The Liturgical Year
The Church keeps her own time, and Orthros keeps it with you, shaded day by day in its own light.
Every day of the year
Choose your jurisdiction, then open any day for its saint, its fast, its tone, and the readings appointed for it.
Opening the calendar…
- Fasting season
- Great Feast
- Pascha
- Today
New Calendar and Old, chosen once
Orthros is pan-Orthodox. Choose the New Calendar or the Old a single time, and every feast and fast, every tone and saint, follows your choice from then on, no second-guessing, nothing to reconcile.
The Twelve Great Feasts, and Pascha above them
The year turns on the great feasts: the Nativity and Theophany, the Meeting and the Annunciation, the Transfiguration and the Dormition, and the rest, each with its icon and its hymns. And over them all, the Feast of Feasts.
“Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death.”
EACH OF THE GREAT FEASTS ›
The fasts, by season and by level
The four fasting seasons and the weekly fast, each day marked with the measure the Church appoints, from the strictest days to the bright weeks when the fast is set aside.
- StrictNo meat, dairy, fish, wine, or oil, the sharpest days.
- Wine & oilThe fast relaxed a little, as the Church appoints.
- FishFish permitted, the great feasts that fall within a fast.
- Fast-freeThe bright weeks, when the Church sets the fast aside entirely.
And always: the measure is yours to receive, ask your priest.
EACH OF THE FASTS ›
Your name day
The feast of your patron saint, kept as the Church keeps it, remembered for you each year, quietly, in its place on the calendar.
The tone of the week
The Octoechos turns through its eight tones, week by week, and the calendar tells you which melody the whole Church is singing.
Computed exactly, carried offline
Six years of the liturgical calendar, more than two thousand days, with the paschalion reckoned exactly and bundled into the app. No signal needed to know what today is keeping.
A calendar is kept by keeping it.
Orthros marks the feast and the fast, but the feast is celebrated, and the fast is broken, at the table of the Church.
NEXT · THE FAITH THE FEASTS CONFESS ›