2023 Online Catholic Liturgical Calendar (Year A; Cycle I)


This is a simplified version of the 2023 Catholic Liturgical Year for the USA Church. For more information, visit the website for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops or your own local episcopal conference. 

Symbol Meaning
Ob Holy Day of Obligation (includes all Sundays)
F Feast
S Solemnity
M Memorial
OM Optional Memorial
(feast name) Optional; Seasonal Celebration Takes Precedence
Fast Fast Day

 

November 2022

27 - Advent Week 1

30 - Andrew, Apostle (F)

 

December 2022

3 - Francis Xavier (M) 

4 - Advent Week 2 

7 - Ambrose (M)

8 - Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary (S)

9 - Juan Diego (OM)

11 - Advent Week 3  

12 - Our Lady of Guadalupe (F)

13 - Lucy, Virgin and Martyr (M)

14 - John of the Cross (M)

18 - Advent Week 4 

21 - Peter Canisius, Priest and Doctor of the Church (OM)

23 - John of Kanty, Priest (OM)

25 - The Nativity of the Lord (Christmas) (S); Begin Octave of Christmas

26 - Stephen, the First Martyr (F)

27 - John, Apostle and Evangelist (F)

28 - Holy Innocents

29 - (Thomas Becket) (OM)

30 - Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph (F)

31 - (Pope Sylvester) (OM)

 

January 2023

1 - Mary Mother of God (S); Final Day of Octave of Christmas (F) 

2 - Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops and Doctors of the Church (M)

4 - Elizabeth Ann Seton (M)

5 - John Neumann, Bishop (M)

6 - Andre Bessette (OM)

7 - Raymond of Penyafort, Priest (OM)

8 - The Epiphany of the Lord (S)(USA)

9 - Baptism of the Lord (F)

10 - Ordinary Time Week 1

13 - Hilary of Poitiers (OM)

15 - Ordinary Time Week 2 

17 - Anthony, Abbott (M)

20 - Fabian, Pope and Martyr; Sebastian, Martyr (OM)

21 - Agnes, Virgin and Martyr (M)

22 - Ordinary Time Week 3

24 - Francis de Sales, Bishop and Doctor of the Church (M)

25 - Conversion of Saint Paul (F)

26 - Timothy and Titus, Bishops (M)

27 - Angela Merici (OM)

28 - Thomas Aquinas (M)

29 - Ordinary Time Week 4

31 - John Bosco, Priest (M)

 

February 2023

2 - Presentation of the Lord (F)

3 - Blase, Bishop and Martyr; Ansgar, Bishop (OM)

5 - Ordinary Time Week 5

6 - Paul Miki and Companions, Martyrs (M)  

8 - Jerome Emiliani; Josephine Bakhita, VIrgin (OM)

10 - Scholastica, Virgin (M)

11 - Our Lady of Lourdes (OM)

12 - Ordinary Time Week 6 

14 - Cyril, Monk; Methodius, Bishop (M)

19 - Ordinary Time Week 7 

22 - Ash Wednesday (Fast); Beginning of Lent 

23 - Polycarp, Bishop and Martyr (M)

26 - Lent Week 1

 

March 2023

3 - Katharine Drexel, Virgin (OM)(USA)

4 - (Casimir) (OM)

5 - Lent Week 2 

7 - Perpetua and Felicity, Martyrs

8 - John of God (OM)

9 - Frances of Rome (OM)

12 - Lent Week 3

17 - Patrick, Bishop (OM)

18 - Cyril of Jerusalem, Bishop and Doctor of the Church (OM)

19 - Lent Week 4

20 - Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary (S)

23 - Turibius of Mogrovejo, Bishop (OM)

25 - Annunciation of the Lord (S)

26 - Lent Week 5

 

April 2023

2 - Palm Sunday

6 - Thursday of Holy Week (Holy Thursday

7 - Friday of the Passion of the Lord (Good Friday)

8 - Holy Saturday

9 - Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord (S)

