About Calendar

Consolidating information from liturgical calendars published by St. Herman’s Press, St. John of Kronstadt Press and the Publishing Department of the Moscow Patriarchate, Holy Trinity’s website calendar features an exhaustive catalog of saints highlighting those listed in the official calendar of the Moscow Patriarchate. The website, in both English and Russian, follows the Julian calendar and shows the corresponding dates of the Gregorian calendar for easy reference.

The calendar lists all the dates of Pascha, major feasts, fast periods, fast-free weeks and other minor feasts for every year up through 2037. Unlike other web-based liturgical calendars, Holy Trinity’s has the ability to list the daily Scriptural readings for any year through 2037 in both English and Russian. Likewise, the calendar webpage provides troparions and kontakions, in English and Church Slavonic, for each day’s saints.

Presently the calendar has a very convenient interface. Visitors can find their desired information with the least amount of clicks of the mouse. Also, a convenient search tool was created to search for names of saints – the largest listing of names in the Orthodox internet. Both Russian and English listings are available.

In hopes of expanding accessibility to the Julian liturgical calendar, Holy Trinity’s webmaster has developed a program that enables other parishes to add the liturgical calendar to their websites. A link on the Orthodox calendar page guides webmasters to a separate page containing instructions and code needed to install the calendar on their respective websites.