Church holidays 2017

Orthodox Church holidays are church-wide celebrations in Orthodoxy, dedicated to the special recollection of alternating sacred events and honored saints. The days of their celebration refer to the annual (immobile and mobile) and week-long liturgical circles of public worship in the Orthodox Church. Each day of the calendar year is dedicated to the Church's memory of a sacred event, the celebration of the memory of the saints or the glorification of the miraculous icons of the Blessed Virgin. Orthodox Christians must sacredly honor their holidays, prepare for them in advance with prayer and fasting, during the holidays, visit the church and receive communion, instead of their domestic work, help the weak and needy.

Holidays are distributed within two overlapping annual cycles - fixed (mined) and mobile (triode, or Easter-Pentecostal). Celebrations and memorable events of the first cycle are strictly fixed only by the numbers of the month (for the dates of the Julian calendar in relation to the modern civilian, an amendment is necessary: ​​n - 13 days, - for the XX-XXI centuries). Holidays of the second are fixed only on the days of the week, being rigidly correlated with Easter, which is the starting point for the entire mobile annual cycle. The date of the latter is moved within 35 days ("Easter limits"): from April 4 (March 22 under art.) - until May 8 (April 25 st.).

The most important holidays of the modern Orthodox calendar are called "Twelve", or "Twelve" (from Slavic twelve to "twelve") (see Twelve Holidays). Easter, as the "Feast of the Feast," resides outside this classification. The second step in the festive hierarchical ladder is occupied by the holidays, which are called "great" in the liturgical word usage.

Common for all Christians holidays - above all Easter and Christmas (the latter, as a special calendar celebration, has no Armenian and other monophysite churches). The most important annual holidays are basically the same for Orthodox and Catholics (because they are based on the same events of sacred history), but differ in dates, often with names and semantic nuances, and with the nature of the commission.

Church holidays in 2017 from the Nativity of Christ

(according to the old and new style)

3 (16) April, Sunday - EASTER OF CHRIST

Twelve Great Holidays

• March 27 (April 9), Sunday - Entry of the Lord into Jerusalem
• May 12 (25), Thursday - Ascension of Our Lord
• May 22 (June 4), Sunday - the Day of the Holy Trinity. Pentecost

Twelve Unending Weddings

• 6 (19) January, Thursday - Epiphany. Epiphany
• 2 (15) February, Wednesday - The Presentation of the Lord
• March 25 (April 7), Friday - Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
• 6 (19) August, Saturday - The Transfiguration of Our Lord
• August 15 (28), Monday - Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
• September 8 (21), Thursday - the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
• September 14 (27), Wednesday - Exaltation of the Holy Cross
• November 21 (December 4), Monday - Introduction to the Temple of the Blessed Virgin Mary
• December 25 (January 7, 2018), Sunday - Christmas

Great Holidays

• 1 (14) January, Saturday - Circumcision of the Lord and the memory of St. Basil the Great
• June 24 (July 7), Friday - Christmas of John the Baptist
• June 29 (July 12), Wednesday - the holy of the first-ever apostles Peter and Paul
• August 29 (September 11), Monday - Beheading of John the Baptist
• October 1 (14), Saturday - Protection of the Holy Virgin

Church memorable dates (in the new and old style)

• February 1 (January 19), 2009 - the day of the enthronement of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill24 (11) May - the day of the namesday of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill
• May 15 (2), 1944 - the day of the death of His Holiness Patriarch Sergius
• April 17 (4), 1970 - the day of the death of His Holiness Patriarch Alexy I
• May 3 (April 20), 1990 - the day of the death of His Holiness Patriarch Pimen
• December 5 (November 22), 2008 - the day of the death of His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II

Jubilee and memorable dates in 2017 (old style)

