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Feasts
1. Feasts of obligation:
a. Sundays or Fridays or Saturday evenings
b. Christmas (25th December)
c. Solemnity of Mary Mother of God (1st January)
d. St. Thomas: (3rd July) (obligation is only for the Syro-Malabar Rite)
e. Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (15th August)
f. Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary: (8th September) (obligation is only for the Syro-Malankara Rite)
2. Feasts of devotion:
a. St. Joseph (19th March)
b. St. Mark the Evangelist: (25th April) (for the Coptic Rite)
c. SS Peter and Paul (29th June)
d. All Saints (1st November)
e. All Souls: Commemoration of all the faithful departed (2nd November)
f. Immaculate Conception (8th December)
3. Feasts transferred to the following Friday / Sunday:
a. Epiphany
b. Corpus Christi
c. Ascension
d. Solemnity of Our Lady of Arabia, Patroness of both the Vicariates in the Gulf (Second Sunday of the Ordinary Time)
e. St. Maroun (9th February)
4. Feasts of the Parishes:
a. Holy Family Cathedral, Kuwait: (Sunday after Christmas)
b. Parish of Our Lady of Arabia, Ahmadi, Kuwait: (Second Sunday of the Ordinary Time)
c. Parish of Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus, Salmiya, Kuwait: (1st October)
d. Parish of Saint Daniel Comboni, Jleeb al-Shuyoukh, Kuwait: (10th October)
e. Mission of Saint John Bosco Mission, Jahra, Kuwait: (31st January) (mission temporarily closed)
f. Parish of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, Qatar: (7th October)
g. Parish of Sacred Heart of Jesus, Bahrain: (Friday following the Solemnity of Corpus Christi)
h. Mission of Our Lady of the Visitation, Awali, Bahrain: (31st May)
i. Parish of Saint Arethas: (24th October)
j. Parish of St. Joseph: (19 March)
k. Parish of Our Lady of Fatima: (13th May)
l. Parish of Our Lady of Arabia: (Second Sunday of the Ordinary Time)
PRAYER TO OUR LADY OF ARABIA
O Most Blessed Virgin Mary, Our Lady of Arabia and our Patroness! To you we offer up our prayers for the needs of the Church here and throughout the world. Help us to remain one with your Son Jesus and united amongst ourselves, so that we may be true witnesses for Christ in our daily lives and that the Lord’s blessings of peace and harmony be within our families and communities always. Trusting in your maternal intercession, we beseech you to hear our humble prayers and grant us the graces we seek... so that we may give glory to God forever. Amen. Our Lady of Arabia, pray for us!
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