May 2010

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. 5th Sunday of Pascha Samaritan Woman
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: wine and oil allowedWednesday. Leavetaking of Mid-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. 6th Sunday of Pascha Blind Man
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: fish, wine and oil allowedWednesday. Leavetaking of Pascha / Forefeast of Ascension
26. 13 ThursdayThursday. Ascension of the Lord
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. 7th Sunday of Pascha Holy Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council
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: wine and oil allowedWednesday. Rt. Blv. Dimitry Donskoy; Hieromartyr Patrick, Bishop of Prusa; Theotima & Kyriake the Martyrs
33. 20 ThursdayThursday. Martyr Thalelaeus of Cilicia; Unc. Rel. St Aleksy, Metropolitan of Kiev; Mark the Hermit
34. 21 FridayFast day: wine and oil allowedFriday. Leavetaking of Ascension; SS Constantine and Helen, Equals-to-the-Apostles Leavetaking of Ascension
35. 22 SaturdaySaturday. Memorial Saturday
36. 23 SundaySunday. 8th Sunday of Pascha: Feast of the Holy Trinity Holy Pentecost
37. 24 MondayMonday. Day of the Holy Spirit
38. 25 TuesdayTuesday. Third Day of the Trinity; 3rd Finding of the Head of St John the Baptist Third Day of the Trinity
39. 26 WednesdayWednesday. 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 FridayFriday. St Nicetas, Bishop of Chalcedon; St Ignaty, Bishop of Rostov; Hieromartyr Eutychius, Bishop of Melitene
42. 29 SaturdaySaturday. Leavetaking of Pentecost
43. 30 SundaySunday. Sunday of All Saints All Saints
44. 31 MondayApostles Fast: fish, wine and oil allowedMonday. Apostle Hermes of the Seventy; Hermias the Martyr at Comana; Eustathios, Patriarch of Constantinople

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