06 The Calendar of the Church Year

The Calendar of the Church Year The Church Year consists of two cycles of feasts and holy days: one is dependent upon the movable date of the Sunday of the Resurrection or Easter Day; the other, upon the fixed date of December 25, the Feast of our Lord’s Nativity or Christmas Day.

Easter Day is always the first Sunday after the full moon that falls on or after March 21. It cannot occur before March 22 or after April 25. The sequence of all Sundays of the Church Year depends upon the date of Easter Day. But the Sundays of Advent are always the four Sundays before Christmas Day, whether it occurs on a Sunday or a weekday. The date of Easter also determines the beginning of Lent on Ash Wednesday, and the feast of the Ascension on a Thursday forty days after Easter Day.

1. Principal Feasts The Principal Feasts observed in this Church are the following:

Easter Day All Saints’ Day, November 1 Ascension Day Christmas Day, December 25 The Day of Pentecost The Epiphany, January 6

Trinity Sunday These feasts take precedence of any other day or observance. All Saints’

Day may always be observed on the Sunday following November 1, in addition to its observance on the fixed date.

2. Sundays All Sundays of the year are feasts of our Lord Jesus Christ. In addition to the dated days listed above, only the following feasts, appointed on fixed days, take precedence of a Sunday: The Holy Name The Presentation The Transfiguration The feast of the Dedication of a Church, and the feast of its patron or title, may be observed on, or be transferred to, a Sunday, except in the seasons of Advent, Lent, and Easter.

All other Feasts of our Lord, and all other Major Feasts appointed on fixed days in the Calendar, when they occur on a Sunday, are normally transferred to the first convenient open day within the week. When desired, however, the Collect, Preface, and one or more of the Lessons appointed for the Feast may be substituted for those of the Sunday, but not from the Last Sunday after Pentecost through the First Sunday after the Epiphany, or from the Last Sunday after the Epiphany through

Trinity Sunday. With the express permission of the bishop, and for urgent and sufficient reason, some other special occasion may be observed on a Sunday.

3. Holy Days The following Holy Days are regularly observed throughout the year.

Unless otherwise ordered in the preceding rules concerning Sundays, they have precedence over all other days of commemoration or of special observance:

Other Feasts of Our Lord The Holy Name Saint John the Baptist The Presentation The Transfiguration The Annunciation Holy Cross Day The Visitation Other Major Feasts All feasts of Apostles Saint Mary the Virgin All feasts of Evangelists Saint Michael and All Angels Saint Stephen Saint James of Jerusalem The Holy Innocents Independence Day Saint Joseph Thanksgiving Day Saint Mary Magdalene

Fasts Ash Wednesday Good Friday Feasts appointed of fixed days in the Calendar are not observed on the days of Holy Week or of Easter Week. Major Feasts falling in these weeks are transferred to the week following the Second Sunday of Easter, in the order of their occurrence.

Feasts appointed on fixed days in the Calendar do not take precedence of

Ash Wednesday.

Feasts of our Lord and other Major Feasts appointed on fixed days, which fall upon or are transferred to a weekday, may be observed on any open day within the week. This provision does not apply to Christmas Day, the Epiphany, and All Saints’ Day.

4. Days of Special Devotion The following days are observed by special acts of discipline and self- denial:

Ash Wednesday and the other weekdays of Lent and of Holy Week, except the feast of the Annunciation.

Good Friday and all other Fridays of the year, in commemoration of the Lord’s crucifixion, except for Fridays in the Christmas and Easter seasons, and any Feasts of our Lord which occur on a Friday.

5. Days of Optional Observance Subject to the rules of precedence governing Principal Feasts, Sundays, and Holy Days, the following may be observed with the Collects, Psalms, and Lessons duly authorized by this Church:

Commemorations listed in the Calendar Other Commemorations, using the Common of Saints The Ember Days, traditionally observed on the Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays after the First Sunday in Lent, the Day of Pentecost, Holy Cross Day, and December 13. The Rogation Days, traditionally observed on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday before Ascension Day Various Occasions Provided, that there is no celebration of the Eucharist for any such occasion on Ash Wednesday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday; and provided further, that none of the Propers appointed for Various Occasions is used as a substitute for, or as an addition to, the Proper appointed for the Principal Feasts.

