Feast days of the year

April 3

No celebration in the General Roman Calendar is fixed to April 3, but the saints below keep their feast on this date.

Saint profile for April 3

April 3 in 2026, 2027 and 2028

A Sunday, a season or a greater feast can take the place of a memorial, so what is celebrated on this date changes from year to year.

  • Friday, April 3, 2026

    Friday of the Passion of the Lord (Good Friday)

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    A day of fasting and abstinence. No Mass is celebrated anywhere in the Church; the liturgy is the Celebration of the Lord’s Passion.

    Readings for April 3, 2026

  • Saturday, April 3, 2027

    Saturday within the Octave of Easter

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    Each day of the Easter octave is celebrated as a solemnity of the Lord.

    Readings for April 3, 2027

  • Monday, April 3, 2028

    Monday of the Fifth Week of Lent

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    Readings for April 3, 2028

Celebrations are from the General Roman Calendar and the proper calendar for the dioceses of the United States, computed as described on the liturgical calendar. Your diocese or religious community may keep its own proper celebrations on this date. Saint profiles are listed under every date their own feast-day line gives.