Mags GarganThe feast days of Saints John XXIII and John Paul II will be on October 11 and October 22 respectively, the Vatican has announced.
In a decree published in the September 15 edition of L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican said Pope Francis had approved putting the saints on the Church’s general Roman calendar of feast days in light of “countless requests from every part of the world”. The decree, issued by the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, stated they will be optional and not obligatory memorials.
New norms regarding obligatory and mandatory feast days were implemented in 2007 on account of the relatively large number of saints who are now celebrated in the Church.