New Year’s Day
January 1st, 2025
- Pray “For the New Year” (Every Moment Holy Vol. III p. 359)
Calendar
Feast of the Circumcision
Octave, Eighth Day of Christmas
January 1st, 2025
- Read Malcolm Guite’s poem “New Year’s Day: Church bells” (Sounding the Seasons p. 18)
Ninth Day of Christmas
January 2nd, 2025
Tenth Day of Christmas
January 3rd, 2025
Eleventh Day of Christmas
January 4th, 2025
Twelfth Night
Twelfth Day of Christmas, Epiphany Eve
January 5th, 2025
Epiphany
Three Kings’s Day
January 6th, 2025
- King Cake
- Read Malcolm Guite’s poem “The magi” (Sounding the Seasons p. 19)
King Cake recipe in Hallelujah
Plough Monday
January 6th, 2025
- Start School Term 2
Theophany
Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, Plough Sunday
January 12th, 2025
- Read Malcolm Guite’s poem “The baptism of Christ” (Sounding the Seasons p. 20)
Birthday of Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day, MLK Day
January 15th, 2025
Candlemas
Feast of the Presentation of Jesus Christ, Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Feast of the Holy Encounter
February 2nd, 2025
- Watch Groundhog Day
- Read Malcolm Guite’s poem “Candlemas” (Sounding the Seasons p. 25)
Septuagesima
February 16th, 2025
Washington’s Birthday
Presidents’ Day
February 22nd, 2025
Transfiguration Sunday
February 23rd, 2025
- Read Malcolm Guite’s poem “Transfiguration” (Sounding the Seasons p. 56)
Sexagesima
February 23rd, 2025
Shrove Saturday
March 1st, 2025
Quinquagesima
Shrove Sunday
March 2nd, 2025
Shrove Monday
Collopy Monday
March 3rd, 2025
Shrove Tuesday
Mardis Gras, Pancake Day
March 4th, 2025
- Start Malcolm Guite’s The Word in the Wilderness: A Poem a Day for Lent and Easter
Ash Wednesday
March 5th, 2025
- Read Malcolm Guite’s poem “Ash Wednesday” (Sounding the Seasons p. 26)
Quadragesima Sunday
March 9th, 2025
Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday are Ember Days
Feast of the Annunciation
Lady Day, Feast of the Incarnation, Conceptio Christi
March 25th, 2025
- Read Malcolm Guite’s poem “The Annunciation” (Sounding the Seasons p. 31)
Lazarus Saturday
April 12th, 2025
Palm Sunday
April 13th, 2025
- Read Malcolm Guite’s poem “Palm Sunday” (Sounding the Seasons p. 32)
Holy Monday
April 14th, 2025
Fig Tuesday
Holy Tuesday
April 15th, 2025
Spy Wednesday
Holy Wednesday, Good Wednesday
April 16th, 2025
Maundy Thursday
Holy Thursday
April 17th, 2025
- Read Malcolm Guite’s poem “Maundy Thursday” (Sounding the Seasons p. 36)
Good Friday
Holy Friday, Black Friday
April 18th, 2025
- Read Malcolm Guite’s The Stations of the Cross poems (Sounding the Seasons p. 37-43)
Holy Saturday
Low Saturday, Great Sabbath, Black Saturday, Easter Eve
April 19th, 2025
Easter
Pascha, Resurrection Sunday
April 20th, 2025
- Read Malcolm Guite’s poem “Easter dawn” (Sounding the Seasons p. 44)
Saint George’s Day
April 23rd, 2025
- Read “St. George and the Dragon”
Also the death and estimated birth day of William Shakespeare
May Day
May 1st, 2025
Ascension Day
Feast of the Ascension
May 30th, 2025
- Read Malcolm Guite’s poem “Ascension day” (Sounding the Seasons p. 45)
All Koser’s Eve
June 6th, 2025
Koserstag
Saint Kosers’ Day
June 7th, 2025
Pentecost
Whitsun, Whitsunday
June 8th, 2025
- Read Malcolm Guite’s poem “Pentecost” (Sounding the Seasons p. 47)
Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday are Ember Days
Whit Monday
Pentecost Monday, Monday of the Holy Spirit
June 9th, 2025
Trinity Sunday
June 15th, 2025
- Read Malcolm Guite’s poem “Trinity Sunday” (Sounding the Seasons p. 48)
Juneteenth
Juneteenth National Independence Day
June 19th, 2025
Saint John’s Eve
June 23rd, 2025
- Read Malcolm Guite’s poem “St John’s eve” (Sounding the Seasons p. 51)
Johnmas
Nativity of John the Baptist, Birth fo John the Baptist, Nativity of the Forerunner, St. John’s Day
June 24th, 2025
Independence Day
Fourth of July
July 4th, 2025
Patriot Day
9/11
September 11th, 2025
Battle of Vienna
September 12th, 2025
- Listen to Sabaton’s Winged Hussars
https://www.sabaton.net/historical-facts/battle-of-vienna/
Roodmas
