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A moveable feast is an observance in a Christian liturgical calendar which occurs on different dates in different years. [1] It is the complement of a fixed feast , an annual celebration that is held on the same calendar date every year, such as Christmas .
Ascension of Jesus — (Moveable feast) Pentecost — (Moveable feast) Transfiguration of Jesus — 6 (19) August; Though some sources place the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple among the Great Feasts of Christ, including the above list, these sources are likely incorrect. This feast is most accurately described as a combined Great Feast of ...
Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus (Roman Catholicism, according to the General Roman Calendar of 1960) First Monday: January 6 . Handsel Monday (Scotland and Northern England) Monday after January 6: January 12. Baptism of the Lord – (Western Christianity in countries where Epiphany is celebrated on January 7 or 8) Sunday following January 6 ...
The major ferias would outrank simple-feasts, while the minor ones give way to them. However, as almost every feast was at least a semidouble, and even Ember Days would give way to semidoubles, the distinguishing characteristic was rather something else: The major ferias would be commemorated when so replaced; the minor ones would not.
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.
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.
The temporale consists of the movable feasts, most of them keyed to Easter (which falls on a different Sunday every year), including Ascension, Pentecost (Whitsun), and so on. The sanctorale consists of the fixed feasts, celebrated on the very same date each year (no matter what the day of the week), including Christmas and all the saints' days ...
In the liturgical books, the document General Roman Calendar, which lists not only fixed celebrations but also some moveable ones, is printed immediately after the document Universal Norms on the Liturgical Year and the Calendar, [2] [3] which states that "throughout the course of the year the Church unfolds the entire mystery of Christ and ...