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Catholic Church Feasts 2020 - Standard (Gregorian) Calendar

Holy Mother of God

Epiphany

Baptism of the Lord (River Jordan)

Ash Wednesday (Lent time)

Annunciation

Palm Sunday

Good Friday

EASTER SUNDAY

Ascension

Pentecost

Trinity Sunday

Corpus Christi

Sacred Heart of Jesus

Nativity of St. John the Baptist

Sts. Peter and Paul

Assumption

Exaltation of the Holy Cross

All Saints

Advent - 1st Sunday

Immaculate Conception

Christmas Day

January 1

January 6

January 12

February 26

March 25

April 5

April 10

April 12

May 21

May 31

June 7

June 11

June 19

June 24

June 29

August 15

September 14

November 1

November 29

December 8

December 25

Orthodox Church Feasts 2020 - Julian Calendar

The Nativity of our Lord

New Year, Circumcision

Blessing of the Holy Water (River Jordan) (Greek)

Blessing of the Holy Water (River Jordan) (Syrian & Copts)

Epiphany

St. John the Baptist

Presentation

Lent - Orthodoxy Sunday

Veneration of the Hl. Cross

Palm Sunday

EASTER SUNDAY

Ascension

Pentecost

Transfiguration

Procession with the Icon of the Virgin Mary (+ 5:00 am from the Holy Sepulchre to the Tomb of Mary)

Burial Ceremony of the Virgin Mary (11:00 am) at the Tomb of Mary

Assumption

Return of the Icon of Virgin Mary from the Tomb of Mary to the Holy Sepulchre (6:30 am)

New Year of the Church

Exaltation of the Holy Cross

St. George

Advent - 1st Sunday

January 7

January 14

January 18

January 19

January 19

January 20

February 15

March 8

March 22

April 12

April 19

May 28

June 7

August 19

August 25                                                                                                                                                                                                 7

August 27

August 28

September 5                                                                                                                                                                     7

September 14

September 27

November 16

December 15

Armenian Orthodox Church Feasts 2020 (see Orthodox except following)

James the Major and St. John

Christmas Day

Saint Vardan

Presentation of the Lord in the Temple

Beginning of the Lenten Tridion

Feast of the Martyrs of the Armenian Genocide

Transfiguration

Assumption

Exaltation of the Holy Cross

Feast of the Holy Cross of Varak

Finding of the Holy Cross

January 6

January 18/19

February 24

February 27

March 1

April 24

July 26

July 19

September 27

October 11

November 8

Jewish Feasts 2020 – Jewish Calendar 5780 – 5781

Purim (Esther)

Pesach (Passover)

Yom HaShoa (Holocaust Memorial Day)

Yom Hazikaron/ Yom HaAzmaut

Shavuot (Pentecost)

Tisha B’Av

Rosh Hashana 5781 (New Year)

Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement)

Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles)

Shmini Atzeret / Simchat Torah (Rejoicing the Law)

Hanukkah (Feast of the Light)

March 10– 11

April 9 – 15

April 21

April 28 – 29

May 29

July 30

September 19 – 20  

September 28

October 3 – 9

October 10

December 11 – 18  

Moslem Feasts 2020 – Hegira 1441 – 1442

New Year – 1st Hegira 1441

Mawlid al-Nabi (Birth of Mohammed)

Miraj (Ascension of Mohammed)

First Day of Ramadan

Lailat al-Qadr (Night of Power)

End of Ramadan (Eid al-Fitr)

Feast of the Sacrifice (Eid al-Adha)

New Year – 1st Hegira 1442

Mawlid al-Nabi (Birth of Mohammed)

September 1 (2019)

November 10(2019)

March 22 (2020)    

April 24

May 19

May 24

July 31

August 20

October 29

Samaritan Easter 2020

Samaritan Easter (Services at 7:00 pm the previous evening)

May 7