HOLY DAYS, Little Workbook

This handy companion volume to ’Holy Days, the Liturgical Year in Practice’, is designed to make it your own: Create a personal reference book to the Orthodox Calendar, or customize it for any given year. With short summaries from the book itself, leaving more room to write - and a special selection of inspirational quotes.

Suited for personal use, or as an educational project for study-group, catechism, or home-school.

Practical Details:

- Based on the traditional Menaion (suitable for Old or New Calendar) - with four spreads per month, noting feasts, fasts & daily commemorations (less than in the main book, leaving more room for local/personal additions).

- Special section for the Paschal cycle (Triodion & Pentecostarion), following the ancient Orthodox Paschalion - laid out as in the main book (one or two spreads per week) but with limited notes (leaving more space to write)

- Table with dates of Pascha/Easter for the entire 21st century - Julian/OC date & civil/NC date.

- Inspirational quotes on most spreads in the calender sections.

- Traditional Year, from Sep-Aug (similar to the academic year) - with additional pages for the preceding weeks (inc. full spreads from 16/29 Aug), and a few pages at the end (for next Sep-Dec).

Room for Local/Personal Additions:

Calendar pages in this Little Workbook are designed to offer more room for local/personal additions (local saints, new canonizations, church and/or personal events etc). Can be used independently, but assumes basic familiarity with the material set forth in the main book - which also offers additional tables, to make customizing even easier: HOLY DAYS, THE LITURGICAL YEAR IN PRACTICE (same page size, 279 pages, ISBN 978-1-917556-00-2). Suggested uses: Keep the main book for general reference (any year) and customize the Little Workbook for the particular year, and/or some particular theme/purpose.

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HOLY DAYS, LITTLE WORKBOOK

-- Table of Contents --

>> the first page offers room for personalization

(p.2) List of Abbreviations

(p.4) Introductory Note

(p.5) How to Use this Workbook

(p.6) Practical Reference:

- How to Customize the Calendar for a Particular Year

- Overview of the Paschal Cycle

- Tables for the 21st Century >>Paschal dates: Julian/OC & civil/NC

- A Simple Calculation in Case of Need >> derive the Paschal date from the year AD

- Fasting and Dispensation

- Honouring the Feasts (notes on weddings and memorials)

(p.19) The Liturgical Calendar

- Menaion (until Feb & pages for Mar-Apr)

- Feasts of the Menaion during the Paschal Cycle

- The Paschal Cycle: Triodion & Pentecostarion

- Continuing the Menaion (from May onwards)

(p.171) Overview of the Year (Menaion: full year, Sep-Aug) >> with some room to write

(p.198) In short: Holy Orthodox Councils & Ranks of the Holy Angels

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