Feast of the Circumcision of Christ Feast of the Circumcision of Christ The Feast of the Circumcision of Christ is a Christian celebration of the circumcision of Jesus in accordance with Jewish tradition, eight days (according to the Semitic and southern European calculation of intervals of days) after his birth, the occasion on which the child was formally given his name. The circumcision took place not in the Temple, though painters sometimes so represent it, but in the home. The circumcision of Jesus has traditionally been seen, as explained in the popular 14th-century work the "Golden Legend", as the first time the blood of Christ was
Feast of Christ the King of Christ the King, which is contained in the Revised Common Lectionary. Traditional Catholics observe it on its original date, the last Sunday of October. It is also observed on the same computed date as the final Sunday of the ecclesiastical year, the Sunday before the First Sunday of Advent, by Western rite parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia. In 2018, the feast day is celebrated on 25 November. Roman Catholics adhering to the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite as permitted under the motu proprio "Summorum Pontificum" to use the General Roman Calendar of 1960, and as