January 1 – Solemnity of Mary, The Holy Mother of God (New Year’s Day) – (also a Holy Day of Obligation) “Hail, O Lady, holy Queen, Mary, holy Mother of God: you are the virgin made church and the one chosen by the most holy Father in heaven whom He consecrated with His most holy beloved Son and with the Holy Spirit the Paraclete, in whom there was and is all the fullness of grace and every good. Hail, His Palace! Hail, His Tabernacle! Hail, His Home! Hail, His Robe! Hail, His Servant! Hail, His Mother!” – St. Francis (Salutation of the Virgin)
January ? – Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord – “Why do you not recognize the truth and believe in the Son of God? See, daily He humbles Himself as when He came from the royal throne into the womb of the Virgin; daily He comes to us in a humble form; daily He comes down from the bosom of the Father upon the altar in the hands of the priest.” – St. Francis, The Admonitions
January ? – Feast of the Baptism of the Lord – “For by our holy profession we have freely obliged ourselves to an intensification of our Baptismal promises and consecration. We have entirely offered ourselves to the Lord Jesus with the firm resolution to live in the spirit He lived, obedient, poor, and chaste …” – Constitutions Art. 3 #2
January 18th-25th – Week of Prayer for Christian Unity – “Moreover, I direct and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ that the sisters beware of all pride, vainglory, envy, covetousness, care and solicitude about this world, detraction and complaining, dissension and division; rather, let them always be solicitous to preserve intact among themselves the unity of mutual love which is the bond of perfection.” – Rule of St. Clare
January 22 – Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children – “Human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception. From the first moment of existence, a human being must be recognized as having the rights of a person – among which is the inviolable right of every innocent being to life.” – Catechism of the Catholic Church #2270 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born, I consecrated you.” – Jeremiah 1:5
January 25 – The Conversion of St. Paul – “I again direct and urge on in the Lord Jesus Christ all my sisters, those who are present and those who are to come, that they always strive to imitate the way of holy simplicity, humility and poverty, and likewise the integrity of a holy way of living in the same way that we were taught by our blessed Father Francis from the beginning of our conversion to Christ” – Rule of St. Clare