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Visit Mt Athos in the pages of our 2025 Calendar

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New Calendar starts Dec 25, 2024 and ends Dec 31, 2025 -  Old Calendar starts Jan 1, 2025 and ends Jan 7, 2026

OVERTHROW THE TYRANNY OF MONTHS

The liturgical life of the Orthodox Church ebbs and flows right over the boundaries of 30-day months. Using a calendar governed by months limits your ability to see a whole Church season at once. This calendar’s spreads are governed by the feasts and fasts that structure the Orthodox year, which results in seven sections of varying length.

CALENDAR FEATURES

  • Designed to hang on the wall, open it measures 12" x 24" (30.5 x 61 cm)

  • Seven spreads ranging in length from six to ten weeks

  • Original images from the Holy Mountain, Mt Athos.

  • Spacious squares for personal planning 

  • Light shading on traditional fast days 

  • Ornamentation indicating major feast days

  • US holidays and observances and European week numbering

  • Commemoration of over 100 beloved saints, with emphasis on Athonite saints and feasts

  • Significant feast days from the alternate calendar (Old or New), indicated in italics

  • Photography by Fr Photios Dumont, Fr Seraphim Ramos, Dn Jeffrey Smith, Thomas Retzios, Adam Anderson, Gregory Gatanas, and Matthew J Swehla 

  • Ornaments and lettering by Gabriel Chaplin 

Scripture readings, rubrics, and fasting details are not included. 

Our 2025 Calendar introduces you to the rich spiritual heritage and pilgrimage tradition of Mt Athos. Get a copy today and start planning your pilgrimage!

About the Calendar

Beauty First Films is a non-profit creative collaboration of Dr. Timothy Patitsas and Thomaida Hudanish. Our mission is to make films that take the viewer to a place of awe, beauty, and holiness.

 

We created this design to engage and encourage Orthodox Christians, as well as to help fund Beauty First Films' work in other areas. 

 

You can also make a tax deductible donation to support our projects. Donate via PayPal.

 

Click here for our Calendar FAQ page

Five Star Reviews

I am thrilled with this calendar. The pictures are so interesting and the set up works so much better for our lives.

- Stacy

WOW. Gorgeous and meditative and efficient all at once! Thank you a thousand times over. 

- Emily

I received your calendar as a gift, and I was instantly and totally devoted to its Liturgical Seasons layout. I absolutely love love love it!

- Eleni

 

BRILLIANT! What a beautiful pleasure to have seen the ultimate possibility of our life in Christ so beautifully before us!  I am sure I want one for myself and every Godchild I am blessed to have.
- Margo

This is the first time that a physical calendar has also become a devotional. It helps me understand the historical roots of my faith. - Anna, Roman Catholic

 

It is just the calendar I needed but didn't know I wanted! I just can't even heart it enough. - Kh. Nikki

I've enjoyed having this year's calendar in my work office, and, as a new convert to the Orthodox Church, it's really helped me get into the rhythm of the liturgical year.

- Kimberly

These calendars are beautiful and have lots of good information for the daily lives of Orthodox Christians. I love the way it’s broken up into liturgical seasons instead of months. I have purchased 5 of them now over the last two years! They make great gifts.

- Elena

Spread the Calendar Love

Wholesale. Message us below to get the appropriate rate for your bookstore or retail shop.

 

Groups. Over the years individuals have given the calendar to all the students at a seminary, all clergy wives in a diocese, etc.

Events. Bulk discounts are available for giving the calendar to retreat and conference attendees.

 

Parishes. Many parishes give a calendar to their parishioners each year, usually with the sponsorship of a local funeral home. Looking ahead to 2026, please reach out in the contact form below to inquire.

Find the Calendar Near You

our calendar is on its way to the shelves at these retailers:

Holy Transfiguration Bookstore, Anchorage AK

St Innocent Bookstore, Everson WA

St Demetrios Bookstore, Seattle WA

Holy Trinity Bookstore, Spokane WA

Apollonia Books, Goldendale WA

St Herman Bookstore, Kalispell MT

St Spyridon Bookstore, Loveland CO

St Catherine Bookstore, Greenwood Village CO

Agia Sophia Bookstore, Colorado Springs CO

St Brendan Bookstore, Astoria OR

St Nicholas Bookstore, Portland OR

Ethos Bookstore, Holy Trinity Cathedral, Portland OR

Logos Bookstore, St John the Baptist, Beaverton OR

St James Bookstore, Modesto CA

Life-Giving Spring Bookstore, Glendale CA

St Nicholas Bookstore, Tarpon Springs FL​

Holy Nativity Bookstore, Shreveport LA

Hosanna Bookstore, Holy Trinity Cathedral, Charlotte NC

All Saints Bookstore, Cary NC 

Archangel Michael Bookstore, Louisville KY

St John the Divine Bookstore, Wheeling WV

Annunciation Cathedral Bookstore, Columbus OH

St John the Baptist Bookstore, Des Plaines IL

Sts Peter & Paul Bookstore, Glenview IL

Holy Trinity Seminary Bookstore, Jordanville NY

Annunciation Bookstore, Cranston RI

Hellenic College Holy Cross Bookstore, Brookline MA

St Botolph's Bookstore, London UK

Twelve Apostles' Bookstore, Eastleigh UK

Heiligen Kyrill & Methodius Bookstore, Hamburg Germany

and online at store.AncientFaith.com

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