Orthodox Calendar 2022 – FEBRUARY: The month of February, called in the popular language and the month Făurar, has, in 2022, 28 days, with 11 hours during the day and 13 hours at night. The most important holiday of this month takes place in the very first days. It is Greeting the Lord or Stratenia, celebrated at the beginning of the month, on February 2.
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The feast that falls on a Wednesday and is released from the fish and symbolically marks the moment of worship of the Holy Child before God.
See here: Orthodox CALENDAR 2022: ALL major Christian holidays in the new year, included in the Church Calendar
While the believers observe the Lord’s Reception, the people celebrate the Streneia or Bear’s Day. It is said that now it is the balance between the cold and the warm season, making calendar predictions. Our ancestors used to attribute the change of weather to the way the bear behaves, also called the Great or Santa Martin.
Orthodox Calendar 2022 – February 26: Winter Estates – Saturday of the Dead
Also in February are the Winter Estates (Saturday of the Dead), the day when Christians go to church and make remembrance for those who have left us.
According to tradition, on the morning of the winter solstice, Christians must go to church with a cage, wine and prescuri, in order to be sanctified and then divided. Believers can also offer dishes with food, fruit, pies or various foods that the deceased liked.
At the end of the month, the meat is left dry, as Orthodox Christians prepare to enter Lent.
What does Saturday of the Dead mean, Winter Estates
On the Sabbath of the Dead, the Orthodox Church commemorates the dead, by organizing the Memorial Service and the Holy Mass.
To commemorate the dead at church, the parishioners carry a cage, cake or cake, a bottle of wine and the pomelnic in which are written the names of people who no longer live on Earth, to be served by priests.
It is also known as the Saturday of the Dead, and the ritual provides that in each church the Holy Mass and the Parish Service be celebrated!
To the church they are taken, to be served by the priests, a cage, a coil, a bottle of wine, the pomelnic in which we pass the names of those who went to the Lord and candles.
For the remembrance of the dead, packages of pies, cheeses, meatballs, meat, sarmale, apples and other fruits can also be taken, depending on the possibilities.
On this day, candles are lit at the graves of deceased relatives, to warm the souls of the deceased.
Orthodox Calendar 2022: The most important holidays of February:
- February 2, 2022 – Welcome to the Lord (Red Cross)
- February 24, 2022 – The First and Second Findings of the Head of St. John the Forerunner and Baptist of the Lord (Black Cross)
- February 26, 2022 – Winter estates.
Orthodox Christian Calendar – February 2022
| M | 1 | Before the celebration of the Lord’s greeting; St. Mc. Tryphon, the Holy Martyrs Perpetua and Felicitas |
| M | (†) Greeting the Lord (Stratenia); St.. Mc. Jordan and Gabriel (Fish release) | |
| J | 3 | St. and Law Simeon; St. Prophet Anne |
| V | 4 | St. Cuv. Isidor Pelusiotul; St. Mc. Abramius (Post) |
| S | 5 | St. Mc. Agata and Teodula |
| Seventh Sunday after Pentecost(to Cananecii); Rev. II Corinthians VI, 16-18; VII, 1; Ev. Matthew XV, 21-28; glas 8, voscr. 11 | ||
| D | St. Ier. Vucol, bishop of Smyrna and Photius, patriarch of Constantinople; St. Cuv. Varsanufie the Great | |
| L | 7 | St. Ier. Parthenius, Bishop of Lampsac; St. Cuv. Luke of Elada |
| M | 8 | St. Great Mc. Teodor Stratilat; St. Prophet Zechariah; St. Mc. sisters Martha and Mary |
| M | 9 | St. Mc. Nichifor; Holy Saints Mc. Marcel and Pangratie (Feast of the Feast of the Welcome of the Lord) (Post) |
| J | 10 | †) St. Mc. Haralambie; St. Mc. Enata and Valentina |
| V | 11 | St. Ier. Vlasie, bishop of Sevastia; St. Theodora the Empress (Post) |
| S | 12 | St. Ier. Meletius, archbishop of Antioch the Great; St. Anthony, Patriarch of Constantinople; St. Mc. Christ |
| XXXIII Sunday after Pentecost(of the publican and the Pharisee); Ap. 2 Timothy 3:10-15; Ev. Luke 18, 10-14; glas 1, you 1 | ||
| D | St. Cuv. Martinian; St. Ap. And Mc. Eagle and his wife Priscilla; St. Ier. Evloghie, Patriarch of Alexandria (Beginning of the Triodion) | |
| L | 14 | St. Cuv. Auxentius, Maron, and Abraham; St. Philemon, Ep. Gaza |
| M | 15 | St. Ap. Onisim; St. Mc. Major; St. Cuv. Eusebius of Syria |
| M | 16 | St. Mc. Pamfil; St. Mc. Valent, Paul and Seleucus; St. Cuv. Flavian, Archbishop of Constantinople |
| J | 17 | St. M. Mc. Teodor Tiron; St. Mariamna; Holy Emperors Marcian and Pulheria |
| V | 18 | St. Leon, Ep. Romei; St. Agapit, Ep. Sinadei |
| S | 19 | St. Archbishop, Philemon, and his wife, Apphia; St. Cuv. Martha. Evghenie and Macarie |
| D | St. Leon, Ep. Of Catania; St. Agathon, Ep. Romei; St. Cuv. Vissarion | |
| XXXIV Sunday after Pentecost(of the Prodigal Son); Rev. I Corinthians VI, 12-20; Ev. Luke XV, 11-32; glas 2, voscr. 2 | ||
| L | 21 | St. Cuv. Timothy; St. Eustatius, Ep. Of Antioch |
| M | 22 | Finding the relics of St. Mc. from Evghenia; St. Cuv. Athanasius, Thalassius and Limneu |
| M | 23 | † St. Mc. Polycarp, Ep. Smyrna; St. Cuv. Gorgon (Post) |
| J | 24 | †) The First and Second Findings of the Head of St. John the Forerunner and Baptist of the Lord |
| V | 25 | St. Tarasius, patriarch of Constantinople; St. Mc. Alexander and Hypatia (Post) |
| S | 26 | St. Porphyry, Archbishop. Gazei; St. Mc. Fotini; St. Theodore (Remembrance of the Dead – Winter Estates) |
| Meat Dry Sunday(of the Fearful Judgment); Ap. 1 Corinthians 8:8-13; IX, 1-2; Ev. Matei XXV, 31-46; glas 3, voscr. 3 | ||
| D | St. Cuv. Martha. Procopius and Talaleu | |
| L | 28 | †) St. Cuv. Ioan Casian Romanul and Gherman from Dobrogea; St. Cuv. Vasile the Confessor; St. Mc. Nestor; St. Mc. Proter (Release to eggs, milk and cheese) |
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