✦ zenith calendar · the christian almanac
the days kept broadly across the western churches in one quiet layer of your sky, each one explained in its own tradition's words.
christian is one of the holiday almanacs that come with zenith calendar. it holds the western calendar: the days kept broadly across the western churches, with easter by the gregorian computus.
its easter is copied from published tables, and the days that move with it are fixed steps from each published easter, so nothing is worked out on your phone. tap a day and read three short paragraphs: what it is, where it comes from, and how it is kept.
gregorian · western easter by the gregorian computus
the sunday from 27 november to 3 december
the first day of the church year and of advent, the season of waiting for christ. it falls on the fourth sunday before christmas.
churches turn violet, or blue in some traditions, and the first candle of the advent wreath is lit, one more each sunday until christmas. homes keep advent calendars, and many churches hold advent carol services.
25 december
the feast of the birth of jesus christ, the son of god made man. it begins the twelve days of christmas, which run to the epiphany.
christians go to church at midnight, at dawn or in the day, and sing carols. homes and churches set out the nativity scene, and families give gifts, decorate trees with lights and gather for the christmas meal.
a sunday: the western easter, by the gregorian computus
the day of the resurrection, the greatest feast of the christian year: christ, who died on the cross, is risen from the dead.
the celebration begins at the vigil the night before or at sunrise services, and the alleluia, silent all through lent, is sung again. churches are filled with white lilies, eggs are decorated as a sign of the empty tomb, and easter is kept for fifty days, all the way to pentecost.
whit sunday
the fiftieth day of easter
the day the holy spirit came down on the apostles. it is called the birthday of the church.
churches wear red for the fire of the spirit, and pentecost has long been a day for baptisms. the easter season ends with this day.
zenith calendar draws the year as an orbit round the sun. lit, christian puts its days on their days on that ring, in ice blue. its mark is ✝, the cross.
each of its 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.
christian 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.
christian 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
christian 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.
christian is waiting in the app, and the rest of the sky comes with it.
christian · the western calendar ·
Western Easter falls on 28 March 2027. In Zenith Calendar it sits on the ring of your year in the christian almanac, beside your own days.
The first Sunday of Advent falls on 29 November 2026. It is always the Sunday from 27 November to 3 December, and it begins the church year.
Pentecost falls on 16 May 2027, the fiftieth day of Easter.
No. It is the western calendar, with Easter by the Gregorian computus. Orthodox Pascha usually falls on another Sunday, and it is in the orthodox almanac.
Christian holds the days the western churches keep broadly; catholic is the Roman calendar, whole in itself. Both read the same western Easter table, so they never drift apart, and Corpus Christi is the catholic almanac's alone.
Zenith Calendar for Android comes with an almanac called christian: Advent, Christmas, Easter, Pentecost and the days around them, drawn on the ring of your year beside your own days. Turning it on costs nothing.
Western Easter is copied from published Easter tables, and the days that move with it are fixed steps from each published Easter. Nothing is worked out on your phone.