St. Michael's Guide to Liturgical Seasons

For specific dates, feastdays and daily readings for 2009, please visit

A Liturgical Calendar for the Year 2009

or

CPG's Liturgical Calendar Online

vestments for all seasons

 

Major Observance Dates:

Observance
 Day
 in 2009
 in 2010
Ash Wednesday Wednesday
February 25 February 17
Palm Sunday Sunday April 5 March 28
Good Friday Friday
 April 10 April 2
Easter Day Sunday April 12
 April 4
Ascension Day Thursday
 May 21
 May 13
Pentecost Sunday
 May 31
 May 23
Trinity Sunday
 Sunday
 June 7
 May 30
First Sunday in Advent
 Sunday November 29 November 28
Christmas Day Friday
 December 25
 December 25

 

Some Church Events and Feastdays by Liturgical Season:
Advent

first four Sundays of the
Church year, immediately
preceding Christmas Day

advent wreath
Christmas

December 25 - January 5


in the stable

Holy Family
Epiphany

January 6- Shrove Tuesday

Candlemas

Candlemas

 

Valentine's Day

St. Valentine's Day
Lent

Ash Wednesday - Holy Saturday

crown of thorns


Ash Wednesday

Palm Sunday

Maundy Thursday

Good Friday

All days in Lent, except Sundays, are
days of special devotion
(The Book of Common Prayer pg. 17).
In the Prayer book, abstinence
from eating meat is not required,
but is traditional on all Wednesdays
and Fridays in Lent. 

The Ember Days are days of prayer for the
ministry (BCP pp. 205-206)  and
traditionally days of fast.
 
Easter

Easter Sunday - day before Pentecost


Easter lily
Ascension

All days in Eastertide are feast days.
Fasting and abstinence are not kept during
this season. From Easter through the feast
of Pentecost, there is no fast or abstinence,
even on Fridays, So, we can eat meat,
drink, and be merry as we celebrate
the Great Fifty Days of the Easter Feast!
Pentecost

49 days after Easter
and one week following

Holy Spirit

Trinity Sunday
Ordinary Time

between Trinity Sunday and Advent -
approximately half of the year

St. Michael the Archangel Feast of St. Francis

Michaelmas:
Our Patronal Feast of St. Michael

Feast of St. Francis
with the Blessing of the Animals

 

 

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