Great Festivals
These Festivals may occur on different dates in each year and fall principally on a designated day of the week; and they relate to, and are determined by, the seasons of Christmas and Easter.
- The Four Sundays in Advent
- Christmas Day (25 December)
- The First Sunday after Christmas
- The Second Sunday after Christmas (in some years)
- The Epiphany (6 January)
- The First Sunday of the Year: The Baptism of Christ
- The Second, Third and Fourth Sundays of the Year
According to the date of Easter the Fifth to Ninth Sundays of the Year may occur before Lent
- The Five Sundays in Lent
- Palm Sunday: The Sunday of the Passion
- Easter Day
- The Five Sundays after Easter
- Ascension Day
- The Sixth Sunday after Easter
- The Day of Pentecost
- Trinity Sunday: The Sunday after Pentecost
- Corpus Christi: The Commemoration of the Holy Communion (the Thursday after Trinity Sunday)
- The Sundays of the Year which follow Pentecost (These vary in number according to the date of Easter)
- All Saints 1 November
- The Thirty Fourth Sunday of the Year: Christ the King
Read more about this topic: Calendar Of Saints (Anglican Church Of Southern Africa)
Famous quotes containing the word festivals:
“This is certainly not the place for a discourse about what festivals are for. Discussions on this theme were plentiful during that phase of preparation and on the whole were fruitless. My experience is that discussion is fruitless. What sets forth and demonstrates is the sight of events in action, is living through these events and understanding them.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)
“Why wont they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, cant they use birth control on time? I want an interregnum. The stupid years patter on with unrelenting feet, never stopping—rising to little monotonous peaks in our imaginations at festivals like New Year’s and Easter and Christmas—But, goodness, why need they do it?”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)