Interfaith Calendar Archive

ARCHIVE Dec 2012 - Jan 2001

DECEMBER 2012

2
- Advent - First Sunday - Christian
6
- Saint Nicholas Day - Christian
8
- Rohatsu (Bodhi Day) ** - Buddhist
- Immaculate Conception of Mary - Catholic Christian
9-16
- Hanukkah * - Judaism
16-25
- Posadas Navidenas - Christian
21 Solstice
- Yule * - Wicca/Pagan northern hemisphere
- Litha * - Wicca/Pagan southern hemisphere
- Yule - Christian
25
- Christmas * - Christian
- Feast of the Nativity ** - Orthodox Christians
26
- Zarathosht Diso (Death of Prophet Zarathushtra ** - Zoroastrian
28
- Holy Innocents - Christian
30
- Feast of the Holy Family - Catholic Christian
31
- Watch Night - Christian

Definitions

NOVEMBER 2012

1
- All Saints Day - Christian
- Samhain - Beltane * - Wicca/Pagan Northern and Southern hemispheres
2
- All Souls Day - Catholic Christian
11
- Jain New Year ** - Jain
11-15
- Deepavali ** - Hindu
12
- Birth of Baha'u'llah * - Bahai
13
- Diwali - Deepavali ** - Hindu - Jain - Sikh
15
- Hijra - New Year * ** - Islam
- Nativity Fast through 12-25 - Orthodox Christian
22
- Thanksgiving USA - Interfaith
21
- Yule - Christian
24
- Ashura * ** - Islam
- Guru Tegh Bahadur Martyrdom - Sikh
25
- Christ the King - Christian
26
- Day of the Covenant * - Baha'i
28
- Ascension of Abdu'l-Baha * - Baha'i
- Guru Nanak Dev Sahib birthday - Sikh
30
- Saint Andrew's Day - Christian

Definitions

OCTOBER 2012

1-7 (1-2 Primary Obligation Days)
- Sukkot * - Judaism
4
- Saint Francis Day - Catholic Christian
8
- Shemini Atzeret * - Judaism
- Thanksgiving - Canada - Interfaith
9
- Simhat Torah *- Judaism
16-23
- Navaratri ** - Hindu
18
- Saint Luke - Apostle and Evangelist - Christian
20
- Birth of the Báb * - Baha'i
- Installation of Scriptures as Gukru Granth - Sikh
24
- Dasera ** - Hindu
25
- Waqf al Arafa - Hajj Day * - Islam
26-29
- Eid al Adha * ** - Islam
28
- Milvian Bridge Day - Christian
- Reformation Day ** - Protestant Christian
31
- All Hallows Eve - Christian

Definitions

SEPTEMBER 2012

1
- Ecclesiastical Year begins - Orthodox Christian
8
- Nativity of Mary - Christian
14
- Elevation of the Life Giving Cross - Holy Cross Day - Christian
17-18
- Rosh HaShanah * - Judaism
19
- Ganesh Chaturthi ** - Hindu
20-29
- Paryushana Parva ** - Jain
22 Equinox
- Mabon * - Wicca/Pagan northern hemisphere
- Ostata * - Wicca/ Pagan southern hemisphere
26
- Yom Kippur * - Judaism
28
- Meskel - Ethiopian Orthodox Christian
29

Michael and All Angels - Christian

Definitions

AUGUST 2012

1
- Fast in Honor of Holy Mother of Jesus - Orthodox Christian
- Lammas - Christian
2
- Raksha Bandhan ** - Hindu
- Lugnassad - Imbolc * - Wicca/Pagan Northern and southern hemispheres
6
- Transfiguration of the Lord - Orthodox Christian
10
- Krishna Janmashtami ** - Hindu
14
- Lailat al Kadr * ** - Islam
15
- Assumption of Virgin Mary - Catholic Christian
- Dormition of the Theotokos - Orthodox Christian
19-21
- Eid al Fitr * ** - Islam

JULY 2012

3
- Asalha Puja Day ** - Buddhist
4
- Lailat at Bara'ah * ** - Islam
9
- Martyrdom of the Bab * - Baha'i
13-16
- Obon ** - Buddhist - Shinto
15
- Saint Vladimir Day - Christian
20
- Ramadan Begins * ** - Islam
23
- Emperor Haile Selassi I birthday - Rastafari
24
- Pioneer Day - Mormon Christian
25
- Saint James the Great Day - Christian

Definitions

JUNE 2012

3
- Trinity Sunday - Christian
7
- Corpus Christi - Catholic Christian
3
- Pentecost - Orthodox Christian
9
- Saint Columba of Iona - Christian
10
- All Saints - Orthodox Christian
16
- Lailat al Miraj * ** - Islam
- Guru Arjan Dev martyrdom - Sikh
15
- Sacred Heart of Jesus - Catholic Christian
19
- New Church Day - Swedenborgian Christian
20 Solstice
- Litha * - Wicca/Pagan northern hemisphere
- Yule * - Wicca/Pagan southern hemisphere
29
- Saints Peter and Paul - Christian

Definitions

MAY 2012

Beltane - Samhain - Wicca/Pagan Northern and Southern hemispheres

2
- Twelfth Day of Ridvan * - Baha'i
3
- National Day of Prayer - Interfaith USA
6
- Visakha Puja - Buddha Day ** - Buddhist
10
- Lag B'Omer * - Jewish
17
- Ascension Day - Christian
23
- Declaration of the Bab * - Baha'i
24
- All Ascension of Jesus - Orthodox Christian
27
- Pentecost - Christian
27-28
- Shavuot * - Jewish
29
- Ascension of Baha'u'llah * - Baha'i

APRIL 2012

1
- Palm Sunday - Christian
- Ramanavami - Hindu
5
- Maundy Thursday - Christian
- Lord's Evening Meal - Jehovah's Witness Christians
6-9
- Theravadin New Year ** - Buddhist
6
- Good Friday - Christian
- Hanuman Jayanti - Hindu
- Mahavir Jayanti ** - Jain
7-14
- Pesach (Passover) * - Judaism
7
- Lazarus Saturday - Orthodox Christian
8
- Easter - Christian
- Palm Sunday - Orthodox Christian
13
- Holy Friday - Orthodox Christian
14
- Baisakhi New Year - Sikh
15
- Easter/Pascha - Orthodox Christian
19
- Yom HaShoah * - Judaism
21
- First Day of Ridvan * - Baha'i
23
- St. George Day - Christian
27
- Yom Ha'Atzmaut * - Jewish
29
- Ninth Day of Ridvan * - Baha'i
30
- Saint James the Great Day - Orthodox Christian
- Lazarus Saturday - Orthodox Christian

Definitions

MARCH 2012

1
- Saint David of Wales - Christian
2 - 20
- Nineteen Day Fast * - Baha'i
4
- Orthodox Sunday - Orthodox Christian
8
- Purim * - Judaism
- Magha Puja Day ** - Buddhist
- Holi ** - Hindu
9
- Hola Mohalla - Sikh
13
- L Ron Hubbard birthday ** - Scientology
17
- St Patrick's Day - Christian
19
- Saint Joseph's Day - Christian
20 Equinox
- Ostara * - Wicca/Pagan northern hemisphere
- Mabon * - Wicca/Pagan southern hemisphere
21
- Naw Ruz (New Year) * - Baha'i
- Norouz (New Year) - Persian/Zoroastrian
23
- New Year ** - Hindu
- Prophet Zarathustra birth - Zoroastrian
23-April 1
- Ramayana ** - Hindu
25
- Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Christian
28
- Khordad Sal (Birth of Prophet Zaranhushtra) ** - Zoroastrian

Definitions

JANUARY 2012

1
- Mary, Mother of God - Catholic Christian
- Feast of St Basil - Orthodox Christian
- Gantan-sai (New Years) - Shinto
- Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus - Orthodox Christian
5
- Twelfth Night - Christian
- Guru Gobindh Singh birthday - Sikh
6
- Epiphany - Christian
- Feast of the Theophany - Orthodox Christian
- Dia de los Reyes - Hispanic Christians
- Nativity of Christ - Armenian Orthodox
7
- Feast of the Nativity ** - Orthodox Christian
8
- Baptism of Jesus - Christian
9-12
- Mahayana New Year ** - Buddhist
13
- Maghi - Sikh
15
- World Religion Day * - Baha'i
17
- Blessing of the Animals - Hispanic Catholic Christian
18-25
- Week of Prayer for Christian Unity - Christian
20
- Timkat - Ethiopian Orthodox Christian
23
- Chinese New Year - Confucian, Daoist, Buddhist
25
- Conversion of Saint Paul - Christian
28
- Vasant Panchami ** - Hindu

Definitions

NOVEMBER 2011

1
- All Saints Day - Christian
- Samhain - Beltane * - Wicca/Pagan Northern and southern hemispheres
2
- All Souls Day - Catholic Christian
4-7
- Hajj * - Islam
5
- Waqf al Arafa - Hajj Day * ** - Islam
6-9
- Eid al Adha * ** - Islam
10
- Guru Nanak Dev Sahib birthday - Sikh
12
- Birth of Baha'u'llah * - Baha'i
15
- Nativity Fast begins through Dec. 24 - Orthodox Christianm
20
- Christ the King - Christian
24
- Thanksgiving - Interfaith
- Gkuru Tegh Bahadur Martyrdom - Sikh
26
- Day of Covenant * - Baha'i
- Hijra - New Year * **- Islam
27
- First Sunday of Advent - Christian
30
- Saint Andrew's Day- Christian

Definitions

OCTOBER 2011

4
- St Francis Day - Catholic Christian
6
- Dussehra - Hindu
8
- Yom Kippur * - Jewish
10
- Thanksgiving - Interfaith - Canada
13-19 (13-14 Primary Obligation Days)
- Sukkot * - Jewish
20
- Birth of the Báb * - Baha'i
- Shemini Atzeret * - Jewish
- Installation of Scriptures as Guru Granth - Sikh
21
- Simchat Torah * - Jewish
22
- New Year - Jain
24-28
- Deepavali ** Hindu
26
- Diwali ** - Jain - Hindu - Sikh
28
- Milvian Bridge Day - Christian
30
- Reformation Day ** - Protestant Christian
31
- All Hallows Eve - Christian

Definitions

SEPTEMBER 2011

1
- Ganesha Chaturthi ** - Hindu
- Ecclesiastical New Year - Orthodox Christian
2-10
- Paryushana Parva - Jain
8
- Nativity of Mary - Christian
14
- Elevation of the Life Giving Cross - Holy Cross Day - Christian
23 Equinox
- Mabon * - Wicca/Pagan northern hemisphere
- Ostara * - Wicca/Pagan southern hemisphere
27
- Meskel - Ethiopian Orthodox Christian
28-Oct 5
- Navaratri ** - Hindu
29-30
- Rosh Hashanah * - Jewish
29
- Michael and All Angels - Christian

Definitions

AUGUST 2011

1
- Lammas - Christian
- Fast in honor of Holy Mother of Lord Jesus - Orthodox Christian
- Ramadan begins * ** - Islam
2
- Lughnassad - Imbolc * - Wicca/Pagan Northern and Southern hemispheres
6
- Transfiguration of the Lord - Orthodox Christian
9
- Tisha B'Av * - Jewish
13
- Raksha Bandhan ** - Hindu
13-15 **
- Obon - Shinto
15
- Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary - Catholic Christian
- Dormition of the Theotokos - Orthodox Christian
22
- Krisha Janmashtami ** - Hindu
26
- Lailat al Kadr * ** - Islam
29
- Beheading of John the Baptist - Christian
31-September 2
- Eid al Fitr * ** - Islam

Definitions

SEPTEMBER 2011

JULY 2011

1
- Sacred Heart of Jesus - Catholic Christian
9
- Martyrdom of the Bab * - Baha'i
11
- Saint Benedict Day - Catholic Christian
13-16
- Ulambana - ** - Japan Buddhist
15
- Lailat al Bara'ah * ** - Islam
- Asalha Puja Day ** - Buddhist
- Saint Vladimir Day - Christian
23

Birthday of Emperor Haili Selassi I - Rastafari

24
- Pioneer Day - Mormon Christian
25
- St. James the Great Day - Christian

Definitions

JUNE 2011

2
- Ascension of Christ - Orthodox Christian
- Ascension of Jesus - Christian
8-9
- Shavuot * - Jewish
9

Saint Columba of Iona - Celtic Christian

12
- Pentecost - Christian
16
- Guru Arjan Dev martyrdom - Sikh
19
- All Saints - OrthodoxChristian
- New Church Day - Swedenborgian Christian
- Trinity Sunday - Christian
21 Solstice
- First Nations Day - Canadian Native People
- Litha * - Wicca/Pagan northern hemisphere
- Yule * - Wicca/Pagan southern hemisphere
23
- Corpus Christi- Catholic Christian
28
- Lailat al Miraj * ** - Islam
29
- Saints Peter and Paul - Christian

Definitions

MAY 2011

1
- Yom HaSho'ah * - Jewish
- Beltane - Samhain * - Wicca/Pagan Northern and Southern hemispheres
2
- Twelfth Day of Ridvan * - Baha'i
5
- National Day of Prayer - Interfaith USA
9
- Yom Ha'Atzmaut * - Jewish
17
- Buddha Day - Visakha Puja ** - Buddhist
22
- Lag B'Omer * - Jewish
23
- Declaration of the Bab * - Baha'i
29
- Ascension of Baha'u'llah * - Baha'i