January 1 A The Holy Name of Our Lord Jesus Christ

2 b

3 c

4 d

5 e 6 f The Epiphany of Our Lord Jesus Christ

7 g

8 A 9 b Julia Chester Emery, 1922 10 c William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1645

11 d 12 e Aelred, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 13 f Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, 367

14 g

15 A

16 b 17 c Antony, Abbot in Egypt, 356 18 d The Confession of Saint Peter the Apostle 19 e Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095 20 f Fabian, Bishop and Martyr of Rome, 250 21 g Agnes, Martyr at Rome, 304 22 A Vincent, Deacon of Saragossa, and Martyr, 304 23 b Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, 1893

24 c 25 d The Conversion of Saint Paul the Apostle 26 e Timothy and Titus, Companions of Saint Paul 27 f John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople, 407 28 g Thomas Aquinas, Priest and Friar, 1274

29 A

30 b

31 c

February 1 d Brigid (Bride), 523 2 e The Presentation of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Temple 3 f Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg,, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865 4 g Cornelius the Centurion 5 A The Martyrs of Japan, 1597

6 b

7 c

8 d

9 e

10 f

11 g

12 A 13 b Absalom Jones, Priest, 1818 14 c Cyril, Monk, and Methodius, Bishop, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869, 885 15 d Thomas Bray, Priest and Missionary, 1730

16 e

17 f 18 g Martin Luther, 1546

19 A

20 b

21 c

22 d 23 e Polycarp, Bishop and Martyr of Smyrna, 156 24 f Saint Matthias the Apostle

25 g

26 A 27 b George Herbert, Priest, 1633

28 c

29

March 1 d David, Bishop of Menevia, Wales, c. 544 2 e Chad, Bishop of Lichfield, 672 3 f John and Charles Wesley, Priests, 1791, 1788

4 g

5 A

6 b 7 c Perpetua and Her Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 202

8 d 9 e Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, c. 394

10 f

11 g 12 A Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, 604

13 b

14 c

15 d

16 e 17 f Patrick, Bishop and Missionary of Ireland, 461 18 g Cyril, Bishop of Jerusalem, 386 19 A Saint Joseph 20 b Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne, 687 21 c Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath and Wells, 1711 14 22 d James De Koven, Priest, 1879 3 23 e Gregory the Illuminator, Bishop and Missionary of

Armenia, c. 332

24 f 11 25 g The Annunciation of Our Lord Jesus Christ to the Blessed Virgin Mary

26 A 19 27 b Charles Henry Brent, Bishop of the Philippines, and of Western New York, 1929

8 28 c 29 d John Keble, Priest, 1866

16 30 e 5 31 f John Donne, Priest, 1631

April 1 g Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, 1872 13 2 A James Lloyd Breck, Priest, 1876 2 3 b Richard, Bishop of Chichester, 1253 4 c Martin Luther King, Jr., Civil Rights Leader, 1968

10 5 d

6 e

18 7 f 7 8 g William Augustus Muhlenberg, Priest, 1877 9 A Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 1945 15 10 b William Law, Priest, 1761 4 11 c George Augustus Selwyn, Bishop of New Zealand, and of Lichfield, 1878

12 d

12 13 e

1 14 f

15 g

9 16 A

17 17 b

6 18 c 19 d Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Martyr, 1012

20 e 21 f Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1109

22 g

23 A

24 b 25 c Saint Mark the Evangelist

26 d

27 e

28 f 29 g Catherine of Siena, 1380

30 A May 1 b Saint Philip and Saint James, Apostles 2 c Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, 373

3 d 4 e Monnica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387

5 f

6 g

7 A 8 b Dame Julian of Norwich, c. 1417 9 c Gregory of Nazianzus, Bishop of Constantinople, 389

10 d

11 e

12 f

13 g

14 A

15 b

16 c

17 d

18 e 19 f Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988 20 g Alcuin, Deacon, and Abbot of Tours, 804

21 A

22 b

23 c 24 d Jackson Kemper, First Missionary Bishop in the United States, 1870 25 e Bede, the Venerable, Priest, and Monk of Jarrow, 735 26 f Augustine, First Archbishop of Canterbury, 605

27 g

28 A

29 b

30 c 31 d The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary The First Book of Common Prayer, 1549, is appropriately observed on a weekday following the Day of Pentecost.

