USCCB Catholic Liturgical Calendar

Add the USCCB liturgical calendar to Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, or Outlook, covering 2026, 2027, and beyond. Free and always up to date.

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Essential

Sundays, solemnities, feasts, and obligatory memorials. The most popular option.

Full

Everything in Essential plus all optional memorials from the USCCB calendar.

Download a custom Catholic calendar file

Choose exactly what to include, then import into any calendar app.

Before you download

Importing adds events to your calendar permanently. We recommend creating a new calendar (e.g., "Catholic Calendar") in your app first, then importing into that.

Downloads cover a single year. Come back next year to download again, or use a subscribe feed above to get new dates automatically.

Works with Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Outlook, and any app that supports .ics files.

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Auto-updates each year. Remove with one click. Choose from presets.

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Fully customizable. One year at a time. To remove, delete the calendar you imported into.

How to add the Catholic calendar to your phone

Google Calendar

On a computer, click the Google button above to add the Catholic calendar to your account in one step. It then shows up in Google Calendar on every device you sign in to.

On Android, webcal links can't subscribe on their own, so the button copies the feed URL and opens Google Calendar's Add by URL page:

  1. Tap the Google button. It copies the feed URL and opens the Add by URL page.
  2. Paste the URL into the "URL of calendar" field.
  3. Tap Add calendar.

Apple Calendar

On an iPhone or iPad, tap the Apple Calendar button above. Your device asks if you want to subscribe to the calendar, and you tap Subscribe to confirm.

On a Mac, the same button opens the Calendar app and shows the same prompt. Once it is added, the feast days appear in the Calendar app and stay up to date on their own.

Outlook

Click the Outlook button above. It opens Outlook on the web with the feed URL already filled in, and you confirm to add the calendar.

You can also add it by hand with the Copy link button:

  1. In Outlook on the web, open Add calendar, choose Subscribe from web, and paste the URL.
  2. In the Outlook desktop app, open Add Calendar, choose From Internet, and paste the URL.

Free printable Catholic wall calendar PDF

Prefer a calendar on the wall? Download a free printable Catholic wall calendar PDF, twelve landscape pages with one month each, laid out as a classic wall-calendar grid. It uses the same USCCB calendar data as the feed above.

Every feast day, Sunday, liturgical color, and holy day of obligation is computed from the official USCCB calendar, the same data your parish uses. No static graphics, no outdated dates, and you can generate it for any year with no email and no signup.

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Printable Catholic wall calendar PDF showing a month grid with feast days, holy days of obligation, and liturgical season colors from the USCCB calendar
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Generated from the official USCCB liturgical calendar.

Liturgical season colors

Each Sunday and feast day shows the proper liturgical color (violet, gold, green, red, rose, or white) as a color band on the day cell.

Every saint feast day

Solemnities, feasts, and memorials from the General Roman Calendar plus US proper saints, including all national feast days observed by the USCCB.

Holy days of obligation

Each holy day of obligation is shaded and clearly labeled, with the option to keep the Ascension on Thursday or move it to Sunday.

Print-ready landscape

Designed at 8.5x11 landscape for any home printer, with A4 and 11x17 tabloid sizes available for international or oversized wall display.

Configure your Catholic calendar PDF

Set the year (2026, 2027, and beyond), paper size, and what to include, then download a print-ready PDF.

Print-ready PDF, generated instantly. First-time configurations may take up to 20 seconds.

How to print your Catholic wall calendar

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Open in Adobe Reader

Open the PDF in Adobe Acrobat Reader for the most accurate print results. Avoid printing from your browser, which can resize the calendar.

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Print at 100% / Actual Size

Select your paper size (Letter or A4), set orientation to landscape, and choose 100% / Actual Size. Heavier paper (24-32lb) gives the calendar a more substantial, wall-mounted feel.

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Bind or hang each month

Three easy options: staple the stack at the top, hole-punch and use a calendar wire/ring binding, or simply tape each new month to the wall as the year progresses.

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Follow the liturgical year

The seasons are visible at a glance: violet for Advent, gold for Christmas, green for Ordinary Time, purple for Lent, white for Easter. Every solemnity, feast, and memorial is in its place.

Catholic feast days and holy days

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Catholic Holy Days of Obligation (United States)

Subscribe to the calendar above to see these in Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, or Outlook.

Want daily writing space? Build your free Catholic planner PDF. Reading on a tablet? Get the free digital planner for GoodNotes, Notability, or Xodo. All use the same USCCB calendar data.

