The Annunciation
Feast · theotokos
- 25 March (Roman Catholic Church)
- 25 March (Eastern Orthodox Church)
- Paremhat 29 (Coptic Orthodox Church)
- 25 March (Church of the East)
Nine months to the day before the Nativity, which is how the date was arrived at rather than the other way about. It falls in Lent almost every year, and the Typikon gives it precedence over everything but Pascha itself.
After The Typikon, ch. 48, the Menaion — 25 March, «Бл҃говѣ́щенїе прест҃ы́ѧ влⷣчцы на́шеѧ бцⷣы и҆ приснодв҃ы мр҃і́и», p. 526.
Commemorating
- Mary, mother of Jesus commemorates
- Annunciation commemorates
Where this is recorded
- Roman Catholic Church — the day, after Universal Norms on the Liturgical Year and the Calendar
- Eastern Orthodox Church — the day, after The Typikon, ch. 48, the Menaion — 25 March, «Бл҃говѣ́щенїе прест҃ы́ѧ влⷣчцы на́шеѧ бцⷣы и҆ приснодв҃ы мр҃і́и», p. 526; the rank, after A Manual of the Orthodox Church's Divine Services, pp. 34-35, The Twelve Feasts
- Coptic Orthodox Church — the day, after Le Synaxaire arabe jacobite (rédaction copte), PO XVI.2, p. 268 — 29 Barmahat (25 mars); the rank, after Kalendarium manuale utriusque ecclesiae orientalis et occidentalis (vol. II), II p. 693, «Festivitates majores numerantur septem» — Annuntiationis, Nativitatis, Baptismi, Olivarum, Resurrectionis, Ascensionis, Pentecostes
- Church of the East — the day, after The Ḥudra
Glosses
- The Twelve Great Feasts, and the one that is not among them The Byzantine year is framed by twelve feasts — the Dodekaorton — running from the Nativity of the Theotokos on 8 September to her Dormition on 15 August, some fixed to a date and some moving with Pascha. They are not…