2009 Liturgical Calendar

Saturday, 03 May 2008 03:53

Major Fasts and Feasts

January 1	Feast of the Circumcision of Our Lord  Feast of St. Basil the Great
January 6	Feast of the Theophany of Our Lord, God and Savior, Jesus Christ
January 11	Sunday after Theophany Sunday of the Publican and Pharisee  (The Sunday of Zacchaeus is omitted this year)
January 25	Sunday of Zacchaeus
January 30	Three Holy Hierarchs, Saints Basil, Gregory and John Chrysostom
February 1	Sunday of the Publican & the Pharisee; Pre-Festive Day of the Encounter
February 2	Feast of the Encounter of Our Lord with Simeon and Anna  (Presentation of Our Lord into the Temple)
February 8	Sunday of the Prodigal Son
February 14	First All-Souls Saturday (Memorial Saturday)
February 15	Sunday of the Second Coming of Christ (Meat-Fare)
February 22	Forgiveness Sunday (Cheese-Fare)
February 23	Beginning of the Holy Forty Days Fast
March 1	1st Sunday of Great Lent - Sunday of Orthodoxy
March 7	2nd All Souls Saturday
March 8	2nd Sunday of Great Lent - St. Gregory Palamas
March 14	3rd All Souls Saturday
March 15	3rd Sunday of Great Lent - Veneration of the Holy Cross
March 21	4th All Souls Saturday
March 22	4th Sunday of Great Lent - St. John Climacus
March 25	Feast of the Annunciation to the Mother of God
March 26	Canon of St. Andrew of Crete
March 28	Akathistos Saturday
March 29	5th Sunday of Great Lent
April 4-12	Great and Holy Week
April 4	Lazarus Saturday
April 5	Flowery (Palm) Sunday - Entrance into Jerusalem
April 6	Holy and Great Monday
April 7	Holy and Great Tuesday
April 8	Holy and Great Wednesday
April 9	Holy and Great Thursday
April 10	Holy and Great Friday
April 11	Holy and Great Saturday
April 12	PASCHA - The Resurrection of Christ
April 12-19	Bright Week
April 19	2nd Sunday of Pascha - St. Thomas
April 23	Feast of St. George the Great-Martyr
April 26	3rd Sunday of Pascha - Ointment Bearing Women
May 3	4th Sunday of Pascha - Healing of the Paralytic
May 6	Mid-Pentecost
May 10	5th Sunday of Pascha - Samaritan Woman
May 11	Feast of Saints Cyril & Methodius
May 17	6th Sunday of Pascha - Man Born Blind
May 21	Day 40 - Ascension of Our Lord
May 24	7th Sunday of Pascha - Holy Fathers of the 1st Nicean Council
May 30	5th All Souls Saturday (Memorial Saturday)
May 31	Day 50 - Pentecost - Feast of the Descent of the Holy Spirit
June 7	All Saints Sunday
June 8- 28	The Apostles' Fast
June 24	Nativity of St. John the Baptist
June 29	Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul
July 12	Sunday of the Holy Fathers of the First Six Ecumenical Councils
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 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 18	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 26	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 13	Second Sunday Before Christmas  Holy Forefathers
December 20	Sunday Before Christmas - Holy Fathers
December 25	Nativity of Our Lord, God, and Savior, Jesus Christ (Christmas)
December 26	Feast of the Synaxis of the Mother of God
December 27	Sunday After Christmas - 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 2009 Pascha will be celebrated on April 12 on Gregorian calendar and on April 19 on the Julian and Revised Julian calendars.

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