✦ zenith calendar · the anglican (england) almanac
the principal feasts, holy days and festivals in one quiet layer of your sky, each one explained in the church's own words.
anglican (england) is one of the holiday almanacs that come with zenith calendar. it holds the church of england's principal feasts, principal holy days and festivals, as the church's own calendar and its rules for ordering the christian year set them.
its dates are copied from the church's published calendar and rules, not worked out on your phone: where a festival must move off a sunday or out of holy week and easter week, the date here is the moved one. tap a day and read three short paragraphs: what it is, where it comes from, and how it is kept.
gregorian · the christian year, with easter from the church's own table
a sunday, beginning the weeks of advent
the first day of the church's year and of advent, the weeks of waiting and preparing for christ: toward his birth at christmas and his coming again in glory.
churches turn purple, or in some places blue, and the first candle of the advent wreath is lit. many hold an advent carol service that moves from darkness into candlelight, and homes open the first window of the advent calendar.
25 december
the feast of the birth of jesus christ, the son of god made man, and a principal feast. it begins the twelve days of christmas, which run to the epiphany.
parishes celebrate holy communion through the night and the morning, with carols. the crib stands in church and home, and families give gifts and share the christmas dinner.
a sunday, from the church's own easter table
the day of the resurrection, a principal feast and the greatest feast of the christian year: christ, who died on the cross, is risen from the dead.
the alleluia, silent through lent, returns, and the greeting rings out: "alleluia. christ is risen." "he is risen indeed. alleluia." churches are filled with flowers, families share easter eggs and an easter meal, and easter is kept for fifty days, until pentecost.
whit sunday
the fiftieth day of easter
a principal feast, when the holy spirit came down on the apostles. it is called the birthday of the church.
churches are dressed in red for the fire of the spirit, and it has long been a day for baptism. in parts of the north of england churches still hold whit walks with banners and bands, and the easter season ends this day.
zenith calendar draws the year as an orbit round the sun. lit, anglican (england) puts its feasts and holy days on their days on that ring, in ice blue. its mark is ✙, a plain cross.
each of its feasts and holy days carries three short paragraphs in its notes: what it is, where it comes from as its own tradition tells it, and how it is kept.
anglican (england) arrives locked, so nothing in it changes by accident. the lock guards your hand, not your eye: you can still read it, shine it or eclipse it. one tap unlocks it, and then it is yours to rename, recolour or add to.
tap its chip in the legend to eclipse it (kept, but not drawn) and tap again to bring it back. nothing is deleted either way.
anglican (england) shares one sky with your own commitments. like every almanac that comes with the app, it never counts toward the almanacs you can make for free, and it lives on your phone: zenith calendar has no server of its own.
✦ zenith calendar · the sky around it
anglican (england) is a single layer. beneath it is a whole calendar drawn as the sky, your year an orbit round the sun, and every part of it answers your touch.
the sun stands at the centre and the year rings round it, with today's earth riding at today's place, its small moon beside it. tap the ring anywhere else and a faint ghost earth waits on that day.
drag along the ring and the days pass under your finger, the big date and the day's list following as you go. lift, and the day you stopped on stays picked.
tap the small moon beside today's earth and you dive into the week. the moon above shows its phase, named underneath; swipe the dates and each week brings its own.
tap the sun and the ring tips on its edge into a ladder of years. in the week, pull the moon firmly down and the month opens, the moon resting half off its foot.
zenith calendar has no server of its own. tap the gear and switch on "nothing comes in" or "nothing leaves this phone"; lift them, and every almanac is back exactly as it was.
anglican (england) is waiting in the app, and the rest of the sky comes with it.
anglican (england) · the church of england's year ·
The first Sunday of Advent falls on 29 November 2026, the first day of the church's year. In Zenith Calendar it sits on the ring of your year in the anglican (england) almanac.
Easter Day falls on 28 March 2027. It is the greatest feast of the Christian year, and Easter is kept for fifty days, until Pentecost.
Pentecost, also called Whit Sunday, falls on 16 May 2027, the fiftieth day of Easter.
Zenith Calendar for Android comes with an almanac called anglican (england): the Church of England's principal feasts, principal holy days and festivals, drawn on the ring of your year beside your own days. Turning it on costs nothing.
Anglican (england) follows the Church of England's calendar; episcopal follows the Episcopal Church's. They are separate almanacs, so you light the one your church keeps.
Anglican (england) holds the Church of England's feasts and holy days. Uk holds the bank holidays, the days off. They are separate almanacs, so you can light either or both.
They are copied from the church's published calendar and rules, not worked out on your phone. Where the rules move a festival off a Sunday or out of Holy Week and Easter Week, the date shown is the moved one.