Easter in 2025 will be celebrated on April 20, and this holiday is celebrated together by Catholics and Protestants. Here is a detailed list of the main church holidays, fasts and memorial days for 2025, which allows believers to better navigate the religious events of the year.
Fixed holidays:
– January 6 – Epiphany or Baptism of the Lord
- February 2 - the meeting of the Lord
– March 25 – Annunciation of the Holy Mother of God
– August 6 – Transfiguration of the Lord
– August 15 – Assumption of the Virgin Mary
- September 8 - Nativity of the Virgin Mary
– September 14 – Exaltation of the Lord's Cross
– November 21 – Introduction to the Church of the Holy Mother of God
- December 25 - Christmas
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This year, Catholics, Orthodox and Protestants will celebrate the Bright Resurrection of Christ together - on April 20 .
Transitional holidays
April 13 - The Lord's Entry into Jerusalem, or as the people say, Palm Sunday. This is the last Sunday before Easter, when Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey and was welcomed by the townspeople.
May 29 - Ascension of the Lord. This is a reference to how Jesus Christ ascended to heaven on the 40th day after his resurrection.
June 8 - the Day of the Holy Trinity, the Day of the Outpouring of the Holy Spirit, Pentecost or Green Holidays. It is celebrated on the 50th day after Easter and reminds of how God appeared to people only once in all three of his hypostases.
Lent and omnivorous weeks
One-day fasts:
– January 5 – Epiphany Eve
– August 29 – Beheading of Ivan the Forerunner
- September 14 - Exaltation of the Holy Cross
Multi-day posts:
- March 3 - April 19 - Great Lent
- June 16 - July 11 - Peter's fast
- August 1 - 14 - Assumption fast
- November 15 - December 24 - Christmas fast
Omnivorous weeks:
- December 25 - January 4 - Holidays
- February 10 - 16 - Publican and Pharisee Week
– February 24 – March 2 – Shrove Tuesday (Cheese Week)
- April 20 - 26 - Easter (Bright Week)
– June 9-15 – Trinity Week
Memorial Father's Days:
– February 22 – Universal Father's Saturday (meat-free)
- March 15 - Saturday of the second week of Great Lent
- March 22 - Saturday of the third week of Great Lent
- March 29 - Saturday of the fourth week of Great Lent
– April 29 – Radonytsia
– May 9 – Commemoration of dead soldiers
- June 7 - Trinity Father's Saturday
– November 1 – Dmitriv Father's Saturday
