Catholic Saints & Feasts of the Liturgical Year
If a list were made of the greatest human beings who have ever lived, the Catholic saints would be at the top. Though historians often attempt to judge greatness from a subjective perspective, there must be objective criteria by which human greatness is judged. The only Being capable of establishing that criteria is God. The criteria that God has established are the virtues, as identified by Jesus and revealed by Him through the holy Gospels. The goal of this podcast is to present each saint found on the Catholic liturgical calendar in such a way so as to identify the Godly virtues that place each one on that list. The Church has already confirmed the saints’ greatness and their heroic virtues. Importantly, God chose the men and women found in these pages, not only for greatness in their lifetimes, but also as models of holiness in ours. These men and women are gifts to you, given by God through the Church. Each podecast reflection comes from the four-volume series Saints and Feasts of the Liturgical Year. These reflections can be read at our website for free: mycatholic.life. They are also available for purchase in eBook and paperback.
Episodes
Pentecost Sunday—Solemnity
Liturgical Color: Red
Quote:
When the time for Pentecost was fulfilled, they were all in one place together. And suddenly there came from the sky a noise like a strong driving wind, and it filled the entire house in which they were. Then there appeared to them tongues as of fire, which parted and came to rest on each one of them. And they were all filled with the ho...
May 22: Saint Rita of Cascia—Optional Memorial
1386–1457
Patron Saint of abuse victims, impossible causes, sickness, wounds, parenthood, and widows
Invoked against marital problems, fighting and discord, and infertility
Canonized by Pope Leo XIII on May 24, 1900
Liturgical Color: White
Quote:
Dear brothers and sisters, the worldwide devotion to Saint Rita is symbolized by the rose. It is to be ho...
May 21: Saint Christopher Magallanes, Priest and Martyr and Companions, Martyrs—Optional Memorial
1869–1927
Venerated especially in Mexico
Invoked against government persecution
Canonized by Pope John Paul II on May 21, 2000
Liturgical Color: Red
Quote:
“The Church … had peace and was built up; and walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it was multiplied” (Acts 9: ...
May 20: Saint Bernardine of Siena, Priest—Optional Memorial
1380–1444
Patron Saint of public relations, public speaking, and advertisers
Invoked against gambling addictions and chest problems
Canonized by Pope Nicholas V on May 24, 1450
Liturgical Color: White
Quote:
The name of Jesus is the splendor of preachers, because it causes His Word to be proclaimed and heard with glowing splendor. Whence...
May 18: Saint John I, Pope and Martyr—Optional Memorial
c. Late Fifth Century–526
Invoked against temptations toward false unity and acceptance of heresy
Pre-Congregation canonization
Liturgical Color: Red
Quote:
Who does not envy the happiness of a martyr in his dungeon, when he beholds the inward joy, peace, and sentiments of charity with which he closes his eyes to this world! And much more w...
May 15: Saint Isidore—USA Optional Memorial
c. 1070–c. 1130
Patron Saint of Madrid, farms, farmers, bricklayers, and rural communities
Invoked against the death of a child
Canonized by Pope Gregory XV, March 12, 1622
Liturgical Color: White
Quote:
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be given you besides. ~Matthew 6:33
Prayer:
Saint Isidore, you were bo...
May 14: Saint Matthias the Apostle—Feast
First Century
Patron Saint of alcoholics, carpenters, and tailors
Invoked against smallpox
Pre-Congregation canonization
Liturgical Color: Red
Quote:
After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others whom he sent ahead of him in pairs to every town and place he intended to visit. He said to them, “The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few; so ask the...
The Ascension of the Lord—Solemnity
Thursday of the Sixth Week of Easter or on the Seventh Sunday of Easter
Liturgical Color: White
Quote:
When they had gathered together they asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?” He answered them, “It is not for you to know the times or seasons that the Father has established by his own authority. But you will receive...
May 13: Our Lady of Fátima—Optional Memorial
1916–1917
Liturgical Color: White
Quote:
Our Lady showed us a great sea of fire which seemed to be under the earth. Plunged in this fire were demons and souls in human form, like transparent burning embers, all blackened or burnished bronze, floating about in the conflagration… The demons could be distinguished by their terrifying and repulsive like...
