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 2005 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 9 Sunday after Theophany
January 16 Sunday of the Publican and Pharisee
January 23 Sunday of the Prodigal Son
January 30

Sunday of the Second Coming of Christ (MeatFare) Three Holy Hierarchs, Saints Basil, Gregory and John Chrysostom

February 2 Feast of the Encounter of Our Lord with Simeon and Anna  (Presentation of Our Lord into the Temple)
February 5 1st All Souls Saturday (Memorial Saturday)
February 6 Forgiveness Sunday (Cheesefare)
February 7 Beginning of the Holy Forty Days Fast
February 13 1st Sunday of Great Lent - Sunday of Orthodoxy
February 19 2nd All Souls Saturday
February 20 2nd Sunday of Great Lent - St. Gregory Palamas
March 9 Feast of the 40 Martyrs of Sebaste
February 26 3rd All Souls Saturday
February 27 3rd Sunday of Great Lent - Veneration of the Holy Cross
March 5 4th All Souls Saturday
March 6 4th Sunday of Great Lent - St. John Climacus
March 10 The Great Canon of Our Holy Father Andrew of Crete
March 12 Akathistos Saturday
March 13 5th Sunday of Great Lent - St. Mary of Egypt
March 19-26 Great and Holy Week
March 19 Lazarus Saturday
March 20 Flowery Sunday - Entrance into Jerusalem
March 21 Holy and Great Monday
March 22 Holy and Great Tuesday
March 23 Holy and Great Wednesday
March 24 Holy and Great Thursday
March 25 Feast of the Annunciation
Holy and Great Friday
March 26 Holy and Great Saturday
March 27 PASCHA - The Resurrection of Christ
March 27-April 3 Bright Week
April 3 2nd Sunday of Pascha - St. Thomas
April 10 3rd Sunday of Pascha - Ointment Bearing Women
April 17 4th Sunday of Pascha - Healing of the Paralytic
April 20 Mid-Pentecost
April 23 Feast of the Great-Martyr George
April 24 5th Sunday of Pascha - Samaritan Women
May 11 Feast of SS Cyril & Methodius
May 1 6th Sunday of Pascha - Man Born Blind
May 5 Day 40 - Ascension of Our Lord
May 8 7th Sunday of Pascha - Holy Fathers of the 1st Nicean Council
May 11 Feast of SS Cyril & Methodius
May 14 5th All Souls Saturday (Memorial Saturday)
May 15 Day 50 - Pentecost
May 22 All Saints Sunday
May 23 - June 28 The Apostles' Fast 
June 24 Nativity of St. John the Baptist
June 29 Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul
July 17 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 16 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 24 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 (some Churches celebrate this feast on December 8th)
December 11 Second Sunday Before Christmas 
Holy Forefathers
December 12 Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe
December 18 Sunday Before Christmas
Holy Fathers
December 24

Christmas Eve

December 25 Nativity of Our Lord, God, and Savior, Jesus Christ (Christmas)
December 26 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 2005 Pascha will be celebrated on March 27 on the Gregorian Calendar and on May 1 on the Julian Calendar.


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