calendar Pope Francis prays the Angelus from his studio window, overlooking St. Peters Square. January 4 Today begins National Migration Week. This week, pray for our brothers and sisters forced to leave their homes and reflect on the theme, “We are one family under God.” January 12 - Calendar Monday 12 to Monday 19: Pope Francis Apostolic trip in Sri Lanka and the Philippines. January 22, 2015 The 2015 National Memorial will take place from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. on Jan. 22 – the morning of the March for Life – at DAR Constitution Hall, 1776 D Street NW, at 18th Street. February 6 - Calendar “Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors,” a body created by Pope Francis in December 2013 and presided over by Boston’s Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley, will meet in the Vatican on Feb. 6-8. February 8 - Calendar – Saint Josephine Bakhita, a Sudanese slave, freed, who became a Canossian nun, and was declared a Saint in 2000 The First International Day of Prayer and Awareness against Human Trafficking. February 9 - Calendar The pope’s “G9” — his council of cardinal advisors — will assemble Feb. 9-11 to continue planning the reform of the Roman Curia, the Vatican’s central administrative bureaucracy. February 11 - Calendar 23rd World Day of the Sick Time spent with the sick is holy time. (Pope Francis message, 2015). February 14 - Calendar Pope Francis will create new cardinals on February 14 - 15 March 21 - Calendar PopeFrancis will pray at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Pompei during March 21 visit to Naples April 2 - Calendar (Vatican Radio) The Canadian parliament has passed an act designating the date of April 2nd each year as Pope John Paul II Day. Passed by both houses of parliament, the bill also recognizes Saint John Paul II as a champion of human dignity and freedom. April 2nd is the date of the late Popes death and 2015 marks the 10th anniversary of his passing. April 19 - Calendar The Holy Shroud will be part of an exhibit in the Italian city of Turin from April 19th to June 24th. 2015 - October - Calendar Extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family at the Vatican October 2015 – 2016 – Calendar – The general congregation to elect a new superior general for the Jesuits will begin with a Mass the evening of Oct. 2, 2016, (Rome) – 2016 – Calendar – 2016: – World Youth Day, Cracow, Poland
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