List of movable Eastern Christian observances
This is a chronological list of moveable Eastern Christian observances. Most of these are calculated by the date of Pascha. It includes secular observances which are calculated by religious observances.
This list does not necessarily imply either official status nor general observance.
2017 dates
- Zacchaeus Sunday/Sunday of the Canaanite – January 29 (11th Sunday before Pascha)[1]
- Publican & Pharisee Sunday – February 5 (10th Sunday before Pascha)[2]
- Fast of Nineveh - February 6-8 (Church of the East, Syriac Christian Churches, Oriental Orthodox Churches, Armenian Apostolic Church)
- Feast of Saint Sarkis: February 11 (Armenian Apostolic Church, 63 days before Pascha)[3]
- Sunday of the Prodigal Son – February 12 (9th Sunday before Pascha) [4]
- Saturday of Souls – Feb 18 (Day before Sunday of the Last Judgement)
- Meatfare Week - Feb 12-19
- Sunday of Last Judgement (Meat Fare Sunday) February 19
- Maslenitsa: February 20 - February 26
- Feast of Saint Vartan: February 23 (Thursday of the 8th week before Pascha, Armenian Apostolic Church)
- Quinquagesima February 26
- Sunday of Forgiveness (Cheese-Fare Sunday) February 26
- Great Lent February 27
- Theodore Saturday: March 4 (1st Saturday of Great Lent) [5]
- Feast of Orthodoxy: March 5 (1st Sunday of Great Lent).
- Saturday of Souls: March 11 (2nd Saturday of Lent)
- Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas: March 12 (5th Sunday before Pascha and 2nd Sunday of Lent)
- Saturday of Souls: March 18 (3rd Saturday of Lent)
- Sunday of the Holy Cross: March 19 (4th Sunday before Pascha and 3rd Sunday of Lent)
- Saturday of Souls: March 25 (4th Saturday of Lent)
- Sunday of St. John Climacus: March 26 (3rd Sunday before Pascha and 4th Sunday of Lent
- Saturday of the Akathist: April 1
- Sunday of St. Mary of Egypt: April 2
- Nabi Musa: April 7 (Friday preceding Good Friday on Eastern Orthodox calendar)
- Lazarus Saturday: April 8
- Palm Sunday: April 9
- Great and Holy Monday: April 10
- Great and Holy Tuesday: April 11
- Great and Holy Wednesday: April 12
- Great and Holy Thursday: April 13,
- Great and Holy Friday: April 14
- Great and Holy Saturday:April 15
- Pascha: April 16
- Bright Monday: April 17
- Bright Tuesday: April 18
- Bright Wednesday: April 19
- Bright Thursday: April 20
- Bright Friday: April 21
- Bright Saturday: April 22
- Thomas Sunday: April 23
- Radonitsa (Russian Orthodox): April 24 or 25 (2nd Tuesday of Pascha, or 2nd Monday of Pascha, depending on region)
- Sunday of the Myrrhbearers: April 30
- Sunday of the Paralytic: May 7 (4th Sunday of Pascha)
- Mid-Pentecost: May 10 (Wednesday after the Sunday of the Paralytic)
- Sunday of the Samaritan Woman – May 14 (5th Sunday of Pascha)
- Sunday of the Blind Man – May 21 (6th Sunday of Pascha)
- Feast of the Ascension – May 25 (forty days after Pascha)
- Sunday of the Holy Fathers: May 28 (7th Sunday of Pascha)
- Saturday of the Dead: June 3 (7th Saturday of Pascha)
- Pentecost: June 4 (Fifty days after Pascha)
- Monday of the Holy Spirit: June 5
- Third Day of the Trinity: June 6
- All Saints Sunday: June 11 (First Sunday after Pentecost)
- Apostles' Fast: June 12–29 (the fast begins on the second Monday after Pentecost, the day after All Saints' Sunday)
- Feast of the Cathedral of Holy Etchmiadzin: June 18 (Armenian Apostolic Church, 64th day after Pascha)[6]
- Vardavar: July 23 (Armenia, 98 days/14 weeks after Pascha)
- Saturday of Souls: September 23 (Saturday closest to Sept.23, the Conception of Saint John the Forerunner, Russian Orthodox only)
- World Communion Sunday: October 1 (First Sunday in October)
- Demetrius Saturday: October 27 (Saturday closest to October 26, feast day of Demetrius of Thessaloniki, Russian Orthodox only)
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