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 2004 Liturgical Calendar
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Icon of the Exaltation of the Cross

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 7 Feast of the Synaxis of St. John the Baptist, Prophet and Forerunner
January 30

Three Holy Hierarchs, Saints Basil, Gregory and John Chrysostom

January 25 Sunday of Zacchaeus
February 1 Sunday of the Publican & Pharisee
Prefestive Day of the Feast 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 1st All Souls Saturday (Memorial Saturday)
February 15 Sunday of the Last Judgment (Meatfare Sunday)
February 22 Sunday of Forgiveness (Cheesefare)
Feast of the First and Second Findings of the Head of the Holy Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist, John
February 23 Beginning of the Holy Forty Days Fast
February 29 1st Sunday of Great Lent - Sunday of Orthodoxy
March 6 2nd All Souls Saturday
March 7 2nd Sunday of Great Lent - St. Gregory Palamas
March 11 Feast of the 40 Martyrs of Sebaste
March 13 3rd All Souls Saturday
March 14 3rd Sunday of Great Lent - Veneration of the Holy Cross
March 20 4th All Souls Saturday
March 31 4th Sunday of Great Lent - St. John Climacus
March 23 The Great Canon of Our Holy Father Andrew of Crete (Transferred to Tuesday from Thursday because of the Feast of Annunciation)
March 25 Feast of the Annunciation
March 27 Akathistos Saturday
March 28 5th Sunday of Great Lent - St. Mary of Egypt
April 1-11 Great and Holy Week
April 3 Lazarus Saturday
April 4 Flowery Sunday - Entrance into Jerusalem
April 5 Holy and Great Monday
April 6 Holy and Great Tuesday
April 7 Holy and Great Wednesday
April 8 Holy and Great Thursday
April 9 Holy and Great Friday
April 10 Holy and Great Saturday
April 11 PASCHA - The Resurrection of Christ
April 11-18 Bright Week
April 18 2nd Sunday of Pascha - St. Thomas
April 23 Bright Friday - Fest of St. George the Great Martyr
April 25 3rd Sunday of Pascha - Ointment Bearing Women
May 2 4th Sunday of Pascha - Healing of the Paralytic
May 5 Mid-Pentecost
May 9 5th Sunday of Pascha - Samaritan Women
May 11 Feast of SS Cyril & Methodius
May 16 6th Sunday of Pascha - Man Born Blind
May 20 Day 40 - Ascension of Our Lord
May 23 7th Sunday of Pascha - Holy Fathers of the 1st Nicean Council
May 29 5th All Souls Saturday (Memorial Saturday)
May 30 Day 50 - Pentecost
June 6 All Saints Sunday
June 7 -28 The Apostles' Fast 
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 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 Theotokos
August 29 Feast of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist
September 1 Liturgical New Year
September 8 Feast of the Nativity of the Theotokos
September 14 Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross
October 1 Feast of the Protection of the Theotokos
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 Theotokos in the Womb of St. Anne
December 12 Second Sunday Before Christmas 
Holy Forefathers
Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe
Our Venerable Father Spiridon the Wonder-Worker, Bishop of Tremithus
Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe
December 19 Sunday Before Christmas
Holy Fathers
December 24

Christmas Eve

December 25 Nativity of Our Lord, God, and Savior, Jesus Christ (Christmas)
December 26 Sunday After Christmas 
Joseph - Husband of Mary 
David the King 
James, Brother of the Lord
Synaxis of the Theotokos
Feast of the Synaxis of the Theotokos
December 27 Feast of St. 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 2004 Pascha will be celebrated on April 11 on both the Gregorian and Julian Calendars. In 2005 Pascha falls on March 27 (Gregorian) and May 1 (Julian).  


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