June 1 e Justin, Martyr at Rome, c. 167 2 f The Martyrs of Lyons, 177 3 g The Martyrs of Uganda, 1886

4 A 5 b Boniface, Archbishop of Mainz, Missionary to Germany, and Martyr, 754

6 c

7 d

8 e 9 f Columba, Abbot of Iona, 597 10 g Ephrem of Edessa, Syria, Deacon, 373 11 A Saint Barnabas the Apostle

12 b

13 c 14 d Basil the Great, Bishop of Caesarea, 379 15 e Evelyn Underhill, 1941 16 f Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham, 1752

17 g 18 A Bernard Mizeki, Catechist and Martyr in Rhodesia, 1896

19 b

20 c

21 d 22 e Alban, First Martyr of Britain, c. 304

23 f 24 g The Nativity of Saint John the Baptist

25 A

26 b

27 c 28 d Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons, c. 202 29 e Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Apostles

30 f

July

1 g

2 A

3 b 4 c Independence Day

5 d

6 e

7 f

8 g

9 A

10 b 11 c Benedict of Nursia, Abbot of Monte Casino, c. 540

12 d

13 e

14 f

15 g

16 A 17 b William White, Bishop of Pennsylvania, 1836

18 c 19 d Macrina, 379 20 e Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Amelia Bloomer, Sojourner Truth, and Harriet Ross Tubman

21 f 22 g Saint Mary Magdalene

23 A 24 b Thomas a Kempis, Priest, 1471 25 c Saint James the Apostle 26 d The Parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary 27 e William Reed Huntington, Priest, 1909

28 f 29 g Mary and Martha of Bethany 30 A William Wilberforce, 1833 31 b Ignatius of Loyola, 1556

August 1 c Joseph of Arimathaea

2 d

3 e

4 f

5 g 6 A The Transfiguration of Our Lord Jesus Christ 7 b John Mason Neale, Priest, 1866 8 c Dominic, Priest and Friar, 1221

9 d 10 e Lawrence, Deacon, and Martyr at Rome, 258 11 f Clare, Abbess at Assisi, 1253

12 g 13 A Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down, Connor, and

Dromore, 1667 14 b Jonathan Myrick Daniels, 1965 15 c Saint Mary the Virgin, Mother of Our Lord Jesus Christ

16 d

17 e 18 f William Porcher DuBose, Priest, 1918

19 g 20 A Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, 1153

21 b

22 c

23 d 24 e Saint Bartholomew the Apostle 25 f Louis, King of France, 1270

26 g 27 A Thomas Gallaudet, 1902, and Henry Winter Syle, 1890 28 b Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, 430

29 c

30 d 31 e Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, 651

September 1 f David Pendleton Oakerhater, Deacon and Missionary, 1931 2 g The Martyrs of New Guinea, 1942

3 A 4 b Paul Jones, 1941

5 c

6 d

7 e

8 f 9 g Constance, Nun, and her Companions, 1878 10 A Alexander Crummel, 1898

11 b 12 c John Henry Hobart, Bishop of New York, 1830 13 d Cyprian, Bishop and Martyr of Carthage, 258 14 e Holy Cross Day

15 f 16 g Ninian, Bishop in Galloway, c. 430 17 A Hildegard of Bingen, 1170 18 b Edward Bouverie Pusey, Priest, 1882 19 c Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690 20 d John Coleridge Patteson, Bishop of Melanesia, and his Companions, Martyrs, 1971 21 e Saint Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist

22 f

23 g

24 A 25 b Sergius, Abbot of Holy Trinity, Moscow, 1392 26 c Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, 1626

27 d

28 e 29 f Saint Michael and All Angels 30 g Jerome, Priest, and Monk of Bethlehem, 420

October 1 A Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, c. 530

2 b

3 c 4 d Francis of Assisi, Friar, 1226

5 e 6 f William Tyndale, Priest, 1536

7 g

8 A 9 b Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, 1253

10 c

11 d

12 e

13 f 14 g Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky, Bishop of Shanghai, 1906 15 A Teresa of Avila, Nun, 1582 16 b Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley, Bishops, 1555, and Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1556 17 c Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, and Martyr, c. 115 18 d Saint Luke the Evangelist 19 e Henry Martyn, Priest and Missionary to India and Persia, 1812

20 f

21 g

22 A 23 b Saint James of Jerusalem, Brother of Our Lord Jesus Christ, and Martyr, c. 62

24 c

25 d 26 e Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, 899

27 f 28 g Saint Simon and Saint Jude, Apostles 29 A James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, and his Companions, Martyrs, 1885

30 b

31 c

November

1 d All Saints 2 e Commemoration of All Faithful Departed 3 f Richard Hooker, Priest, 1600

4 g

5 A

6 b 7 c Willibrord, Archbishop of Utrecht, Missionary to

Frisia, 739

8 d

9 e 10 f Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461 11 g Martin, Bishop of Tours, 397 12 A Charles Simeon, Priest, 1836

