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Find accurate definitions of over 5,000 Catholic terms and phrases (including abbreviations). Based on Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.

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FERIA

In liturgical language any weekday on which no special ecclesiastical feast is to be celebrated. Such days are called ferial days. (Etym. Latin feria, weekday.) See also Ferial.

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Thursday of the Twenty-Fifth Week in Ordinary Time

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The Memorial of Our Lady of Walsingham was reinstated to the liturgical calendar in England in 2000. The Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter is entrusted to Mary under this title. This feast day celebrates the shrine in Norfolk, England,…

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