I could use a little ecumenical help here

I’m involved with a project at work, and maybe somebody out there can help. My employer’s annual calendar is very PC and includes major holidays of various religions and cultures, because, like a lot of high-tech firms, we have a culturally diverse work force. Since last year’s edition had a few mistakes in listing the Christian holidays, I volunteered to help gather info for the 2004 edition.
Apparently the editors had been using whatever info they could find on the web, and some of it was old or wrong; so I’m looking for official or at least reliable sources for the data I turn in. Documenting the Catholic holidays is not hard: the Catholic Almanac has a list. Can anybody point to some reliable source for a list of Orthodox holidays?
Also, what days would Protestant Christians consider important enough to list: just Easter and Christmas? Pentecost? Maybe Reformation Sunday? Obviously Protestant customs are going to be all over the map; but advice from our non-Catholic readers (if any) would be a boon. Thanks!

3 comments

  1. I grew up Babdist. I remember seeing holidays on non-exclusively-Babdist calendars and wondering what the deal was with Ash Wednesday, Palm Sunday, Pentecost, etc. We didn’t need anything except Christmas and Easter, of course.
    I’m sure the Lutherans would appreciate Reformation Sunday!

  2. The traditional Anglican Kalendar tracks pretty close to the Roman Catholic one, except some Saints use pre-Vatican II dates, and more traditional names are often used (Candlemas, Ladyday, Whitsunday, Michaelmas, etc).
    Passion Sunday follows the traditional practice placing it the Sunday BEFORE Palm Sunday, and Corpus Christi takes place on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday.
    Ordinary Sundays are numbered as Sundays after the Epiphany or Trinity Sunday.
    For details, check:
    http://www.anglicancatholic.org/liturgy/litdescp.htm
    and
    http://www.anglicancatholic.org/liturgy/litkal03.htm#starthere

  3. As a Southern Baptist, we used to celebrate Annie Armstrong Sunday, and Lottie Moon as well, but I don’t remember the dates. Some of them are started to celebrate Holy Thursday (we called it Maundy Thursday.)
    Here is a link to calculate the Orthodox feasts and dates.
    http://smart.net/~mmontes/ec-cal.html

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