Follow the Church through the great feasts of late summer and autumn, from the Nativity of Our Lady and St. Michael the Archangel to Our Lady of the Rosary and the Vigil of All Saints.

Volume 14 of The Liturgical Year is Time After Pentecost, Book V, continuing the Proper of the Saints from August 23 through October 31. It leads the reader through an extraordinary succession of Marian feasts, apostles, martyrs, Doctors of the Church, religious founders, angels, and confessors as the liturgical year moves toward All Saints’ Day.

Rather than offering simple biographies, The Liturgical Year places each saint and feast within the prayer of the Church. Historical commentary, Scripture, the traditional Mass, Divine Office, hymns, and ancient Catholic traditions are brought together to explain not only who the Church honors, but why each feast matters to the Christian life.

Readers will encounter major feasts including:

• St. Bartholomew the Apostle

• St. Louis IX, King of France

• St. Augustine, Bishop and Doctor of the Church

• The Beheading of St. John the Baptist

• The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

• The Holy Name of Mary

• The Exaltation of the Holy Cross

• The Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary

• St. Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist

• St. Michael the Archangel

• St. Jerome, Priest and Doctor of the Church

• Our Lady of the Rosary

• The Holy Guardian Angels

• St. Francis of Assisi

• St. Bruno

• St. Teresa of Avila

• St. Luke the Evangelist

• Sts. Simon and Jude, Apostles

• The Vigil of All Saints

Several of the Church’s most beloved autumn devotions come together in this volume.

The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary celebrates the birth of the Mother of God and is followed shortly afterward by the Holy Name of Mary and the feast of her Seven Sorrows. The Exaltation of the Holy Cross turns the faithful toward the instrument of Christ’s victory, while the feast of St. Michael the Archangel honors the prince of the heavenly armies and the Church’s great defender.

October brings another rich sequence of feasts, including the Holy Guardian Angels, St. Francis of Assisi, and Our Lady of the Rosary—a feast deeply connected with the Church’s confidence in the intercession of the Blessed Virgin and the power of the Rosary.

Throughout these pages, the saints reveal the remarkable variety of holiness found within the Church: kings and hermits, apostles and martyrs, bishops and mystics, angels and religious founders—all united in the same Faith and ordered toward the same final end.

The volume concludes on October 31, the Vigil of All Saints, making it a particularly fitting companion for Catholics seeking to recover the explicitly Catholic rhythm of the autumn calendar as it leads directly into All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day.

The edition also contains a supplement with later-added feasts including St. Thérèse of Lisieux, the Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, and Christ the King.

Volume 14: Time After Pentecost V is an excellent companion for Catholics who want to follow the Church’s traditional autumn calendar, deepen their devotion to Our Lady and the saints, and understand the liturgical meaning behind some of the most beloved Catholic feasts of September and October.

Series: The Liturgical Year, Volume 14 of 15
Season: Time After Pentecost — Book V
Primary Focus: Proper of the Saints, August 23–October 31
Major Feasts: Nativity of Mary, Holy Cross, St. Michael & Our Lady of the Rosary