Definitions

APRIL 2011

4
- New Year ** - Hindu
4-12
- Ramayana - Hindu
5
- Qingming - Chinese traditional
12
- Ramanavami ** - Hindu
14
- Baisakhi - Sikh
16
- Lazarus Saturday - Orthodox Christian
17
- Palm/Passion Sunday - Christian
- Mahavir Jayanti ** - Jain
18-21
- Theravadin New Year ** - Buddhist
18
- Lord's Evening Meal - Jehovah's Witness Christian
- Hanuman Jayanti ** - Hindu
19-26 *
- Pesach (Passover) * - Jewish
21
- First Day of Ridvan * - Baha'i
- Maundy Thursday - Christian
22
- Good (Holy) Friday - All Christians
23
- Black Saturday - Christian
- St. George Day - Christian
24
- Easter - All Christians
29
- Ninth Day of Ridvan * - Baha'i
30
- St. James the Great Day - Orthodox Christian

Definitions

MARCH 2011

1
- Saint David of Wales - Christian
2-20
- Nineteen Day Fast * - Baha'i
3
- Maha Shivaratri - Hindu
6
- Cheesefare Sunday - Orthodox Christian
- Transfiguration Sunday - Christian
7
- Clean Monday - Great Lent begins - Orthodox Christian
8
- Shrove Tuesday - Christian
9
- Ash Wednesday - Lent begins - Christian
13
- Orthodox Sunday - Orthodox Christian
- Birthday of L. Ron Hubbard - Scientology
17
- St Patrick's Day - Christian
19
- Magha Puja Day ** - Buddhist
- Saint Joseph's Day - Christian
20 Equinox

Purim * - Jewish
Ostara * -Wicca/Pagan northern hemisphere
Mabon * -Wicca/Pagan southern hemisphere
Holi ** - Hindu
Hola Mohalla - Sikh

21
- Norouz (New Year) - Persian/Zoroastrian
- Naw Ruz (New Year) * - Baha'i
25
- Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Christian
28
- Khordad Sal (Birth of Prophet Zarathushtra) ** - Zoroastrian

Definitions

FEBRUARY 2011

2
- Candlemas - Christian
- Presentation of Christ in the Temple - Anglican Christian
- Imbolc - Lughnassad * - Wicca/Pagan - northern and southern hemispheres
3
- Setsubun-sai - Shinto
- Chinese New Year - Confucian, Daoist, Buddhist
6
- Four Chaplains Sunday - Interfaith
- Triodion begins - Orthodox Christian
8
- Vasant Panchami ** - Hindu
14
- Saint Valentine's Day - Christian
15
- Nirvana Day ** - Buddhism - Jain
- Mawlid an Nabi * ** - Islam
24
- Saint Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist - Christian
26-March 1
- Intercalary Days * - Baha'i
27
- Meatfare (Last Judgment) Sunday - Orthodox Christian

Definitions

JANUARY 2011

1
- Mary, Mother of God - Catholic Christian
- Feast of St Basil - Orthodox Christian
- Gantan-sai (New Years) - Shinto
5
- Twelfth Night - Christian
- Guru Gobindh Singh birthday - Sikh
6
- Epiphany - Christian
- Feast of the Theophany - Orthodox Christian
- Dia de los Reyes - Hispanic Christian
- Nativity of Christ - Armenian Orthodox Christian
7
- Nativity of Christ - Orthodox Christian
9
- Baptism of the Lord Jesus - Christian
13
- Maghi - Sikh
16
- World Religion Day - Baha'i
17
- Blessing of the Animals - Hispanic Catholic Christian
19
- Timkat - Ethiopian Orthodox Christian
18-25
- Week of Prayer for Christian Unity - Christian
19-21
- Mahayana New Year ** - Buddhist
20
- Tu B'shvat * - Jewish
25
- Conversion of Saint Paul - Christian

Definition

DECEMBER 2010

2-9
- Hanukkah * - Jewish
6
- Saint Nicholas Day - Christian
7
- Hijra - New Year * ** - Islam
8
- Bodhi Day (Rohatsu) ** - Buddhism
- Immaculate Conception of Mary - Catholic Christian
12
- Feast day - Our Lady of Guadalupe - Catholic Christian
16
- Ashura * ** - Islam
16
- Posadas Navidenas through December 25 - Hispanic Christian
21 Solstice
- Yule * - Wicca/Pagan Northern hemisphere
- Litha* - Wicca/Pagan Southern hemisphere
- Yule - Christian
25
- Christmas * - Christian
26
- Feast of the Holy Family - Catholic Christian
- Death of Prophet Zarathushtra ** - Zoroastrian
28
- Holy Innocents - Christian
31
- Watch Night - Christian

Definitions

NOVEMBER 2010

1
- All Saints Day - Christian
- Samhain - Beltane * - Wicca/Pagan Northern and Southern hemispheres
2
- All Souls Day - Catholic Christian
5
- Diwali - Hindu, Jain, Sikh
12
- Birth of Baha'u'llah * - Baha'i
15
- Waqf al Arafa - Hajj * ** - Islam
- Nativity Fast through December 24 - Orthodox Christian
16
- Eid al Adha * ** - Islam
21
- Christ the King - Christian
- Guru Nanak birthday - Sikh
25
- Thanksgiving - Interfaith - USA
26
- Day of Covenant - Baha'i
28
- First Sunday of Advent - Christian
30
- Saint Andrew's Day - Christian

Definitions

OCTOBER 2010

1
- Simchat Torah * - Jewish
4
- St Francis Day - Catholic Chrisian
8-16
- Navaratri ** - Hindu
11
- Thanksgiving - Interfaith - Canada
17
- Dasera ** - Hindu
20
- Birth of the Báb * - Baha'i
28
- Milvian Bridge Day - Christian
31
- All Hallows Eve - Christian
- Reformation Day ** - Protestant Christian
- Note: Samhain and Beltane begin this evening

Definition

SEPTEMBER 2010

1
- Ecclesiastical Year begins - Orthodox Christian
2
- Krishna Janmashtami ** - Hindu
6
- Laylat al Kadr * ** - Islam
8
- Nativity of Mary - Christian
9-10
- Rosh Hashanah * - Jewish
10
- Eid al Fitr * ** - Islam
11
- Ganesa Chaturthi ** - Hindu
12
- Paryushana - Jain
14
- Elevation of the Life Giving Cross - Holy Cross Day - Christian
18
- Yom Kippur * - Jewish
23-29 (23-24 Primary Obligation Days)
- Sukkot * - Jewish
23 Equinox
- Mabon * - Wicca/Pagan Northern Hemisphere
- Ostara * - Wicca/Pagan Southern Hemisphere
29
- Michael and All Angels - Christian
30
- Shemini Atzeret * - Jewish

Definitions

AUGUST 2010

1
- Lammas - Christian
- Lughnassad (Lammas) * - Wicca/Pagan
- Fast in honor of Holy Mother of Lord Jesus - Orthodox Christian
6
- Transfiguration of the Lord - Orthodox Christian
11
- Ramadan begins * ** - Islam
15
- Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary - Catholic Christian
- Dormition of the Theotokos - Orthodox Christian
24
- Raksha Bandhan ** - Hindu
29
- Beheading of John the Baptist - Christian

Definitions

JULY 2010

8
- Lailat al Miraj * **- Islam
9
- Martyrdom of the Bab * - Baha'i
11
- St Benedict Day - Catholic Christian
13-15
- Ulambana (Obon) ** - Buddhist
15
- Saint Vladimir - Christian
20
- Tisha B'Av * - Jewish
24
- Pioneer Day - Mormon Christian
26
- Lailat al Bara'ah * - Islam
- Asalha Puja Day ** - Buddhist

Definitions

JUNE 2010

3
- Corpus Christi- Catholic Christian
9
- Saint Columba of Iona - Celtic Christian
11
- Sacred Heart of Jesus - Catholic Christian
19
- New Church Day - Swedenborgian Christian
21 Solstice
- Litha * - Wicca/Pagan Northern Hemisphere
- Yule * - Wicca/Pagan Southern Hemisphere
- First Nations Day (National Aboriginal Day) - Canadian Native People
29
- Feast Day of Saints Peter and Paul - Christian

Definitions

MAY 2010

1
- Beltane - Samhain * - Wicca Northern and Southern hemispheres
2
- Lag B'Omer * - Jewish
- Twelfth Day of Ridvan * - Baha'i
6
- National Day of Prayer - Interfaith USA
13
- Ascension of Christ - Christian
19-20
- Shavuot * - Jewish
23
- Pentecost - All Christians
- Declaration of the Bab - Baha'i
27
- Buddha Day - Visakha Puja ** - Buddhist
29
- Ascension of Baha'u'llah * - Baha'i
30
- Trinity Sunday - Christian
- All Saints - Orthodox Christian

Definitions

APRIL 2010

1
- Maundy Thursday - Christian
2
- Good (Holy) Friday - All Christians
3
- Holy Saturday - Christian
4
- Easter - All Christians
5-6
- Pesach (Passover) final two days * - Jewish
11
- Yom HaSho'ah * - Jewish
14
- Baisakhi - Sikh
19
- Yom Ha'Atzmaut * - Jewish
21
- First Day of Ridvan * - Baha'i
23
- Saint George's Day - Christian
28-May 1
- Theravadin New Year** - Buddhist
29
- Ninth Day of Ridvan * - Baha'i
30
- St. James the Great Day - Orthodox Christian

Definitions

MARCH 2010

1
- Holi ** - Hindu
16
- Vaisaki - New Year ** - Hindu
17
- St Patrick's Day - Christian
20 Equinox
- Ostara * - Wicca - Northern Hemisphere
- Mabon * - Wicca - Southern Hemisphere
21
- Norouz (New Year) - Persian/Zoroastrian
- Naw Ruz (New Year) * - Baha'i
- Passion Sunday ** - Christian
24
- Ramanavami ** - Hindu
25
- Annunciation of the Virgin Mary - Catholic Christian
27
- Lazarus Saturday - Orthodox Christian
28
- Palm Sunday - Christian/Orthodox Christian
- Khordad Sal (Birth of Prophet Zaranhushtra)** - Zoroastrian
29
- Mahavir Jayanti - Jain
30
- Lord's Evening Meal - Jehovah's Witness Christian
- Hanuman Jayanti ** - Hindu
- Magha Puja Day ** - Buddhist
30-31 *
- Pesach (Passover) First two days * - Jewish

Definitions

FEBRUARY 2010

2
- Candlemas - Christian
- Presentation of Christ in the Temple - Anglican Christian
- Saint Brighid of Kildare - Celtic Christian
- Imbolc - Lughnassad * - Wicca - northern and southern hemispheres
3
- Setsubun Sai - Shinto
7
- Meatfare Sunday - Orthodox Christian
- Four Chaplains Sunday - Interfaith
12
- Maha Shivaratri ** - Hindu
14
- Chinese New Year - Confucian/Daoist/Buddhist
- Cheesefare Sunday - Orthodox Christian
- Saint Valentine's Day - Christian
- Transfiguration Sunday - Christian
15
- Nirvana Day ** - Buddhist
- Great Lent - Clean Monday - Orthodox Christian
16
- Shrove Tuesday - Christian
17
- Ash Wednesday - Lent begins - Christian
21
- Orthodox Sunday - Orthodox Christian
26
- Mawlid an Nabi * ** - Islam
- Intercalary Days through March 1 - Baha'i
28
- Purim * - Jewish

Definitions

JANUARY 2010

1
- Mary, Mother of God - Catholic Christian
- Feast of St Basil - Orthodox Christian
- Gantan-sai (New Years) - Shinto
5
- Twelfth Night - Christian
- Guru Gobindh Singh birthday - Sikh
6
- Epiphany - Christian
- Feast of the Theophany - Orthodox Christian
- Nativity of Christ - Armenian Christian
- Dia de los Reyes (Three Kings Day) - Hispanic Christian
7
- Nativity of Christ - Orthodox Christian
10
- Baptism of the Lord Jesus - Christian
14
- Maghi - Sikh
17
- World Religion Day * - Baha'i
- Blessing of the Animals - Hispanic Christian
18-25
- Week of Prayer for Christian Unity - Christian
19
- Timkat - Ethiopian Orthodox Christian
20
- Vasant Panchami ** - Hindu
24
- Triodion begins - Orthodox Christian
25
- Conversion of St. Paul - Christian
30-February 1
- Mahayana New Year ** - Buddhist
30
- Tu B'shvat * - Jewish

Definitions

NOVEMBER 2009

1
- All Saints Day - Christian
- Samhain * - Wicca Northern hemisphere
- Beltane * - Wicca Southern hemisphere
2
- All Souls Day - Catholic Christian
- Guru Nanak Dev Sahib birthday Sikh
12
- Birth of Baha'u'llah * - Baha'i
15
- Nativity Fast begins (through Dec 24) - Orthodox Christian
22
- Christ the King - Christian
24
- Guru Tegh Bahadur Martyrdom - Sikh
25-28
- Hajj * - Islam
26
- Thanksgiving - Interfaith - USA
- Day of Covenant * - Baha'i
- Waqf al Arafa - Hajj Day * ** - Islam
27
- Eid al Adha * ** - Islam
28
- Ascension of 'Abdu'l-Baha * Baha'i
29
- First Sunday of Advent - Christian
30
- Saint Andrew's Day - Christian

