May 2004

1. Sun
2. Mon
3. Tue
4. Wed
5. Thu
6. Fri
7. Sat
14. 1 SaturdaySaturday. Prophet Jeremiah; Ven. Paphnutius of Borovsk; Saint Tamara (Tamar), Queen of Georgia (1212)
15. 2 SundaySunday. 4th Sunday of Pascha Paralytic
16. 3 MondayMonday. St Theodosius, abbot of the Kiev Caves Monastery and founder of cenobitic monasticism in Russia (1074).; Martyrs Timothy the Reader and his wife Maura of Antinoe in Egypt (286); Peter the Wonderworker
17. 4 TuesdayTuesday. Virgin Martyr Pelagia of Tarsus; Our Holy Father Nikephoros the Hesychast (14th c.); Hilary the Wonderworker
18. 5 WednesdayFast day: fish, wine and oil allowedWednesday. Midfeast of Pentecost
19. 6 ThursdayThursday. Righteous Job the Longsuffering; St Job, abbot and wonderworker of Pochaev (1651); Holy Martyr Barbarus the Soldier, with Bacchus, Callimachus and Dionysius (362)
20. 7 FridayFast day: wine and oil allowedFriday. Commemoration of the Apparition of the Sign of the Precious Cross over Jerusalem in 351 AD; Martyr Acacius the Centurion at Byzantium (303); Cyril, Archbishop of Jerusalem
21. 8 SaturdaySaturday. Holy Apostle John the Theologian
22. 9 SundaySunday. 5th Sunday of Pascha Samaritan Woman
23. 10 MondayMonday. Apostle Simon the Zealot
24. 11 TuesdayTuesday. Holy Equals-to-the-Apostles Methodius (885) and Cyril (869), first teachers of the Slavs; Holy Hieromartyr Mocius (288? 295?); Renewal of Constantinople
25. 12 WednesdayFast day: wine and oil allowedWednesday. Leavetaking of Mid-Pentecost
26. 13 ThursdayThursday. Virgin Martyr Glyceria; Holy Martyr Alexander of Rome (298); Sergios the Confessor
27. 14 FridayFast day: wine and oil allowedFriday. Martyr Isidore of Chios; Ven. Isidore, Fool-for-Christ of Rostov; Our Holy Father Serapion the Sindonite (5th c.)
28. 15 SaturdaySaturday. Ven. Pachomius the Great; Slain Crown Prince Dimitry of Moscow; Our Father among the Saints Achillius, Bishop of Larissa (330)
29. 16 SundaySunday. 6th Sunday of Pascha Blind Man
30. 17 MondayMonday. Apostle Andronicus of the Seventy and Junia; Holy Martyr Solochon (298); Theophanes and Nectarios, Builders of the Holy Monastery of Varlaam of Meteora
31. 18 TuesdayTuesday. Martyr Theodotus of Ancyra; Holy Martyrs Peter, Dionysius, Christina, Andrew, Paul, Benedimus, Paulinus, and Heraclius (250); Stephen I, Patriarch of Constantinople
32. 19 WednesdayFast day: fish, wine and oil allowedWednesday. Leavetaking of Pascha / Forefeast of Ascension
33. 20 ThursdayThursday. Ascension of the Lord
34. 21 FridayFast day: wine and oil allowedFriday. SS Constantine and Helen, Equals-to-the-Apostles
35. 22 SaturdaySaturday. Martyr Basiliscus, Bishop of Comana; Righteous Melchizedek, king of Salem.; Commemoration of the Second Ecumenical Council (381).
36. 23 SundaySunday. 7th Sunday of Pascha Holy Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council
37. 24 MondayMonday. Ven. Simeon the Stylite; Ven. Nikita the Stylite; St Vincent of Lerins (445)
38. 25 TuesdayTuesday. 3rd Finding of the Head of St John the Baptist
39. 26 WednesdayFast day: wine and oil allowedWednesday. Apostles Carpus and Alphaeus of the Seventy; Greatmartyr George the New at Sofia; Saint Augustine of Canterbury, evangelizer of England (ca. 605)
40. 27 ThursdayThursday. Hieromartyr Therapon; Trans. Rel. Ven. Nilus of Stolbensk; Holy Martyrs Theodora and Didymus (304)
41. 28 FridayFast day: wine and oil allowedFriday. Leavetaking of Ascension
42. 29 SaturdaySaturday. Memorial Saturday
43. 30 SundaySunday. 8th Sunday of Pascha: Feast of the Holy Trinity Holy Pentecost
44. 31 MondayMonday. Day of the Holy Spirit

Strict fast Fast, with some foods allowed. Open a day to see what is allowed.