Christological
Enthronement of the Sacred Heart
The solemn installation of an image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the home, recognizing Christ as King of the family.
Devotions
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Devotions
Traditional Catholic devotions — the Rosary, Divine Mercy, the Angelus, novenas, and more.
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Christological
The solemn installation of an image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the home, recognizing Christ as King of the family.
Eucharistic
The worship of Christ truly, really, and substantially present in the Most Blessed Sacrament of the Eucharist, exposed or reserved in the tabernacle.
Marian devotion
The Feast of the Most Holy Name of the Blessed Virgin Mary is an optional memorial celebrated in the liturgical calendar of the Catholic Church on 12 September.
Devotion to the Immaculate Heart
The First Saturdays Devotion, also called the Communion of Reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, is a Catholic devotion which, according to Lúcia dos Santos, was requested by the Virgin Mary during the apparitions of Our Lady of Fátima in Fátima, Portugal, on 13 May 1917, a
General
Every Friday of the year is a day of penance in the Church, kept in memory of the day the Lord died, most often by abstaining from meat or by another deliberate act of self-denial.
Marian devotion
The Immaculate Conception is the doctrine that the Virgin Mary was free of original sin from the moment of her conception. It is one of the four Marian dogmas of the Catholic Church.
Christological
June is given to the Heart of Jesus, the month in which the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart falls and in which the Church makes reparation for the love that is not returned.
General
A Christmas novena acted out over nine nights, in which a procession carrying images of Mary and Joseph goes from house to house asking for lodging and is turned away until the last night.
General
Lent is kept by the three works the Lord names in the Gospel of Ash Wednesday — prayer, fasting and almsgiving — bound together so that what is denied to the body is given to the poor.
Christological
A chaplet of fifteen beads honouring the hidden childhood of the Word made flesh: three Our Fathers for the Holy Family and twelve Hail Marys for the twelve years of the Holy Childhood.
Liturgical
The public prayer of the Church, sanctifying the hours of the day with psalms, canticles, Scripture, and intercessions.
Catholic devotion
Our Lord of the Miracles of Buga, also known as the Lord of the Miracles, is a statue of Jesus Christ in the form of a crucifix, said to have come into existence spontaneously and without the work of human hands. This type of miraculous icon is known as acheiropoieta.
Marian devotion
Marian devotions are external pious practices directed to the person of Mary, mother of Jesus, by members of certain Christian traditions.
Marian
May is kept as Our Lady's month, and its most familiar act is the crowning of her image with flowers by a parish or a family, a small ceremony that lets the whole household honour the Mother of God together.
Eucharistic
Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament kept through the night, in company with the Lord who asked his friends to watch one hour with him in Gethsemane.
General
In the first days of November the faithful go to the cemeteries and to their parish churches to pray for the dead, and the Church attaches to those visits an indulgence that can be given only to the souls in purgatory.
Marian
October is given over to the Rosary, gathered around the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary on the seventh of the month, when parishes and families take up the beads together for the whole of the month.
Catholic devotion
Pabása ng Pasyón, known simply as Pabása is a Catholic devotion in the Philippines popular during Holy Week involving the uninterrupted chanting of the Pasyón, an early 16th-century epic poem narrating the life, passion, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Eucharistic
An unbroken watch before the Blessed Sacrament exposed, kept around the clock by a community or a parish so that the Lord is never left alone.
Saintly
A custom of giving alms for the poor — the price of bread — in thanksgiving for a favour asked through the intercession of St Anthony of Padua, so that gratitude turns immediately into charity.
Marian
Saturday is the Blessed Virgin's day, kept in memory of the day her Son lay in the tomb and she alone held the faith of the Church intact while she waited for the resurrection.
Eucharistic
An ardent desire to receive Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, made when sacramental Communion is not possible, so that the Lord may come at least spiritually into the heart that longs for him.
Passion
A devotion that follows Christ's path to Calvary in fourteen stations, each meditated with prayer and reflection.
Devotion to a saint
The Solemn Novena to St. Gerard Majella is held over nine days at St. Joseph's Redemptorist Church, Dundalk, Ireland. It runs from 8 to 16 October.
Eucharistic
The quarter of an hour after Communion, kept in silence and prayer, when the Lord who has just been received is welcomed as a guest rather than dismissed.
General
A circle of evergreen holding four candles, lit one by one through the four weeks of Advent, so that the growing light on the family table measures the approach of Christmas.
Christological
A small disc of wax stamped with the Lamb of God, blessed by the Roman Pontiff himself and kept by the faithful as a sign of Christ the Lamb who takes away the sin of the world.
Marian
Three times a day the Angelus stops the day's work to recall the Annunciation: the angel's greeting, Mary's consent, and the Word made flesh who dwells among us.
Marian
The small black scapular of the Servite family, worn as a sign of companionship with the Mother of Sorrows and of a promise to keep her sorrows in mind.
Liturgical
On 3 February the faithful come forward to have two crossed candles held to the throat while the minister asks, through the intercession of St. Blaise, deliverance from every ailment of the throat and from every other illness.