Moveable Feast - Moveable Feasts in Christianity

Moveable Feasts in Christianity

• Triodion – the period of 70 days before Easter (Eastern and Oriental Orthodox, Greek-Catholic)
• Septuagesima – 63 days (ninth Sunday) before Easter (Pre–Vatican II Calendar)
• Saturday of Souls – 57 days before Easter (Eastern and Oriental Orthodox, Greek-Catholic)
• Sexagesima – 56 days (eighth Sunday) before Easter (Pre–Vatican II Calendar)
• Quinquagesima Sunday – 49 days (seventh Sunday) before Easter (Pre–Vatican II Calendar)
• Shrove Monday – 48 days before Easter. (Western Christianity)
• Shrove Tuesday/Mardi Gras – 47 days before Easter. (Western Christianity; not technically a moveable feast, because it is not a holiday on any church calendar)
• Ash Wednesday – 46 days before Easter. (Western Christianity; strictly speaking, not a feast but a fast, characterised by solemnity and acts of self-denial)
• Triumph of Orthodoxy – 42 days before Easter (Eastern and Oriental Orthodox, Greek-Catholic)
• People's Sunday – 41 days before Easter (in Malta)
• Mothering Sunday – 21 days before Easter (Anglicanism)
• Passion Sunday – 14 days before Easter (Anglicanism)
• Lazarus Saturday – 8 days before Easter (Eastern and Oriental Orthodox, Greek-Catholic)
• Palm Sunday – 7 days before Easter
• Maundy Thursday – 3 days before Easter
• Good Friday – 2 days before Easter (Good Friday is actually a fast rather than a feast. See Ash Wednesday above.)
• Holy Saturday - 1 day before Easter
• Easter – the date around which the others are placed
• Saint Gregory's Day – 3 days after Easter (in Malta)
• The Octave of Easter or Divine Mercy Sunday, also known as Low Sunday or Quasimodo Sunday – the Sunday after Easter.
• Radonitsa – 8 or 9 days after Easter (Eastern Orthodox)
• Ascension Day – 39 days after Easter
• Pentecost – 49 days after Easter (50th day of Easter)
• Whit Monday or Pentecost Monday – the day after Pentecost
• Trinity Sunday – 56 days after Easter (Western Christianity)
• All Saints' Day – 56 days after Easter (Eastern and Oriental Orthodox, Greek-Catholic), but in the West this feast is fixed on November 1
• Corpus Christi – 60 days after Easter (Western Christianity)
• feast days of some significant saints' days, if a moveable feast falls too close to their usual date.