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EASTERN ORTHODOX FEAST DAYS:

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• Fast of Nineveh – January 18–20 = is a three-day fast commemorating the repentance of the Ninevites at the hands of prophet Jonah according to the bible. The fast is observed for three days starting Monday three weeks before Clean Monday. 

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• Zacchaeus Sunday/Sunday of the Canaanite – February 14 (11th Sunday before Pascha) = Zacchaeus Sunday (Slavic tradition) or Sunday of the Canaanite (Greek tradition): 11th Sunday before Pascha. The Paschal cycle in the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Churches, is the cycle of the moveable feastsbuilt around Pascha (Easter). The cycle consists of approximately ten weeks before and seven weeks after Pascha. The ten weeks before Pascha are known as the period of the Triodion (referring to the liturgical book that contains the services for this liturgical season). This period includes the three weeks preceding Great Lent (the "pre-Lenten period"), the forty days of Lent, and Holy Week. The 50 days following Pascha are called the Pentecostarion (again, named after the liturgical book).

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• Publican & Pharisee Sunday – February 21 (10th Sunday before Pascha)

• Sunday of the Prodigal Son – February 28 (9th Sunday before Pascha)

• Meatfare Week – February 28-March 6

• Saturday of Souls – March 5 (Day before Sunday of the Last Judgement)

• Sunday of Last Judgement (Meat Fare Sunday) – March 6 (8th Sunday before Pascha)

• Maslenitsa – March 6–14

• Quinquagesima – March 13 (7th Sunday before Pascha)

  • Sunday of Forgiveness (Cheese-Fare Sunday) – March 13

• Great Lent begins – March 14 (48 days before Pascha)

  • Clean Monday

• Theodore Saturday – March 19 (1st Saturday of Great Lent).

• Feast of Orthodoxy – March 20 (1st Sunday of Great Lent).

• Saturday of Souls – March 26 (2nd Saturday of Lent)

• Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas – March 27 (5th Sunday before Pascha and 2nd Sunday of Lent)

• Saturday of Souls – April 2 (3rd Saturday of Lent)

• Sunday of the Holy Cross – April 3 (4th Sunday before Pascha and 3rd Sunday of Lent)

• Saturday of Souls – April 9 (4th Saturday of Lent)

• Sunday of St. John Climacus – April 10 (3rd Sunday before Pascha and 4th Sunday of Lent

• Saturday of the Akathist – April 16 (5th Saturday of Great Lent)

• Sunday of St. Mary of Egypt – April 17 (2nd Sunday before Pascha and 5th Sunday of Lent)

• Nabi Musa – April 22 (Friday preceding Good Friday on Eastern Orthodox calendar)

• Lazarus Saturday – April 23

  • Lazareva Subota (Serbia)

• Palm Sunday – April 24

  • Flower's Day (Bulgaria)

• Holy Monday – April 25

• Holy Tuesday – April 26

• Holy Wednesday – April 27

• Maundy Thursday – April 28

• Good Friday – April 29

• Holy Saturday – April 30

• Pascha – May 1 (Pentecostarion begins)

  • Fasika (Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church)

  • Pentecostarion begins.

• Lieldienas – May 1

• Bright Monday – May 2

  • Sham el-Nessim (Egypt)

• Bright Tuesday – May 3

• Bright Wednesday – May 4

• Bright Thursday – May 5

• Bright Friday – May 6

• Bright Saturday – May 7

• Thomas Sunday – May 8

• Radonitsa (Russian Orthodox) – May 9 or May 10. (2nd Tuesday of Pascha, or 2nd Monday of Pascha, depending on region)

• Sunday of the Myrrhbearers – May 15 (3rd Sunday of Pascha)

• Sunday of the Paralytic – May 22 (4th Sunday of Pascha)

• Mid-Pentecost – May 25 (Wednesday after the Sunday of the Paralytic)

• Corpus Christi (feast) – May 26

• Sunday of the Samaritan Woman – May 29 (5th Sunday of Pascha)

• Sunday of the Blind Man – June 5 (6th Sunday of Pascha)

• Feast of the Ascension – June 9 (forty days after Pascha)

  • Heroes Day (Romania)

• Sunday of the Holy Fathers – June 12 (7th Sunday of Pascha)

• Saturday of the Dead – June 18 (7th Saturday of Pascha)

• Pentecost – June 19 (Fifty days after Pascha)

• Day of the Holy Spirit – June 20

• Third Day of the Trinity – June 21

• Sunday of All Saints – June 26

• Apostles' Fast – June 27–29.

• All Saints of North America – July 3

• Vardavar (Armenia) – July 3 (98 days (14 weeks) after Pascha)

• Saturday of Souls – September 17. (Saturday closest to Sept.23, the Conception of Saint John the Forerunner, Russian Orthodox only)

• World Communion Sunday - October 2 (First Sunday in October)

• Demetrius Saturday – October 22 (Saturday closest to October 26, feast day of Demetrius of Thessaloniki, Russian Orthodox only)

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• Triumph of Orthodoxy—1st Sunday of Lent — commemoration of the restoration of icons after the defeat of the iconoclast heresy in 843: 6th Sunday before Pascha (42 days)

 

• Theodore Saturday—1st Saturday in Great Lent—commemorating of the "miracle of the kolyva" (boiled wheat) by Theodore of Tyro during the reign of Julian the Apostate

The tradition of blessing and eating koliva at the end of the first week of Great Lent is connected with an event in the reign of Julian the Apostate. The tradition states that the Emperor knew that the Christians would be hungry after the first week of strict fasting, and would go to the marketplaces of Constantinopleon Saturday to buy food. So he ordered that blood from pagan sacrifices be sprinkled over all the food that was sold there. This made the food unsuitable as Lenten fare (since the Christians could not eat meat products during Lent), and in general as food for Christians, who are forbidden to eat food from such sacrifices. However, St. Theodore Tyro appeared in the dream to Archbishop Eudoxius and advised him that the people should not eat food bought at the marketplace that day, but only boiled wheat mixed with honey. As a result, this first Saturday of Great Lent has come to be known as Theodore Saturday.