The liturgical year

The Year in Colour

One holy year across the five Orthodox calendars — the fasting seasons, the great feasts, and the colour each day carries.

Paschal cycle shown for 2027 · today is 2026

The Orthodox liturgical year as a colour wheel, with the Paschal cycle shown for 2027: fasting seasons around the ring and the great feasts marked around its edge. — Movable feasts are shown at their 2027 dates; Pascha falls on May 2 that year. Colours follow common Slavic practice. Fixed feasts keep their dates every year, but everything tied to Pascha shifts.

Today · August 14, 2026

Dormition Fast — strict fast

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The colours

Gold · default
Theotokos blue
Lenten purple
Fast wine
Pentecost green
Martyric red
Paschal white
Holy Week ink

The cross across the site takes the colour of the day you are reading on, drawn from the same palette. Paschal white is the one exception: it is nearly invisible against this page, so Pascha and Bright Week invert the whole site to gold on ink instead.