# Roman Rite in the United States

The Roman Rite of the Catholic Church is celebrated worldwide but allows for certain liturgical aspects to vary by geographical area. The Roman Rite in the United States is under the purview of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops; with the permission of the Holy See, the conference has made adaptations to the liturgical calendar and rubrics, and has promulgated liturgical books for use in the United States.

## Proper calendars

Proper calendars are those which build off of the General Calendar of the Roman Rite. The contents of particular calendars for the United States are listed below, with each entry prefaced by a notation indicating the type of change made from the basis of the general calendar.

### National calendar

The proper calendar for the United States is given in the U.S. edition of the Roman Missal.
| Change | Month | Day | Title of the liturgy | Rank | Color |
| Transferred | January | Sun, 2–8 | The Epiphany of the Lord | Solemnity | White |
| Added | January | 4 | Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, Religious | Memorial | White |
| Added | January | 5 | Saint John Neumann, Bishop | Memorial | White |
| Added | January | 6 | Saint André Bessette, Religious | Optional Memorial | White |
| Added | January | 22 | Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children | Obligatory Day of Prayer | White or Violet |
| Transferred | January | 23 | Saint Vincent, Deacon and Martyr | Optional Memorial | Red |
| Added | January | 23 | Saint Marianne Cope, Virgin | Optional Memorial | White |
| Added | March | 3 | Saint Katharine Drexel, Virgin | Optional Memorial | White |
| Added | May | 10 | Saint Damien de Veuster, Priest | Optional Memorial | White |
| Added | May | 15 | Saint Isidore | Optional Memorial | White |
| Transferred | Sunday after Trinity | Sunday after Trinity | The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ | Solemnity | White |
| Added | July | 1 | Saint Junípero Serra, Priest | Optional Memorial | White |
| Added | July | 4 | Independence Day | Optional Mass | White |
| Transferred | July | 5 | Saint Elizabeth of Portugal | Optional Memorial | White |
| Added | July | 14 | Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, Virgin | Memorial | White |
| Added | July | 18 | Saint Camillus de Lellis, Priest | Optional Memorial | White |
| Added | September | 9 | Saint Peter Claver, Priest | Memorial | White |
| Added | October | 5 | Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos, Priest | Optional Memorial | White |
| Added | October | 6 | Blessed Marie Rose Durocher, Virgin | Optional Memorial | White |
| Added | October | 19 | Saints John de Brébeuf and Isaac Jogues, Priests, and Companions, Martyrs | Memorial | Red |
| Transferred | October | 20 | Saint Paul of the Cross, Priest | Optional Memorial | White |
| Added | November | 13 | Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, Virgin | Memorial | White |
| Added | November | 18 | Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne, Virgin | Optional Memorial | White |
| Added | November | 23 | Blessed Miguel Agustín Pro, Priest and Martyr | Optional Memorial | Red |
| Added | November | 4th Thu | Thanksgiving Day | Optional Mass | White |
| Subtitled | December | 8 | Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Patronal Feastday of the United States of America) | Solemnity | White |
| Elevated | December | 12 | Our Lady of Guadalupe | Feast | White |