Liturgical colors and the liturgical year

Liturgical colors

The Catholic Church marks each season of the liturgical year, and each feast, with a proper color. The calendar PDF shows these as a color band at the top of each day's cell.

Violet: Advent and Lent
White / Gold: Christmas, Easter, Marian feasts
Green: Ordinary Time
Red: Martyrs, Pentecost, Palm Sunday
Rose: Gaudete and Laetare Sundays

The liturgical year at a glance

The Catholic liturgical year begins on the First Sunday of Advent, four Sundays before Christmas. It cycles through Advent (violet, preparation), Christmas (gold, joy), Ordinary Time (green, growth), Lent (violet, repentance), the Sacred Triduum (red, the Lord's Passion), and Easter (gold, resurrection). The 2025-2026 year uses Lectionary Year C, and the 2026-2027 year begins November 29, 2026 with Year A.

Some holy days shift from year to year. In some years the obligation for the Assumption, Mary Mother of God, or All Saints is suppressed when the feast falls on a Saturday or Monday, and the Ascension is transferred to Sunday in most US dioceses.

Which years are covered

The subscribe feeds stay current on their own, so 2026, 2027, and every year after arrive in your app without you doing anything. The downloadable .ics file and the printable PDF are built one year at a time, so you can generate the 2026 calendar now and come back for 2027 when you need it. Every year uses the same official USCCB liturgical calendar data.

Frequently asked questions

On a computer, click the Google button above to subscribe instantly. On Android, the button copies the feed URL and opens Google Calendar settings where you paste it. Either way, the calendar syncs to all your devices.

Click the Apple Calendar button. Your iPhone will prompt you to subscribe. Events update automatically as new years are added.

Click the Outlook button above to add the calendar in one step. Or in Outlook, go to Add calendar > Subscribe from web and paste the feed URL. The calendar then updates automatically as new years are added.

Subscribing creates a live feed that auto-updates. Next year's dates are added automatically and you can remove all events by unsubscribing. Downloading is a one-time import for a single year.

The USCCB provides a PDF calendar but does not offer an ICS subscription feed. Free Catholic Planner provides the complete USCCB liturgical calendar as a subscribable feed for Google, Apple, and Outlook.

The Essential feed includes all Sundays, solemnities, feasts, obligatory memorials, holy days of obligation, and liturgical season markers. The Full feed adds all optional memorials. Both use the official General Roman Calendar for the United States.

In the United States, the holy days of obligation are: Mary, Mother of God (January 1), Ascension, Assumption (August 15), All Saints' Day (November 1), Immaculate Conception (December 8), and Christmas (December 25). Some may be suppressed when falling on Saturday or Monday.

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Yes. No email signup, no payment, no account. Choose your options, download the PDF, and print it. It's a free resource for the Catholic community.

Landscape Letter (8.5 by 11 inches) is the default and works on any US home printer. A4 (210 by 297 mm) is available for international printing. For a larger wall display, Tabloid (11 by 17 inches) prints well on a copy-shop or office printer.

The USCCB publishes a date-list PDF of the liturgical year, useful for clergy and liturgists. This site generates a traditional wall-calendar grid with one month per page, easy to glance at and hang on your wall. Both use the same authoritative USCCB calendar data.

Yes. The Catholic calendar PDF is free for personal, parish, and classroom use. Print as many copies as you need for your bulletin board, school hallway, religious-ed classroom, or family fridge.

Partly. Under Advanced options you can switch to the 1962 calendar, which follows the traditional sanctoral cycle with Septuagesima and Ember Days. Full 1962 coverage is still being built out, so treat it as a work in progress rather than a complete Traditional Latin Mass calendar for now.

The Catholic liturgical year begins on the First Sunday of Advent, four Sundays before Christmas. The 2025-2026 year began November 30, 2025 and uses Lectionary Year C. The 2026-2027 year begins November 29, 2026 and uses Year A. Although the calendar PDF runs January through December, each page shows which liturgical seasons it covers.

A Solemnity is the highest rank: Christmas, Easter, the Immaculate Conception, and other major celebrations of the Lord, the Virgin Mary, or saints of universal importance. A Feast is the next highest, often for apostles or major saints (e.g., the Transfiguration, St. Mary Magdalene). A Memorial commemorates a saint, either obligatory or optional. Memorials yield to Sundays and Solemnities. On the calendar PDF, solemnities and feasts appear in bold.

The official USCCB liturgical calendar via the LitCal API. The same General Roman Calendar and US proper saints (St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, Our Lady of Guadalupe, and others) that your parish follows. For the 1962 calendar, data comes from the missalemeum project.