Salesian Family Calendar

Liturgical memorials, anniversaries and feasts — one page per month.

December 2026

  • Solemnity
  • Feast
  • Memorial
  • Optional memorial

In square brackets […]: celebrations that may vary from one country to another, depending on the established norms of the local authorities.

Memorial

Blessed Philip Rinaldi, priest and Founder of the Secular Institute of the Volunteers of Don Bosco (1931, Turin, Italy)

Solemnity

† SECOND SUNDAY OF ADVENT

Solemnity

† THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY (1854)

Optional memorial

Our Lady of Loreto (1296, Loreto, Italy)

Optional memorial

Blessed Virgin Mary of Guadalupe (1531, Guadalupe, Mexico)

Solemnity

† THIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT

Other observances

Christmas Novena novena begins

Solemnity

† FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT

Solemnity

† CHRISTMAS EVE

Solemnity

† THE NATIVITY OF THE LORD (Christmas Lord)

Solemnity

† FIRST SUNDAY after Christmas. The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph (1895)