Calendar Suggestions 

should remain on the same days of the week as they actually occurred. And the number of days from one 

celebration to the next should remain the same as with the events themselves. 

The Virgin Mary: 

The Immaculate Virgin Conception (November 8) 

    The Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary occurred on the morning of November 8 (see chapter 8). 

The birth of the Virgin Mary must be celebrated on August 5, in compliance with her own request at 

Medjugorje. The true date of her birth (Aug. 5) is about a month earlier than the current date for the 

celebration of her birth in the liturgical calendar (Sept. 8). The true date of the Virgin Mary's Immaculate 

Conception (Nov. 8) is also a month earlier than the current date for this celebration in the liturgical calendar 

(Dec. 8). The date for the celebration of the Virgin's Conception must be moved to November 8. In this way, 

the length of time between our celebrations of her conception and her birth will remain about 9 months and 

the days on which we celebrate these events will be the correct calendar dates. 

    The Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary was a Virgin Conception, occurring solely by a miracle of 

God and not in the usual way.

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 This teaching is certain and true; let no one have any doubts about the 

perfect, complete, and all encompassing Virginity of the Mother of Christ. Our celebration of the Virgin 

Mary's Immaculate Conception must also include a celebration of her Perfect Virginity and her Virgin 

Conception.  Let this event be known and celebrated everywhere in the Church as the Immaculate Virgin 

Conception. 

The Virgin Birth of the Virgin Mary (August 5) 

    August 5 is the true date of the Virgin Mary's birth, as she herself revealed at Medjugorje (see chapter 9). 

The date for the celebration of Mary's birth must be moved to August 5, for this is the day on which she asked 

us to celebrate her birth. But there is more. The birth of the Virgin Mary was a true Virgin Birth, occurring 

solely by a miracle of God and not in the usual way. It cannot be otherwise.

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 The birth of the Virgin Mary 

must be known and celebrated everywhere in the Church as a true Virgin Birth, like the true Virgin Birth of her 

Divine Son Jesus Christ. 

The Naming Day of the Virgin Mary (August 20) 

    As explained in chapter 9, on the 15th day inclusive from the birth of the Virgin, she was formally given the 

name Mary, in a Jewish religious ceremony. This ceremony was most likely held on the evening of August 19, 

before sunset. The Jewish day begins and ends at sunset, so the beginning of Saint Ann's  time of purifying  

according to Jewish Law (Lev 12:5) would have been the 15th day from Mary's birth. This 15th day began at 

sunset on August 18 and ended at sunset on August 19. According to Blessed Anne Catherine, the naming 

ceremony occurred late in the day on August 19. The celebration of the Naming Day of the Virgin Mary 

should therefore be placed on August 20, with a vigil celebration permitted on the evening of August 19. 

August 20 was the first full day after the naming of the Virgin Mary (see chapter 9 for more information). 

    This new feast for the Church is similar to an existing feast, celebrated more in the East than the West, 

remembering the Circumcision of Jesus.  And at the end  of eight days, when he was circumcised, he was 

called Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.  (Lk 2:21). The day for the 

circumcision was also the day He was formally given His name, Jesus. 

The Presentation of the Virgin Mary (October 23) 

    The day on which Saint Ann presented her newborn child to God in the Temple of Jerusalem, in obedience 

to Jewish Law (Lev 12), was the 80th day inclusive from the birth of the Virgin Mary. October 23 is the 80th 

day inclusive from August 5. A similar celebration, when the Virgin Mary presented her newborn child Jesus 

to God in the Temple of Jerusalem on the 40th day, is called the Presentation of the Lord. The day on which 

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