Feast of the Holy Cross, Holy Cross Day, Holy Rood Day, Crouchmas
September 14th, 2025
- Read “Of the Invention of the Holy Cross” from The Golden Legend
- Read The Dream of the Rood
Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday are Ember Days
Feast of St. Eustace
September 20th, 2025
- Read St. Eustace’s story
- Drink Jägermeister
Hobbit Day
September 22nd, 2025
The birthday of Bilbo Baggins and Frodo Baggins
Michaelmas
Feast of the Archangels
September 29th, 2025
- Read Malcolm Guite’s poem “St Michael and All Angels” (Sounding the Seasons p. 57)
Columbus Day
October 12th, 2025
All Hallow’s Eve
Hallowe’en, All Saints’ Eve
October 31st, 2025
- Trick or treat
- Write a scary story to read with the lights off
All Hallows’ Day
All Saints’ Day, Hallowmas
November 1st, 2025
- Read a new saint story
- Read Malcolm Guite’s poem “The gathered glories” (Sounding the Seasons p. 58)
All Souls’ Day
The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed
November 2nd, 2025
- Read Malcolm Guite’s poem “A last beatitude” (Sounding the Seasons p. 59)
Veteran’s Day
Armistice Day
November 11th, 2025
Martinmas
Saint Martin’s Day, Martlemas, Old Halloween, Old Hallowmas Eve
November 11th, 2025
- Read St. Martin’s story
Christ the King Sunday
Reign of Christ Sunday, Stir-up Sunday
November 23rd, 2025
- Read Malcolm Guite’s poem “The Feast of Christ the King” (Sounding the Seasons p. 62)
Thanksgiving
November 27th, 2025
- Read Malcolm Guite’s poem “Thanksgiving” (Sounding the Seasons p. 60)
- Read Joffre Swait’s poem “Thanks For Ever” (Well Met: Poems of Companionship p. 73)
- Read Joffre Swait’s poem “The God of Pumpkin Pie” (Well Met: Poems of Companionship p. 71)
Advent Sunday
November 30th, 2025
- Light hope Advent candle
- Start Advent devotional, like Jonathan Gibson’s “O Come, O Come Emmanuel” or Cindy Rollins’s “Hallelujah”
- Start Advent calendar
- Read about the Old Testament patriarchs who were Christ’s ancestors
- Start reading “A Christmas Carol”
- Pray “To Mark the Start of the Christmas Season” (Every Moment Holy Vol I p. 121)
- Pray “For Setting Up a Christmas Tree” (Every Moment Holy Vol I p. 123)
Saint Nicholas’s Eve
Feast of Saint Nicholas
December 5th, 2025
- Leave shoes out for Saint Nicholas
Saint Nicholas’s Day
Feast of Saint Nicholas
December 6th, 2025
- Put oranges and chocolate coins in the shoes
Second Sunday of Advent
December 7th, 2025
- Light Bethlehem Advent candle
- Read prophecies of Christ’s birth
Saint Lucy’s Eve
December 12th, 2025
- Make scones
- Eat dinner by candlelight
Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday are Ember Days
Saint Lucy’s Day
Feast of Saint Lucy
December 13th, 2025
- Procession with candles
- Children make breakfast in bed for parents with scones and coffee
- Listen to Santa Lucia song
- Read John Donne’s “A Nocturnal Upon S. Lucy’s Day, Being the Shortest Day”
Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday are Ember Days
Gaudete Sunday
Third Sunday of Advent
December 14th, 2025
- Light joy Advent candle (rose-colored)
- Read about John the Baptist
- Listen to the Christmas carol “Gaudete”
Fourth Sunday of Advent
December 21st, 2025
- Light angel’s Advent candle
- Read about the Annunciation, the Magnificat
- Listen to the Christmas carol “Gaudete”
Christmas Eve
December 24th, 2025
- Candlelight church service
- Light Christ (last) Advent candle
- Crockpot Wassail from Cindy Rollins’s Hallelujah p. 128
Christmas
December 25th, 2025
- Read the Christmas story
- Read Malcolm Guite’s poems “Mary”, “On the edge” (Sounding the Seasons p. 14-15)
Saint Stephen’s Day
Boxing Day, Second Day of Christmas
December 26th, 2025
- Read Malcolm Guite’s poem “St Stephen” (Sounding the Seasons p. 17)
Third Day of Christmas
December 27th, 2025
Childermas
Holy Innocents’ Day, Fourth Day of Christmas
December 28th, 2025
Fifth Day of Christmas
December 29th, 2025
Sixth Day of Christmas
December 30th, 2025
New Year’s Eve
Old Year’s Day
December 31st, 2025
Seventh Day of Christmas
December 31st, 2025
- Read Charles Dickens’s “The Chimes”