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Seasons of the Church Year

The Episcopal Church's calendar is divided into seasons that celebrate particular periods of the life of Jesus and the Church. The two main cycles of feasts and holy days are dependent on the fixed date of Christmas and on the movable date of Easter. Other holy days can be found in the Prayer Book. Principal Feasts are marked (+). Most links are to the Glossary of Liturgical Terms.

Calendar of the Church Year:

Advent Four Sundays before Christmas
Christmas season December 24 to January 5
Christmas Day + December 25
The Epiphany + January 6
Epiphany season January 6 to Ash Wednesday
Ash Wednesday (Fast) Forty days before Easter Sunday
Lent Ash Wednesday to Holy Week
Holy Week The week before Easter
-Palm Sunday or Passion Sunday
-Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday in Holy Week
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Maundy Thursday
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Good Friday (Fast)
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Holy Saturday
Easter Sunday + First Sunday after the first full moon of spring*
Easter season Fifty days after Easter Sunday
Ascension Day + The Thursday forty days after Easter Sunday
Pentecost or Whitsunday + Fifty days after Easter
The season after Pentecost or Ordinary Time Pentecost to Advent
Trinity Sunday + The Sunday after Pentecost
All Saint's Day + November 1 (Our parish's name day)

*The Prayer Book contains a table for finding the date of Easter Sunday and other holy days in any given year.
 

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Liturgical colors for holy days and seasons of the year.


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