Definitions

OCTOBER 2009

3-9 (3-4 Primary Obligation Days)
- Sukkot * - Jewish
4
- St Francis Day - Catholic Christian
10
- Shemini Atzeret * - Jewish
11
- Simchat Torah * - Jewish
12
- Thanksgiving - Interfaith - Canada
17
- Diwali (Deepavali) ** - Hindu, Jain
20
- Installation of Scriptures as Guru Granth - Sikh
- Birth of the Báb - Baha'i
25
- Reformation Day ** - Protestant Christian
28
- Milvian Bridge Day - Christian
31
- All Hallows Eve - Christian

Definitions

SEPTEMBER 2009

1
- Ecclesiastical Year begins - Orthodox Christian
8
- Nativity of Mary - Christian
14
- Elevation of the Life Giving Cross - Christian
16
- Lailat al Kadr * ** - Islam
19-20
- Rosh Hashanah * - Jewish
19-27
- Navaratri ** - Hindu
20
- Eid al Fitr * ** - Ramadan ends - Islam
22 Equinox
- Mabon * - Wicca Northern Hemisphere
- Ostara * - Wicca Southern Hemisphere
27
- Meskel - Ethiopian/Eritrean Orthodox Christian
28
- Yom Kippur * - Jewish
- Dasera ** - Hindu
29
- Michael and All Angels - Christian

Definitions

AUGUST 2009

1
- Lammas - Christian
- Fast Day in honor of Holy Mother of Jesus - Orthodox Christian
2
- Lughnassad - Wicca Northern hemisphere
- Imbolc* - Wicca Southern hemisphere
5
- Raksha Bandhan ** - Hindu
- Lailat al Bara'ah * - Islam
6
- Transfiguration of the Lord - Orthodox Christian
14
- Krishna Janmashtami ** - Hindu
15
- Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary - Catholic Christian
- Dormition of the Theotokos - Orthodox Christian
17
- Paryushana ** - Jain
22
- Ramadan begins * ** - Islam
23
- Ganesha Chaturthi ** - Hindu
29
- Beheading of John the Baptist - Christian

Definitions

JULY 2009

7
- Asalha Puja Day ** Buddhist
9
- Martyrdom of the Bab * - Baha'i
11
- St Benedict Day - Catholic Christian
13
- Ulambana (Obon) ** Buddhist
15
- Saint Vladimir's Day - Christian
19
- Lailat al Miraj * ** - Islam
23
- Haile Selassi I birthday - Rastafari
24
- Pioneer Day- Mormon Christian
25
- St. James the Great Day - Christian
30
- Tisha B'Av * - Jewish

Definitions

JUNE 2009

7
- Trinity - Christian
- Pentecost - Orthodox Christian
11
- Corpus Christi - Catholic Christian
9
- Saint Columba of Iona - Celtic Christian
14
- All Saints - Orthodox Christian
16
- Guru Arjan Dev Martyrdom - Sikh
19
- Sacred Heart of Jesus - Catholic Christian
- New Church Day - Swedenborgian Christian
21 Solstice
- Litha * - Wicca Northern Hemisphere
- Yule * - Wicca Southern Hemisphere
- First Nations Day - Canadian Native People
24
- Saint John the Baptist Birth - Christian
29
- Saints Peter and Paul - Christian

Definitions

MAY 2009

1
- Beltane * - Wicca Northern hemisphere
- Samhain * - Wicca Southern hemisphere
2
- Twelfth Day of Ridvan * - Baha'i
7
- National Day of Prayer (USA) - Interfaith
9
- Buddha Day - Visakha Puja - Vesak ** - Buddhist
12
- Lag B'Omer * - Jewish
21
- Ascension of Jesus - Christian
23
- Declaration of the Bab * - Baha'i
28
- Ascension of Jesus - Orthodox Christian
29-30
- Shavuot * - Jewish
29
- Ascension of Baha'u'llah * - Baha'i
31
- Pentecost - Christian

Definitions

APRIL 2009

3
- Ramanavami ** - Hindu
5
- Palm Sunday - Christian
7
- Mahavir Jayanti ** - Jain
9-10 * (9-16 in full)
- Pesach (Passover) first two days * - Jewish
9-12
- Theravadin New Year ** - Buddhist
9
- Lord's Evening Meal - Jehovah's Witness Christian
- Maundy Thursday - Christian
- Hanuman Jayanti - Hindu
10
- Good Friday - Christian
11
- Black Saturday - Christian
12
- Easter - Christian
- Palm Sunday - Orthodox Christian
13
- Easter Monday Christian
14
- Baisakhi - Sikh
15-16
- Pesach (Passover) final two days * - Jewish
11
- Lazarus Saturday - Orthodox Christian
17
- Holy Friday - Orthodox Christian
19
- Easter/Pascha - Orthodox Christian
21
- Yom HaSho'ah * - Jewish
- First Day of Ridvan * - Baha'i
23
- Saint George's Day - Christian
29
- Yom Ha'Atzmaut * - Jewish
- Ninth Day of Ridvan * - Baha'i
30
- St. James the Great Day - Orthodox Christian

Definitions

MARCH 2009

1
- Intercalary Days conclude * Baha'i
- Cheesefare Sunday - Orthodox Christian

Saint David of Wales - Christian

2
- Lent begins - Clean Monday - Orthodox Christian
8
- Orthodox Sunday - Orthodox Christian
9
- Mawlid an Nabi * ** - Islam
10
- Purim * - Jewish
11
- Holi ** - Hindu
- Hola Mohala - Sikh
13
- L. Ron Hubbard birthday - Scientology
17
- St Patrick's Day - Christian
21 Equinox
- Ostara * - Wicca - Northern Hemisphere
- Mabon * - Wicca - Southern Hemisphere
- Norouz (New Year) - Persian/Zoroastrian
- Naw Ruz (New Year) - Baha'i
25
- Annunciation of Virgin Mary - Christian
26
- Khordad Sal (Birth of Prophet Zaranhushtra) Zoroastrian
27
- New Year ** - Hindu
29
- Passion Sunday ** - Christian

Definitions

FEBRUARY 2009

1
- Four Chaplains Sunday - Interfaith USA
2
- Candlemas - Christian
- Presentation of Christ in the Temple - Anglican Christian
- Imbolc * - Wicca Northern hemisphere
- Lughnassad * - Wicca Southern hemisphere
3
- Setsubun sai - Shinto
8
- Triodion begins - Orthodox Christian
9
- Tu B'shvat * - Jewish
14
- Saint Valentine's Day - Christian
15
- Nirvana Day ** - Buddhism
21
- Saturday of Souls - Orthodox Christian
22
- Transfiguration Sunday - Christian
- Meatfare Sunday - Orthodox Christian
23
- Maha Shivaratri ** - Hindu
24
- Saint Matthew's Day - Christian
- Shrove Tuesday - Christian
25
- Ash Wednesday - Lent begins - Christian
26
- Intercalary Days begin * Baha'i

Definitions

JANUARY 2009

1
- Mary, Mother of God - Catholic Christian
- Feast of St Basil - Orthodox Christian
- Gantan-sai (New Years) - Shinto
3
- Vasant Panchami ** - Hindu
5
- Twelfth Night - Christian
- Guru Gobindh Singh birthday - Sikh
6
- Epiphany - Christian
- Nativity of Christ - Armenian Christian
- Feast of the Theophany - Orthodox Christian
- Dia de los Reyes - Christian
7
- Nativity of Christ - Orthodox Christian
- Ashura * **- Islam
11
- Mahayana New Year (3 days) ** - Buddhist
- Baptism of Lord Jesus - Christian
13
- Maghi - Sikh
17
- Blessing of the Animals - Hispanic Christian
18
- World Religion Day - Baha'i
- Week of Prayer for Christian Unity begins - Christian
19
- Timkat - Ethiopian Orthodox Christian
25
- Conversion of St. Paul - Christian
26
- Chinese New Year - Confucian/Daoist/Buddhist

Definitions

DECEMBER 2008

6
- Saint Nicholas Day - Christian
6-9
- Hajj * - Islam
7
- Waqf al Arafa - Hajj Day * - Islam
8
- Bodhi Day (Rohatsu) ** - Buddhism
- Immaculate Conception - Catholic Christian
9
- Eid al Adha * - Islam
12
- Feast day - Our Lady of Guadalupe - Catholic Christian
- Advent Fast begins - Orthodox Christian
16-25
- Posadas Navidenas - Christian
21
- Yule - Christian
21 Winter Solstice
- Yule * - Wicca Northern Hemisphere
- Litha * - Wicca Southern Hemisphere
22-29
- Hanukkah * - Jewish
25
- Christmas * - Christian
- Feast of the Nativity ** - Orthodox Christian
26
- Zarathosht Diso (Death of Prophet Zarathushtra) - Zoroastrian
28
- Holy Innocents - Christian
- Feast of the Holy Family - Catholic Christian
29
- Hijra - Muharram (first day of new year) * ** - Islam
31
- Watch Night - Christian
  Definitions

NOVEMBER 2008

1
- All Saints Day - Christian
- Samhain * - Wicca Northern Hemisphere
- Beltane * - Wicca Southern Hemisphere
2
- All Souls Day - Catholic Christian
12
- Birth of Baha'u'llah * - Baha'i
13
- Birthday of Guru Nanak Dev Sahib - Sikh
15
- Nativity Fast begins - Orthodox Christian
23
- Christ the King - Christian
24
- Guru Tegh Bahadur Martydrom - Sikh
26
- Day of Covenant * - Baha'i
27
- Thanksgiving - Interfaith - USA
28
- Ascension of 'Abdu'l-Baha * - Baha'i
30
- First Sunday of Advent - Christian
- St. Andrew's Day - Christian

Definitions

OCTOBER 2008

1
- Eid al Fitr * **- Ramadan ends - Islam
4
- St Francis Day - Catholic Chrisian
9
- Yom Kippur * - Jewish
9
- Dusera ** - Hindu
13
- Thanksgiving - Interfaith - Canada
14-20
- Sukkot * - Jewish
20
- Birth of the B'ab * - Baha'i
- Installation of Scriptures as Guru Granth - Sikh
21
- Shemini Atzeret * - Jewish
22
- Simchat Torah * - Jewish
26
- Reformation Day (observed) - Protestant Christian
28
- Milvian Bridge Day - Christian
- Diwali - Deepavali ** - Hindu - Sikh - Jain
31
- All Hallows Eve - Christian
- Reformation Day - Protestant Christian

Definitions

SEPTEMBER 2008

1
- Church year begins - Orthodox Christian
1
- Ramadan begins * ** - Islam
3
- Ganesha Chaturthi ** - Hindu
8
- Nativity of Mary - Christian
14
- Holy Cross Day - Christian
15
- Moon Cake Festival - Chinese Taoist tradition
22 Autumnal Equinox
- Mabon * - Wicca Northern Hemisphere
- Ostara * - Wicca Southern Hemisphere
26
- Laylat al Kadar * ** - Islam
29
- Michael and All Angels - Christian
30-Oct 1
- Rosh Hashanah * - Jewish
30-Oct 8
- Navaratri ** - Hindu

Definitions

AUGUST 2008

1
- Lammas - Christian
- Fast in honor of Holy Mother of Lord Jesus - Orthodox Christian
2
- Lughnassad * - Wicca Northern Hemisphere
- Imbolc * - Wicca Southern Hemisphere
6
- Transfiguration of Our Lord - Orthodox Christian
10
- Tisha B'Av * - Jewish
15
- Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary - Catholic Christian
- Dormition of the Theotokos - Orthodox Christian
- Lailat al Bara'ah * ** - Islam
16
- Raksha Bandhan ** - Hindu
24
- Krishna Janmashtami ** - Hindu
28
- Paryushana - Jain
29
- Beheading of John the Baptist - Christian

Definitions

JULY 2008

9
- Martyrdom of the Bab * - Baha'i
11
- St. Benedict Day - Catholic Christian
13-16
- Ulambana - Obon ** - Buddhist - Shinto
18
- Asalha Puja Day - Dharma Day ** - Buddhist
- Guru Purnima - Hindu
19
- Mandaen New Years ** - Mandaen
20
- Fast of 17 Tammuz * - Jewish
23
- Birthday of Emperor Hailie Selassi I - Rastafaria
24
- Pioneer Day- Mormon Christian
25
- St. James the Great Day - Christian
31
- Lailat al Miraj * - Islam

Definitions

JUNE 2008

5
- Ascension of Jesus- Orthodox Christian
9
- St. Columba of Iona - Christian
9-10
- Shavuot * - Jewish
15
- Pentecost - Orthodox Christian
16
- Guru Arjan Dev martyrdom - Sikh
19
- New Church Day - Swedenborgian Christian
20 Summer Solstice
- Litha * - Wicca Northern Hemisphere
- Yule * - Wicca Southern Hemisphere
21
- First Nations Day - Canadian Native People
22
- All Saints - Orthodox Christian
29
- Feast Day of Saints Peter and Paul - Christian

