St. Melany Byzantine Catholic Church
2009 Liturgical Calendar

2009 Liturgical Calendar Print
Major Fasts and Feasts
January 1Feast of the Circumcision of Our Lord 
Feast of St. Basil the Great
January 6Feast of the Theophany of Our Lord, God and Savior, Jesus Christ
January 11Sunday after Theophany
Sunday of the Publican and Pharisee
  (The Sunday of Zacchaeus is omitted this year)
January 25Sunday of Zacchaeus
January 29

Three Holy Hierarchs, Saints Basil, Gregory and John Chrysostom (Advanced one day due to Cheesefare Wednesday)

February 1Sunday of the Publican & the Pharisee; Pre-Festive Day of the Encounter
February 2Feast of the Encounter of Our Lord with Simeon and Anna  (Presentation of Our Lord into the Temple)
February 8Sunday of the Prodigal Son
February 14First All-Souls Saturday (Memorial Saturday)
February 15Sunday of the Second Coming of Christ (Meat-Fare)
February 22Forgiveness Sunday (Cheese-Fare)
February 23Beginning of the Holy Forty Days Fast
March 11st Sunday of Great Lent - Sunday of Orthodoxy
March 72nd All Souls Saturday
March 82nd Sunday of Great Lent - St. Gregory Palamas
March 143rd All Souls Saturday
March 153rd Sunday of Great Lent - Veneration of the Holy Cross
March 214th All Souls Saturday
March 224th Sunday of Great Lent - St. John Climacus
March 25Feast of the Annunciation to the Mother of God
March 26Canon of St. Andrew of Crete
March 28Akathistos Saturday
March 295th Sunday of Great Lent
April 4-12Great and Holy Week
April 4Lazarus Saturday
April 5Flowery (Palm) Sunday - Entrance into Jerusalem
April 6Holy and Great Monday
April 7Holy and Great Tuesday
April 8Holy and Great Wednesday
April 9Holy and Great Thursday
April 10Holy and Great Friday
April 11Holy and Great Saturday
April 12PASCHA - The Resurrection of Christ
April 12-19Bright Week
April 192nd Sunday of Pascha - St. Thomas
April 23Feast of St. George the Great-Martyr
April 263rd Sunday of Pascha - Ointment Bearing Women
May 34th Sunday of Pascha - Healing of the Paralytic
May 6Mid-Pentecost
May 1Feast of Saints Cyril & Methodius
May 105th Sunday of Pascha - Samaritan Women
May 176th Sunday of Pascha - Man Born Blind
May 21Day 40 - Ascension of Our Lord
May 247th Sunday of Pascha - Holy Fathers of the 1st Nicean Council
May 305th All Souls Saturday (Memorial Saturday)
May 31Day 50 - Pentecost - Feast of the Descent of the Holy Spirit
June 7All Saints Sunday
June 8- 28The Apostles' Fast 
June 24Nativity of St. John the Baptist
June 29Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul
July 12Sunday of the Holy Fathers of the First Six Ecumenical Councils
July 20The Holy Prophet Elias
August 1-14Dormition Fast
August 6Feast of the Transfiguration of Our Lord, God and Savior, Jesus Christ
August 15Feast of the Dormition of the Mother of God
August 29Feast of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist
September 1Liturgical New Year
September 8Feast of the Nativity of the Mother of God
September 14Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross
October 1Feast of the Protection of the Mother of God
October 18Sunday of the Holy Fathers of the Seventh and Final Ecumenical Council
November 8Feast of St. Michael and All the Heavenly Hosts
November 15- 
December 24
Philip's Fast (Nativity Fast)
November 21Feast of the Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple
November 26Thanksgiving Day (USA)
December 6Feast of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker - Patron of the Byzantine Catholic Church
December 9Feast of the Conception of the Mother of God in the Womb of St. Anne (some Churches celebrate this feast on December 8th)
December 12Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe
(Also: Our Venerable Father Spiridon the Wonder-worker, Bishop of Tremithus)
December 13Second Sunday Before Christmas 
Holy Forefathers
December 20

Sunday Before Christmas - Holy Fathers

December 25Nativity of Our Lord, God, and Savior, Jesus Christ (Christmas)
December 26Feast of the Synaxis of the Mother of God
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


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 2009 Pascha will be celebrated on April 12 on Gregorian calendar and on April 19 on the Julian and Revised Julian calendars.