Calendario Oriental
September 1st, 2009 | Uncategorized
2009 Liturgical Calendar
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January 1 |
Feast of the Circumcision of Our Lord |
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January 6 |
Feast of the Theophany of Our Lord, God and Savior, Jesus Christ |
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January 11 |
Sunday after Theophany |
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January 25 |
Sunday of Zacchaeus |
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January 30 |
Three Holy Hierarchs, Saints Basil, Gregory and John Chrysostom |
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February 1 |
Sunday of the Publican & the Pharisee; Pre-Festive Day of the Encounter |
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February 2 |
Feast of the Encounter of Our Lord with Simeon and Anna (Presentation of Our Lord into the Temple) |
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February 8 |
Sunday of the Prodigal Son |
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February 14 |
First All-Souls Saturday (Memorial Saturday) |
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February 15 |
Sunday of the Second Coming of Christ (Meat-Fare) |
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February 22 |
Forgiveness Sunday (Cheese-Fare) |
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February 23 |
Beginning of the Holy Forty Days Fast |
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March 1 |
1st Sunday of Great Lent - Sunday of Orthodoxy |
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March 7 |
2nd All Souls Saturday |
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March 8 |
2nd Sunday of Great Lent - St. Gregory Palamas |
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March 14 |
3rd All Souls Saturday |
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March 15 |
3rd Sunday of Great Lent - Veneration of the Holy Cross |
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March 21 |
4th All Souls Saturday |
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March 22 |
4th Sunday of Great Lent - St. John Climacus |
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March 25 |
Feast of the Annunciation to the Mother of God |
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March 26 |
Canon of St. Andrew of Crete |
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March 28 |
Akathistos Saturday |
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March 29 |
5th Sunday of Great Lent |
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April 4-12 |
Great and Holy Week |
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April 4 |
Lazarus Saturday |
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April 5 |
Flowery (Palm) Sunday - Entrance into Jerusalem |
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April 6 |
Holy and Great Monday |
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April 7 |
Holy and Great Tuesday |
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April 8 |
Holy and Great Wednesday |
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April 9 |
Holy and Great Thursday |
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April 10 |
Holy and Great Friday |
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April 11 |
Holy and Great Saturday |
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April 12 |
PASCHA - The Resurrection of Christ |
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April 12-19 |
Bright Week |
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April 19 |
2nd Sunday of Pascha - St. Thomas |
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April 23 |
Feast of St. George the Great-Martyr |
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April 26 |
3rd Sunday of Pascha - Ointment Bearing Women |
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May 3 |
4th Sunday of Pascha - Healing of the Paralytic |
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May 6 |
Mid-Pentecost |
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May 10 |
5th Sunday of Pascha - Samaritan Woman |
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May 11 |
Feast of Saints Cyril & Methodius |
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May 17 |
6th Sunday of Pascha - Man Born Blind |
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May 21 |
Day 40 - Ascension of Our Lord |
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May 24 |
7th Sunday of Pascha - Holy Fathers of the 1st Nicean Council |
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May 30 |
5th All Souls Saturday (Memorial Saturday) |
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May 31 |
Day 50 - Pentecost - Feast of the Descent of the Holy Spirit |
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June 7 |
All Saints Sunday |
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June 8- 28 |
The Apostles’ Fast |
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June 24 |
Nativity of St. John the Baptist |
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June 29 |
Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul |
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July 12 |
Sunday of the Holy Fathers of the First Six Ecumenical Councils |
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July 20 |
The Holy Prophet Elias |
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August 1-14 |
Dormition Fast |
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August 6 |
Feast of the Transfiguration of Our Lord, God and Savior, Jesus Christ |
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August 15 |
Feast of the Dormition of the Mother of God |
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August 29 |
Feast of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist |
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September 1 |
Liturgical New Year |
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September 8 |
Feast of the Nativity of the Mother of God |
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September 14 |
Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross |
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October 1 |
Feast of the Protection of the Mother of God |
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October 18 |
Sunday of the Holy Fathers of the Seventh and Final Ecumenical Council |
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November 8 |
Feast of St. Michael and All the Heavenly Hosts |
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November 15- |
Philip’s Fast (Nativity Fast) |
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November 21 |
Feast of the Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple |
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November 26 |
Thanksgiving Day (USA) |
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December 6 |
Feast of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker - Patron of the Byzantine Catholic Church |
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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) |
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December 12 |
Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe |
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December 13 |
Second Sunday Before Christmas |
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December 20 |
Sunday Before Christmas - Holy Fathers |
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December 25 |
Nativity of Our Lord, God, and Savior, Jesus Christ (Christmas) |
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December 26 |
Feast of the Synaxis of the Mother of God |
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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 |
