Liturgical Calendar for the Year of Grace 2006
Menaion:
January
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February
- March
- April
- May
- June
- July
- August
- September
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October
- November
- December
| Date | Day | Tone | Matins Gospel |
Description |
| January 1 | Sun | 8 | 11 | Circumcision of the
Lord; Feast of St. Basil the Great;
Sunday before Theophany Vespers |
| January 5 | Thu | Royal Hours of Theophany | ||
| January 6 | Fri | Theophany of the Lord Vespers - Great Compline (service - propers) - Matins |
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| January 7 | Sat | Synaxis of St. John the
Baptist Vespers |
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| January 8 | Sun | 1 | 1 | Sunday after Theophany Vespers - hymn |
| January 15 | Sun | 2 | 2 | 35th Sunday after
Pentecost Vespers - hymn |
| January 22 | Sun | 3 | 3 | 36th Sunday after
Pentecost Vespers - hymn |
| January 29 | Sun | 4 | 4 | Sunday of Zacchaeus Vespers - hymn |
| January 30 | Mon | Feast of the
Three Holy Bishops: Basil
the Great, Gregory the Theologian and John Chrysostom Vespers |
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| February 2 | Thu | Encounter of our Lord
with Simeon and Anna Vespers - hymn |
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| February 5 | Sun | 5 | 5 | Sunday of the Publican
and the Pharisee Vespers - Waters of Babylon - Penitential Stichera - hymn |
| February 12 | Sun | 6 | 6 | Sunday of the Prodigal
Son Vespers - Waters of Babylon - Penitential Stichera - hymn |
| February 18 | Sat | All-Souls' Saturday (commemoration of the departed) | ||
| February 19 | Sun | 7 | 7 | Meatfare Sunday Vespers - Waters of Babylon - Penitential Stichera - hymn |
| February 26 | Sun | 8 | 8 | Cheesefare Sunday Great Vespers - hymn - Matins - Vespers of Forgiveness (book) |
| February 27 - April 7 | The Great Fast Daily Matins - Third and Sixth Hour - Paraklisis |
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| February 27 - March 4 | First Week of the Great Fast | |||
| February 27 | Mon | First Day
of the Great Fast (Clean Monday) Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts |
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| March 1 | Wed | Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts | ||
| March 3 | Fri | Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts | ||
| March 5 | Sun | 1 | 9 | First Sunday of the
Great Fast (Sunday of Orthodoxy) Great Vespers - Matins - Sunday afternoon Vespers |
| March 6-11 | Second Week of the Great Fast | |||
| March 6 | Mon | Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts | ||
| March 8 | Wed | Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts | ||
| March 9 | Thu | Forty Martyrs of Sebaste | ||
| March 10 | Fri | Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts | ||
| March 11 | Sat | All-Souls' Saturday (commemoration of the departed) | ||
| March 12 | Sun | 2 | 10 | Second Sunday of the
Great Fast (St. Gregory Palamas) Great Vespers - Matins - Sunday afternoon Vespers |
| March 13-18 | Third Week of the Great Fast | |||
| March 15 | Wed | Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts | ||
| March 17 | Fri | Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts | ||
| March 18 | Sat | All-Souls' Saturday (commemoration of the departed) | ||
| March 19 | Sun | 3 | 11 | Third Sunday of
the Great Fast (Veneration of the Holy
Cross) Great Vespers - Matins - Sunday afternoon Vespers |
| March 20-25 | Fourth Week of the Great Fast | |||
| March 22 | Wed | Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts | ||
| March 24 | Fri | Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts (propers for Annunciation) | ||
| March 25 | Sat | Annunciation of the Mother
of God |
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| March 26 | Sun | 4 | 1 | Fourth Sunday
of the Great Fast (Post-festive day of the
Annunciation) Great Vespers - Matins - Sunday afternoon Vespers |
| March 27 - April 4 | Fifth Week of the Great Fast | |||
| March 29 | Wed | Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts | ||
| March 30 | Thu | Matins of the Great Canon of Repentence of St. Andrew of Crete | ||
| March 31 | Fri | Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts | ||