May 12: Saint Pancras, Martyr—Optional Memorial
c. 289–c. 304
Patron Saint of children, jobs, and health
Invoked against cramps, false witnesses, headaches, and perjury
Pre-Congregation canonization
Liturgical Color: Red
Quote:
In the same place, on the Aurelian road, the holy martyr Pancratius, who, at fourteen years of age, endured martyrdom by decapitation under Diocletian.
Also, at Rome, Saint...
May 12: Saints Nereus and Achilleus, Martyrs—Optional Memorial
Died c. 98
Pre-Congregation canonization
Liturgical Color: Red
Quote:
Nereus and Achilleus the martyrs joined the army and carried out the cruel orders of the tyrant, obeying his will continually out of fear. Then came a miracle of faith. They suddenly gave up their savagery, they were converted, they fled the camp of their evil lea...
May 10: Saint John of Ávila, Priest and Doctor of the Church—Optional Memorial
1499–1569
Patron Saint of Spanish priests
Canonized by Pope Paul VI on May 31, 1970
Proclaimed a Doctor of the Church by Pope Benedict XVI on October 7, 2012
Liturgical Color: White
Quote:
I know of nothing better than to meditate on the fact that our Lord, with Whom we are to treat, is both God and man, and to think o...
May 10: Saint Damien de Veuster of Molokai, Priest—USA Optional Memorial
1840–1889
Patron Saint of outcasts and those suffering from leprosy
Canonized by Pope Benedict XVI on October 11, 2009
Liturgical Color: White
Quote:
Dear brother, I continue happy and content and even though I am very sick, I only want to fulfill the will of the Good God….I am still able, though not without some difficulty...
May 3- Saints Philip and James, Apostles—Feast
Saint Philip: c. 4–c. 80
Patron Saint of hatmakers and pastry chefs
Saint James: First century BC–c. 62
Patron Saint of pharmacists and the dying
Pre-Congregation canonizations
Liturgical Color: Red
Quote:
The next day he decided to go to Galilee, and he found Philip. And Jesus said to him, “Follow me.” Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the town of Andre...
May 2- Saint Athanasius, Bishop and Doctor—Memorial
c. 296–373
Patron Saint of theologians
Pre-Congregation canonization
Proclaimed a Doctor of the Church by Pope Saint Pius V in 1568
Liturgical Color: White
Quote:
Now when Arius and his fellows made these assertions, and shamelessly avowed them, we being assembled with the Bishops of Egypt and Libya, nearly a hundred in number, anathematized bot...
May 1: Saint Joseph the Worker—Optional Memorial
Patron Saint of workers
Liturgical Color: White
Quote:
Work was the daily expression of love in the life of the Family of Nazareth. The Gospel specifies the kind of work Joseph did in order to support his family: he was a carpenter. This simple word sums up Joseph’s entire life. For Jesus, these were hidden years, the years to which Luke refers ...
April 30: Saint Pius V, Pope—Optional Memorial
1504–1572
Patron Saint of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith
Invoked for the reform and defense of the Church
Canonized by Pope Clement XI on May 22, 1712
Liturgical Color: White
Quote:
From the very first, upon Our elevation to the chief Apostleship, We gladly turned our mind and energies and directed all our thoughts to those matters which...
April 29: Saint Catherine of Siena, Virgin and Doctor of the Church—Memorial
1347–1380
Patron Saint of Europe, Italy, nurses, the sick, and those ridiculed for their piety
Invoked against fires, miscarriages, temptations
Canonized by Pope Pius II on June 29, 1461
Proclaimed a Doctor of the Church by Pope Paul VI on October 4, 1970
Proclaimed Co-Patron of Europe by Pope John Paul II on October 1, ...
April 28: Saint Louis Grignion de Montfort, Priest—Optional Memorial
1673–1716
Patron Saint of preachers
Canonized by Pope Pius XII on July 20, 1947
Liturgical Color: White
Quote:
I declare with the saints: Mary is the earthly paradise of Jesus Christ the new Adam, where He became man by the power of the Holy Spirit, in order to accomplish in her wonders beyond our understanding. She is the vast...
April 28: Saint Peter Chanel, Priest and Martyr—Optional Memorial
1803–1841
Patron Saint of Oceania
Canonized by Pope Pius XII on June 12, 1954
Liturgical Color: Red
Quote:
It does not matter whether or not I am killed; the religion has taken root on the island; it will not be destroyed by my death, since it comes not from men but from God. ~Saint Peter Chanel
Prayer:
Saint Peter, God placed the s...
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