List of movable Western Christian observances

January

First Monday: January 1

• Handsel Monday (Scotland and Northern England)

First Sunday of the year, unless the Sunday falls on January 1, 6, or 7, then January 2: January 2

• Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus (Roman Catholicism, removed post-1969, still celebrated by some denominations)

Sunday following January 6: January 7

• Baptism of the Lord (Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism, Lutheranism)
• Plough Sunday (England)

Monday after January 6: January 8

• Baptism of the Lord – (Western Christianity in countries where Epiphany is celebrated on January 7 or 8)
• Plough Monday (England)

Third Sunday: January 21

• Feast of the Santo Niño (Philippines)

9th Sunday before Easter: January 28

• Septuagesima Sunday

February

Second Sunday before Ash Wednesday: February 4

• Sexagesima

Last Thursday before Lent: February 8

• Fat Thursday

Saturday before Ash Wednesday: February 10

• Festum Ovorum (University of Oxford)

Sunday before Ash Wednesday: February 11

• Quinquagesima

Monday before Ash Wednesday: February 12

• Shrove Monday
  • Fastelavn (Denmark/Norway)
  • Nickanan Night (Cornwall)
  • Rosenmontag (Germany)

Tuesday before Ash Wednesday: February 13

• Shrove Tuesday
  • Fastnacht (Pennsylvania Dutch)
  • Feast of the Holy Winding Sheet of Christ
  • Fettisdagen (Sweden)
  • Laskiainen (Finland, Finnish-Americans)
  • Mardi Gras
  • National Pancake Day (Netherlands)
  • Powder Day (Tolox, Spain)
  • Užgavėnės (Lithuania)

46 days before Easter: February 14

• Ash Wednesday/Lent
  • National No Smoking Day (Ireland)

Friday after Ash Wednesday: February 15

• Feast of the Crown of Thorns

First Sunday of Lent: February 18

• People's Sunday (Żabbar, Malta)
• Quadragesima Sunday

March

April

May

Sunday preceding the Rogation days: May 6

• Rogation Sunday
• Earth Day Sunday: May 6 (some Protestant denominations) (Sunday before Earth Day)

Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday preceding Ascension Thursday: May May 7–9

• Minor Rogation days

39 days after Easter: May 10

• Feast of the Ascension
  • Father's Day (Germany)
  • Festa della Sensa (Venice)
  • Global Day of Prayer
  • Sheep Festival (Cameroon)

Third Sunday of May: May 20

• Feast of Our Lady of the Audience

Seventh Sunday/49 days after Easter

• Pentecost begins: May 20
  • Whitsun: May 20
• Whit Monday: May 21
  • Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church
  • Azores Day (Portugal)
• Whit Tuesday: May 22
• Feast of Christ the Priest: May 24 (first Thursday after start of Pentecost)
• Whit Friday: May 25 (North West England)
• Trinity Sunday: May 27
• Corpus Christi (feast): May 31

June

First Thursday after Corpus Christi: June 7

• Lajkonik (Kraków, Poland)

19 days after Pentecost: June 8

• Feast of the Sacred Heart: June 8

Sunday nearest to June 29: June 24

• Petertide (Anglican)

Second Sunday in July: July 9

• Sea Sunday

Last Sunday in July: July 29

• Reek Sunday (Ireland)

September

Thursday following the first Sunday: September 6

• Jeûne genevois (Canton of Geneva, Switzerland)

Weekend after first Monday: September 8–10

• Feast of Sts Cosmas and Damian (Italian-American)

First Sunday after September 4: September 9

• Start of Wakes Week (Parts of England and Scotland)
  • Abbots Bromley Horn Dance (Abbots Bromley, Staffordshire, England)

Third Sunday: September 16

• Federal Day of Thanksgiving, Repentance and Prayer (Switzerland)

Monday after third Sunday: September 17

• Lundi du Jeûne: (Vaud, Switzerland)

Saturday closest to September 23: September 22

• Saturday of Souls (Saturday closest to Sept.23, the Conception of Saint John the Forerunner, Russian Orthodox only)

October

First Sunday: October 7

• Day of Prayer for the Peace of Jerusalem (Pentecostal Christianity)
• World Communion Sunday

Second Sunday: October 14

• White Sunday (Tonga, Samoa)

Last Sunday: October 26

• Feast of Christ the King (Tridentine Mass Catholics)

November

Second Sunday before Advent: November 18

• Volkstrauertag (Germany)

Second Wednesday before the First Sunday in Advent: November 21

• Buß- und Bettag (Saxony, Germany, Lutheran, Reformed (Calvinist) and United denominations)

Last Sunday before First Advent Sunday: November 25

• Feast of Christ the King (Roman Catholic)
• Stir-up Sunday (Anglican Church)
• Totensonntag (mainly Lutheran)

December

Fourth Sunday before Christmas Day: December 2

• Advent Sunday (start of Advent, Western Christianity)

Seven days, starting on First Monday: December 3-9

• Chalica (Unitarian Universalism)

First Friday: December 7

• Gospel Day (Marshall Islands)

Sunday two weeks before Christmas: December 16

• Detinjci (Serbia)

Winter Solstice: December 21

• Blue Christmas (holiday)

Second-final Sunday before Christmas Day: December 23

• Gaudete Sunday (Western Christianity)

Thursday before Christmas: December 27

• Chewidden Thursday (Cornwall) (Thursday of the last full week before Christmas)
• National Regifting Day (United States)

Last Friday before Christmas: December 28

• Black Friday (partying) (secular, United Kingdom)

Last Saturday before Christmas: December 29

• Super Saturday (secular, United States)

Sunday before Christmas: December 30

• Christmas Sunday
• Honesty Day (Italy)

The Sunday between Christmas Day and New Year's Day (both exclusive), or if both Christmas Day and the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God are Sundays: December 30

• Feast of the Holy Family (Roman Catholicism)