MAY 2008

1
- Ascension of Christ - Christian
- Beltane * - Wicca Northern Hemisphere
- Samhain * - Wicca Southern Hemisphere
2
- Yom HaSho'ah * - Jewish
- Twelfth Day of Ridvan * - Baha'i
8
- Yom Ha'Atzmaut * - Jewish
11
- Pentecost - Christian
18
- Trinity Sunday - Christian
20
- Buddha Day - Visakha Puja ** - Buddhist
22
- Corpus Christi - Catholic Christian
23
- Declaration of the Bab * - Baha'i
- Lag B'Omer * - Jewish
29
- Ascension of Baha'u'llah * - Baha'i
30
- Sacred Heart of Jesus - Catholic Christian
Definitions

APRIL 2008

6
- New Year ** - Hindu
8
- Birthday of Buddha ** - Buddhist - Mahayana
14
- Ramanavami ** - Hindu
- Baisakhi - Sikh
18
- Mahavir Jayanti - Jain
19
- Lazarus Saturday - Orthodox Christian
20
- Hanuman Jayanti ** - Hindu
- Palm Sunday - Orthodox Christian
20-23
- Theravadin New Year ** - Buddhist
20-21 *
- Pesach (Passover) first two days * - Jewish
21
- First Day of Ridvan * - Baha'i
23
- St. George's Day - Christian
25
- Holy Friday - Orthodox Christian
26-27
- Pesach (Passover) final two days * - Jewish
27
- Easter/Pascha - Orthodox Christian
29
- Ninth Day of Ridvan * - Baha'i
30
- St. James the Great Day - Orthodox Christian

Definitions

MARCH 2008

1
- Saturday of Souls - Orthodox Christian
- St. David of Wales - Christian
2
- Meatfare Sunday - Orthodox Christian
6
- Maha Shivaratri ** - Hindu
9
- Cheesefare Sunday - Orthodox Christian
- Passion Sunday ** - Christian
10
- Lent begins - Clean Monday- Orthodox Christian
13
- L. Ron Hubbard Birthday - Scientology
16
- Palm/Passion Sunday - Christian
- Orthodox Sunday - Orthodox Christian
17
- St Patrick's Day - Christian
20
- Mawlid an Nabi * - Islam
- Maunday Thursday - Christian
20 Vernal Equinox
- Ostara * - Wicca - Northern Hemisphere
- Mabon * - Wicca - Southern Hemisphere
21
- Good Friday - Christian
- Purim * - Jewish
- Norouz (New Year) - Persian/Zoroastrian
- Naw Ruz (New Year) * - Baha'i
- Magha Puja ** - Buddhist
22
- Holi ** - Hindu
- Hola Mohalla - Sikh
23
- Easter - Christian
25
- Annunciation of the Virgin Mary - Christian
26
- Khordad Sal (Birth of Prophet Zaranhushtra) - Zoroastrian

Definitions

FEBRUARY 2008

1
- Lammas - Christian - Southern hemisphere
2
- Candlemas - Presentation of Christ in the Temple - Christian
- Imbolc * - Wicca- Northern Hemisphere
- Lughanssad * - Wicca- Southern Hemisphere
3
- Four Chaplains Sunday - Interfaith
- Transfiguration Sunday - Christian
- Setsubun Sai - Shinto
5
- Shrove Tuesday - Christian
6
- Ash Wednesday - Lent begins - Christian
7
- Chinese New Year - Confucian/Daoist/Buddhist
11
- Vasant Panchami ** - Hindu
14
- St. Valentine's Day - Christian
15
- Nirvana Day ** - Buddhist
17
- Triodion - Orthodox Christian
26-March 1
- Intercalary Days * - Baha'i

Definitions

JANUARY 2008

1
- Mary, Mother of God - Catholic Christian
- Feast Day of St. Basil - Orthodox Christian
- Gantan-sai (New Years) - Shinto
5
- Twelfth Night - Christian
- Guru Gobindh Singh birthday - Sikh
6
- Epiphany - Christian
- Feast of the Theophany - Orthodox Christian
- Dia de los Reyes (Three Kings Day - Hispanic Christian
7
- Feast of the Nativity - Orthodox Christian
10
- Muharram - (New Year) * - Islam
13
- Baptism of the Lord Jesus - Christian
- Maghi - Sikh
17
- Blessing of the Animals - Hispanic Christian
18-25
- Week of Prayer for Christian Unity - Christian
19
- Ashura * - Islam
20
- World Religion Day - Baha'i
22
- Tu B'shvat * - Jewish
22-25
- Mahayana New Year ** - Buddhist
25
- Conversion of Saint Paul - Christian

Definitions

DECEMBER 2007

2,9,16,23
- Sundays of Advent - Christian
5-12
- Hanukkah * - Jewish
6
- Saint Nicholas Day - Christian
8
- Bodhi Day (Rohatsu) ** - Buddhist
- Immaculate Conception - Catholic Christian
12
- Feast day - Our Lady of Guadalupe - Catholic Christian
16
- Posadas Navidenas begins - Christian
18
- Hajj begins * - Islam
20
- Eid al Adha * - Islam
21
- St. Thomas Day - Christian
22 Winter Solstice
- Yule - Christian
- Yule * - Wicca/Neo Pagan northern hemisphere
- Litha * - Wicca/Neo Pagan southern hemisphere
25
- Christmas * - Christian
- Feast of the Nativity ** - Orthodox Christian
26
- Zarathosht Diso (Death of Prophet Zarathushtra) Zoroastrian
- St Stephen's Day - Christian
28
- Holy Innocents - Christian
30
- Feast of the Holy Family - Catholic Christian
31
- Watch Night - Christian

Definitions

1
- All Saints Day - Christian
- Samhain * - Wicca/Neo Pagan northern hemisphere
- Beltane * - Wicca/Neo Pagan southern hemisphere
2
- All Souls Day - Christian
5
- Dehwa Haina ** - Mandean
9
- Diwali (Deepavali) ** - Hindu, Sikh, Jain
12
- Birth of Baha'u'llah * - Baha'i
15
- Nativity Fast begins - Orthodox Christian
22
- Thanksgiving - Interfaith
24
- Guru Tegh Bahadur martyrdom - Sikh
- Birthday of Guru Nanak Dev Sahib - Sikh
25
- Christ the King Christian
26
- Day of Covenant * - Baha'i
28
- Ascension of 'Abdu'l-Baha * - Baha'i
30
- St. Andrew's Day - Christian

Definitions

OCTOBER 2007

4
- St Francis Day - Catholic Chrisian
- Shemini Atzeret * - Jewish
5
- Simchat Torah * - Jewish
6
- St. Thomas Day - Ortodox Christian
9
- Laylat el Qadr * - Islam
12-20
- Navaratri ** - Hindu
13
- Eid al Fitr (Ramadan ends) ** - Islam
18
- St. Luke's Day - Christian
20
- Birth of the B'ab * - Baha'i
- Installation of Scriptures as Guru Granth - Sikh
21
- Dasera ** - Hindu
28
- Milvian Bridge Day - Christian
31
- All Hallows Eve - Christian
- Reformation Day - Protestant Christian

Definitions

SEPTEMBER 2007

1
- Church year begins - Orthodox Christian
4
- Krishna Janmashtami ** - Hindu
8
- Nativity of Mary - Christian
- Paryushana Parva ** - Jain
13-14
- Rosh Hashanah * - Jewish
13
- Ramadan begins * - Islam
14
- Elevation of the Life Giving Cross/Holy Cross Day - Christian
15
- Ganesa Chaturthi ** - Hindu
23 Fall Equinox
- Mabon * - Wicca/Neo Pagan northern hemisphere
- Ostara * - Wicca/Neo Pagan southern hemisphere
22
- Yom Kippur * - Jewish
27-Oct. 3 (26-27 Primary Obligation days)
- Sukkot * - Jewish
29
- Michael and All Angels - Christian

Definitions

AUGUST 2007

1
- Lammas - Christian northern hemisphere
2
- Lughnassad * - Wicca/Neo Pagan northern hemisphere
- Imbolc * - Wicca/Neo Pagan southern hemisphere
6
- Transfiguration of The Lord - Orthodox Christian
11
- Lailat al Miraj * - Islam
15
- Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary - Catholic Christian
- Dormition of the Theotokos - Orthodox Christian
28
- Lailat al Bara'ah * Islam
- Raksha Bandhan **- Hindu
- Paryushana begins ** - Jain
29
- Beheading of John the Baptist - Christian

Definitions

JULY 2007

9
- Martyrdom of the Bab * - Baha'i
11
- St Benedict Day - Catholic Christian
13
- Obon (Ulambana) ** - Buddhist
15
- St. Vladimir Day - Orthodox Christian
23
- Birthday of Emperor Haile Selassi I -Rastafari
24
- Pioneer Day - Mormon Christian
- Tisha B'Av * - Jewish
25
- St. James the Great Day - Christian

Definitions

JUNE 2007

3
- All Saints Day - Orthodox Christian
- Trinity Sunday - Christian
7
- Corpus Christi- Catholic Christian
9
- St. Columba of Iona - Celtic Christian
15
- Sacred Heart of Jesus - Catholic Christian
16
- Guru Arjan Dev martyrdom - Sikh
21
- First Nations Day - Canadian Native People
- Litha * - Wicca/Neo Pagan northern hemisphere
- Yule * - Wicca/Neo Pagan southern hemisphere
19
- New Church Day - Swedenborgian Christian
24
- Saint John the Baptist - Christian
29
- Feast Day of Saints Peter and Paul - Christian
30
- Guru Purnima ** - Hindu
- Asala Puja Day - Dharma ** - Buddhist

Definitions

MAY 2007

1
- Beltane * - Wicca/Neo Pagan northern hemisphere
- Samhain * - Wicca/Neo Pagan southern hemisphere
2
- Buddha Day - Visakha Puja - Wesak ** - Buddhist
3
- St. Phillip and St. James the Lesser - Christian
6
- Lag B'Omer * - Jewish
17
- Ascension of Christ - Christian
23-24
- Shavuot * - Jewish
23
- Declaration of the Bab * - Baha'i
27
- Pentecost - Christian
- Trinity - Orthodox Christian
29
- Ascension of Baha'u'llah * - Baha'i

Definitions

APRIL 2007

1
- Palm Sunday - Christian
2
- Lord's Evening Meal ** - Jehovahs Witness Christian
- Theravadin Buddhist New Year ** - Buddhist
- Hanuman Jayanti ** - Hindu
3-10 *
- Pesach (Passover)* - Jewish
5
- Maundy Thursday - Christian
6
- Good Friday - Christian
- Holy Friday - Orthodox Christian
8
- Easter - Christian
- Easter/Pascha - Orthodox Christian
11
- Mahavir Jayanti ** - Jain
14
- Baisakhi (Vaisakhi) - Sikh
15
- Yom HaShoah * - Jewish
21
- Ridvan begins * - Baha'i
23
- St George's Day - Christian
30
- St. James the Great Day - Orthodox Christian

Definitions

MARCH 2007

1
- St. David of Wales - Christian
3
- Magha Puja Day ** - Buddhist
4-5
- Purim * - Jewish
4
- Holi ** - Hindu
- Hola Maholla - Sikh
13
- Birthday of L. Ron Hubbard - Scientology
17
- St Patrick's Day - Christian
19
- New Year ** - Hindu
19-27
- Ramayana ** - Hindu
21
- Norouz (New Year) - Persian/Zoroastrian
- Naw Ruz (New Year) * - Baha'i
- Ostara * - Wicca/Neo Pagan northern hemisphere
- Mabon * - Wicca/Neo Pagan southern hemisphere
25
- Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Christian
- Passion Sunday ** - Christian
26
- Khordad Sal (Birth of Prophet Zarathushtra) Zoroastrian
27
- Ramanavami ** - Hindu
31
- Mawlid an Nabi * - Islam
- Lazarus Saturday - Orthodox Christian

Definitions

FEBRUARY 2007

2
- Candlemas - Christian
- Presentation of Christ in the Temple - Anglican Christian
- Imbolc * - Wicca/Neo Pagan northern hemisphere
- Lughnassad * - Wicca/Neo Pagan southern hemisphere
3
- Tu B'shvat * - Jewish
4
- Four Chaplains Sunday - Interfaith
11
- Meatfare - Orthodox Christian
14
- St. Valentines Day - Christian
15
- Nirvana Day ** - Buddhist
16
- Maha Shivaratri ** - Hindu
18
- Transfiguration Sunday - Christian
- Chinese New Year - Confucian/Daoist/Buddhist
- Cheesefare Sunday - Orthodox Christian
19
- Clean Monday (Lent begins) - Orthodox Christian
20
- Shrove Tuesday - Christian
21
- Ash Wednesday (Lent begins) - Christian
25
- Sunday of Orthodoxy - Orthodox Christian
26-March 1
- Intercalary Days * - Baha'i

