2024

FAST DAYS AND FASTS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR

– Wednesdays and Fridays of the year (except those with dis-fellowship, marked with maps)
– Epiphany Eve (Friday 5 January)
– The Cutting of the Head of St John the Baptist (Thursday 29 August)
– Ascension of the Holy Cross (Saturday 14 September)
– Lent (Monday 18 March – Saturday 4 May)
– Lent of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul (Monday 24 June – Friday 28 June)
– Lent of the Assumption of the Mother of God (Wednesday 31 July-Wednesday 14 August)
– Lent of the Nativity (Friday 15 November-Tuesday 24 December)

ALITURGICAL DAYS AND DAYS WITH VARIOUS LITURGIES

Aliturgical days (when no Mass is celebrated):
– Wednesdays and Fridays during the week of the Cheese Drying (March 13 and 15);
– Monday and Tuesday during the first week of Lent (18 and 19 March);
– on Good and Good Friday (3 May).
The Mass of St Basil the Great is celebrated 10 times a year: 1 and 5 January; 24 and 31 March; 7, 14 and 21 April; 2 and 4 May; 24 December.
The Liturgy of the Previously Sacred Gifts is celebrated on alternate days of Lent (Monday-Friday), from Wednesday in the first week of Lent to and including Holy and Great Wednesday, with the exception of the Feast of the Annunciation.
The Mass of St John Chrysostom is celebrated on all other days.

DAYS ON WHICH NO MEMORIALS ARE CELEBRATED

– on all Sundays throughout the year;
– on the Feast of the Emperor (only the special commemoration of heroes is celebrated on Ascension Day);
– on the ordinary days (Monday-Friday) of Lent (only the small Litany for the dead is celebrated);
– on aliturgical days; from Palm Sunday to St Thomas Sunday (28 April-12 May);
– from Christmas to Epiphany (25 December to 6 January).

IMPORTANT DAYS AND DATES

– National Culture Day (Monday 15 January);
– Day of the Union of the Romanian Principalities, national holiday (Wednesday, 24 January);
– Day of Anti-Communist Political Prisoners 1944-1989 in Romania (Saturday, 9 March);
– Day of the Union of Bessarabia with Romania – 1918, national holiday (Wednesday, 27 March);
– Romanian Independence Day – 1877, Anti-Nazi Victory Day – 1945 and Europe Day – 1950 (Thursday, 9 May);
– 10 May – national holiday (Friday 10 May);
– National Family Day (Sunday 12 May);
– National Day of Honouring the Martyrs of the Communist Dungeons (Tuesday 14 May);
– Christian Women’s Sunday (Sunday 19 May);
– Parents’ and Children’s Sunday (Sunday 2 June);
– National Flag Day (Wednesday 26 June);
– Romania’s National Anthem Day (Monday 29 July);
– National Day of Remembrance of the Brabant Martyrs and of Awareness of Violence against Christians (Friday 16 August);
– Romanian Migrants Sunday (Sunday 18 August);
– Beginning of the Church Year, Day of Prayer for the Environment (Sunday 1 September);
– Romanian Village Day (Sunday, 29 September);
– Bible Day (Wednesday 13 November);
– The consecration of the Altar of the National Cathedral – 2018 (Monday, 25 November);
– Romania’s National Day (Sunday, 1 December).

NATIONAL CHURCH HOLIDAYS

– Ascension Day – Heroes’ Day (Thursday, 13 June)
– St. Andrew the First Called, Patron Saint of Romania (Saturday, 30 November)

DAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS WHEN NO WORK IS DONE IN ROMANIA

– New Year’s Day (Monday 1 and Tuesday 2 January);
– the Baptism of the Lord (Saturday 6 January);
– The Sobor of the Holy Prophet John the Baptist (Sunday, 7 January);
– Day of the Union of the Romanian Principalities (Wednesday, 24 January);
– International Labour Day (Wednesday 1 May);
– Good and Great Friday (Friday 3 May);
– The first and second days of Easter (Sunday 5 and Monday 6 May);
– Children’s Day (Saturday 1 June);
– The first and second day of Pentecost (Sunday 23 and Monday 24 June);
– The Assumption of the Virgin Mary (Thursday 15 August);
– Saint Andrew the First Called, Patron Saint of Romania (Saturday 30 November);
– Romania’s National Day (Sunday, 1 December);
– The first and second days of Christmas (Wednesday 25 and Thursday 26 December).

NO WEDDINGS (IN 2024)

– on all fast days and on the fasting days of the year:
– On all Wednesdays and Fridays;
– from the Monday after Lent for Lent to and including St Thomas Sunday (11 March to 12 May);
– Lent of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul (24-28 June);
– Lent of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary (31 July-14 August);
– at the Beheading of St John the Baptist (29 August);
– Lent (15 November-24 December);
– on the eve of and on the days of the Feast of the Kings (1-2 February; 12-13 June; 22-24 June; 15 August; 13-14 September);
– from Christmas to Epiphany (25 December-6 January).

NO WEDDINGS (IN 2025)

– on all fasting days and on the fasting days of the year: on all Wednesdays and Fridays;
– from the Monday after the Lent of the Dry Season for Lent up to and including St. Thomas Sunday (24 February-27 April);
– Lent of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul (16-28 June);
– Lent of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary (1-14 August);
– at the Beheading of St John the Baptist (29 August);
– Lent (14 November-24 December);
– on the eve of and on the days of the Feast of the Holy Kings (1-2 February; 28-29 May; 7-9 June; 15 August; 13-14 September);
– from Christmas to Epiphany (25 December to 6 January).

 

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