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"'''Liturgical calendar'''" refers to the cycle of "liturgical seasons" celebrated by Catholics in Mass and prayer.

== Liturgical Year ==
The first day of the year is the First Sunday of Advent

* in the 2024 Liturgical Year, this date fell upon December 3, 2023

== Liturgical seasons ==

* or "cycles"
# Advent
# Lent
# Easter
# Ordinary Time (also falls between Advent and Lent)

== Principle Celebrations of the 2024 Liturgical Year ==
{| class="wikitable"
|First Sunday of Advent
|December 3, 2023
|-
|Ash Wednesday
|February 14, 2024
|-
|Easter Sunday
|March 31, 2024
|-
|The Ascension of the Lord [Thursday]
|May 9, 2024
|-
|Pentecost Sunday
|May 19, 2024
|-
|The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ
|June 2, 2024
|-
|First Sunday of Advent
|December 1, 2024
|}

== Proper Calendar for the Dioceses of America (USA) ==
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 60%;" 
|January 4
|Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, Religious
|Memorial 
|-
|January 5
|Saint John Neumann, Bishop 
|Memorial
|-
|January 6 
|Saint André Bessette, Religious*  
|
|-
|January 22** 
|Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children 
| 
|-
|January 23 
|Saint Vincent, Deacon and Martyr <br>Saint Marianne Cope, Virgin 
|
|-
|March 3 
|Saint Katharine Drexel, Virgin  
|
|-
|May 10 
|Saint Damien de Veuster, Priest  
|
|-
|May 15 
|Saint Isidore  
|
|-
|July 1 
|Saint Junípero Serra, Priest 
|
|-
|July 4 
|Independence Day 
|
|-
|July 5 
|Saint Elizabeth of Portugal  
|
|-
|July 14 
|Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, Virgin 
| Memorial
|-
|July 18 
|Saint Camillus de Lellis, Priest 
|
|-
|September 9 
|Saint Peter Claver, Priest 
| Memorial
|-
|October 5 
|Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos, Priest 
|
|-
|October 6 
|Blessed Marie Rose Durocher, Virgin  
|
|-
|October 19 
|Saints John de Brébeuf and Isaac Jogues, Priests, and Companions, Martyrs 
|Memorial
|-
|October 20 
|Saint Paul of the Cross, Priest  
|
|-
|November 13 
|Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, Virgin 
|Memorial
|-
|November 18 
|Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne, Virgin 
|
|-
|November 23 
|Blessed Miguel Agustín Pro, Priest and Martyr  
|
|-
|Fourth Thursday in November 
|Thanksgiving Day 
|
|-
|December 8 
|THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY 
(Patronal Feast day of the United States of America)
|Solemnity
|-
|December 12 
|OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE 
|Feast
|-
|Sunday between January 2 and January 8:  
|THE EPIPHANY OF THE LORD 
|Solemnity
|-
|Sunday after the Most Holy Trinity:
|THE MOST HOLY BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST 
(Corpus Christi)
|Solemnity
|}
Notes:
<nowiki>*</nowiki> When the rank of the celebration is not indicated, it is an Optional Memorial. 
<nowiki>**</nowiki> January 23, when January 22 falls on a Sunday.
Source: https://www.usccb.org/resources/2024cal.pdf
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