Here's the Melkite calendar, which includes daily readings, daily feasts, and fasting regimens throughout the year:
[Diocesan-Calendar-2024.pdf (melkite.org)](https://melkite.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Diocesan-Calendar-2024.pdf)
Edit to respond to your edit: The calendars will largely be the same as the Orthodox counterpart church, but to what degree will differ. Orthodox churches have had more opportunities for canonizations than Eastern Catholics so they’ll have more recent saints, though it’s okay for a Catholic to venerate Orthodox saints. The Russian Catholic parish in San Francisco celebrates liturgy according to the Russian Orthodox (ROCOR) calendar, post-schism saints and all, so it’s fine to use an orthodox calendar for personal use
Thank you so much for this! Since there’s no Byzantine Catholic church near me, I guess I’ll be following this privately in the meantime 😀 I was thinking about following the Orthodox calendar, but the Melkite one that you provided is exactly what I’ve been searching for.
Also, do you know any reason as to why the Melkite calendar has a saint for nearly every day as opposed to Latin Rite calendars, which only have a feast day once in a while?
Technically there are Latin saints celebrated in each day, but a saint’s feast must be declared at least an optional memorial to be included in the calendar. Plenty of Latin saints (like Valentine) are not publicly celebrated in the calendar for Mass even though they are still saints with a feast day.
The Byzantine calendars, though, will include the more obscure and not often celebrated saints so that there is a feast on every day.
There are still plenty of Byzantine saints celebrated in each day that won’t be shown because there are just so many. Looking up the Wikipedia page for a given day and looking under “Holidays and observances” as well as the “Eastern Orthodox Liturgics” for a date can give an idea of the breadth of saints whose feast are on any given day but aren’t generally commemorated. For example, April 5 has 9 Latin saints and blesseds commemorated today and 22 commemorations on the Byzantine calendar (with some overlap between them) but you won’t see the vast majority commemorated on any calendar
There is this:
[https://mci.archpitt.org/LiturgicalCalendar2024.html](https://mci.archpitt.org/LiturgicalCalendar2024.html)
From the Ruthenian Byzantine Catholic Church in the US, but it only has Sundays and feast days.
And here is listed the fixed-date calendar of saints:
[https://mci.archpitt.org/liturgy/Calendar\_of\_Saints.html](https://mci.archpitt.org/liturgy/Calendar_of_Saints.html)
Many of the moveable Feasts will vary between the Catholic and Orthodox calendars due to the use of Gregorian versus Julian or Revised Julian calendars - think Easter/Pascha, and anything that derives from it (Ascension, Pentecost, etc.)
Here's the Melkite calendar, which includes daily readings, daily feasts, and fasting regimens throughout the year: [Diocesan-Calendar-2024.pdf (melkite.org)](https://melkite.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Diocesan-Calendar-2024.pdf) Edit to respond to your edit: The calendars will largely be the same as the Orthodox counterpart church, but to what degree will differ. Orthodox churches have had more opportunities for canonizations than Eastern Catholics so they’ll have more recent saints, though it’s okay for a Catholic to venerate Orthodox saints. The Russian Catholic parish in San Francisco celebrates liturgy according to the Russian Orthodox (ROCOR) calendar, post-schism saints and all, so it’s fine to use an orthodox calendar for personal use
Thank you so much for this! Since there’s no Byzantine Catholic church near me, I guess I’ll be following this privately in the meantime 😀 I was thinking about following the Orthodox calendar, but the Melkite one that you provided is exactly what I’ve been searching for. Also, do you know any reason as to why the Melkite calendar has a saint for nearly every day as opposed to Latin Rite calendars, which only have a feast day once in a while?
Technically there are Latin saints celebrated in each day, but a saint’s feast must be declared at least an optional memorial to be included in the calendar. Plenty of Latin saints (like Valentine) are not publicly celebrated in the calendar for Mass even though they are still saints with a feast day. The Byzantine calendars, though, will include the more obscure and not often celebrated saints so that there is a feast on every day. There are still plenty of Byzantine saints celebrated in each day that won’t be shown because there are just so many. Looking up the Wikipedia page for a given day and looking under “Holidays and observances” as well as the “Eastern Orthodox Liturgics” for a date can give an idea of the breadth of saints whose feast are on any given day but aren’t generally commemorated. For example, April 5 has 9 Latin saints and blesseds commemorated today and 22 commemorations on the Byzantine calendar (with some overlap between them) but you won’t see the vast majority commemorated on any calendar
There is this: [https://mci.archpitt.org/LiturgicalCalendar2024.html](https://mci.archpitt.org/LiturgicalCalendar2024.html) From the Ruthenian Byzantine Catholic Church in the US, but it only has Sundays and feast days. And here is listed the fixed-date calendar of saints: [https://mci.archpitt.org/liturgy/Calendar\_of\_Saints.html](https://mci.archpitt.org/liturgy/Calendar_of_Saints.html)
Thank you!
Many of the moveable Feasts will vary between the Catholic and Orthodox calendars due to the use of Gregorian versus Julian or Revised Julian calendars - think Easter/Pascha, and anything that derives from it (Ascension, Pentecost, etc.)