Definitions

JANUARY 2007

1
- Mary, Mother of God - Catholic Christian
- Feast of St Basil - Orthodox Christian
- Gantan-sai (New Years) - Shinto
3
- Mahayana Buddhist New Year ** - Buddhist
5
- Twelfth Night - Christian
- Guru Gobindh Singh birthday - Sikh
6
- Epiphany - Christian
- Feast of the Theophany - Orthodox Christian
- Dia de los Reyes (Three Kings) - Christian
7
- Feast of the Nativity - Orthodox Christian
- Baptism of the Lord Jesus - Christian
13
- Maghi - Sikh
18-25
- Week of Prayer for Christian Unity - Christian
20
- Muharram - (New Year) * - Islam
21
- World Religion Day - Baha'i
23
- Vasant Panchami ** - Hindu
25
- Conversion of St. Paul - Christian
28
- Triodion begins - Orthodox Christian
29
- Ashura * - Islam

Definitions

FEBRUARY 2007

DECEMBER 2006

3,10,17,24
- Advent - Sundays of... - Christian
6
- St. Nicholas Day - Christian
8
- Bodhi Day (Rohatsu) - Buddhism
- Immaculate Conception of Mary - Catholic Christian
12
- Feast day - Our Lady of Guadalupe - Catholic Christian
16-23
- Hanukkah * - Jewish
16-25
- Posadas Navidenas - Hispanic Christian
21
- Yule - Christian
- St. Thomas Day -Christian
22
- Yule * - Wicca/Neo Pagan northern hemisphere **
- Litha -* Wicca Neo-Pagan southern hemisphere **
24
- Christmas Eve - Christian
25
- Christmas * - Christian
- Feast of the Nativity ** - Orthodox Christian
26
- Zarathosht Diso (Death of Prophet Zarathushtra) Zoroastrian
- St Stephen's Day - Christian
28
- Holy Innocents - Christian
29
- Hajj begins * - Islam
30
- Waqf al Arafa (Hajj Day) - Islam
31
- Watch Night - Christian
- Feast of the Holy Family - Catholic Christian
- Eid al Adha */** - Islam

Definitions

NOVEMBER 2006

1
- All Saints Day - Christian
- Samhain * - Wicca/Neo Pagan northern hemisphere
- Beltane * - Wicca/Neo Pagan southern hemisphere
2
- All Souls Day - Catholic Christian
5
- Birthday of Guru Nanak Dev Sahib - Sikh
12
- Birth of Baha'u'llah * - Baha'i
15
- Nativity Fast begins - ends Dec. 24 - Orthodox Christian
21
- Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Catholic Christian
23
- Thanksgiving - Interfaith
24
- Martyrdom of Guru Tegh Bahdur - Sikh
26
- Christ the King - Christian
- Day of the Covenant * - Baha'i
28
- Ascension of 'Abdu'l-Baha * - Baha'i
30
- St. Andrew's Day - Christian

Definitions

OCTOBER 2006

1
- Navaratri ends ** - Hindu
2
- Dasera ** - Hindu
- Yom Kippur * - Jewish
4
- St Francis Day - Catholic Christian
- Blessing of the Animals - Christian
6
- St. Thomas Day - Orthodox Christian
7-13 (6-7 Primary Obligation Days)
- Sukkot * - Jewish
14
- Shemini Atzeret * - Jewish
15
- Simchat Torah * - Jewish
18
- St. Luke, Apostle & Evangelist - Christian
- Confucius' Birthday ** - Confucian
20
- Birth of the B'ab * - Baha'i
- Laylat el qadr * - Islam
- Jummatul Wida * - Islam
- Installation of Scriptures as Guru Granth - Sikh

21
- Diwali (Deepavali) ** - Hindu, Sikh, Jain
24
- Eid al Fitr */** - Islam
28
- Milvian Bridge Day - Christian
31
- All Hallows Eve - Christian
- Reformation Day - Protestant Christian
- Deep Diwali - Jain

Definitions

SEPTEMBER 2006

1
- Religious year begins - Orthodox Christian
- Pariyushan Parva - Jain
8
- Nativity of Virgin Mary - Christian
9
- Lailat al Bara'ah */** - Islam
11
- New Year (Nayrouz)- Coptic Christian
14
- Elevation of the Life Giving Cross (Holy Cross) - Christian
17
- Feast of Mithra - Zoroastrian
21
- St. Matthew's Day - Christian
23
- Navaratri begins (to October 1) ** - Hindu
- Mabon * - Wicca/Neo Pagan northern hemisphere
- Ostara * - Wicca/Neo Pagan southern hemisphere
23-24
- Rosh Hashana * - Jewish
24
- Ramadan begins (through Oct. 23) * - Islam
29
- St. Michael and All Angels - Christian

Definitions

AUGUST 2006

1
- Lammas - Christian
- Lughnassad * - Wicca/Neo Pagan northern hemisphere
- Imbolc * - Wicca/Neo Pagan southern hemisphere
3
- Tisha B'av * - Jewish
6
- Transfiguration of the Lord - Orthodox Christian
9
- Raksha Bandhan ** - Hindu
15
- Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary - Catholic Christian
- Dormition of the Theotokos - Orthodox Christian
- Sri Krishan Jayanti ** - Hindu
16
- Krishna Janmashtami ** - Hindu
21-29
- Paryushana Prava ** - Jain
22
- Lailat al Miraj * - Islam
27
- Ganesa Chaturthi ** - Hindu
29
- Beheading of St. John the Baptist - Christian

Definitions

JULY 2006

1
- Most Precious Blood of Jesus - Catholic Christian
6
- Dalai Lama Birthday - Buddhist
9
- Martyrdom of the Bab * - Baha'i
11
- St Benedict Day - Catholic Christian
- Guru Purnima ** - Hindu
- Asalha Puja Day ** - Buddhist
13
- Obon (Ulambana) ** - Buddhist/Shinto
15
- St. Vladimir the Great Day - Orthodox Christian
24
- Pioneer Day- Mormon Christian
25
- St. James the Great Day - Christian

Definitions

JUNE 2006

1
- Ascension of Jesus - Orthodox Christian
2
- Shavuot * - Jewish
4
- Pentecost - Christian
9
- St. Columba of Iona - Celtic Christian
11
- Trinity - Christian
- Pentecost - Orthodox Christian
15
- Corpus Christi - Catholic Christian
16
- Guru Arjan martyrdom - Sikh
18
- All Saints - Orthodox Christian
- Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ - Catholic Christian
19
- New Church Day - Swedenborgian Christian
21
- Litha * - Wicca/Neo Pagan northern hemisphere
- Yule * - Wicca/Neo Pagan southern hemisphere
22
- First Nations Day - Canadian Native People
23
- Sacred Heart of Jesus- Catholic Christian
24
- Nativity of Saint John the Baptist - Christian
29
- Feast Day of Saints Peter and Paul - Christian

Definitions

MAY 2006

1
- Beltane * - Wicca/Neo Pagan northern hemisphere
- Samhain * - Wicca/Neo Pagan southern hemisphere
2
- Last day of Ridvan * - Baha'i
3
- Saints Philip & James - Christian
4
- National Day of Prayer - USA - Interfaith
13
- Buddha Day - Visakha Puja ** - Buddhist
16
- Lag B'Omer * - Jewish
23
- Declaration of the Bab * - Baha'i
25
- Ascension of Christ - Christian
29
- Ascension of Baha'u'llah * - Baha'i
31
- Feast of the Visitation - Catholic Christian

Definitions

APRIL 2006

6
- Rama Navami (close of Ramayana) ** - Hindu
9
- Palm Sunday - Christian
11
- Mawlid an Nabi * - Islam
12
- Lord's Evening Meal - Jehovah's Witness Christian
13-20
- Pesach (Passover) * - Jewish
13
- Hanuman Jayanti ** - Hindu
- Baisakhi - Sikh
- Maundy Thursday - Christian
- Therevadin Buddhist New Year - Buddhist

14
- GOOD FRIDAY - Christian
15
- Lazarus Saturday - Orthodox Christian
16
- EASTER - Christian
- Palm Sunday - Orthodox Christian
21
- HOLY FRIDAY - Orthodox Christian
- First Day of Ridvan * - Baha'i
23
- Easter/Pascha - Orthodox Christian
- St. George's Day - Christian
25
- Yom HaSho'ah * - Jewish
30
- St. James the Great Day - Orthodox Christian

Definitions

MARCH 2006

1
- Ash Wednesday - Christian
- Lent begins - ends April 8 ** - Christian
- St. David of Wales - Christian
5
- Cheesefare Sunday - Orthodox Christian
6
- Lent begins (Clean Monday) - Orthodox Christian
12
- Orthodoxy Sunday - Orthodox Christian
14
- Purim * - Jewish
- Magha Puja Day ** - Buddhist
- Holi ** - Hindu
- New Year's Day - Sikh
15
- Hola Mohalla - Sikh
17
- St Patrick's Day - Christian
19
- St. Joseph's Day - Christian
20
- Ostara * - Wicca/Neo Pagan northern hemisphere
- Mabon * - Wicca/Neo Pagan southern hemisphere
21
- Norooz (New Year) - Persian/Zoroastrian
- Naw-RÃƒÂºz (New Year) * - Baha'i
25
- Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary - Christian
26
- Khordad Sal (Birth of Prophet Zaranthushtra) Zoroastrian
30
- Hindi New Year - Vaisakhi ** - Hindu
- Ramayana begins (to April 6) ** -Hindu

Definitions

FEBRUARY 2006

2
- Vasant Panchami ** - Hindu
- Candlemas - Presentation of Christ in the Temple - Christian
- Imbolc * - Wicca/Neo Pagan northern hemisphere
- Lughnassadh * - Wicca/Neo Pagan southern hemisphere
3
- St. Blaze Day - Christian
- Setsebun (beginning of spring) - Shinto
5
- Four Chaplains Sunday - Interfaith
9
- Ashura - Islam
12
- Triodion - Orthodox Christian
13
- Tu B'shvat * - Jewish
- Nirvana Day ** - Buddhist-Mahayana
14
- St. Valentine's Day - Christian
26
- Meat Fare Sunday - Orthodox Christian
- Transfiguration Sunday - Christian
- Maha Shivaratri ** - Hindu
28
- Shrove Tuesday - Christian

Definitions

JANUARY 2006

1
- Mary, Mother of God - Catholic Christian
- Feast Day of St. Basil - Orthodox Christian
- Shogatsu/Gantan-sai (New Years) - Shinto
5
- Twelfth Night - Christian
- Guru Gobindh Singh birthday - Sikh
6
- Epiphany - Christian
- Feast of the Epiphany (Theophany) - Orthodox Christian
- Dia de los Reyes (Three Kings Day) - Christian
7
- Feast of the Nativity - Orthodox Christian Julian Calendar
8
- Baptism of the Lord Jesus - Christian
- Waqf al Arafa - Islam
- Feast of the Holy Family - Catholic Christian
10
- Eid al Adha - Islam
13
- Maghi - Sikh
14
- Mahayana Buddhist New Year - Buddhist
- Makar Sankrati ** - Hindu
15
- World Religion Day * - Baha'i
17
- Blessing of the Animals - Hispanic Catholic Christian
18-25
- Week of Prayer for Christian Unity - Christian
25
- Conversion of St. Paul - Christian
29
- Chinese New Year - Confucian/Daoist/Buddhist
31
- Hijra - New Year - Islam

Definitions

DECEMBER 2005

4,11,18
- Sundays of Advent continue - Christian
6
- St. Nicholas day - Christian
8
- Bodhi Day (Rohatsu) ** - Buddhist
- Immaculate Conception - Catholic Christian
12
- Feast day - Our Lady of Guadalupe - Catholic Christian
16-24
- Los Posadas - Christian
21
- Yule - Christian
- Yule/Winter Solstice * - Wicca/Neo Pagan northern hemisphere
- Litha * - Wicca/NeoPagan southern hemisphere
- St. Thomas Day - Christian
24
- Christmas Eve Day - Christian
25
- Christmas * - Christian
- Feast of the Nativity ** - Orthodox Christian
26-January 2
- Hanukkah * (begins eve of 25th) - Jewish
26
- Zarathosht Diso (Death of Prophet Zarathushtra) Zoroastrian
- St. Stephen's Day - Christian

28
- Holy Innocents - Christian
30
- Feast of the Holy Family - Catholic Christian
31
- Watch Night - Christian

Definitions

NOVEMBER 2005

1
- All Saints Day - Christian
- Diwali (Deepavali) ** - Hindu
2
- All Souls Day - Christian
3 or 4
- Eid al- Fitr - Ramadan ends - Major holy day - Islam
12
- Birth of Baha'u'llah * - Baha'i
15
- Birthday of Guru Nanak Dev Ji - Sikh
15-Dec 24
- Nativity Fast (Winter Lent) - Orthodox Christian
20
- Christ the King - Christian
24
- Thanksgiving - Interfaith USA
- Martyrdom of Guru Tegh Bahadur - Sikh
26
- Day of Covenant * - Baha'i
27
- Advent - First Sunday - Christian
28
- Ascension of Abdul-Baha - Baha'i
30
- St Andrew's Day - Christian

