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JUBILEE 2025 - HOPE
January 1 - Solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God
January 3 - The Most Holy Name of Jesus
January 5 - The Epiphany of the Lord
January 12 - Feast of Baptism of the Lord
January 13 - First week in Ordinary Time
January 17 - St. Anthony Abbott
January 25 - The Conversion of St. Paul the Apostle
January 28 - St. Thomas Aquinas, Priest and Doctor of the Church
Liturgical & prayer days of the month
The month of January is dedicated to the Holy Name of Jesus, celebrated on January 3. The first ten days of January fall during the liturgical season known as Christmastide, represented by the liturgical color white.
Pope Francis releases his prayer intention for the month of January 2025, and invites everyone to pray for "the right to an education."
Sacraments and Sacramentals
Signs of God's grace in our lives :
We recognize that the Sacraments have a visible and invisible reality, a reality open to all the human senses but grasped in its God-given depths with the eyes of faith. When parents hug their children, for example, the visible reality we see is the hug. The invisible reality the hug conveys is love. We cannot "see" the love the hug expresses, though sometimes we can see its nurturing effect in the child.
The visible reality we see in the Sacraments is their outward expression, the form they take, and the way in which they are administered and received. The invisible reality we cannot "see" is God's grace, ... read more on USCCB ...
