liturgical year: August 2008

Detailed below is the August 2008 liturgical calander, of England and Wales.

Day

Date

Celebration

Rank

Friday

1

St Alphonsus Liguori, bishop, doctor of the Church

memorial

Saturday

2

Weekday of Ordinary Time or
St Eusebius of Vercelli, bishop;
St Peter Julian Eymard, priest, religious founder

 

Sunday

3

18th Sunday of Ordinary Time

Week II

Monday

4

St John Vianney, priest

memorial

Tuesday

5

Weekday of Ordinary Time or
The Dedication of the Basilica of Saint Mary Major

 

Wednesday

6

The Transfiguration of the Lord

feast

Thursday

7

Weekday of Ordinary Time or
St Sixtus II, pope, martyr, and his Companions, martyrs;
St Cajetan, priest, religious founder

 

Friday

8

St Dominic, priest

memorial

Saturday

9

St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein), virgin, martyr, patron of Europe

feast (in Europe)

Sunday

10

19th Sunday of Ordinary Time

Week III

Monday

11

St Clare, virgin,

memorial

Tuesday

12

Weekday of Ordinary Time or
St Jane Frances de Chantal

 

Wednesday

13

Weekday of Ordinary Time or
Ss Pontian, pope, and Hippolytus, priest, martyrs

 

Thursday

14

St Maximilian Maria Kolbe, priest, martyr

memorial

Friday

15

The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

solemnity

Saturday

16

Weekday of Ordinary Time or
St Stephen of Hungary

 

Sunday

17

20th Sunday of Ordinary Time

Week IV

Monday

18

Weekday of Ordinary Time

 

Tuesday

19

Weekday of Ordinary Time or
St John Eudes, priest

 

Wednesday

20

St Bernard, abbot, doctor of the Church

memorial

Thursday

21

St Pius X, pope

memorial

Friday

22

The Queenship of the Virgin Mary

memorial

Saturday

23

Weekday of Ordinary Time or
St Rose of Lima, virgin

 

Sunday

24

21st Sunday of Ordinary Time

Week I

Monday

25

Weekday of Ordinary Time or
St Louis; St Joseph Calasanz, priest

 

Tuesday

26

Weekday of Ordinary Time or
B. Dominic of the Mother of God Barberi, priest (in England);
St David Lewis, priest, martyr (in Wales)

 

Wednesday

27

St Monica

memorial

Thursday

28

St Augustine, bishop, doctor of the Church

memorial

Friday

29

The Beheading of St John the Baptist, martyr

memorial

Saturday

30

Weekday of Ordinary Time or
Ss Margaret Clitherow, Anne Line and Margaret Ward, martyrs (in England)

 

Sunday

31

22nd Sunday of Ordinary Time

Week II