* Advent
* All Saints’ Day
* All Souls’ Day
* Ascension Thursday (Ascension of Jesus into Heaven)
* Ash Wednesday (beginning of Lent)
* Assumption of Mary (Assumption of the Virgin Mary)
* Candlemas
* Childermas
* Christmas (Birth of Jesus)
* Corpus Christi (Sacrifice of Jesus)
* Easter (Resurrection of Jesus, end of Lent)
* Easter Triduum
o Holy Thursday (Celebration of The Last Supper)
o Good Friday (Death of Jesus)
o Holy Saturday
o Easter Vigil
* Easter Monday (Monday following Easter Sunday, not part of the Easter Triduum)
* Epiphany
* Lent (40 days of penance before Easter)
* Pentecost or Whitsun (Descent of the Holy Spirit upon the disciples of Jesus)
* Shrove Tuesday or Mardi Gras (last day of Carnival, last day before Ash Wednesday)
* Winter Lent
* Watch Night
The Catholic patronal feast day or ‘name day’ are celebrated in each place’s patron saint’s day, according to the Calendar of saints.
Written by admin on January 4th, 2008 with no comments.
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The word holiday has related but different meanings in English-speaking countries. A combination of holy and day, the term holidays represented religious holy days, days that you did not work or typically took off. This term has evolved to mean any special day of rest that was part of the weekday and not the weekend. In the English-speaking world a holiday can mean a period spent away from home or business in travel or recreation (e.g. “I’m going on holiday to Las Vegas next week”); the North American equivalent is “vacation“. Canadians often use the terms vacation and holiday interchangeably when referring to a trip away from home or time off work. In Australia, the term refers to a vacation or public holiday, but not to a day of commemoration such as Mother’s Day, Father’s Day or Halloween.
In all of the English-speaking world, a holiday can be a day set aside by a nation or culture (in some cases, multiple nations and cultures) typically for celebration but sometimes for some other kind of special culture-wide (or national) observance or activity. A holiday can also be a special day on which school and/or offices are closed, such as Labor Day.
When translated into other languages, the meanings of the word “holiday” are sometimes conflated with those of “observance” and “celebration”.
Written by admin on January 3rd, 2008 with no comments.
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