• 1950 years - the revelations of the holy first-prince apostles Peter and Paul (29.VI 67)
• 1900 years - the reappearance of the holy martyr Foki, Bishop of Sinopia (22.IX ​​117)
• 1850 years - the repose of the Holy Martyr Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna (23.II 167)
• - the repose of the Equal-to-the-Apostles Averky, Bishop of Hierapolis (22.X ca.167)
• 1625 years - the phenomena of the Cyprus Icon of the Mother of God (20.IV 392)
• 1550 years - the relics of the Monk Feoktist, the disciple Euthymius the Great (3.IX 467)
• 1250 years - the revelations of the MonkMartyr Andrew of Crete (17.X 767)
• - the repose of the martyr and confessor Stephen New (28.XI 767)
• 1225 years - the repose of the righteous Philaret the Most Gracious (1.XII 792)
• 1125 years - the revelation of the Monk Theodora of Thessalonica (5.IV 892)
• 1050 years - the reign of the faithful Peter, the Tsar of Bulgaria (30.I 967)
• 1025 years - the repose of St. Michael, the first Metropolitan of Kiev (30.IX 992)
• 925 years - the phenomenon of Sicilian, or Divnogorsk, the icon of the Mother of God (5.II 1092)
• 850 years - the reign of the faithful Grand Duke Rostislav-Michael (14.III 1167)
• 825 years - the reformation of the Monk Varlaam Khutynsky (6.XI 1192)
• - finding the relics of the faithful prince of Novgorod Vsevolod, in the Holy Baptism of Gabriel, Pskov (27.XI 1192)
• 725 years - the reappearance of St. James, Archbishop of Serbia (30.VIII 1292)
• 650 years - the reappearance of St. Stephen Uros, king of Serbia (2.XII 1367)
• - the relics of the Monk Kirill Chelmogorsky (8.XII 1367)
• 625 years - the apparitions of the Devpeteruvskaya Icon of the Mother of God (1392)
• - the phenomena of the Barlovskaya "Blessed Wave" of the icon of the Mother of God (26.XII 1392)
• - the repose of the blessed Theodore, Christ for the sake of the holy fool, Novgorod (19.I 1392)
• - the relics of the Monk Dimitri Prilutsky, of Vologda (11.II 1392)
• - the revelation of the Monk Methodius, Hegumen Pešnoski (4.VI 1392)
• - the repose of the Martyrs Gregory and Cassian of the Avnos (15.VI 1392)
• - the repose of Blessed Nicholas Kochanov, Christ for the sake of the holy fool, Novgorod (27.VII 1392)
• - the reformation of the Monk Sergius, Hegumen of Radonezh (25.IX 1392)
• - the reappearance of St. James, Bishop of Rostov (27.XI 1392)
• 575 years - phenomena of the Makaryev Icon of the Mother of God (17.IX 1442)
• - the revelation of the Monk Jacob Zheleznoborovsky (11.IV 1442)
• - the relics of the Monk Gregory of Pelshamsky, Vologda (30.IX 1442)
• 525 years - the revelation of the Monk Kosma of Yakhroma (18.II 1492)
• - the relics of the Monk Onufry of Malsky, Pskov (12.VI 1492)
• - the relics of the Monk Tikhon of Medyn, Kaluga (16.VI 1492)
• - the relics of the Monk Ephrem Perekomsky, Novgorod (26.IX 1492)
• 475 years - the relics of the Monk Stephen Ozersky, Komelsky (12.VI 1542)
• - the relics of St. Sophia of Suzdal (16.XII 1542)
• 450 years - the reappearance of St. Joachim, Patriarch of Alexandria (17.IX 1567)
• - the reappearance of St Herman, Archbishop of Kazan (6.XI 1567)
• 425 years - the transfer of the relics of St. Herman, Archbishop of Kazan (25.IX 1592)
• 375 years - the glorification of the Yaroslavl-Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God (12.X 1642)
• 350 years - the relics of the Monk Nil Stolobensky (27.V 1667)
• 325 years - the phenomenon of the Tambov Icon of the Mother of God (16.IV 1692)
• 300 years - the glorification of the Penza-Kazan Icon of the Mother of God (4.VIII 1717)
• 250 years - the revelation of the Monk Vasili Polanomerulsky (25.IV 1767)
• 200 years - the reformation of the righteous warrior Theodore Ushakov (2.X 1817)
• 150 years - the reappearance of St. Ignatius Bryanchaninov, bishop of the Caucasus (30.IV 1867)
• - the repose of the Martyr Martyr, Parthenius, Hegumen of Kiziltash (4.IX 1867)
• - the repose of St. Philaret, Metropolitan of Moscow (19.XI 1867)
• 100 years - the phenomenon of the icon of the Mother of God, called "Derzhavnaya" (2.III 1917)
• - the election of St. Tikhon (Bellavin) to the All-Russian Patriarchal See (5.XI 1917)
• - the repose of the priest-martyr, Protopriest John Kochurov, the Martyrs of Sergius Galkovsky, Andronik Barsukov (1917)
• 95 years - the reappointment of the Holy Martyr Benjamin, Metropolitan of Petrograd, and with him the MonkMartyr Sergiy Shein and the martyrs Yuri Novitsky and John Kovsharov and all the New Martyrs
• 85 years - the reappointment of the Holy Martyr Nicholas, Bishop of Belsky, St. Ambrose of the Confessor, Bishop of Kamenetz-Podolsky, and all the New Martyrs of Russia, who suffered in 1932
• 80 years - the reappointment of the Holy Martyrs Peter, Metropolitan Krutitsky, Cyril, Metropolitan of Kazan, Metropolitan Seraphim Chichagov and all the New Martyrs of Russia, who suffered in 1937
• 75 years - the reappointment of the Holy Martyr Horazd, Bishop of Czech and Moravian-Silesian (22.VIII 1942)
• 70 years - the revelations of the Monk Alexii (Kabalyuk), the Carpathian (1947)
• 65 years - the revelation of the Blessed Matrona of Moscow (19.IV 1952)
• 60 years - the revelation of the Monk Raphael Sheychenko the Confessor (6.VI 1957)
• 55 years - the reappearance of St. Athanasius the Confessor, Bishop of Kovrov (15.X 1962)
• 50 years - the revelation of St. Iraida the Titual Confessor (25.VII 1967)
• 40 years - the glorification of St. Innocent, Metropolitan of Moscow (23.IX 1977)
• 25 years - the relics of St. Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia (9.II 1992)
• - finding the relics of the Holy Martyr Vladimir, Metropolitan of Kiev (14.VI 1992)
• - the second transfer of the relics of the Monks Zosima, Savvaty and Herman Solovetsky (8.VIII 1992)
• - the transfer of the relics of the faithful Prince Peter, in the monasticism of David, and Princess Fevronia, in the monasticism of Euphrosyneus, the Murom Wonderworkers (1992)
• 20 years - the relics of St. Victor the Confessor, Bishop Glazovsky (18.VI 1997)
• - finding the relics of the Monk Sevastian of the Karaganda confessor (9.X 1997)
• 15 years - transfer of the relics of St. Theophan, the Recluse of Vyshensky (16.VI 2002)
• 775 years - the victories of Russian soldiers of the holy and blessed Grand Duke Alexander Nevsky over the German knights on Lake Peipsi (Ice Battle) (1242)
• 200 years - since the birth of Archimandrite Antonin (Kapustin), the head of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem (1817)
• 100 years - the restoration of the Patriarchate in the Russian Orthodox Church (1917)
• 25 years - the definition of the consecrated Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church on the establishment of the celebration of the Council of New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church (1992)
• 10 years - since the signing of the Act of Canonical Communion of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia with the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (2007)

