- 1Mary, Mother of God
- 6Glorious Epiphany
- 17Saint Anthony the Great
- 26Saint Ephrem the Syrian
The Maronite Calendar
A visual walk through the Maronite liturgical year. Every saint the Maronite Church cherishes, every feast on the Lebanese calendar, every season of the year, in one page. Save it to your phone or print it for your wall.
Glorious Birth
Glorious Epiphany (Denho)
Great Lent
Glorious Resurrection
Pentecost
Glorious Cross
Maronite Liturgical Year
charbel.appThe saints and feast days of the Maronite Catholic Church
- 2Presentation of the Lord
- 9Saint Maron
- 10Saint Scholastica
- 2Saint John Maron
- 19Saint Joseph
- 23Saint Rafqa
- 25Annunciation of the Virgin Mary
- 7Saint John Baptist de la Salle
- 23Saint George
- 29Saint Catherine of Siena
- 1st SunOur Lady of Lebanon
- 3Venerable Patriarch Estephan Douaihy
- 14Saint Matthias the Apostle
- 31Visitation of Mary
- 13Saint Anthony of Padua
- 24Nativity of John the Baptist
- 25–28Apostles' Fast
- 29Saints Peter & Paul
- 10Blessed Massabki Brothers
- 20Saint Elias the Prophet
- 24Saint Charbel Makhlouf
- 3rd SunSaint Charbel
- 6Transfiguration of the Lord
- 7–14Fast of the Assumption
- 15Assumption of the Virgin Mary
- 30Blessed Estephan Nehme
- 8Nativity of Mary
- 14Exaltation of the Glorious Cross
- 24Saint Thecla
- 29Saints Michael, Gabriel & Raphael
- 2Guardian Angels
- 4Saint Francis of Assisi
- 7Our Lady of the Rosary
- 15Saint Teresa of Avila
- 1All Saints
- 2Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed
- 1st SunConsecration of the Church
- 29Saint Jacob of Sarug
- 4Saint Barbara
- 8Immaculate Conception
- 13–24Fast of the Nativity
- 14Saint Nimatullah Al-Hardini
- 25Nativity of the Lord
Movable Feasts
- Cana Sunday
Start of Great Lent - Ash Monday
Day after Cana Sunday - Hosanna Sunday
Palm Sunday — Passion Week opens - Sabbath of Light
Holy Saturday - The Glorious Resurrection
Easter Sunday (Gregorian) - Ascension of the Lord
40 days after Easter - Pentecost
50 days after Easter - Trinity Sunday
Sunday after Pentecost - Corpus Christi
Thursday after Trinity
How to read the calendar
Each month is tinted with the color of the liturgical season that dominates it. The Maronite year has six seasons, not the Roman Ordinary Time pattern, and every week of the year belongs to one of them. Fixed feasts carry a date; movable feasts are listed separately, since their dates follow Easter or the start of Lent and change each year. Stars (★) mark the major feasts celebrated universally in the Maronite Church. For the full explanation of the seasons, the named Sundays of Advent and Lent, and the fasting rules, see The Maronite Liturgical Calendar.
Why this calendar matters
The feast days in this calendar are the memory of a community. Saint Maron was a fourth-century Syrian hermit whose disciples became a Church. Saint John Maron was the first of its Patriarchs, consecrated in Kfarhay in the seventh century. Saint Charbel and Saint Rafqa are the two canonized Lebanese saints of the modern era; Blessed Nimatullah and Blessed Estephan Nehme walk close behind. Saint Elias, Saint George, and Saint Barbara are loved in every Lebanese village. Our Lady of Lebanon, declared patroness by Patriarch Howayek in 1908, holds the whole calendar together. The Maronite year is the Lebanese family tree in liturgical form.
Save this calendar
Press the "Save calendar as image" button at the top of the page. On a desktop, a PNG will download to your computer. On a phone, the share sheet will open so you can save it to Photos or send it to a family group. The saved image carries the charbel.app name, so it is easy to share and easy to find again.
See also: The Maronite Liturgical Calendar (long read). All saints. Saint Charbel. Saint Maron. Saint Rafqa. Saint Nimatullah. Blessed Estephan Nehme. Our Lady of Lebanon.