| April | Sat | Akathistos Saturday - Akathist Hymn | ||
| April 2 | Sun | 5 | 2 | Fifth Sunday of
the Great Fast (St. Mary of Egypt) Great Vespers - Matins - Sunday afternoon Vespers |
| April 3-7 | Sixth Week of the Great Fast (which ends on Friday) | |||
| April 5 | Wed | Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts | ||
| April 7 | Fri | Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts | ||
| April 8 | Sat | Lazarus Saturday | ||
| April 9 | Sun | * | Palm (Flowery) Sunday Great Vespers - Matins - Sunday afternoon Vespers |
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| April 10-15 | Great and Holy Week | |||
| April 10 | Mon | Great and Holy Monday Bridegoom Matins - Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts |
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| April 11 | Tue | Great and Holy Tuesday Bridegroom Matins - Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts |
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| April 12 | Wed | Great and Holy Wednesday Bridegroom Matins - Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts |
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| April 13 | Thu | Great and Holy Thursday Vespers and Divine Liturgy of St. Basil |
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| April 14 | Fri | Great and Holy Friday Matins - Vespers |
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| April 15 | Sat | Great and Holy Saturday | ||
| April 16 | Sun | * | PASCHA:
The Resurrection of our
Lord, God and Savior, Jesus Christ |
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| April 17-22 | Bright Week | |||
| April 23 | Sun | 1 | 1 | Thomas Sunday;
Great-Martyr St. George Paschal Great Vespers (service book - propers) - Matins |
| April 30 | Sun | 2 | 3 | Sunday of the
Myrrh-bearing Women Paschal Great Vespers (service book - propers) - Matins |
| May 7 | Sun | 3 | 4 | Sunday of the Paralytic Paschal Great Vespers (service book - propers) - Matins |
| May 10 | Wed | Mid-Pentecost | ||
| May 14 | Sun | 4 | 7 | Sunday of the Samaritan
Woman Paschal Great Vespers (service book - propers) - Matins |
| May 21 | Sun | 5 | 8 | Sunday of the Man Born
Blind Paschal Great Vespers (service book - propers) - Matins |
| May 24 | Wed | Leave-taking of Pascha | ||
| May 25 | Thu | The Ascension of our Lord,
God and Savior Jesus Christ Vespers |
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| May 28 | Sun | 6 | 10 | Sunday of the Fathers of
the First Nicean Council Vespers - Matins |
| June 4 | Sun | * | Pentecost Sunday Vespers - Matins |
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| June 10 | Sat | Leave-taking of Pentecost | ||
| June 11 | Sun | 8 | 1 | Sunday of All Saints Vespers - Matins |
| June 12 - June 28 | The Apostles' Fast | |||
| June 18 | Sun | 1 | 2 | Second Sunday after
Pentecost Vespers - (no Matins propers) |
| June 24 | Sat | Nativity of St. John
the Baptist Vespers |
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| June 25 | Sun | 2 | 3 | Third Sunday after
Pentecost Vespers - (no Matins propers) |
| June 29 | Thu | The Holy Apostles Ss.
Peter and Paul Vespers - Matins (complete service) |
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| July 2 | Sun | 3 | 4 | Fourth Sunday after
Pentecost Vespers - (no Matins propers) |
| July 9 | Sun | 4 | 5 | Fifth Sunday after
Pentecost Vespers - (no Matins propers) |
| July 16 | Sun | 5 | 6 | Sixth Sunday after
Pentecost Vespers - (no Matins propers) |
| July 20 | Thu | The Holy Prophet Elijah Vespers |
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| July 23 | Sun | 6 | 7 | Seventh Sunday after
Pentecost Vespers - (no Matins propers) |
| August 1-14 | Dormition Fast | |||
| July 30 | Sun | 7 | 8 | Eighth Sunday after
Pentecost Vespers - (no Matins propers) |
| August 6 | Sun | 8 | 9 | The Transfiguration of the
Lord Vespers - hymn |
| August 13 | Sun | 1 | 10 | Tenth Sunday after
Pentecost; Leave-taking of the
Transfiguration Vespers - (no Matins propers) |
| August 15 | Tue | The Dormition of the
Mother
of God Vespers - hymn - another hymn |
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| August 20 | Sun | 2 | 11 | Eleventh Sunday after
Pentecost Vespers - (no Matins propers) |
