Feasts of the Liturgical Year
The Liturgical Year at a Glance
We trace our journey through each year by telling God’s Story with particular dates and feasts. In addition to our worship together on Sundays, we want to see all our weeks, months, and years filled-out and colored with the pattern of the Gospel. You can place these “feasts” into two categories: Larger Seasonal Feasts which we observe corporately as a parish, and Smaller Seasonal Feasts which we observe in smaller groups —as friends, families, or community groups.
Below is more information on the calendar at All Saints…
Larger Seasonal Feasts at All Saints
Some of these feasts we observe as an entire church body. A few of these, you’re probably already familiar with (e.g. Christmas and Easter), but others may be new to you. In these “big” events we tell the story of the Gospel as we move through our year.
Christmastide: Dec. 24th - Dec. 26th
[Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, & St. Stephen’s Day]
Epiphany: Jan. 6th
Candlemas: Feb. 2nd
Shrovetide: Moveable Date
[Fat Tuesday & Ash Wednesday]
Annunciation: Mar. 25th
Holy Week: Moveable Date
[Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, & Easter Sunday]
Pentecost Sunday: Moveable Date
Trinity Sunday: Moveable Date
Nativity of St. John the Baptist: June 24th
Feast of St. Mary Magdalene: July 22nd
Feast of Mary, Mother of Our Lord: Aug. 15th
Michaelmas: Sept. 29th
Allhallowtide: Oct. 31st thru Nov. 2nd
Feast of the Holy Sovereigns: Nov. 28th
Smaller Seasonal Feasts at All Saints
In addition to the Larger, church-wide feasts we also observe other festivals of the Christian year in which we see the Gospel put on display in the life of His People. These are often observed around a meal in homes in smaller community gatherings (often in our Priories).
For instance, St. Nicholas’ Day might be a special gathering for members of our community in Kailua, St. Anne’s Day might carry special weight for those of us in Liliha and Alewa, or some of us might find that Taco Tuesday just happened to land one week on the Feast of the Holy Cross and make an event of it. In all of this we rejoice to find the Victory of Jesus evidenced in the lives of his people in history and pray to see such witness in our own lives and in our own times.