Movable Eastern Christian observances
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This is a chronological list of moveable Eastern Christian observances. Most of these are calculated by the date of Pascha. It includes secular observances which are calculated by religious observances.
This list does not necessarily imply either official status nor general observance.
2016 dates
- Fast of Nineveh – January 18–20
- Zacchaeus Sunday/Sunday of the Canaanite – February 14 (11th Sunday before Pascha)
- 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)
- 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
- Palm Sunday – April 24
- 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)
- Lieldienas – May 1
- Bright Monday – May 2
- 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)
- 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)
- Demetrius Saturday – October 22 (Saturday closest to October 26, feast day of Demetrius of Thessaloniki, Russian Orthodox only)
