On this day

Overview

Special days can be commemorated and celebrated through prayer in school communities. There are a variety of calendars that schools can use to select special occasions to commemorate and celebrate through prayer.

Special days

As well as the celebration of formal liturgies and prayer, school communities celebrate prayer rituals to mark the everyday patterns of life, rites of passage and moments of grief and loss, joy and celebration. These prayer rituals have a recognisable structure and may use elements and symbols similar to those of the prayer and liturgy of the Catholic tradition.

Religious Life of the School P-12, Archdiocese of Brisbane

Liturgical Calendar

Daily Readings

Liturgical Calendars

National Days

Australian calendar of cultural and religious days

Public Holidays

International Days

United Nations International Days

Catholic special days

Social Justice Sunday (last Sunday of August)

1 September: World day of prayer for care of creation

Season of Creation (1 Sept - 4 October)

Pope's messages for special days:

• World Communications Day (Seventh Sunday of Easter)
• World Day for Consecrated Life (2 February)
• World Food Day (16 October)
• Messages for Lent
• World Day of Migrants and Refugees (last Sunday of September)
• World Mission day (second last Sunday of October)
• World Day of Peace (1 January)
• World Day of the Poor (33rd Sunday of Ordinary Time)
• World Day of the Sick (11 February)
• World Day of Prayer for Vocations (Fourth Sunday of Easter)
• World Youth Day (Multi-day event held approximately every three years)