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In the Catholic Church, what are normally called "feast days" are divided into Solemnities, Feasts, and Memorials. Attached below the Answer is the complete calendar for this year. Solemnities include Easter, Christmas, Epiphany, Ascension, and Pentecost, the Sundays of Advent, Lent, and the season of Easter; Ash Wednesday, the weekdays of Holy Week, Days within the octave of Easter, etc. Feasts include Feasts of the Lord in the general calendar, Sundays of the Christmas season and Sundays in ordinary time, Feasts of the Blessed Virgin Mary and of the saints in the general calendar, Proper Feasts, namely: Feast of the principal patron of the diocese, anniversary of the dedication of the cathedral, principal patron of the territory, province, country, or more extensive territory, Feast of the titular saint, founder, or principal patron of an order, congregation, or religious province. Other feasts, then weekdays of Advent from December 17 to December 24 inclusive, days with the Octave of Christmas, weekdays of Lent. Everything else is considered a memorial.

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Listing ALL the feast days will take forever, especially when you consider how many hundreds of saints there are and that they have feast days. Chances are there is a feast day everyday of the year, some are more well known and widely celebrated than others.

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The three most important feast days in the Catholic Church - in order, top to bottom, are:

1.) Pentecost Sunday - the birthday of the Church.

2.) Easter Sunday - the Resurrection of Our Lord

3.) The Nativity of Our Lord - Christmas

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