2025

FAST DAYS AND LENT PERIODS

Wednesdays and Fridays during the New Year (except those with disentailment, marked with maps)
Epiphany Eve (Sunday, January 5)
The Nativity of St. John the Baptist (Friday, August 29)
Ascension of the Holy Cross (Sunday, September 14)
Lent (Monday, March 3-Saturday, April 19)
Lent of Saints Peter and Paul (Monday, June 16-Saturday, June 28)
Lent of the Assumption (Friday, August 1-Thursday, August 14)
Lent of the Nativity (Friday, November 14-Wednesday, December 24)

NON LITURGICAL DAYS AND DAYS WITH DIFFERENT LITURGIES

Alliturgical days (on which no Mass is celebrated):

Friday before the Baptism of the Lord (January 3);
Wednesdays and Fridays during the week of the Dry Milk of Cheese (February 26 and 28);
Monday and Tuesday, during the first week of Lent (March 3 and 4);
Good and Great Friday (April 18).

The Mass of St. Basil the Great is celebrated 10 times a year: January 1 and 6; March 9, 16, 23 and 30; April 6, 17 and 19; December 24.

The Liturgy of the Offerings of the Most Holy Sacrament is celebrated on the ordinary days of Lent (Monday-Friday), beginning on Wednesday in the first week of Lent, up to and including Holy and Great Wednesday, except on the Feast of the Annunciation.

The Mass of St. John Chrysostom is celebrated on all other days.

DAYS ON WHICH NO MASSES ARE CELEBRATED

– on all Sundays throughout the year;
– on the Feasts of the Emperors (on Ascension Day only the special commemoration of heroes will be celebrated);
– on the ordinary days (Monday-Friday) of Lent (only the Lesser Litany for the Dead will be celebrated);
– on all liturgical days; from Palm Sunday to the Sunday of St. Thomas the Apostle (April 13-27);
– from Christmas to Epiphany (December 25 to January 6).

IMPORTANT DAYS AND DATES

National Culture Day (Wednesday, January 15);
Day of the Unification of the Romanian Principalities, national holiday (Friday, January 24);
Day of Anticommunist Political Prisoners from 1944-1989 in Romania (Sunday, March 9);
Day of the Unification of Bessarabia with Romania – 1918, national holiday (Thursday, March 27);
Christian Women’s Sunday (Sunday, May 4);
Romanian Independence Day – 1877, Anti-Nazi Victory Day – 1945 and Europe Day – 1950 (Friday, May 9);
May 10 – national holiday (Saturday, May 10);
National Day of Remembrance of the martyrs in communist prisons (Wednesday, May 14);
National Family Day (Sunday, May 18);
Parents and Children Sunday (Sunday, June 8);
National Flag Day (Thursday, June 26);
National Anthem Day (Tuesday, July 29);
National Day for the commemoration of the Brâncoveni martyrs and awareness of violence against Christians (Saturday, August 16);
Romanian Migrants Sunday (Sunday, August 17);
Start of the Church Year; Day of Prayer for the Environment (Monday, September 1);
Romanian Village Day (Sunday, September 28);
Day of the Elderly (Wednesday, October 1);
Bible Day (Thursday, November 13);
Consecration of the Altar of the National Cathedral – 2018 (Tuesday, November 25);
Romania’s National Day (Monday, December 1).

ROMANIAN NATIONAL CHURCH HOLIDAYS

Ascension – Heroes’ Day (Thursday, May 29)
St. Andrew the Apostle the First-Called, Patron Saint of Romania (Sunday, November 30)

DAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS ON WHICH NO WORK IS PERFORMED IN ROMANIA

New Year (Wednesday, January 1, and Thursday, January 2);
Baptism of the Lord (Monday, January 6);
Sinaxis of St. John the Baptist (Tuesday, January 7);
Day of the Union of the Romanian Principalities (Friday, January 24);
Holy and Great Friday (Friday, April 18);
First and Second Easter (Sunday, April 20, and Monday, April 21);
International Labor Day (Thursday, May 1);
Children’s Day (Sunday, June 1);
First and Second Day of Pentecost (Sunday, June 8, and Monday, June 9);
Assumption of the Blessed Virgin (Friday, August 15);
St. Andrew the Apostle the First-Called, Patron Saint of Romania (Sunday, November 30);
Romania’s National Day (Monday, December 1);
First and Second Christmas Day (Thursday, December 25 and Friday, December 26).

NO WEDDINGS (IN 2025)

– On all Lenten days and in Lent: on all Wednesdays and Fridays; from the Monday after the Lent of Lent for the Lenten Lent of Lent up to and including the Sunday of St. Thomas the Apostle (February 24-April 27);
– in Lent of Saints Peter and Paul (June 16-28);
– in Lent of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (August 1-14);
– on the Epiphany of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist (August 29);
– the Lent of the Nativity (November 14-December 24);
– on the eve and on the days of the Feast of the Feasts of the Immaculate (February 1-2; May 28-29; June 7-9; August 15; September 13-14);
– from Christmas to Epiphany (December 25-January 6).

NO WEDDINGS (IN 2026)

– On all Lenten days and in Lent: on all Wednesdays and Fridays; from the Monday after the Lent of Lent for the Lenten Season of Lent up to and including the Sunday of St. Thomas the Apostle (February 16-April 19);
– in the Lent of Saints Peter and Paul (June 8-28);
– in Lent of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (July 31-August 14);
– at the Cutting of the Head of St. John the Baptist (August 29);
– Lent of the Nativity (November 15-December 24);
– on the eve of and on the days of the Feast of the Feasts of the Impartes (February 1-2; May 20-21; May 30-June 1; August 15; September 13-14);
– from Christmas to Epiphany (December 25-January 6).