Definitions

OCTOBER 2005

4
- St Francis Day - Catholic Christian
- Ramadan begins ** (continues through November 3) - Islam
- Blessing of the Animals - Christian
- Navaratri begins ** - Hindu
4-5
- Rosh Hashanah * - Jewish
12
- Dasera ** - Hindu
- Navaratri ends ** - Hindu
- Confucius Birthday - Chinese religions
13
- Yom Kippur * - Jewish
18
- St Luke, Apostle & Evangelist - Christian
- Pavarana (Lent Ending Day) - Buddhist
18-24 (18-19 Primary Obligation days)
- Sukkot * - Jewish
20
- Birth of the B'ab * - Baha'i
- Installation of Scriptures as Guru Granth - Sikh
25
- Shemini Atzeret * - Jewish
26
- Simchat Torah * - Jewish
28
- Milvian Bridge Day - Christian
30
- Laylat el Qadr - Islam
31
- All Hallows Eve - Christian
- Reformation Day - Protestant Christian
- Samhain * - Wicca/Neo Pagan

Definitions

SEPTEMBER 2005

1
- Ecclesiastical Year begins - Orthodox Christian
- Lailat al Miraj - Islam
7
- Ganesa Chaturthi ** - Hindu
8
- Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Christian
- Feast of Nativity of the Theotokos - Orthodox Christian
11
- New Year - Coptic Christian
14
- Elevation of the Life Giving Cross - Orthodox Christian
- Holy Cross Day - Christian
17
- Feast of Mithra - Zoroastrian
19
- Lailat al Bara'ah - Islam
21
- St. Matthew Day - Christian
22
- Mabon * - Fall Equinox - Wicca
29
- Michael and All Angels - Christian

Definitions

AUGUST 2005

1
- Lammas - Christian
- Lughnassad (Lammas) * - Wicca/Neo Pagan
- Fast in honor of Holy Mother of Lord Jesus - Orthodox Christian
6
- Transfiguration of the Lord - Orthodox Christian
13
- Obon ** - Shinto
14
- Tisha B'av * - Jewish
15
- Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary - Catholic Christian
- Dormition of the Theotokos - Orthodox Christian
19
- Raksha Bandhan ** - Hindu
20
- Tu B'Av - Jewish
24
- St. Bartholomew Day - Christian
27
- Krishna Janmashtami ** - Hindu
29
- Beheading of St John the Baptist - Christian

Definitions

JULY 2005

6
- Birth of Dalai Lama ** - Buddhist
9
- Martyrdom of the Bab * - Baha'i
11
- St Benedict Day - Catholic Christian
13
- Ulambana (Obon) ** - Buddhist
15
- St. Vladimir the Great Day - Orthodox Christian
24
- Pioneer Day- Mormon Christian
25
- St. James the Great Day - Christian

Definitions

JUNE 2005

3
- Sacred Heart of Jesus - Catholic Christian
4
- Immaculate Heart of Mary - Catholic Christian
9
- Ascension - Orthodox Christian
13-14
- Shavuot * - Jewish
16
- Martyrdom of Guru Arjan Dev Sahib - Sikh
- Ganga Dussehra ** - Hindu
19
- Pentecost - Orthodox Christian
- New Church Day - Swedenborgian Christian
21
- First Nations Day (Aboriginal Day) - Canadian Native People
- Litha * - Wicca/Neo Pagan
23
- Buddha Jayanti ** - Hindu
24
- Nativity of John the Baptist - Christian
26
- All Saints - Orthodox Christian
29
- Feast Day of Saints Peter and Paul - Christian
- St. Peter Day - Catholic Christian

Definitions

MAY 2005

1
- Easter/Pascha Orthodox Christian (Julian calendar)
- Beltane * - Wicca/Neo Pagan
- Rogation Sunday - Christian
2
- Twelfth Day of Ridvan - Baha'i
5
- Ascension of Christ - Christian
- National Day of Prayer USA - Interfaith
6
- Yom Hasho'ah * - Jewish
8
- St. Thomas Day - Orthodox Christian
14
- Matthias the Apostle - Anglican Christian
15
- Pentecost - Christian
22
- Trinity - Christian
23
- Declaration of the Bab * - Baha'i
24
- Buddha Day - Visakha Puja ** - Buddhist
26
- Corpus Christi - Catholic Christian
29
- Ascension of Baha'u'llah * - Baha'i
31
- Feast of the Visitation - Catholic Christian

Definitions

APRIL 2005

4
- Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary - Catholic Christian
9-18
- Ramayana ** - Hindu
14 or 13
- Baisakhi (Vaisakhi) - Sikh
18
- Ramanavami ** - Hindu
21
- Mawlid an Nabi - Islam
21-May 2
- Ridvan * - Baha'i
23
- Lazarus Saturday - Orthodox Christian
- St. George's Day - Christian
24-May 1
- Pesach (Passover) * - Jewish
- Hanuman Jayanti ** - Hindu
24
- Palm Sunday - Orthodox Christian
- Theravadin Buddhist New Year ** Buddhist
29
- Holy Friday - Orthodox Christian
30
- St James the Great Day - Orthodox Christian

Definitions

MARCH 2005

1
- St David of Wales - Christian
6
- Meatfare Sunday - Orthodox Christian
8
- Maha Shivaratri **- Hindu
13
- Cheesefare Sunday - Orthodox Christian
14
- Lent begins (Clean Monday) - Orthodox Christian
17
- St Patrick's Day - Christian
20
- Palm Sunday - Christian
- Orthodox Sunday - Orthodox Christian
21
- Norouz (The New Day) - Persian/Zoroastrian
- Naw-RÃƒÂºz (New Year's Day) - Baha'i
- Ostara * - Wicca/ Neo Pagan
23
- Birth of Mahavira - Jain
24
- Maundy Thursday - Christian
- Lord's Evening Meal - Jehovah's Witness Christian
25
- Purim * - Jewish
- Good Friday - Christian
- Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary - Orthodox Christian
- Magha Puja Day ** - Buddhist
- Holi ** - Hindu
26
- Khordad Sal (Birth of Prophet Zarathushtra) - Zoroastrian
- Holy Saturday - Christian
27
- Easter - Christian (Gregorian Calendar)

Definitions

FEBRUARY 2005

2
- Presentation of Jesus in the Temple - Candlemas - Christian
- St Brighid of Kildare - Celtic Christian
- Imbolc (Candlemas) * - Wicca
3
- St. Blase Day - Catholic Christian
6
- Four Chaplains Sunday - Interfaith
- Transfiguration Sunday - Christian
8
- Nirvana Day ** - Buddhist
- Shrove Tuesday - Christian
9 - March 19
- Lent - Christian
9
- Ash Wednesday - Christian
- Chinese New Year - Confucian/Daoist/Buddhist
10
- Hijra - New Years - Islam
13
- Vasant Panchami ** - Hindu
14
- St Valentine's Day - Christian
15
- Nirvana Day ** - Buddhist
19
- Ashura - Islam
20
- Triodion begins - Orthodox Christian
Definitions

JANUARY 2005

1
- Mary, Mother of God - Catholic Christian
- Feast of St Basil - Orthodox Christian
- Gantan-sai - Ganjitsu (New Years) - Shinto
5
- Twelfth Night - Christian
- Guru Gobindh Singh birthday - Sikh
6
- Epiphany * - Christian
- Feast of the Theophany - Orthodox Christian
7
- Nativity of Christ - Orthodox Christian
9
- Baptism of the Lord Jesus - Christian
13
- Maghi - Sikh
16
- World Religion Day - Baha'i
- Blessing of the the Animals - alternate Christian date
17
- Feast of Mithra - Zoroastrian
18-25
- Week of Prayer for Christian Unity - Christian
19
- Waqf al Arafa - Islam
19-22
- Hajj - Islam
21-24
- Id al Adha - Islam
25
- Mahayana Buddhist New Years (3 days) ** - Buddhist
- Tu B'shvat * - Jewish
- Conversion of St Paul - Christian

Definitions

2004

DECEMBER 2004

5,12,19
- Sundays of Advent continue - Christian
8
- Bodhi Day (Rohatsu) ** - Buddhism
- Immaculate Conception of Virgin Mary - Catholic Christian
8-15
- Hanukkah * - Jewish
12
- Feast day - Our Lady of Guadalupe - Catholic Christian
- Advent Fast begins - Orthodox Christian
16-24
- Posadas NavideÃƒÂ±as - Christian
21
- Yule - Christian
- Yule/Winter Solstice * - Wicca
- St Thomas the Apostle - Christian
24
- Christmas Eve - Christian
25
- Christmas * - Christian
- Feast Day of the Nativity - Orthodox Christian
26
- Zarathosht Diso (Death of Prophet Zarathushtra) - Zoroastrian
- St Stephen's Day - Christian
- Feast of the Holy Family - Catholic Christian
26 - January 1
- Kwanzaa - Interfaith
27
- St John, Apostle & Evangelist - Christian
28
- Holy Innocents - Christian
31
- Watch Night - Christian

Definitions

NOVEMBER 2004

1
- All Saints Day - Christian
2
- All Souls Day - Catholic Christian
10
- Laylat el Qadr - Islam
12
- Birth of Baha'u'llah * - Baha'i
- Quds Day - Islam
- Diwali - Sikh
- Diwali (Deepawali) - Hindu
14
- Eid al Fitr - end of Ramadan - Islam
15
- Nativity Fast (Winter Lent) begins (through Dec 24) - Orthodox Christian
21
- Christ the King - Christian
24
- Guru Tegh Bahadur martyrdom - Sikh
25
- Thanksgiving (USA) - Interfaith
26
- Day of Covenant - Baha'i
- Birthday of Guru Nanak dev Sahib - Sikh
28
- Ascension of Abdul'l-Baha * - Baha'i
28 - December 24
- Advent - Christian (First Sunday)
30
- St Andrew's Day - Christian

Definitions

OCTOBER 2004

Sept 30-Oct 5 (30&1 Primary Obligation Days)
- Sukkot * - Jewish
4
- St Francis Day - Catholic Chrisian
7
- Shemini Atzeret & Simchat Torah* - Jewish
8
- Simchat Torah * - Jewish
14-22
- Navaratra Dashara ** - Hindu
15
- Ramadan begins (through Nov 14) - Islam
18
- St Luke, Apostle & Evangelist - Christian
20
- Birth of the B'ab - Baha'i
- Installation of Scriptures as Guru Granth Sahib - Sikh
22
- Dasera (Dussehra) ** - Hindu
25
- Nirvana Celebration - Jain
28
- Milvian Bridge Day - Christian
31
- All Hallows Eve - Christian
- Samhain * - Wicca
- Reformation Day - Protestant Christian

Definitions

SEPTEMBER 2004

1
- Beginning of the Ecclesiastical Year - Orthodox Christian
6
- Krishna Jayanti (Janmashtami) ** - Hindu
8
- Nativity of Mary - Christian
12
- Lailat al Miraj - Islam
14
- Elevation of the Life Giving Cross - Orthodox Christian
- Holy Cross Day - Christian
16-17
- Rosh Hashanah * - Jewish
18
- Ganesh Chaturthi ** - Hindu
21
- Fall Equinox - Wicca
25
- Yom Kippur * - Jewish
29
- Michael and All Angels - Christian
30
- Lailat al Bara'ah - Islam
- Sukkot begins * - Jewish

Definitions

AUGUST 2004

1
- Lammas - Christian
- Lughnassad (Lammas) * - Wicca/Neo Pagan
- Fast in honor of Holy Mother of Lord Jesus (through Aug 14)- Orthodox Christian
3
- Raksha Bandhan ** - Hindu
6
- Transfiguration of Our Lord - Orthodox Christian
15
- Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary - Catholic Christian
- Dormition of the Theotokos - Orthodox Christian
29
- Beheading of St John the Baptist - Christian

Definitions

JULY 2004

2
- Guru Purnima ** - Hindu
- Asala Puja Day ** - Buddhist
9
- Martyrdom of the Bab * - Baha'i
11
- St Benedict Day - Catholic Christian
13-16
- Ulambana/Obon ** - Buddhist
24
- Pioneer Day- Mormon Christian
25
- St. James the Great Day - Christian
27
- Tisha B'av * - Jewish

Definitions

JUNE 2004

3
- Buddha Jayanti * - Buddhist
6
- Trinity - Christian
- All Saints - Orthodox Christian
9
- Saint Columba of Iona Day - Celtic Christian
10
- Corpus Christi - Catholic Christian
16
- Guru Arjan Dev martyrdom - Sikh
18
- Blessed Heart of Jesus - Catholic Christian
19
- New Church Day - Swedenborgian Christian
21
- First Nations Day - Canadian Native People
- Litha * - Wicca
24
- Nativity of St John the Baptist - Christian
29
- Feast Day of Saints Peter and Paul - Christian

Definitions

MAY 2004

1
- Beltane * - Wicca
2
- Mawlid an Nabi - Islam
- Ridvan ends * - Baha'i
4
- Buddha Day - Visakha Puja ** - Buddhist
9
- Lag B'Omer * - Jewish
20
- Ascension of Christ - Christian/Orthodox Christian
23
- Declaration of the Bab * - Baha'i
26-27
- Shavuot * - Jewish
29
- Ascension of Baha'u'llah * - Baha'i
30
- Pentecost - Christian/Orthodox Christian
Definitions

