National Calendar 2010

							                               National Calendar 2010
                     Readings: Sundays Year C; Weekdays Year 2

             Feast Days               Date             Local Observances / World Days

Solemnity of Mary the Mother of        1 January World Day of Peace
God

Epiphany                               3 January

                                     10 January National Day of Commemoration of Bishop
                                                Pompallier

                                      2 February Day of Prayer for Consecrated Life

                                      6 February Waitangi Day

St Paul Miki and companions,          7 February
Martyrs

                                     11 February World Day of Prayer for the Sick

Ash Wednesday                        17 February NZ Bishops' Lenten Appeal (Caritas) begins

                                        7 March Day of Prayer for Children

St Patrick                             17 March

Annunciation                           25 March Day of Prayer for Family Life

Good Friday                               2 April Collection for the Holy Places

Easter Sunday                             4 April

                                     18 - 22 April NZCBC Meeting (Hamilton)

                                         19 April Anniversary of Pope Benedict XIV's election

                                         25 April ANZAC Day National Day of Remembrance

4th Sunday Easter time                   25 April Day of Prayer for Vocations - Seminary
                                                  Collections

St Peter Chanel                          28 April

Ascension Sunday                         16 May World Communications Day

                                     16 - 23 May Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

Pentecost Sunday                         23 May

Trinity Sunday                           30 May Day of Prayer for the work of the Catholic
                                                Enquiry Centre

Body and Blood of Christ                  6 June
(Corpus Christi)

(St Marcellin Champagnat)                 6 June

                                        20 June Day of Prayer for Refugees and Migrants

                                        27 June Peter's Pence Collection
Ss Peter and Paul                             29 June

                                              11 July Sea Sunday - Day of Prayers for Seafarers

                                           1-8 August National Vocations Awareness Week

St Dominic                                   5 August

Ss Sixtus; St Cajetan                        7 August

Blessed Mary MacKillop                       8 August

Assumption of the Blessed Virgin           15 August Holy Day of Obligation
Mary
(Patronal Feast for New Zealand)

                                                12-18 Social Justice Week
                                           September

                                       8 - 14 October NZ Catholic Bishops' Conference -
                                                      Wellington

                                          10 October Day of Prayer to Respect Life

                                          24 October World Mission Day - Propagation of Faith
                                                     Collection

All Saints                               1 November

Christ the King                         21 November

1st Sunday of Advent                    28 November Sundays Year A, Weekdays Year 1

Christmas Day                           25 December Holy Day of Obligation
Items in Italic are dates observed in New Zealand