### Hispanic patronal feast day calendar

In addition to having its own English-language Roman Missal, the United States has a proper edition of the Misal Romano in the Spanish language. This Spanish missal follows the national calendar given above, but also adds a section of Masses for the patronal feasts of Spanish-speaking nations. These feast days are intended to be celebrated with groups of immigrants from the corresponding countries.
| Change | Month | Day | Country | Title of the liturgy | Rank | Color |
| Added | January | 15 | Guatemala | Holy Christ of Esquipulas | Votive Mass | White |
| Added | January | 21 | Dominican Republic | Our Lady of Altagracia | Votive Mass | White |
| Added | February | 3 | Honduras | Our Lady of Suyapa | Votive Mass | White |
| Added | May | 8 | Argentina | Our Lady of Luján | Votive Mass | White |
| Added | July | 9 | Colombia | Our Lady of the Rosary of Chiquinquirá | Votive Mass | White |
| Propers substituted | July | 16 | Chile | Our Lady of Mount Carmel | Votive Mass | White |
| Added | August | 2 | Costa Rica | Our Lady of the Angels | Votive Mass | White |
| Added | August | 5 | Bolivia | Our Lady of Copacabana | Votive Mass | White |
| Renamed | August | 6 | El Salvador | The Savior of the World | Feast (Transfiguration) | White |
| | August | 15 | Paraguay | Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary | Solemnity | White |
| Added | September | 8 | Cuba | Our Lady of Charity of El Cobre | Votive Mass | White |
| Added | September | 9 | Panama | Saint Mary the Ancient | Votive Mass | White |
| Added | September | 11 | Venezuela | Our Lady of Coromoto | Votive Mass | White |
| Added | October | 12 | Spain | Our Lady of the Pillar | Votive Mass | White |
| Added | October | 28 | Peru | The Lord of Miracles | Votive Mass | White |
| Added | November | 8 | Uruguay | Our Lady of the Thirty-Three Orientals | Votive Mass | White |
| Added | November | 19 | Puerto Rico | Holy Mary, Mother of Divine Providence | Votive Mass | White |
| Renamed | November | 21 | Ecuador | Our Lady of the Presentation of El Quinche [es] | Memorial (Presentation of Mary) | White |
| Renamed | December | 8 | Nicaragua | The Most Pure Conception of Mary | Solemnity (Immaculate Conception) | White |
| | December | 12 | Mexico | Our Lady of Guadalupe | Feast | White |

### Ordinariate calendar

The Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter is a personal ordinariate for former Anglicans that encompasses the United States and Canada. The ordinariate has its own liturgical calendar that includes many English feast days.
| Change | Month | Day | Title of the liturgy | Rank | Color |
| Added | January | 12 | Saint Benedict Biscop, Abbot | Optional Memorial | White |
| Added | February | 4 | Saint Gilbert of Sempringham, Religious | Optional Memorial | White |
| Elevated | February | 22 | Chair of Saint Peter the Apostle | Solemnity | White |
| Added | March | 1 | Saint David, Bishop | Optional Memorial | White |
| Elevated | April | 23 | Saint George, Martyr | Memorial | Red |
| Transferred | April | 24 | Saint Adalbert, Bishop and Martyr | Optional Memorial | Red |
| Added | May | 4 | The English Martyrs | Memorial | Red |
| Added | May | 19 | Saints Dunstan, Ethelwold, and Oswald, Bishops | Optional Memorial | White |
| Added | June | 9 | Saint Columba, Abbot | Optional Memorial | White |
| Added | June | 16 | Saint Richard of Chichester, Bishop | Optional Memorial | White |
| Added | June | 20 | Saint Alban, protomartyr of England | Optional Memorial | White |
| Elevated | June | 22 | Saints John Fisher, Bishop, and Thomas More, Martyrs | Memorial | Red |
| Transferred | June | 23 | Paulinus of Nola, Bishop | Optional Memorial | White |
| Added | June | 23 | Saints Hilda, Etheldreda, and Mildred, and All Holy Nuns | Optional Memorial | White |
| Added | July | 9 | Our Lady of the Atonement | Optional Memorial | White |
| Added | August | 30 | Saints Margaret Clitherow, Anne Line, and Margaret Ward, Martyrs | Optional Memorial | Red |
| Added | August | 31 | Saint Aidan, Bishop, and the Saints of Lindisfarne | Optional Memorial | White |
| Added | September | 4 | Saint Cuthbert, Bishop | Optional Memorial | White |
| Added | September | 19 | Saint Theodore of Canterbury, Bishop | Optional Memorial | White |
| Added | September | 19 | Saint Adrian, Abbot | Optional Memorial | White |
| Added | September | 24 | Our Lady of Walsingham, Patroness of the Ordinariate | Feast | White |
| Transferred | October | 8 | Saint Denis and Companions, Martyrs | Optional Memorial | Red |
| Transferred | October | 8 | Saint John Leonardi, Priest | Optional Memorial | White |
| Added | October | 9 | Saint John Henry Newman, Priest | Optional Memorial | White |
| Added | October | 12 | Saint Wilfrid | Optional Memorial | White |
| Added | October | 13 | Saint Edward the Confessor | Optional Memorial | White |
| Added | November | 20 | Saint Edmund, Martyr | Optional Memorial | Red |