St Peter's Church

Phibsborough

Feast of the Holy Family

Calendar
When:
29th December 2019 @ 10:00 am – 10:45 am
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2019-12-29T10:45:00+00:00
Christmas
Feast of the Holy Family

The Feast of the Holy Family is a liturgical celebration in the Catholic Church in honor of Jesus of Nazareth, his mother, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and his foster father, Saint Joseph, as a family. The primary purpose of this feast is to present the Holy Family as a model for Christian families.
The feast is celebrated on the Sunday within the Octave of Christmas, that is, the Sunday between Christmas Day and New Year’s Day (both exclusive), or if both Christmas Day and the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God are Sundays, on 30 December (always a Friday in such years).

The feast was instituted by Pope Leo XIII in 1893.