APRIL 2004

3
- Lazarus Saturday - Orthodox Christian
- Conclusion of Lent - Christian
4
- Palm Sunday - Christian
- Palm Sunday - Orthodox Christian
- Lord's Evening Meal - Jehovah's Witness Christian
6-13
- Pesach (Passover) * - Jewish
8
- Maundy Thursday - Christian
- Hana Matsuri - Japanese Buddhist
9
- Good Friday - Christian
- Holy Friday - Orthodox Christian
11
- Easter - Christian
- Easter/Pascha - Orthodox Christian
12-13
- Pesach (Passover) last two days - Jewish
14 or 13
- Baisakhi (Vaisakhi) * - Sikh
18
- Yom HaSho'ah * - Jewish
21
- Ridvan begins * - Baha'i
23
- Saint George Day - Christian
29
- Ninth Day of Ridvan - Baha'i
30
- St. James the Great Day - Orthodox Christian
- Beltane * - Wicca

Definitions

MARCH 2004

1
- Saint David Day - Christian
2
- Ashura - Islam
3
- Ramanavami ** - Hindu
6
- Holi ** - Hindu
- Magha Puja Day ** - Buddhist
7
- Purim * - Jewish
- Hola Mohalla - Sikh
17
- Saint Patrick's Day - Christian
21
- Norooz (The New Day) - Zoroastrian
- Naw Ruz (New Year) * - Baha'i
- Ostara - Wicca
21-30
- Ramayana ** - Hindu
25
- Annunciation to Mary - Christian
26
- Khordad Sal (Birth of Prophet Zarathushtra) - Zoroastrian

Definitions

FEBRUARY 2004

1
- Four Chaplains Sunday - Interfaith
2
- Presentation of the infant Jesus in the Temple (Candlemas) - Christian
- Imbolc (Candlemas) * - Wicca
- Saint Brighid of Kildare Day - Celtic Christian
2-5
- Id al Adha - Islam
7
- Tu B'shvat * - Jewish
14
- Saint Valentine's Day - Christian
15
- Meat Fare - Orthodox Christian
- Nirvana Day ** - Buddhist
18
- Maha Shivaratri ** - Hindu
22
- Hijra - New Year - Islam
- Transfiguration Sunday - Christian
23
- Lent Begins (Clean Monday) - Orthodox Christian
24
- Shrove Tuesday - Christian
- St Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist - Christian
25
- Ash Wednesday - Christian
25-April 3
- Lent - Christian
29
- Orthodox Sunday - Orthodox Christian

Definitions

JANUARY 2004

1
- Mary, Mother of God - Catholic Christian
- Feast Day of St Basil - Orthodox Christian
- Gantan-sai (New Years) - Shinto
5
- Twelfth Night - Christian
- Guru Gobindh Singh Sahib birthday - Sikh
6
- Epiphany - Christian
6-7
- Christmas Eve and Day - Rastafarian Christian
7
- Nativity of Christ - Orthodox Christian
- Buddhist New Year ** - Buddhist
11
- Baptism of the Lord Jesus - Christian
14
- Maghi - Sikh
18
- World Religion Day - Baha'i
26
- Vasant Panchami ** - Hindu
30 - Feb 2
- Hajj - Islam
31
- Waqf al Arafa - Islam

Definitions

2003

DECEMBER 2003

7,14,21
- Sundays of Advent continue - Christian
8
- Bodhi Day (Rohatsu) - Buddhist
- Advent Fast begins - Orthodox Christian
- Immaculate Conception of Blessed Virgin Mary - Catholic Christian
12
- Feast day - Our Lady of Guadalupe - Catholic Christian
16
- Los Posadas - Christian
20-27
- Hanukkah * - Jewish
21
- Yule - Christian
- Yule/Winter Solstice - Wicca
24
- Christmas Eve - (Noche Buena) - Christian
25
- Christmas (Nativity of Jesus) * - Christian
26
- Death of Prophet Zarathushtra (Zarathosht Diso) (Fasali) - Zoroastrian
- St Stephen Day - Christian
26 - January 1
- Kwanzaa - Interfaith
27
- St John, Apostle & Evangelist - Christian
28
- Holy Innocents - Anglican Christian
- Holy Family - Catholic Christian

Definitions

NOVEMBER 2003

1
- All Saints Day - Christian
2
- All Souls Day - Christian
- Anniversary of Crowning of Haile Selasse - Rastafarian
4
- Ramanavami ** - Hindu
8
- Guru Nanak Dev birthday - Sikh
12
- Birth of Baha'u'llah * - Baha'i
21
- Quds Day * - Islam
22
- Lailat al Kadr * - Islam
23
- Christ the King - Christian
24
- Guru Tegh Bahadur Martyrdom - Sikh
26
- Day of Covenant * - Baha'i
26-28
- Eid al Fitr * - Islam
27
- Thanksgiving (USA) - Interfaith
28
- Ascension of 'Abdu'l-Baha * - Baha'i
30 - December 24
- Advent - Christian (First Sunday)
Definitions

OCTOBER 2003

4
- St Francis Day - Catholic Christian
5
- Dasera ** - Hindu
6
- Yom Kippur * - Jewish
11-17 (11-12 Primary Obligation days)
- Sukkot * - Jewish
12
- Lailat al Bara'ah - Islam
18
- St Luke, Apostle & Evangelist - Christian
18-19
- Shemini Azteret & Simchat Torah * - Jewish
20
- Birth of the B'ab * - Baha'i
- Guru Granth Sahib Installation - Sikh
22
- Spiritual New Year - Eckankar
24
- Lilitu's Night - Pagan Temple Zagduku
25
- Diwali (Deepawali) ** - Hindu
- Nirvana Celebration - Jain
26
- Reformation Sunday - Protestant Christian
- New Year 2530 begins - Jain
27
- Ramadan month begins - Islam
28
- Milvian Bridge Day - Christian
31
- All Hallows Eve - Christian
- Samhain * - Wicca
- Reformation Day - Protestant Christian

Definitions

SEPTEMBER 2003

1
- Beginning of the Ecclesiastical Year - Orthodox Christian
8
- Nativity of Mary - Christian
14
- Elevation of the Life Creating Cross - Orthodox Christian
- Holy Cross Day - Christian
21
- Fall Equinox * - Wicca
24
- Lailat al Miraj - Islam
26 - Oct 5
- Dussehra (Navaratra) ** - Hindu
27-28
- Rosh Hashanah * - Jewish
29
- Michael and All Angels - Christian
Definitions

AUGUST 2003

1
- Lammas - Christian
- Lughnassad (Lammas) * - Wicca/Neo Pagan
- Fast in honor of Holy Mother of Lord Jesus - Orthodox Christian
2
- Krishna Jayanti ** - Hindu
6
- Transfiguration of The Lord ** - Christian
7
- Tisha B'av * - Jewish
12
- Raksha Bandhan ** - Hindu
15
- Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Catholic Christian
- Dormition of the Theotokos - Orthodox Christian
29
- Beheading of St John the Baptist - Christian
31
- Ganesh Chaturthi ** - Hindu
Definitions

JULY 2003

9
- Martyrdom of the Bab * - Baha'i
11
- St Benedict Day - Catholic Christian
13-15
- Festival of Souls (Obon) - Shinto
24
- Pioneer Day- Mormon Christian
25
- St. James the Great Day - Christian
Definitions

JUNE 2003

5
- Ascension of Christ * - Orthodox Christian
6-7
- Shavuot * - Jewish
8
- Pentecost - Christian
15
- Trinity - Christian
- Pentecost * - Orthodox Christian
16
- Guru Arjan Dev martyrdom - Sikh
19
- Corpus Christi - Catholic Christian
- New Church Day - Swedenborgian Christian
21
- First Nations Day - Canadian Native People
- Litha/Summer Solstice - Wicca
22
- All Saints - Orthodox Christian
27
- Blessed Heart of Jesus - Catholic Christian
29
- Feast Day of Saints Peter and Paul - Christian

Definitions

MAY 2003

1-2
- Ridvan concludes - Baha'i
1
- Beltane * - Wicca
3
- St Philip and St James the Less - Catholic Christian
14
- Mawlid an Nabi * - Islam
15
- Buddha Day - Wesak - Visakha Puja ** - Buddhist
20
- Lag B'Omer * - Jewish
23
- Declaration of the Bab * - Baha'i
29
- Ascension of Christ * - Christian
- Ascension of Baha'u'llah * - Baha'i

Definitions

APRIL 2003

8
- Buddha Day ** - Buddhist
11
- Ramanavami ** - Hindu
13
- Baisakhi ** - Sikh
- Palm Sunday - Christian
14
- Ugadi - New Years ** - Hindu
15
- Mahavir Jayanti ** - Jain
16
- Lord's Evening Meal - Jehovah's Witness Christian
17
- Maundy Thursday - Christian
17-24
- Pesach (Passover) * - Jewish
18
- Good Friday - Christian
19
- Lazarus Saturday - Orthodox Christian
20
- Easter - Christian Gregorian calendar
- Palm Sunday - Orthodox Christian
21 - May 2
- Ridvan * - Baha'i
23-24
- Pesach (Passover) last 2 days * - Jewish
23
- St George's Day - Christian
25
- Holy Friday - Orthodox Christian
25
- St Mark, Apostle & Evangelist - Anglican Christian
27
- Easter - Holy Pascha - Orthodox Christian New Julian calendar
29
- Yom HaShoah * - Jewish
30
- St. James the Great Day - Orthodox Christian
Definitions

MARCH 2003

1
- Maha Shivaratri ** - Hindu
2
- Four Chaplains Sunday - Christian/Jewish Interfaith
- Meatfare * - Orthodox Christian
4
- Shrove Tuesday - Christian
5
- Ash Wednesday - Christian
- Hijra (New Year) - Islam
- Ramakrishna Jayanti ** - Hindu
5 - April 12
- Lent - Christian
10
- Lent Begins (Clean Monday) - Orthodox Christian
14
- Ashura - Islam
16
- Orthodox Sunday - Orthodox Christian
17
- St Patrick's Day - Christian
18
- Holi ** - Hindu
- Purim * - Jewish
21
- Ostara * - Wicca/Neo Pagan
- Naw Ruz (New Year) * - Baha'i
- Norooz (The New Day) (Fasali) - Zoroastrian
25
- Annunciation of the Lord to Mary * - Christian
28
- Birth of Prophet Zarathushtra (Khordad Sal) (Fasali) - Zoroastrian
Definitions

FEBRUARY 2003

2
- Presentation of the Infant Jesus in the Temple (Candlemas) * - Christian
- Imbolc (Candlemas) * - Wicca
6
- Vasant Panchami ** - Hindu/Sikh
8
- Nirvana Day ** - Buddhist
12-15
- Id al Adha - Islam
14
- St Valentine's Day - Christian
26 - March 1
- Intercalary Days * - Baha'i
Definitions

JANUARY 2003

1
- Mary, Mother of God - Catholic Christian
- Feast of St Basil - Orthodox Christian
- Gantan-sai (New Years) - Shinto
- Kwanzaa - concluding day - Interfaith
5
- Twelfth Night - Christian
- Guru Gobindh Singh birthday - Sikh
6 - March 4
- Epiphany - Christian
- Theophany - Orthodox Christian New Julian Calendar
7
- Nativity of Christ * - Orthodox Christian Old Julian calendar
12
- Baptism of the Lord Jesus - Christian
14
- Maghi - Sikh
18
- Tu B'Shevat * - Jewish
19
- World Religion Day - Baha'i
- Epiphany - Orthodox Christian
24
- Vivekanada Jayanti ** - Hindu
Definitions

2002

DECEMBER 2002

1, 8, 15, 22
- Sundays of Advent - Christian
1-7
- Hanukkah continues - Jewish
1-6
- Ramadan continues - Islam
2
- Lailat ul Qadr - Islam
6
- Eid ul Fitri ('Id Al-Fitr) - Islam
8
- Bodhi Day (Rohatsu) - Buddhist
- Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Christian
12
- Feast day - Our Lady of Guadalupe - Catholic Christian
- Christmas Fast begins - Orthodox Christian
21
- Yule - Wicca
- Yule - Christian
25
- Christmas - Birth of Jesus * - Christian
26
- Death of prophet Zarathushtra (Zarathosht Diso) (Fasali) - Zoroastrian
- St Stephen's Day - Christian
26 - January 1
- Kwanzaa - Interfaith
28
- The Holy Innocents - Christian
30
- Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, Joseph - Catholic Christian
Definitions

NOVEMBER 2002

1
- All Saints Day - Christian
2
- All Souls Day - Catholic Christian
4
- Diwali (Deepawali) ** - Hindu / Sikh
6
- Ramadan begins (continues through Dec. 6) - Islam
12
- Birth of Baha'u'llah * - Baha'i
24
- Christ the King - Christian
- Guru Tegh Bahadur Martyrdom - Sikh
26
- Day of Covenant * - Baha'i
28
- Thanksgiving Day - Interfaith
- Ascension of Abdu'l-Baha * - Baha'i
29
- Quds Day - Islam
30-Dec 7
- Hanukkah * - Jewish
Definitions

