2010 Liturgical Calendar

Saturday, 14 March 2009 06:51

Major Fasts and Feasts

January 1	Feast of the Circumcision of Our Lord Feast of St. Basil the Great New Year's Day
January 6	Feast of the Theophany of Our Lord, God and Savior, Jesus Christ
January 11	Sunday after Theophany
January 17	Sunday of Zacchaeus
January 24	Sunday of the Publican & the Pharisee
January 30	Three Holy Hierarchs, Saints Basil, Gregory and John Chrysostom
January 31	Sunday of the Prodigal Son
February 2	Feast of the Encounter of Our Lord with Simeon and Anna  (Presentation of Our Lord into the Temple)
February 6	First All-Souls Saturday (Memorial Saturday)
February 7	Sunday of the Second Coming of Christ (Meat-Fare)
February 14	Forgiveness Sunday (Cheese-Fare)
February 15	Beginning of the Holy Forty Days Fast
February 21	1st Sunday of Great Lent - Sunday of Orthodoxy
February 27	2nd All Souls Saturday
February 28	2nd Sunday of Great Lent - St. Gregory Palamas
March 6	3rd All Souls Saturday
March 7	3rd Sunday of Great Lent - Veneration of the Holy Cross
March 13	4th All Souls Saturday
March 14	4th Sunday of Great Lent - St. John Climacus
March 18	Canon of St. Andrew of Crete
March 20	Akathistos Saturday
March 21	5th Sunday of Great Lent
March 25	Feast of the Annunciation to the Mother of God
March 27-April 4	Great and Holy Week
March 27	Lazarus Saturday
March 28	Flowery (Palm) Sunday - Entrance into Jerusalem
March 29	Holy and Great Monday
March 30	Holy and Great Tuesday
March 31	Holy and Great Wednesday
April 1	Holy and Great Thursday
April 2	Holy and Great Friday
April 3	Holy and Great Saturday
April 4	PASCHA - The Resurrection of Christ
April 4-11	Bright Week
April 11	2nd Sunday of Pascha - St. Thomas
April 23	Feast of St. George the Great-Martyr
April 18	3rd Sunday of Pascha - Ointment Bearing Women
April 25	4th Sunday of Pascha - Healing of the Paralytic
April 28	Mid-Pentecost
May 2	5th Sunday of Pascha - Samaritan Women
May 9	6th Sunday of Pascha - Man Born Blind
May 11	Feast of Saints Cyril & Methodius
May 13	Day 40 - Ascension of Our Lord
May 16	7th Sunday of Pascha - Holy Fathers of the 1st Nicean Council
May 22	5th All Souls Saturday (Memorial Saturday)
May 23	Day 50 - Pentecost - Feast of the Descent of the Holy Spirit
May 30	All Saints Sunday
May 31- June 28	The Apostles' Fast
May 31	Memorial Day (U.S.)
June 24	Nativity of St. John the Baptist
June 29	Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul
July 18	Sunday of the Holy Fathers of the First Six Ecumenical Councils
July 1	Canada Day (Canada)
July 4	Independence Day (U.S.)
July 20	The Holy Prophet Elias
August 1-14	Dormition Fast
August 6	Feast of the Transfiguration of Our Lord, God and Savior, Jesus Christ
August 15	Feast of the Dormition of the Mother of God
August 29	Feast of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist
September 1	Liturgical New Year
September 6	Labor Day (U.S. & Canada)
September 8	Feast of the Nativity of the Mother of God
September 14	Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross
October 1	Feast of the Protection of the Mother of God
October 11	Thanksgiving Day (Canada), Columbus Day (U.S.)
October 17	Sunday of the Holy Fathers of the Seventh and Final Ecumenical Council
November 8	Feast of St. Michael and All the Heavenly Hosts
November 15-  December 24	Philip's Fast (Nativity Fast)
November 21	Feast of the Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple
November 25	Thanksgiving Day (USA)
December 6	Feast of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker - Patron of the Byzantine Catholic Church
December 9	Feast of the Conception of the Mother of God in the Womb of St. Anne (some Churches celebrate this feast on December 8th)
December 12	Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe (Also: Our Venerable Father Spiridon the Wonder-worker, Bishop of Tremithus)
December 12	Second Sunday Before Christmas  Holy Forefathers
December 19	Sunday Before Christmas - Holy Fathers
December 25	Nativity of Our Lord, God, and Savior, Jesus Christ (Christmas)
December 26	Sunday After Christmas - Feast of the Synaxis of the Mother of God, Commemoration of the Holy and Just Joseph, King David, James the Brother of the Lord and Stephen the First Martyr

Note: The Byzantine liturgical year starts on September 1 and ends on August 31. The movable feasts are determined by the date of Pascha (the feast of the Resurrection). There are two systems currently in use to calculate Pascha - Gregorian (Western) and Julian (Eastern). Roman Catholics, most Byzantine Catholics in America and some Orthodox (notably those in Finland) follow the Gregorian date. Some Byzantines in America and most Byzantines and Orthodox elsewhere follow the Julian date. In the year AD 2010 both the Gregorian and Julian Paschal dates coincide, so the dates of Pascha and the other movable feasts are the same.

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