Episcopal Church liturgical calendar

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The Episcopal Church liturgical calendar is the official schedule of feasts, fasts, seasons, and commemorations that structures worship and observance throughout the year in the Episcopal Church.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Christian liturgical calendar
liturgical calendar
approvedBy General Convention of the Episcopal Church
authoritativeText Book of Common Prayer
surface form: Book of Common Prayer (1979), pages for the Calendar of the Church Year
basedOn Book of Common Prayer
surface form: Book of Common Prayer (1979)
defines lectionary cycles
governs Sunday Eucharistic readings
collects and propers
daily office readings
includes Christian lectionaries
surface form: Revised Common Lectionary
includesCommemoration Lesser Feasts and Fasts
includesFeast All Saints’ Day
Easter
surface form: Easter Day

Ascension
surface form: The Ascension

Pentecost
surface form: The Day of Pentecost

Epiphany
surface form: The Epiphany

Nativity of Christ
surface form: The Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ

Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity
surface form: Trinity Sunday
includesHolyDay Ash Wednesday
Good Friday
includesSeason Advent
Christmas season
Easter Week
surface form: Easter season

Epiphany
surface form: Epiphany season

Holy Week
Lent
Season after Pentecost
language English
organizedBy liturgical color
proper (Sunday) readings
rank of observance
primaryPurpose to structure worship and observance throughout the year in the Episcopal Church
regulates commemorations of saints
days of special devotion
fast days
fasts
feasts
lesser feasts
liturgical seasons
major feasts
principal feasts
principal holy days
scope annual cycle
supplementedBy A Great Cloud of Witnesses
Holy Women, Holy Men
Lesser Feasts and Fasts (various editions)
tradition Anglicanism (broadly)
surface form: Anglican
usedBy Episcopal Church
usedIn Anglican Communion tradition

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Diocese of Florida liturgicalCalendar Episcopal Church liturgical calendar
Diocese of West Tennessee liturgicalCalendar Episcopal Church liturgical calendar
Diocese of Eastern Michigan liturgicalCalendar Episcopal Church liturgical calendar
Jonathan M. Daniels honoredIn Episcopal Church liturgical calendar
this entity surface form: Episcopal Church (United States) calendar of saints
Episcopal Diocese of Maryland usesCalendar Episcopal Church liturgical calendar
this entity surface form: Lesser Feasts and Fasts (Episcopal Church)