| August 27 | Sun | 3 | 1 | Twelfth Sunday after
Pentecost Vespers - (no Matins propers) - hymn |
| August 29 | Tue | Beheading of St. John
the Baptist Vespers - hymn |
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| September 1 | Fri | Beginning of the Church
Year hymn |
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| September 3 | Sun | 4 | 2 | Thirteenth
Sunday after Pentecost Vespers- (no Matins propers) - hymn |
| September 8 | Fri | Nativity of the Mother
of God Vespers - Matins - hymn |
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| September 10 | Sun | 5 | 3 | Sunday before the
Exaltation of the Holy Cross Vespers (samohlasen - podobny) - hymn |
| September 14 | Thu | Exaltation of the Holy
Cross Vespers - Matins - hymn |
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| September 17 | Sun | 6 | 4 | Sunday after the
Exaltation of the Holy Cross Vespers (samohlasen - podobny) - hymn |
| September 18 | Mon | We begin the continuous
reading of the Gospel of Saint Luke
at the Divine Liturgy, which will continue until the Great Fast. As a result, this year there is a two-week discrepancy, so the Gospel read on September 24 is for the Eighteenth Week after Pentecost. |
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| September 24 | Sun | 7 | 5 | Sixteenth Sunday after
Pentecost Vespers - hymn |
| September 26 | Tue | Dormition
of Saint John the Theologian Vespers |
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| October 1 | Sun | 8 | Seventeenth Sunday after
Pentecot; Protection of the
Mother of God Vespers - hymn |
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| October 8 | Sun | 1 | 7 | Eighteenth Sunday
after Pentecost Vespers (samohlasen - podobny) - (no Matins propers) - hymn |
| October 15 | Sun | 2 | 8 | Sunday of the Fathers of
the Seventh Ecumenical Council Vespers - hymn |
| October 22 | Sun | 3 | 9 | Twentieth Sunday after
Pentecost Vespers (samohlasen - podobny) |
| October 29 | Sun | 4 | 10 | Twenty-first Sunday
after Pentecost Vespers - hymn |
| November 1 | Wed | Blessed Theodore Romzha Vespers - hymn |
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| November 5 | Sun | 5 | 11 | Twenty-second Sunday
after Pentecost Vespers - hymn |
| November 8 | Wed | The Holy Archangel
Michael and all the Angelic Powers Vespers - hymn |
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| November 12 | Sun | 6 | 1 | Twenty-third Sunday
after Pentecost Vespers - hymn - hymn for John Chrysostom |
| November 14 - December 24 | St. Phillip's Fast | |||
| November 19 | Sun | 7 | 2 | Twenty-fourth Sunday
after Pentecost Vespers (samohlasen - podobny) - hymn |
| November 21 | Tue | Entrance of the Mother
of God into the Temple Vespers (propers - complete) - Matins - hymn |
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| November 26 | Sun | 8 | 3 | Twenty-fifth Sunday
after Pentecost Vespers (samohlasen - podobny) - hymn |
| December 3 | Sun | 1 | 4 | Twenty-sixth Sunday
after Pentecost Vespers (samohlasen - podobny) - hymn |
| December 6 | Wed | Holy Father Nicholas,
Archbishop of Myra Vespers (samohlasen - podobny) |
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| December 8 | Fri | Conception of St. Anne Vespers (samohlasen - podobny) |
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| December 10 | Sun | 2 | 5 | Twenty-seventh Sunday
after Pentectost Vespers (samohlasen - podobny) - hymn |
| December 17 | Sun | 3 | 6 | Sunday of the
Holy Forefathers All-Night Vigil - hymn |
| December 22 | Fri | Royal Hours (adapted) of the Nativity, transferred from Saturday | ||
| December 24 | Sun | 4 | 7 | Sunday before the
Nativity (Sunday of the Holy Fathers) Vespers (samohlasen - podobny) |
| December 25 | Mon | Nativity of our Lord, God
and Savior Jesus Christ Vespers - Great Compline (service - propers) |
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| December 26 | Tue | Synaxis of the Mother of
God |
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| December 27 | Wed | The Holy Apostle and First-Martyr Stephen | ||
| December 31 | Sun | 5 | 8 | Sunday after Nativity;
The Commemoration of the Relatives of the Lord: Saints Joseph, James and David; Leave-taking of the Nativity of the Lord Vespers - hymn |
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