- Source: List of movable Western Christian observances
This is a list of movable observances within Western Christianity. It includes secular observances which are calculated by religious observances.
This list does not necessarily imply either official status nor general observance.
Movable Christian observances, 2021
= January
=First Sunday of the year, unless the Sunday falls on January 1, 6, or 7, then January 2: January 5
Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus (Roman Catholicism, according to the General Roman Calendar of 1960)
First Monday: January 6
Handsel Monday (Scotland and Northern England)
Monday after January 6: January 12
Baptism of the Lord – (Western Christianity in countries where Epiphany is celebrated on January 7 or 8)
Sunday following January 6: January 12
Baptism of the Lord (Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism, Lutheranism, in countries where Epiphany is celebrated on January 7 or 8)
Plough Sunday (England)
Day after Plough Sunday: January 13
Plough Monday (England)
Third Sunday: January 19
Feast of the Santo Niño (Philippines)
= February
=9th Sunday before Easter in Western Christianity: February 9
Septuagesima Sunday
2nd Sunday before Ash Wednesday (Western Christianity): February 16
Sexagesima
Last Thursday before Lent (Western Christianity): February 20
Fat Thursday
Saturday before Ash Wednesday: February 22
Festum Ovorum (University of Oxford)
Sunday before Ash Wednesday (Western Christianity): February 23
Quinquagesima
Monday before Ash Wednesday: February 24
Shrove Monday
Fastelavn (Denmark/Norway)
Nickanan Night (Cornwall)
Rosenmontag (Germany)
Tuesday before Ash Wednesday: February 25
Shrove Tuesday
Fastnacht (Pennsylvania Dutch)
Feast of the Holy Winding Sheet of Christ
Fettisdagen (Sweden)
Laskiainen (Finland, Finnish-Americans)
Mardi Gras
National Pancake Day (Netherlands)
Powder Day (Tolox, Spain)
Užgavėnės (Lithuania)
46 days before Easter: February 26
Ash Wednesday/Lent
National No Smoking Day (Ireland)
Friday after Ash Wednesday: February 28
Feast of the Crown of Thorns
= March
=First Sunday of Lent: March 1
People's Sunday (Żabbar, Malta)
Quadragesima Sunday
March 19, unless the 19th is a Sunday, then March 20: March 19
Feast of Joseph of Nazareth (Western Christianity)
Father's Day (Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Italy, Honduras, and Bolivia)
Las Fallas, celebrated on the week leading to March 19. (Valencia)
"Return of the Swallow", annual observance of the swallows' return to Mission San Juan Capistrano in California.
Fourth Sunday of Lent, 21 days before Easter Sunday: March 22
Laetare Sunday
Mothering Sunday
Pretzel Sunday (Luxembourg)
Fifth Sunday of Lent: March 29
Passion Sunday (celebrated in the extraordinary form of the Roman Rite according to the General Roman Calendar of 1960)
= April
=Week before Easter:
Holy Week
Palm Sunday: April 5
Holy Monday: April 6
Holy Tuesday: April 7
Holy Wednesday: April 8
Maundy Thursday: April 9
Good Friday: April 10
Second Friday of April: April 10
Fast and Prayer Day (Liberia)
Holy Saturday: April 11
Easter Week: April 12-18
Easter: April 12 (Eastertide begins)
Aberri Eguna (Basque)
Lieldienas (Latvia)
Easter Monday: April 13
Family Day (South Africa)
Śmigus-Dyngus, regional variant of Easter Monday (Poland, Ukraine)
Easter Tuesday: April 14(Public holiday in Tasmania)
Easter Wednesday: April 15
Saint Gregory's Day (Żejtun, Malta)
Easter Thursday: April 16
Easter Friday: April 17
Easter Saturday: April 18
Sunday after Easter: April 19
Divine Mercy Sunday
= May
=Third Sunday after Easter: May 3
Jubilate Sunday
Monday and Tuesday in the week following the third Sunday of Easter: May 4–5
Hocktide (England)
Fourth Sunday after Easter: May 10
Cantate Sunday
Good Shepherd Sunday
Fourth Friday after Easter: May 15
Store Bededag (Denmark)
Third Sunday of May:
Feast of Our Lady of the Audience
Sunday preceding the Rogation days: May 17
Rogation Sunday
Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday preceding Feast of the Ascension: May 18–20
Minor Rogation days
39 days after Easter: May 21
Feast of the Ascension
