DAY IN 2025 | DAY / CELEBRATION |
1st January * | Solemnity of Holy Virgin Mary, Mother of God, and World Day of Peace |
18th – 25 January | Week of Prayer for Christian Unity |
19th January | Sunday of the Word of God |
26th January | World Leprosy Day |
2nd February | Day of Life |
2nd February | World Day for Consecrated Life |
10th February * | St Paul the Apostle, our father in faith and patron saint of Malta |
11th February | World Day of the Sick |
25th February | Blessed Adeodata Pisani |
5th March | Ash Wednesday |
19th March | Anniversary of the Papal Inauguration of His Holiness, Pope Francis |
21st March | Anniversary of the Solemn Installation of Archbishop Charles Scicluna |
11th April | Our Lady of Sorrows |
18th April | Good Friday |
20th April | Easter Sunday |
27th April | Divine Mercy Sunday |
1st May | St Joseph the Worker |
4th May | Day of Charity within Week of Charity |
9th May | Feast of Saint George Preca |
11th May | World Day of Prayer for Vocations |
11th May | Mother’s Day |
15th May | International Day of Families |
1st June | World Communications Day |
8th June | Day of the Holy Name of God |
14th June | World Day of Blood Donors |
15th June | Father’s Day |
26th June | World Day against Drug Abuse and Trafficking |
1st July | Blessed Nazju Falzon |
27th July | World Day of Elderly Persons and Grandparents |
4th August | Anniversary of Bishop Joseph Galea-Curmi’s Episcopal Ordination |
15th August * | Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary |
1st September | World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation and Beginning of the Season of Creation |
28th September | World Day of Migrants and Refugees |
1st October | International Day of the Elderly |
4th October | Closure of the Season of Creation |
10th October | World Mental Health Day |
19th October | World Mission Day |
26th October | Bible Day |
16th November | World Day of the Poor |
20th November | World Children’s Day |
20th – 21st November | Diocesan Assembly |
23rd November | Youth Day |
23rd November | Christ the King |
24th November | Anniversary of Archbishop Charles Scicluna’s Episcopal Ordination |
30th November | Beginning of Advent |
1st December | World AIDS Day |
3rd December | International Day of Persons with Disabilities |
5th December | International Volunteer Day |
25th December * | Christmas Day – The Birth of our Lord Jesus Christ |
*Holy Day of Obligation
“Sunday … is to be observed as the foremost holy day of obligation in the universal Church. On Sundays and other holy days of obligation the faithful are bound to participate in the Mass.”
Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraph 2192