16 - Easter Week 2(or Sunday of Divine Mercy)

21 - Anselm, Bishop and Doctor of the Church 

23 - Easter Week 3

24 - Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Priest and Martyr

25 - Mark the Evangelist (F)

29 - Catherine of Siena, Virgin and Doctor of the Church (M)

30 - Easter Week 4

 

May 2023

1 - Joseph the Worker (F)

2 - Athanasius, Bishop and Doctor of the Church (M)

3 - Philip and James, Apostles (F)

7 - Easter Week 5

10 - John of Avila, Priest and Doctor of the Church (F); Damien de Veuster, Priest (F) (USA)

12 - Nereus and Achilleus, Martyrs; Saint Pancras, Martyr (F)

13 - Our Lady of Fatima (F)

14 - Easter Week 6

15 - Isidore (F) (USA)

18 - John I, Pope and Martyr (F)

21 - The Ascension of the Lord (S)

22 - Rita of Cascia, Religious (F)

25 - Bede the Venerable, Priest and Doctor of the Church; Gregory VII, Pope; Mary Magdalene de’ Pazzi, Virgin (F)

26 - Philip Neri, Priest (M)

27 - Augustine of Canterbury, Bishop (F)

28 - Pentecost Sunday (S)

29 - The Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church (M)

31 - The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (F)

 

June 2023

1 - Justin, Martyr (M)

2 - Marcellinus and Peter, Martyrs (F)

3 - Charles Lwanga and Companions, Martyrs (M)

4 - The Most Holy Trinity (S)

5 - Boniface, Bishop and Martyr (M)

6 - Norbert, Bishop (F)

9 - Ephrem, Deacon and Doctor of the Church (F)

11 - The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi) (S)

13 - Anthony of Padua, Priest and Doctor of the Church (M)

16 - The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus (S)

17 - The Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary (M)

18 - Ordinary Time Week 11

19 - Romuald, Abbot (F)

21 - Aloysius Gonzaga, Religious (M)

22 - Paulinus of Nola, Bishop; John Fisher, Bishop, and Thomas More, Martyrs (F)

24 - The Nativity of Saint John the Baptist (S)

25 - Ordinary Time Week 12

27 - Cyril of Alexandria, Bishop and Doctor of the Church (F)

28 - Irenaeus, Bishop and Martyr (M)

29 - Peter and Paul, Apostles (S)

30 - The First Martyrs of the Holy Roman Church (F)

 

July 2023

1 - Junípero Serra, Priest (F) (USA)

2 - Ordinary Time Week 13

3 - Thomas, Apostle (F)

5 - Anthony Zaccaria, Priest (F) (USA); Elizabeth of Portugal (F)

6 - Maria Goretti, Virgin and Martyr

9 - Ordinary Time Week 14

11 - Benedict, Abbot (M)

14 - Kateri Tekakwitha, Virgin (M) (USA)

15 - Bonaventure, Bishop and Doctor of the Church (M)

16 - Ordinary Time Week 15

18 - Camillus de Lellis, Priest (F) (USA)

20 - Apollinaris, Bishop and Martyr (F)

21 - Lawrence of Brindisi, Priest and Doctor of the Church (F)

22 - Mary Magdalene (F)

23 - Ordinary Time Week 16

25 - James, Apostle (F)

26 - Joachim and Anne, Parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary (M)

29 - Martha, Mary and Lazarus (M)

30 - Ordinary Time Week 17

31 - Ignatius of Loyola, Priest (M)

 

August 2023

1 - Alphonsus Liguori, Bishop and Doctor of the Church (M)

2 - Eusebius of Vercelli, Bishop; Peter Julian Eymard, Priest

4 - John Vianney, Priest (M)

5 - Dedication of the Basilica of Saint Mary Major

6 - The Transfiguration of the Lord (F)

7 - Sixtus II, Pope, and Companions, Martyrs; Cajetan, Priest

8 - Dominic, Priest (M)