OCTOBER 2002

4
- St Francis Day - Catholic Chrisian
- Lailat al Miraj & Israa'- Islam
6
- World Communion Sunday - Christian
7-15
- Navaratra - Hindu
13
- Nichiren Daishonin Memorial - Buddhist
20
- Birth of the Bab - Baha'i
- Installation of Scriptures as Guru Granth Sahib - Sikh
22
- Spiritual New Year - Eckankar
27
- Reformation Sunday - Protestant Christian
28
- Mulvian Bridge Day - Christian
31
- All Hallows Eve - Christian
- Samhain * - Wicca
Definitions

SEPTEMBER 2002

7-8
- Rosh Hashanah * - Jewish
10
- Ganesh Chaturthi ** - Hindu
14
- Exaltation of the Life-giving Cross - Orthodox Christian
- Holy Cross Day - Anglican Christian
16
- Yom Kippur * - Jewish
21-27 (21-22 Primary Obligation days)
- Sukkot * - Jewish
21
- Mabon * - Wicca
28-29
- Shemini Atzeret & Simchat Torah * - Jewish
29
- St Michael and All Angels - Christian
Definitions

AUGUST 2002

1
- Lammas - Christian
- Lughnassad (Lammas) * - Wicca/Neo Pagan
- Fast in honor of Holy Mother of Lord Jesus - Orthodox Christian
6
- Transfiguration of the Lord - Christian
15
- Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Catholic Christian
- Falling Asleep (Dormition) of the Theotokos - Orthodox Christian
22
- Raksha Bandhan ** - Hindu
30
- Shree Krishna Jayanti (Janmastami) ** - Hindu
Definitions

JULY 2002

9
- Martyrdom of the Bab - Baha'i
11
- St Benedict Day - Catholic Christian
13
- Asala - Buddhist
18
- Tisha B'av * - Jewish
24
- Pioneer Day - Mormon Christian
- Guru Purnima - Hindu
25
- St. James the Great Day - Christian
Definitions

AUGUST 2002

1
- Lammas - Christian
- Lughnassad (Lammas) - Wicca/Neo Pagan
- Fast in honor of Holy Mother of Lord Jesus - Orthodox Christian
6
- Transfiguration of the Lord - Christian
15
- Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Catholic Christian
- Falling Asleep (Dormition) of the Theotokos - Orthodox Christian
22
- Raksha Bandhan ** - Hindu
30
- Shree Krishna Jayanti (Janmastami) ** - Hindu
Definitions

JUNE 2002

7
- Sacred Heart of Jesus - Catholic Christian
13
- Ascension of Jesus - Orthodox Christian
14
- Martyrdom of Guru Arjan - Sikh
21
- First Nations Day - Canadian Native People
- Midsummer - Wicca
23
- Pentecost - Orthodox Christian
24
- Guru Purnima - Hindu
30
- Oharai - Shinto
Definitions

MAY 2002

1
- Beltane - Wicca
3
- Good Friday - Orthodox Christian
5
- Paschal - Easter - Orthodox Christian
9
- Ascension of Jesus- Christian
17-18
- Shavuot * - Jewish
19
- Pentecost - (Whitsunday) - Christian
23
- Declaration of the Bab- Baha'i
24
- Mawlid an-Nabi - Islam
26
- Trinity - Christian
- Buddha Day - Visakha Puja - Wesak - Buddhist
29
- Ascension of Baha'u'llah - Baha'i
30
- Corpus Christi - Catholic Christian
- Thanksgiving for Institution of Communion - Anglican Christian
Definitions

APRIL 2002

3-4
- Pesach (Passover) last 2 days - Jewish
8
- Buddha Day - Buddhist (Japanese observance)
9
- Yom HaShoah * - Jewish
13
- Baisakhi - Sikh and Hindu
21
- Ram Navmi ** - Hindu
21-May 2
- Ridvan- Baha'i
25
- Mahavir Jayanti - Jain
27
- Lazarus Saturday - Orthodox Christian
28-May 5
- Holy Week- Orthodox Christian
30
- St. James the Great Day - Orthodox Christian

MARCH 2002

1
- World Day of Prayer - Christian
2-19
- Nineteen Day Fast - Baha'i
10
- Meatfare Sunday - Greek Orthodox Christian
13
- Maha Shivratri ** - Hindu
14
- Vaisakhi - Sikh
15
- Islamic New Year (Al Hijra) - Islam
16
- Rama Krishna Jayanti ** - Hindu
17
- St Patrick's Day - Christian
18
- Lent Begins - Orthodox Christian
21
- Naw Ruz - Baha'i
- Shubun-sai - Shinto
24-31
- Holy Week - Christian
24
- Palm/Passion Sunday - Christian
- Ashura' - Islam
25
- Annunciation to Mary - Christian
28
- Holi ** - Hindu
28-April 4
- Pesach (Passover) * - Jewish
29
- Good Friday - Christian
31
- Easter - Christian Gregorian

FEBRUARY 2002

2
- Presentation of Jesus in the Temple - Christian
- Imbolc - Wicca
3
- Four Chaplain's Sunday - Christian/Jewish Interfaith
- Setsubun-sai - Shinto
8
- Nirvana Day - Buddhist
12
- Shrove Tuesday - Christian
13
- Ash Wednesday - Christian
- Sri Ramakrishna Jayanti - Hindu
23
- Eid ul Adha - Islam
26
- Purim - Jewish
26-March 1
- Ayyam-i Ha - Baha'i

JANUARY 2002

1
- Mary, Mother of God - Catholic Christian
- Feast of St Basil - Orthodox Christian
- Naming and Circumcision of Jesus -Christian
- Shogatsu (Gantan-sai) - Shinto
5
- Guru Gobind Singh birthday - Sikh
- Twelfth Night - Christian
6
- Epiphany - Christian
6-7
- Christmas eve and day - Orthodox Christian
13
- Baptism of Jesus - Christian
14
- Maghi - Sikh
18-25
- Week of Prayer for Christian Unity- Christian
20
- World Religion Day - Baha'i
24
- Sadeh (Jashan-e Sadeh)- Zoroastrian
28
- Tu B'shevat - Jewish

2001

DECEMBER 2001

2
- First Sunday of Advent - Christian
3
- Nuzulul Qur'an - Islam
8
- Bodhi Day (Rohatsu) - Buddhism
- Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Catholic Christian
9
- Second Sunday of Advent - Christian
10-17
- Hanukkah - Jewish
11
- Lailat ul Qadr - Islam
12
- Feast day - Our Lady of Guadalupe - Catholic Christian
- Christmas Fast begins - Orthodox Christian
14
- Quds Day - Islam
16
- Third Sunday of Advent - Christian
17
- Eid ul Fitr (Ramadan ends) - Islam
21
- Yule - Wicca/Pagan
23
- Fourth Sunday of Advent - Christian
23-January 6
- Yule - Christian
24
- Christmas Eve - Christian
25
- Christmas - Christian
26 - January 1
- Kwanzaa - Interfaith
26
- Gita Jayanti - Hindu
- Holy Innocents - Christian
30
- Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, Joseph - Catholic Christian
Definitions

NOVEMBER 2001

1
- All Saints Day - Christian
- Lailat ul Bara'h (Night of Forgiveness) - Islam
2
- All Souls Day - Christian
12
- Birth of Baha'u'llah - Baha'i
14
- Diwali (Festival of Lights) - Hindu
17-Dec 16
- Ramadan - Islam
22
- Thanksgiving - Interfaith
23
- Birthday of Guru Nanak Dev - Sikh
25
- Christ the King - Christian
26
- Day of the Covenant - Baha'i
28
- Ascension of Abdu'l-Baha- Baha'i
30
- St Andrew's Day - Christian
Definitions

OCTOBER 2001

2
- Pavarana - Buddhist
2-3
- Sukkot (First two days of Tabernacles) - Jewish
2
- Jashan Menhergan - Zoroastrian
4
- St Francis Day - Catholic Christian
7
- World Communion Sunday - Protestant Christian
9-10
- Simchat Torah - Jewish
15
- Lailat al Miraj & Israa' - Islam
17-26
- Navratra Dashara - Hindu
20
- Birth of the B'ab - Baha'i
- Guruship of Guru Granth Sahib - Sikh
28
- Mulvian Bridge Day - Christian
- Kathina Day - Buddhism
31
- Reformation Day - Protestant Christian
- All Hallows Eve - Christian
- Samhain - Wicca/Pagan
Definitions

SEPTEMBER 2001

1
- Ecclesial New Year - Orthodox Christian
3
- Janam Ashtami - Hindu
8
- Slichot - Jewish
- Nativity of the Mother of God - Orthodox Christian
14
- Exaltation of the Life-giving Cross - Orthodox Christian
18-19
- Rosh Hashannah -Jewish
21
- Mabon - Wicca/Pagan
22
- Death of Guru Nanak Dev - Sikh
26-27
- Yom Kippur - Jewish
29
- St Michael and All Angels - Catholic/Protestant Christian
Definitions

AUGUST 2001

1
- Fast in honor of Holy Mother of Lord Jesus - Orthodox Christian
- Lammas - Christian
- Lughnassad (Lammas) - Wicca
4
- Raksha Bandhan - Buddhism
6
- Transfiguration of the Lord - Christian
15
- Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Catholic Christian
- Falling Asleep (Dormition) of The Theotokos - Orthodox Christian
22
- Ganesh Chaturthi- Hindu
29
- Beheading of John the Baptist - Orthodox Christian

Definitions

JULY 2001

8
- Fast of Tammuz - Jewish
5
- Asala - Buddhism
9
- Martyrdom of the Bab - Baha'i
11
- St Benedict Day - Catholic Christian
24
- Pioneer Day - Mormon Christian
25
- St James the Great Day - Christian
29
- Tisha B'Av - Jewish
Definitions

JUNE 2001

3
- Pentecost - Christian/Orthodox Christian
4
- Maulid Nabi (The Birth of the Prophet) - Islam
5
- Birth of Gobindh Singh - Sikh
10
- All Saints - Orthodox Christian
- Trinity Sunday - Christian
14
- Corpus Christi - Catholic Christian
21
- First Nations Day - Canadian Native People
- Mid Summer - Wicca
22
- Sacred Heart of Jesus - Catholic Christian
30
- Oharai - Shinto

Definitions

MAY 2001

7
- Vaisakha Puja/Wesak - Buddha Day - Buddhism
23
- Declaration of the Bab - Baha'i
24
- Ascension - Christian/Orthodox Christian
28-29
- Shavuot - Jewish
29
- Ascension of Baha'u'llah - Baha'i

Definitions

APRIL 2001

2
- Rama Navmi - Hindu
4
- Ashura - Islam
6
- Founding of the Church Annniversary - Mormon Christian
7-15
- Passover (Pesach) - Jewish
8
- Palm Sunday - Christian/Orthodox Christian
- Hanamatsuri - Buddhism
12
- Holy Thursday - Christian/Orthodox Christian
13
- Good Friday - Christian/Orthodox Christian
- Baisakhi (Vaisakhi) - Sikh
14
- Holy Saturday - Christian
15
- Easter - Christian
- Holy Pascha - Orthodox Christian
19
- Yom Ha Shoah - Jewish
21-May 2
- Ridvan - Baha'i
30
- St. James the Great Day - Orthodox Christian
- Beltane - Wicca
Definitions

MARCH 2001

2-19
- Nineteen Day Fast - Baha'i
6
- Eid ul Adha (Eid al-Adha) - Islam
7
- Honen Memorial Day - Buddhism
9
- Purim - Jewish
- Holi - Hindu
17
- St Patrick's Day - Christian
20-23
- Ostara - Wicca/Neo Pagan
21
- Naw Ruz - Baha'i
- Shubun-sai - Shinto
- Nav Ruz - Zoroastrian
25
- Annunciation to Mary - Christian
26
- Al-Hijra/Muharram - Islamic New Year - Islam

Definitions

FEBRUARY 2001

2
- Presentation of Jesus in the Temple (Candlemas)- Christian
- Imbolc (Candlemas) - Wicca
3
- Setsubun-sai - Shinto
4
- Four Chaplains Sunday - Christian/Jewish Interfaith
7
- Parinirvana - Buddhism
8
- Tu B'shevat - Jewish
15
- Nirvana Day - Buddhism
21
- Maha Shivaratri - Hindu
25
- Rama Krishna Jayanti - Hindu
26
- Beginning of Lent - Orthodox Christian
25-March 1
- Ayyam-i Ha - Baha'i
27
- Shrove Tuesday - Christian
28
- Ash Wednesday - Christian
Definitions

JANUARY 2001

1
- Mary, Mother of God - Catholic Christian
- Feast of St Basil - Orthodox Christian
- Shogatsu (Gantan-sai) - Shinto
5
- Guru Gobind Singh's Birthday - Sikh
6
- Epiphany - Christian
- Theophany - Orthodox Christian
7
- Baptism of Jesus - Christian
15
- Vivekananda Jayanti - Hindu
18
- Conversion of St Peter - Christian
- Christmas - Armenian Orthodox Christians in the Holy Land
18-25
- Week of Prayer for Christian Unity - Christian
21
- World Religion Day - Baha'i
25
- Conversion of St Paul - Christian
30
- Jashan Sadeh - Zoroastrian
Definitions

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