About the posts and the meal (according to the old and new style)

Multi-day posts

• Lent from February 14 (27) to April 2 (15)
• Petrov post - from May 30 (June 12) to June 28 (July 11)
• Assumption fast - from August 1 (14) to August 14 (27)
• Christmas (Filippov) post - from November 15 (28) to December 24 (January 6, 2018)

One-day posts

• Wednesday and Friday throughout the year, with the exception of continuous weeks and Christmas time
• Epiphany Eve (Epiphany Epiphany) - 5 (18) January
• The beheading of John the Baptist - August 29 (September 11)
• Exaltation of the Cross of the Lord - September 14 (27)

Solid week

• Christmas tree - from December 25 (January 7) to January 5 (18)
• The publican and the Pharisee - from January 23 (February 5) to January 29 (February 11)
• Cheesy (Shrovetide) - from 7 (20) February to 13 (26) February
• Easter (Light) - from 3 (16) April to 9 (22) April
• Troitskaya - from May 22 (June 4) to May 28 (June 10)

About a meal on holidays

According to the Church Charter on the holidays of the Nativity of Christ and Epiphany, which happened on Wednesday and Friday, there is no fasting. On Christmas and Epiphany Christmas Eve and on the Feasts of the Exaltation of the Cross of the Lord and the Beheading of John the Baptist, a meal with vegetable oil is allowed. On the Feasts of the Presentation, the Transfiguration of the Lord, the Assumption, the Nativity and Protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Her Entry into the Temple, the Nativity of John the Baptist, the Apostles Peter and Paul, John the Theologian, on Wednesday and Friday, and from Easter to Trinity on Wednesday and Friday fish are allowed.

Days of special commemoration of the dead

Commemoration of the victims of the persecution of the faith of Christ - January 23 (February 5)

• Saturday Meat-Feast - 5 (18) February
• Saturday 2nd Sunday of Great Lent - February 26 (March 11)
• Saturday of the 3rd week of Lent - March 5 (18)
• Saturday 4th Sunday of Great Lent - March 27 (April 9)
• Radonica - 12 (25) April
• Commemoration of the deceased soldiers - April 26 (May 9)
• Saturday Troitskaya - May 21 (June 3)
• Saturday Dimitrievskaya - October 15 (28)

Do not make a marriage

On the eve of Wednesday and Friday of the whole year (Tuesday and Thursday), Sundays (Saturday), twelve, temple and great holidays; in the continuation of the posts of Great, Petrov, Uspensky and Christmas; in the continuation of Christmas, from December 25 (January 7) to January 6 (19); on the week of meat, during the cheese week (Shrove Tuesday) and on the week of sour; during the Paschal (Light) week; on the days (and on the eve) of the Beheading of John the Baptist - August 29 (September 11) and the Exaltation of the Cross of the Lord - September 14 (27).

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