Father's Day (Germany)
Festa della Sensa (Venice)
Global Day of Prayer
Sheep Festival (Cameroon)
Seventh Sunday/49 days after Easter: May 31
Pentecost begins
Whitsun
= June
=Day after Whitsun: June 1
Whit Monday
Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church
Azores Day (Portugal)
Day after Whit Monday: June 2
Whit Tuesday
First Thursday after start of Pentecost: June 4
Friday of the week of Whitsun: June 5
Whit Friday (North West England)
First Sunday after Pentecost: June 7
Trinity Sunday
Thursday after Trinity Sunday; 60 days after Easter, or the Sunday immediately following this: June 11
Corpus Christi (feast):
First Thursday after Corpus Christi: June 12
Lajkonik (Kraków, Poland)
19 days after Pentecost: June 18
Feast of the Sacred Heart
Sunday nearest to June 29: June 28
Petertide (Anglican)
= July
=Second Sunday in July: July 12
Sea Sunday
Last Sunday in July: July 26
Reek Sunday (Ireland)
= August
=Third Weekend: August 15-16
Festa do Rosário (Córrego Danta, Brazil)
= September
=Thursday following the first Sunday: September 6
Jeûne genevois (Canton of Geneva, Switzerland)
First Sunday after September 4: September 6
Start of Wakes Week (Parts of England and Scotland)
Abbots Bromley Horn Dance (Abbots Bromley, Staffordshire, England)
Weekend after first Monday: September 7
Feast of Sts Cosmas and Damian (Italian-American)
Second Sunday: September 13
Education Sunday (British Churches)
Racial Justice Sunday (British Churches)
Third Sunday: September 20
Federal Day of Thanksgiving, Repentance and Prayer (Switzerland)
Monday after third Sunday: September 20
Lundi du Jeûne (Vaud, Switzerland)
= October
=First Sunday: October 4
Day of Prayer for the Peace of Jerusalem (Pentecostal Christianity)
World Communion Sunday
Second Sunday: October 11
White Sunday (Tonga, Samoa)
Last Sunday: October 25
Feast of Christ the King (Tridentine Mass Catholics)
= November
=Saturday between October 31 – November 6:
All Saints' Day (Finland and Sweden only)
Second Sunday before Advent: November 8
Volkstrauertag (Germany)
Second Wednesday before the First Sunday in Advent: November 11
Buß- und Bettag (Saxony, Germany, Lutheran, Reformed (Calvinist) and United denominations)
Sunday nearest November 11: November 14
Remembrance Sunday (United Kingdom and certain Commonwealth countries)
Last Sunday before First Advent Sunday: November 22
Feast of Christ the King (Roman Catholic)
Stir-up Sunday (Anglican Church)
Totensonntag (mainly Lutheran)
World Youth Day (Next International-level World Youth Day will be in August 2023 Roman Catholicism)
Fourth Sunday before Christmas Day: November 29
Advent Sunday (start of Advent, Western Christianity)
= December
=First Friday: December 4
Gospel Day (Marshall Islands)
First Sunday: December 6
First Presidency's Christmas Devotional (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
Seven days, starting on First Monday: December 7-13
Chalica (Unitarian Universalism)
Sunday two weeks before Christmas: December 13
Detinjci (Serbia)
Second-final Sunday before Christmas Day: December 13
Gaudete Sunday (Western Christianity)
Thursday of the last full week before Christmas: December 17
Chewidden Thursday (Cornwall)
National Regifting Day (United States)
Last Friday before Christmas: December 18
Black Friday (partying) (secular, United Kingdom)
Last Saturday before Christmas: December 19
Super Saturday (secular, United States)
Sunday before Christmas: December 20
Christmas Sunday
Honesty Day (Italy)
Winter Solstice: December 21
Blue Christmas (holiday)
The Sunday between Christmas Day and New Year's Day (both exclusive), or December 30 if both Christmas Day and the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God are Sundays: December 27
Feast of the Holy Family (Roman Catholicism)
See also
List of movable Eastern Christian observances
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- List of movable Western Christian observances
- List of movable Eastern Christian observances
- March
- Holy day
- April
- January
- December
- November
- List of multinational festivals and holidays
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