Holy Innocents Day 2024 is on Saturday, December 28, 2024: What Does "Holy Innocence" Mean?
Saturday, December 28, 2024 is Holy Innocents Day 2024.
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There is a Holy Day labeled feast of the Holy Innocence, which by the way falls on my Birthday every year.... December 28. It remembers infants who died young, children also, but adults who were child like either mentally or physically (including adult virgins). These are people who, by the Roman Catholic definition, have not been adulterated in mind or body. It is assumed that infants are not tainted by sin. Also, children below the "age of reason" are considered innocent. That age is either 7 or 12, I can only remember those two ages as significant. Age of reason means the age when one is responsible for choices morally, right and wrong.
What are some Anglican holy days and or festivals?
For a complete list of Anglican's Saints' days, feast days, and fast days, you can look at an Ordo Calendar.
This one is in PDF format and requires Adobe Reader or equiv.
Holy Days (as they occur during the year):
The Circumcision of Christ
The Epiphany
Lent
Easter
Ascension Day
Whitsunday [Pentecost]
Trinity Sunday
Advent
& Christmas
Feast Days (as listed in the 1928 US BCP):
All Sundays in the Year
St. Bartholomew the Apostle
The Circumcision of our Lord Jesus CHRIST
St. Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist
The Epiphany
St. Michael and all Angels
The Conversion of St. Paul
St. Luke the Evangelist
The Purification of the Blessed Virgin
St. Simon and St. Jude, Apostles
St. Matthias the Apostle
All Saints
The Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin
St. Andrew the Apostle
St. Mark the Evangelist
St. Thomas the Apostle
St. Philip and St. James. Apostles
The Nativity of our Lord JESUS CHRIST
The Ascension of our Lord JESUS CHRIST
St. Stephen, Deacon and Martyr
St. Barnabas the Apostle
St. John. Apostle and Evangelist
The Nativity of St. John Baptist
The Holy Innocents
St. Peter the Apostle
Monday and Tuesday in Easter Week
St. James the Apostle
Monday and Tuesday in Whitsun Week
The Transfiguration of our Lord JESUS CHRIST
Thanksgiving Day
Fast Days:
Ash Wednesday
Good Friday
The Ember Days at the Four Seasons
All the Fridays in the Year (except Christmas Day, and The Epiphany, or any Friday which
may intervene between these Feasts.)
Hope this helps.
Did you observe Holy Innocents'Day(Childermas)?
I normally attend Mass on Saturday morning and wanted to attend today. Unfortunately I have the flu so I read the Mass readings and prayed at home. I do however donate time, resources, and money to our local Pregnancy Care Center.
Pax et Bonum,
Debra
