Movable Eastern Christian Observances
This is a chronological list of moveable Eastern Christian observances. Most of these are calculated by the date of Pascha.
2016 dates
- Fast of Nineveh - January 18–20
- Zacchaeus Sunday/Sunday of the Canaanite - February 14 (11th Sunday before Pascha)
- Publican & Pharisee Sunday - February 21 (10th Sunday before Pascha)
- Sunday of the Prodigal Son - February 28 (9th Sunday before Pascha)
- Meatfare Week - February 28-March 6
- Saturday of Souls - March 5 (Day before Sunday of the Last Judgement)
- Sunday of Last Judgement (Meat Fare Sunday) - March 6 (8th Sunday before Pascha)
- Maslenitsa - March 6–14
- Quinquagesima - March 13 (7th Sunday before Pascha)
- Sunday of Forgiveness (Cheese-Fare Sunday) - March 13
- Great Lent begins - March 14 (48 days before Pascha)
- Theodore Saturday - March 19 (1st Saturday of Great Lent).
- Feast of Orthodoxy - March 20 (1st Sunday of Great Lent).
- Saturday of Souls - March 26 (2nd Saturday of Lent)
- Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas - March 27 (5th Sunday before Pascha and 2nd Sunday of Lent)
- Saturday of Souls - April 2 (3rd Saturday of Lent)
- Sunday of the Holy Cross - April 3 (4th Sunday before Pascha and 3rd Sunday of Lent)
- Saturday of Souls - April 9 (4th Saturday of Lent)
- Sunday of St. John Climacus - April 10 (3rd Sunday before Pascha and 4th Sunday of Lent
- Saturday of the Akathist - April 16 (5th Saturday of Great Lent)
- Sunday of St. Mary of Egypt - April 17 (2nd Sunday before Pascha and 5th Sunday of Lent)
- Nabi Musa - April 22 (Friday preceding Good Friday on Eastern Orthodox calendar)
- Lazarus Saturday - April 23
- Palm Sunday - April 24
- Holy Monday - April 25
- Holy Tuesday - April 26
- Holy Wednesday - April 27
- Maundy Thursday - April 28
- Good Friday - April 29
- Holy Saturday - April 30
- Pascha - May 1 (Pentecostarion begins)
- Lieldienas - May 1
- Bright Monday - May 2
- Bright Tuesday - May 3
- Bright Wednesday - May 4
- Bright Thursday - May 5
- Bright Friday - May 6
- Bright Saturday - May 7
- Thomas Sunday - May 8
- Radonitsa (Russian Orthodox) - May 9 or May 10. (2nd Tuesday of Pascha, or 2nd Monday of Pascha, depending on region)
- Sunday of the Myrrhbearers - May 15 (3rd Sunday of Pascha)
- Sunday of the Paralytic - May 22 (4th Sunday of Pascha)
- Mid-Pentecost - May 25 (Wednesday after the Sunday of the Paralytic)
- Corpus Christi (feast) - May 26
- Sunday of the Samaritan Woman - May 29 (5th Sunday of Pascha)
- Sunday of the Blind Man - June 5 (6th Sunday of Pascha)
- Feast of the Ascension - June 9 (forty days after Pascha)
- Sunday of the Holy Fathers - June 12 (7th Sunday of Pascha)
- Saturday of the Dead - June 18 (7th Saturday of Pascha)
- Pentecost - June 19 (Fifty days after Pascha)
- Day of the Holy Spirit - June 20
- Third Day of the Trinity - June 21
- Sunday of All Saints - June 26
- Apostles' Fast - June 27–29.
- All Saints of North America - July 3
- Vardavar (Armenia) - July 3 (98 days (14 weeks) after Pascha)
- Saturday of Souls - September 17. (Saturday closest to Sept.23, the Conception of Saint John the Forerunner, Russian Orthodox only)
- Demetrius Saturday - October 22 (Saturday closest to October 26, feast day of Demetrius of Thessaloniki, Russian Orthodox only)
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