May 2025
The Orthodox calendar for May 2025: each day with its feast, its saint, and its fast.
In May 2025, on the New Calendar, the Orthodox Church keeps the Ascension of Our Lord on May 29.
- 1Synaxis of the Three New Righteous Martyrs of the Holy Mountain, Euthymius, Ignatius, and Acacius (1814-1816)
St Tamar of Georgia › - 2Fridayfast
St Matrona of Moscow › - 3Saturday
Timothy and Maura › - 4Sunday of the Myrrhbearing Women
St Monica, mother of Blessed Augustine › - 5Monday
St Irene of Thessalonica › - 6Tuesday
St Job the Longsuffering › - 7Wednesdayfast
St Lydia of Philippi › - 8Thursday
St John the Theologian › - 9Fridayfast
St Isaiah › - 10Saturday
St Isidora the Fool of Tabenna › - 11Sunday of the Paralytic
Cyril and Methodius › - 12Monday
Epiphanios of Cyprus and Germanos of Constantinople › - 13Tuesday
St Glyceria › - 14Mid-Pentecostfast
St Isidore of Chios › - 15Thursday
St Pachomius the Great › - 16Translation of the Relics of Venerable Ephraim of Perekopfast
St Brendan the Voyager of Clonfert › - 17Saturday
Andronicus of the Seventy › - 18Sunday of the Samaritan Woman
St Theodotus of Ancyra › - 19Monday
St Patrick of Prusa › - 20Tuesday
St Aleksy, Metropolitan of All Russia › - 21Leavetaking of Mid-Pentecostfast
Constantine and Helen › - 22Thursday
St Basiliscus of Comana › - 23Fridayfast
St Leonty of Rostov › - 24Saturday
St Nikita the Stylite › - 25Sunday of the Blind Man
St Therapon of Cyprus › - 26Monday
Carpus and Alphaeus › - 27Tuesday
St Bede › - 28Leavetaking of Pascha and Forefeast of the Ascensionfast
St Ignaty of Rostov › - 29The Ascension of Our Lord
St Theodosia of Tyre › - 30Fridayfast
St Macrina the Elder › - 31Saturday
St Hermas of Philippopolis ›
Questions about May 2025
What Orthodox feasts are in May 2025?
On the New Calendar, the Church keeps the Ascension of Our Lord on May 29.
Is there an Orthodox fast in May 2025?
No fasting season falls in May 2025 on the New Calendar. Wednesdays and Fridays are kept as fast days, except in fast-free weeks and on some feast days.