Lent
Forty days of prayer, fasting and giving before Easter. The West begins it on Ash Wednesday, the Orthodox on Clean Monday.
In ActivePray
Kept by its own rules
Prayers
The Daily Office: Morning Prayer, Noonday Prayer, Evening Prayer and Compline, or a single quiet time, at hours you choose.
Calendar
The church year, its seasons and its holy days.
Scripture
The Bible, 66 books, the Psalter, and prayers for meals, illness and grief.
Before prayer
Stillness, and an honest confession.
Your choices
Four offices or one quiet time, and the hour of each.
Its year
Coming up
Free, with no app needed: the holy days appear in your own calendar and keep themselves up to date.
Opens in Apple Calendar and Outlook. For Google Calendar, copy the link and add it under Other calendars, From URL.
The holy days
Its holy days, year by year
Palm Sunday
The Sunday before Easter, remembering Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem, which opens Holy Week.
Good Friday
The Friday of Holy Week, remembering the crucifixion of Jesus.
Easter
The resurrection, the oldest and greatest feast. The Orthodox call it Pascha, often on a different date.
Ascension Day
Forty days after Easter, Jesus taken up into heaven.
Pentecost
Fifty days after Easter, the Holy Spirit coming upon the apostles: often called the birthday of the Church.
Christmas
The birth of Jesus on 25 December, which churches on the Julian calendar keep on what is now 7 January.
Epiphany
The showing of Christ to the world: in the West the visit of the Magi, in the East his baptism in the Jordan, called Theophany.
In ActivePray, Protestant Christianity keeps its own prayers at their hours, its own year and its own scripture, with none set above another branch.
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