✦ zenith calendar · the episcopal almanac
the principal feasts and holy days in one quiet layer of your sky, each one explained in the church's own words.
episcopal is one of the holiday almanacs that come with zenith calendar. it holds the episcopal church's principal feasts and holy days, with easter and the movable feasts from the church's own tables.
its dates are copied from the church's published calendar and tables, not 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 · the church year, with easter from the church's own tables
a sunday, beginning the season of advent
the first day of the church year and of advent, the season of waiting for christ's coming: at bethlehem, and again in glory at the end of time.
churches turn blue or violet, and the first candle of the advent wreath is lit, one more each sunday until christmas. many parishes and cathedrals hold an advent lessons and carols service.
25 december
the feast of the birth of jesus christ, the son of god made man, and a principal feast of the church. it begins the twelve days of christmas, which run to the epiphany.
most parishes celebrate the eucharist late on christmas eve, often by candlelight, and again on christmas day, with carols and the crèche. families give gifts and share the christmas meal.
a sunday, from the church's own easter tables
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.
at the vigil or the first service of easter the people cry, "alleluia. christ is risen." "the lord is risen indeed. alleluia." the church is filled with white lilies, and easter is kept as a season of fifty days, until pentecost.
whitsunday
the fiftieth day of easter
a principal feast, when the holy spirit came down on the apostles: the birthday of the church.
churches are dressed in red, and many people wear red. it is a day especially fitting for holy baptism, scripture is often read in several languages, and the easter season ends this day.
zenith calendar draws the year as an orbit round the sun. lit, episcopal 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.
episcopal 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.
episcopal 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
episcopal 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.
episcopal is waiting in the app, and the rest of the sky comes with it.
episcopal · the episcopal church's year ·
The first Sunday of Advent falls on 29 November 2026, the first day of the church year. In Zenith Calendar it sits on the ring of your year in the episcopal almanac.
Easter Day, the Sunday of the Resurrection, falls on 28 March 2027. Easter is kept as a season of fifty days, until Pentecost.
The Day of Pentecost, Whitsunday, falls on 16 May 2027, the fiftieth day of Easter.
Zenith Calendar for Android comes with an almanac called episcopal: the Episcopal Church's principal feasts and holy days, drawn on the ring of your year beside your own days. Turning it on costs nothing.
Episcopal follows the Episcopal Church's calendar; anglican (england) follows the Church of England's. They are separate almanacs, so you light the one your church keeps.
A holy day that falls in Holy Week or Easter Week is moved to the week after the Second Sunday of Easter, on a day each parish chooses, so it has no date in the almanac that year. One that falls on a Sunday is shown on its own date.
They are copied from the church's published calendar and its tables for Easter and the movable feasts, not worked out on your phone.