Calendars

Cycles of Feasts and Fasting – The Church Year

The first of September is considered the beginning of the Church year according to the Orthodox Church calendar. However, the liturgical center of the annual cycle of Orthodox worship is the Feast of the Resurrection of Christ—Pascha.

All aspects of Orthodox liturgical life ultimately point toward and flow from Pascha, the celebration of the New Christian Passover. Even the Church’s “fixed feasts,” such as Christmas and Epiphany, which are celebrated on specific dates each year, receive their liturgical meaning and inspiration from the central mystery of Christ’s Resurrection.

The five links here retrieve information from our online calendar.

• Daily Calendar – Information links about any day from our database.
• Monthly Calendar – Some information and links to the daily Calendar pages.
• Fixed Feasts by Month – lists all the fixed feast days and can search for feast days also.
• Movable Feast by Year – list the dates of the movable feasts by year.
• Readings – lists the different cycles of readings, and has a display of how the cycles fall on a given mouth and year.

Articles in this section of our website will list the cycles of feast and fasts of our Church.