Orthodox (Church) Calendar for 2022 - happy holidays

Features of the Orthodox calendar
Non-passing holidays
Moving holidays
Posts in 2022
Continuous weeks
Days of special commemoration of the departed

We bring to your attention the Orthodox (Church) calendar for 2022 with holidays, fasts and dates of commemoration of the departed.

Features of the Orthodox calendar

The church calendar is a combination of the month and Easter.

Months indicates each day of all months of the year as holidays and commemorations of saints that are not transient, that is, they have a constant calendar date.
Easter determines the date of the Easter Feast and the passing holidays depending on it - which do not have a fixed date in the calendar.

In liturgical practice, the Russian Orthodox Church uses the Julian calendar, in common parlance - the old style. For the convenience of using the church calendar, the dates of the old style are recalculated to the Gregorian calendar adopted since 1918 in civil life and in everyday life - a new style. The difference between the old and the new style in the 21st century is 13 days.

Important! The church year begins on September 1 according to the old style and the first holiday symbolizing the beginning of God's economy is the Nativity of the Mother of God. The last twelve feast - the Dormition of the Virgin - ends the year in a similar way.

Non-passing holidays

Non-moving holidays (also fixed holidays) are church holidays with fixed dates according to the solar calendar.

January 2 - Nativity of Christ (twelve);
January 14 - Circumcision of the Lord (great);
January 19 - Epiphany or Baptism of the Lord (twelve);
February 15 - Presentation of the Lord (twelve);
April 07 - Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos (twelve);
May 21 - Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian;
May 22 - Saint Nicholas, Archbishop of Myra in Lycia, miracle worker;
July 07 - Nativity of John the Baptist (great);
July 12 - Saints first. the apostles Peter and Paul (great);
August 19 - Transfiguration of the Lord (twelve);
August 28 - Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos (twelve);
September 11 - Beheading of John the Baptist (great);
September 21 - Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos (twelve);
September 27 - Exaltation of the Cross of the Lord (twelve);
October 09 - Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian;
October 14 - Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos (great);
December 04 - Entry into the temple of the Most Holy Theotokos (twelve);
December 19 - Saint Nicholas, Archbishop of Myra in Lycia, miracle worker.

Moving holidays

An ancient rule of the so-called Alexandrian Orthodox Easter appoints to celebrate Easter on the first Sunday after the first spring full moon, after the vernal equinox - March 21 st. Art. Thus, Easter according to the lunar calendar happens at one specific time, and according to the solar calendar it receives different dates within 35 days - from March 22 to April 25 st. Art.

02/06/22 - Council of New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia
02/06/22 - Week of Zacchaeus the Publican
02.13.22 - Week of the Publican and the Pharisee
02/20/22 - Week of the Prodigal Son
02/27/22 - Week of the Last Judgment
03/06/22 - Remembrance of Adam's exile. Forgiveness Sunday
03.13.22 - Triumph of Orthodoxy
03/20/22 - 2nd week of Great Lent, St. Gregory Palamas, Archbishop. Solunsky
03/27/22 - Week 3 of Great Lent, Cross-worship
04/03/22 - 4th week of Great Lent, Venerable John Climacus
04/10/22 - 5th week of Great Lent, St. Mary of Egypt
04/16/22 - Lazarev Saturday (Saturday of the 6th week of Great Lent)
04/17/22 - Entry of the Lord into Jerusalem (twelve)
04/18/22 - Great Monday
04/19/22 - Great Tuesday
04/20/2022 - Great Wednesday
04.21.22 - Maundy Thursday. The last supper
04/22/22 - Good Friday. Crucifixion of Christ
04/23/22 - Great Saturday. Descent of Christ into Hell
04.24.22 - Resurrection of Christ. Easter
05/01/22 - Week 2 after Easter (Antipascha). Remembrance of the assurance of ap. Thomas
05/08/22 - Week 3 after Easter, holy myrrh-bearing women
05/15/22 - Week 4 after Easter, about the relaxed
05/22/22 - Week 5 after Easter, about the Samaritan woman
05/29/22 - Week 6 after Easter, about the blind
06/02/22 - Ascension of the Lord (40th day after Easter, twelve)
06/05/22 - Week 7 after Easter, St. Fathers of the I Ecumenical Council
06/12/22 - Pentecost. Holy Trinity Day (50th day after Easter, twelve)
06/13/22 - Holy Spirit Day (first Monday after Pentecost)
06/19/22 - Week 1 after Pentecost, All Saints
06/26/22 - Week 2 after Pentecost, all the saints who shone in the land of Russia.

Posts in 2022

In the Russian Orthodox Church, there are four multi-day fasts, fast on Wednesday and Friday throughout the year (except for a few weeks), and three one-day fasts.

03/07/22 - 04/23/22 - Great Lent;
06/20/22 - 07/11/22 - Petrov post;
08/14/22 - 08/27/22 - Dormition fast;
12/28/22 - 01/06/22 - Christmas fast.

Continuous weeks

Seven is a week from Monday to Sunday. These days, there is no fasting on Wednesday and Friday.

There are five continuous weeks:

Christmastide - from January 7 to January 18;
Publican and Pharisee - 2 weeks before Great Lent from February 14, 2022 to February 20;
Cheese (Shrovetide) - the week before Lent (no meat) from February 28, 2022 to March 6;
Easter (Light) - the week after Easter from April 25 to May 1, 2022;
Trinity - the week after Trinity from June 13 to June 19, 2022.

Days of special commemoration of the departed

The days of special commemoration of the departed are called Parental Saturdays. In the Orthodox tradition, it is believed that on these special days the souls of the deceased get the opportunity to find relief or liberation from the afterlife punishment if the living pray for them. These days of remembrance are called “parental days,” because in this case, parents mean all ancestors, that is, in a broad sense, all people who lived before us.

The Orthodox calendar contains seven so-called parental Saturdays - days on which a special commemoration of dead Orthodox Christians is performed in Orthodox churches. Moreover, all days of commemoration, except for the day of commemoration of the deceased soldiers, have a non-fixed date, which changes from year to year.

02/26/22 - Universal parental Saturday (Saturday before the week of the Last Judgment);
03/19/22 - Universal parental Saturday of the 2nd week of Great Lent;
03/26/22 - Universal parental Saturday of the 3rd week of Great Lent;
04/02/22 - Universal parental Saturday of the 4th week of Great Lent;
05/03/22 - Radonitsa (Tuesday of the 2nd week after Easter);
06/11/22 - Trinity parental Saturday (Saturday before Trinity);
05/09/22 - Commemoration of the deceased soldiers;
05.11.22 - Dmitrievskaya parental Saturday (Saturday before November 8).

A special place in the number of parental Saturdays is occupied by the Ecumenical parental Saturdays. There are only two of them - Myasopustnaya and Troitskaya. During Ecumenical Parental Saturdays, the Orthodox Church holds special services - among other things, ecumenical dirges - and commemorates in its prayers all Christians who have ever lived. The rest of the parental Saturdays are not universal and do not pretend to such worldwide coverage, but they are intended for private (family) commemoration.

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