2008 CALENDAR
OF EVENTS
JANUARY
January 1-Curcumcision
of Our Lord
January 6 -Theophany of Our Lord
January 20-Sunday of the Prodigal
Son
January 26-First All Souls Saturday.
January 27-Sunday of Meat fare.
January 29-Three Holy Hierarchs
FEBRUARY
February 2-Encounter
of Our Lord with Simeon - Presentation of Our Lord at the Temple. Blessing
of the Candles. This is one of the most ancient of all of the feasts.
February 3-Sunday of Cheese fare.
February 4-First Day of the Great Fast. Strict fast and abstinence
required. No Meat or Dairy products. Abstinence and other penances traditionally
observed throughout the Great Fast. Monday to Friday in the Great Fast
are aliturgical (without Divine Liturgy) days. The Presanctified Liturgy
is celebrated on Wednesday and Friday.
February 10-First Sunday of Great
Fast
February 14-Death of Cyril, Apostle
to the Slavs.
February 16-Second All Souls Saturday.
February 23-Third All Souls Saturday.
MARCH
.March 1-Fourth All
Souls Saturday.
March 8-Akathistos Saturday.
March 16-Palm Sunday
March 21-Good Friday. Strict fast
and abstinence required. No meat or dairy products.
March 23-Easter Sunday - Pascha. Resurrection of our Lord.
Blessing of Easter Baskets following the Divine Liturgy
March 24-Bright Monday. Bright week
is free from fast and abstinence.
March 25-Bright Tuesday. Annunciation of the Mother of God.
March 26-Bright Wednesday.
March 27-Bright Thursday.
March 28-Bright Friday.
March 29-Bright Saturday.
APRIL
April 6- Sunday of
the Ointment Bearers. Death of Methodius, Apostle to the Slavs.
April 13-Sunday of the Paralytic
Man.
April 16-Mid Pentecost.
April 20-Sunday of the Samaritan
Woman.
April 23-George - Great Martyr.
April 27-Sunday of the Man Born
Blind.
April 30-James the Greater Apostle.
Final Day of Pascha.
MAY
May 1-Ascension of
Our Lord.
May 4-Sunday of the Fathers of the
First Ecumenical Council.
May 10-5th All Souls Saturday
May 11-Pentecost Sunday. Pentecost
Week is free from fast and abstinence.
May 12-Pentecost Monday.
May 13-Cyril and Methodius, Apostles
to the Slavs.
May 18-Sunday of All Saints
May 19-Patrick, Bishop-Martyr.
.May 25-Third Finding of the Head
of John the Baptist.
JUNE
June 12-Beginning
of the Apostles Fast (June 12-28)
June 24-Birth of John the Baptist
June 29-Peter and Paul, Pre-Eminent
Apostles.
JULY
July 2-Deposition
of the Robe of the Mother of God.
July 13-Sunday of the Fathers of
the Six Ecumenical Council.
July 20-Elijah - Great Prophet.
AUGUST
August 1-Procession
of the Cross. Lesser Blessing of Water. Beginning of the Dormition Fast
(August 1-14)
August 6-Transfiguration of Our
Lord. Blessing of Fruit.
August 12-Poor Clares, Our Venerable
Mother Clare.
August 15-Dormition
of the Mother of God. Blessing of Flowers.
August 29-Beheading
of John the Baptist. Strict abstinence from meat and dairy products.
August 31-Deposition of the Cinture
of Mother of God.
SEPTEMBER
September 1-Beginning
of the Church Year.
September 8-Birth of the Mother
of God
September 14-Exaltation of the Holy
Cross. Strict abstinence from meat or dairy products.
September 15-The daily reading of
the Gospel of St. Luke begins on the Monday after the Sunday of the
Exaltation of the Holy Cross. The Epistles continue to read without
interruption. This results in a two week discrepancy in the reading
of the Epistles and Gospels until the end of December.
OCTOBER
October 1-Protection
of the Mother of God
October 12-Sunday of the Fathers
of the 7th Ecumenical Council.
October 16-29th
Anniversary of SS. Cyril & Methodius Byzantine Catholic Church
NOVEMBER
November 8-Archangel
Michael and all Angels
November 15-Beginning of St. Phillip's Fast (November 15-December
24)
November 21-Entrance of the Mother
of God
DECEMBER
December 6-Feast Day
of St. Nicholas
December 8-Feast of St. Anna (Conception
of St. Anna)
December 12-Our Lady of Guadalupe
December 25-Christmas. Birth of
Our Lord.
December 26-Synaxis of the Mother
of God.
December 27-Stephen Protomartyr.
