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Start Date Duration 1: Annunciation (Subara) The Sunday between November 27 and December 3: 3–4 weeks 2: Nativity: December 25: 1–2 weeks 3: Epiphany (Denha) The Sunday between January 2 and 6; otherwise January 6, if no such Sunday exists: 4–9 weeks 4: Great Fast (Sawma Rabba) The 7th Sunday before Easter [note 1] 7 weeks 5: Resurrection ...
The Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church does not include a Pentecost season. Pentecost is considered the last day of the Easter season, and is followed by Ordinary Time. Traditionalist Catholicism has an eight-day Octave of Pentecost, followed by Sundays after Pentecost that continue through to the end of the liturgical year.
The liturgical year, also called the church year, Christian year, ecclesiastical calendar, or kalendar, [1] [2] consists of the cycle of liturgical days and seasons that determines when feast days, including celebrations of saints, are to be observed, and which portions of scripture are to be read.
For Orthodox Christians (and others who follow the Gregorian calendar), Pentecost will be observed on Sunday, June 23, 2024 (seven weeks after Orthodox Easter).
Whit Tuesday (syn. Whittuesday, Whitsun Tuesday) is the Christian holiday celebrated the day after Pentecost Monday, the third day of the week beginning on Pentecost. [1] Pentecost is a movable feast in the Christian calendar dependent upon the date of Easter.
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Mid-Pentecost — the 25th day of Easter (the midpoint between the Easter and Pentecost) Whit Monday — (Moveable feast) Commemoration of the Apparition of the Holyrood at Godenovo — 29 May; The Placing of the Honorable Robe of the Lord at Moscow — 10 July; Forefeast of the Procession of the Honorable and Lifegiving Cross of the Lord ...
The General Roman Calendar (GRC) is the liturgical calendar that indicates the dates of celebrations of saints and mysteries of the Lord (Jesus Christ) in the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church, wherever this liturgical rite is in use. These celebrations are a fixed annual date, or occur on a particular day of the week.