May 2016

1. Sun
2. Mon
3. Tue
4. Wed
5. Thu
6. Fri
7. Sat
8. 1 SundaySunday. Holy Pascha The Resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
9. 2 MondayMonday. Bright Monday
10. 3 TuesdayTuesday. Bright Tuesday
11. 4 WednesdayWednesday. Bright Wednesday
12. 5 ThursdayThursday. Bright Thursday
13. 6 FridayFriday. Bright Friday The Life-Giving Spring of the Most-holy Theotokos
14. 7 SaturdaySaturday. Bright Saturday
15. 8 SundaySunday. Antipascha: 2nd Sunday of Pascha St Thomas Sunday
16. 9 MondayMonday. Prophet Isaiah; Trans. Rel. St Nicholas the Wonderworker; Holy Martyr Christopher (3rd c.)
17. 10 TuesdayTuesday. Day of Rejoicing (Radonitsa); Apostle Simon the Zealot Day of Rejoicing (Radonitsa)
18. 11 WednesdayFast day: wine and oil allowedWednesday. Holy Equals-to-the-Apostles Methodius (885) and Cyril (869), first teachers of the Slavs; Holy Hieromartyr Mocius (288? 295?); Renewal of Constantinople
19. 12 ThursdayThursday. St Epiphanius, Bishop of Cyprus; Removal of the Sacred Relics of Saint Joachim "Papoulakis" of Vatopaidi; Theodorus the Righteous of Cythera
20. 13 FridayFast day: wine and oil allowedFriday. Virgin Martyr Glyceria; Holy Martyr Alexander of Rome (298); Sergios the Confessor
21. 14 SaturdaySaturday. Martyr Isidore of Chios; Ven. Isidore, Fool-for-Christ of Rostov; Our Holy Father Serapion the Sindonite (5th c.)
22. 15 SundaySunday. 3rd Sunday of Pascha Myrrhbearing Women
23. 16 MondayMonday. Ven. Theodore the Sanctified; Trans. Rel. Ephraim, Abbot of Perekop; St Nicholas Mystikos, Patriarch of Constantinople (930)
24. 17 TuesdayTuesday. Apostle Andronicus of the Seventy and Junia; Holy Martyr Solochon (298); Theophanes and Nectarios, Builders of the Holy Monastery of Varlaam of Meteora
25. 18 WednesdayFast day: wine and oil allowedWednesday. Martyr Theodotus of Ancyra; Holy Martyrs Peter, Dionysius, Christina, Andrew, Paul, Benedimus, Paulinus, and Heraclius (250); Stephen I, Patriarch of Constantinople
26. 19 ThursdayThursday. Rt. Blv. Dimitry Donskoy; Hieromartyr Patrick, Bishop of Prusa; Theotima & Kyriake the Martyrs
27. 20 FridayFast day: wine and oil allowedFriday. Martyr Thalelaeus of Cilicia; Unc. Rel. St Aleksy, Metropolitan of Kiev; Mark the Hermit
28. 21 SaturdaySaturday. SS Constantine and Helen, Equals-to-the-Apostles
29. 22 SundaySunday. 4th Sunday of Pascha Paralytic
30. 23 MondayMonday. St Michael the Confessor; Unc. Rel. St Leonty, Bishop of Rostov; Holy Martyr Michael of St Sabbas' Monastery(9th c.)
31. 24 TuesdayTuesday. Ven. Simeon the Stylite; Ven. Nikita the Stylite; St Vincent of Lerins (445)
32. 25 WednesdayFast day: fish, wine and oil allowedWednesday. Midfeast of Pentecost; 3rd Finding of the Head of St John the Baptist Midfeast of Pentecost
33. 26 ThursdayThursday. Apostles Carpus and Alphaeus of the Seventy; Greatmartyr George the New at Sofia; Saint Augustine of Canterbury, evangelizer of England (ca. 605)
34. 27 FridayFast day: wine and oil allowedFriday. Hieromartyr Therapon; Trans. Rel. Ven. Nilus of Stolbensk; Holy Martyrs Theodora and Didymus (304)
35. 28 SaturdaySaturday. St Nicetas, Bishop of Chalcedon; St Ignaty, Bishop of Rostov; Hieromartyr Eutychius, Bishop of Melitene
36. 29 SundaySunday. 5th Sunday of Pascha Samaritan Woman
37. 30 MondayMonday. Ven. Isaac, Founder of Dalmatian Monastery; St Macrina, grandmother of St Basil the Great (4th c.); Barlaam the Monk of Caesarea
38. 31 TuesdayTuesday. 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.