9 - Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, Virgin and Martyr

10 - Lawrence, Deacon and Martyr (F)

11 - Clare, Virgin (M)

12 - Jane Frances de Chantal, Religious

13 - Ordinary Time Week 19

14 - Maximilian Kolbe, Priest and Martyr (M)

15 - The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (S)

16 - Stephen of Hungary

19 - John Eudes, Priest

20 - Ordinary Time Week 20

21 - Pius X, Pope (M)

22 - Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary (M)

23 - Rose of Lima, Virgin

24 - Bartholomew, Apostle (F)

27 - Ordinary Time Week 21

28 - Augustine, Bishop and Doctor of the Church (M)

29 - The Passion of Saint John the Baptist (M)

 

September 2023

3 - Ordinary Time Week 22

8 - The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (F)

9 - Saint Peter Claver, Priest (M) (USA)

10 - Ordinary Time Week 23

13 - John Chrysostom, Bishop and Doctor of the Church (M)

14 - The Exaltation of the Holy Cross (F)

15 - Our Lady of Sorrows (M)

16 - Cornelius, Pope, and Cyprian, Bishop, Martyrs (M)

17 - Ordinary Time Week 24

20 - Andrew Kim Tae-gŏn, Priest, and Paul Chŏng Ha-sang and Companions, Martyrs (M)

21 - Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist (F)

23 - Pius of Pietrelcina, Priest (M)

24 - Ordinary Time Week 25

26 - Cosmas and Damian, Martyrs

27 - Vincent de Paul, Priest (M)

28 - Wenceslaus, Martyr; Saint Lawrence Ruiz and Companions, Martyrs

29 - Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, Archangels (F)

30 - Jerome, Priest and Doctor of the Church (M)

 

October 2023

1 - Ordinary Time Week 26

2 - The Holy Guardian Angels (M)

4 - Francis of Assisi (M)

5 - Faustina Kowalska, Virgin; Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos, Priest (USA)

7 - Our Lady of the Rosary (M)

8 - Ordinary Time Week 27

9 - Denis, Bishop, and Companions, Martyrs; John Leonardi, Priest

11 - John XXIII, Pope

14 - Callistus I, Pope and Martyr

15 - Ordinary Time Week 28

17 - Ignatius of Antioch, Bishop and Martyr (M)

18 - Luke, Evangelist (F)

19 - John de Brébeuf and Isaac Jogues, Priests, red and Companions, Martyrs (M) (USA)

20 - Paul of the Cross, Priest (USA)

22 - Ordinary Time Week 29

23 - John of Capistrano, Priest

24 - Anthony Mary Claret, Bishop

28 - Simon and Jude, Apostles (F)

29 - Ordinary Time Week 30

 

November 2023

1 - All Saints (S)

2 - The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed (All Souls’ Day)

4 - Charles Borromeo, Bishop (M)

5 - Ordinary Time Week 31

9 - The Dedication of the Lateran Basilica (F)

10 - Leo the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Church (M)

11 - Martin of Tours, Bishop (M)

12 - Ordinary Time Week 32

13 - Frances Xavier Cabrini, Virgin (M) (USA)

15 - Albert the Great, Bishop and Doctor of the Church

16 - Margaret of Scotland; Gertrude, Virgin

17 - Elizabeth of Hungary, Religious (M)

18 - Dedication of the Basilicas of Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles; Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne, Virgin (USA)

19 - Ordinary Time Week 33

21 - The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (M)

22 - Cecilia, Virgin and Martyr (M)

23 - Clement I, Pope and Martyr; Columban, Abbot; Blessed Miguel Agustín Pro, Priest and Martyr (USA)

24 - Andrew Dũng-Lạc, Priest, and Companions, Martyrs (M)

25 - Catherine of Alexandria, Virgin and Martyr

26 - Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe (Christ the King) (S)

30 - Andrew, Apostle (F)

 

Updated 03-02-2023 by Elizabeth Craig