December 2025 Events Highlights: Advent, Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, and Christmas

| 12/1/2025

By: The Good Newsroom

The first month of the new Church calendar ushers in events filled with good tidings of great joy throughout the Archdiocese of New York

A figurine of the Christ Child is displayed in a Nativity scene at a home in Chicani, Bolivia, December 7, 2020.
A figurine of the Christ Child is displayed in a Nativity scene at a home in Chicani, Bolivia, December 7, 2020. (OSV News photo/David Mercado, Reuters)

The Archdiocese of New York’s December calendar is full of joyous events, with the beginning of Advent, the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, and Christmas. Below is a selection of some of those activities and information on how to get involved. Click the link on each event title for more information.

 
 

December 6 | Simbang Gabi Mass | St. Patrick’s Cathedral


December 8 | Immaculate Conception (Holy Day of Obligation) |
Parishes throughout the Archdiocese of New York

December 12 | Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe | St. Patrick’s Cathedral

December 15 | Reconciliation Monday | Parishes throughout the Archdiocese of New York

December 18 | A City Singing at Christmas | St. Patrick’s Cathedral

December 24 | Christmas Eve Vigil Masses | Parishes throughout the Archdiocese of New York

December 25 | Christmas Day Masses | Parishes throughout the Archdiocese of New York

December 29 | Solemnity of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph – Archdiocesan Jubilee Mass | St. Patrick’s Cathedral

Parishes: submit your events here for inclusion on the Archdiocese of New York events calendar.

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