Count for sundays and count for holidays

Question

I have two doubts .......

1) How to get sundays count for current months...

2) I have one table tblHolidays

ID            Holidays                         Date

1              Krishnanjeyanthi             25-08-2016

2             Vinayagar sathurthi           30-08-2016

3              Deepawali                          29-10-2016

How to get this month Holidays count ......