13 b 14 c Consecration of Samuel Seabury, First American

Bishop, 1784

15 d 16 e Margaret, Queen of Scotland, 1093 17 f Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200 18 g Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 19 A Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, 1231 20 b Edmund, King of East Anglia, 870

21 c

22 d 23 e Clement, Bishop of Rome, c. 100

24 f 25 g James Otis Sargent Huntington, Priest and Monk, 1935

26 A

27 b 28 c Kamehameha and Emma, King and Queen of Hawaii, 1864, 1885

29 d 30 e Saint Andrew the Apostle

December 1 f Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, 1637 2 g Channing Moore Williams, Missionary Bishop in China and Japan, 1910

3 A 4 b John of Damascus, Priest, c. 760 5 c Clement of Alexandria, Priest, c. 210 6 d Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c. 342 7 e Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, 397

8 f

9 g

10 A

11 b

12 c

13 d

14 e

15 f

16 g

17 A

18 b

19 c

20 d 21 e Saint Thomas the Apostle

22 f

23 g

24 A 25 b The Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ: Christmas Day 26 c Saint Stephen, Deacon and Martyr 27 d Saint John, Apostle and Evangelist 28 e The Holy Innocents 29 f Thomas Becket, 1170

30 g

31 A The Titles of the Seasons Sundays and Major Holy Days observed in this Church throughout the Year

Advent Season The First Sunday of Advent The Second Sunday of Advent The Third Sunday of Advent The Fourth Sunday of Advent Christmas Season The Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ: Christmas Day, December 25 The First Sunday after Christmas Day The Holy Name of Our Lord Jesus Christ, January 1 The Second Sunday after Christmas Day

Epiphany Season The Epiphany, or the Manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles, January 6 The First Sunday after the Epiphany: The Baptism of Our Lord

Jesus Christ The Second Sunday through the Eighth Sunday after the Epiphany The Last Sunday after the Epiphany

Lenten Season The First Day of Lent, or Ash Wednesday The First Sunday in Lent The Second Sunday in Lent The Third Sunday in Lent The Fourth Sunday in Lent The Fifth Sunday in Lent

Holy Week The Sunday of the Passion: Palm Sunday Monday in Holy Week Tuesday in Holy Week Wednesday in Holy Week

Maundy Thursday

Good Friday

Holy Saturday

Easter Season

Easter Eve The Sunday of the Resurrection, or Easter Day Monday in Easter Week Tuesday in Easter Week Wednesday in Easter Week Thursday in Easter Week Friday in Easter Week Saturday in Easter Week The Second Sunday of Easter The Third Sunday of Easter The Fourth Sunday of Easter The Fifth Sunday of Easter The Sixth Sunday of Easter

Ascension Day The Seventh Sunday of Easter: The Sunday after Ascension Day The Day of Pentecost: Whitsunday The Season After Pentecost The First Sunday after Pentecost: Trinity Sunday The Second Sunday through the Twenty- Seventh Sunday after Pentecost The Last Sunday after Pentecost

Holy Days Saint Andrew the Apostle, November 30 Saint Thomas the Apostle, December 21 Saint Stephen, Deacon and Martyr, December 26 Saint John, Apostle and Evangelist, December 27 The Holy Innocents, December 28 The Confession of Saint Peter the Apostle, January 18 The Conversion of Saint Paul the Apostle, January 25 The Presentation of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Temple, also called the Purification of Saint Mary the Virgin, February 2 Saint Matthias the Apostle, February 24 Saint Joseph, March 19 The Annunciation of Our Lord Jesus Christ to the Blessed Virgin Mary, March 25 Saint Mark the Evangelist, April 25 Saint Philip and Saint James, Apostles, May 1 The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, May 31 Saint Barnabas the Apostle, June 11 The Nativity of Saint John the Baptist, June 24 Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Apostles, June 29 Saint Mary Magdalene, July 22 Saint James the Apostle, July 25 The Transfiguration of Our Lord Jesus Christ, August 6 Saint Mary the Virgin, Mother of Our Lord Jesus Christ, August 15 Saint Bartholomew the Apostle, August 24 Holy Cross Day, September 14 Saint Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist, September 21 Saint Michael and All Angels, September 29 Saint Luke the Evangelist, October 18 Saint James of Jerusalem, Brother of Our Lord Jesus Christ, and Martyr, October 23 Saint Simon and Saint Jude, Apostles, October 28 All Saints’ Day, November 1

National Days Independence Day, July 4 Thanksgiving Day