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Orthodox Calendar: Feasts and Fasts

Well I have assigned myself a new task: Making a calendar. Using the information published on The Orthodox Church in America’s website and Apple’s iCal I am making a calendar containing the Feasts and Fasts of the Orthodox Church. The calendars can be viewed, printed, downloaded, and subscribed (for those lucky enough to have a Mac, although I hear there are plugins for some win apps to subscribe also) to at http://icalexchange.com/public/cnaughton/Feasts.ics for the Feasts and http://icalexchange.com/public/cnaughton/Fasts.ics for the Fasts. I am doing this slowly right now all that is up is a reduced version of November. My plan is to do one month each day with the Feasts and Fasts that are most common. Once I have finished that I plan to add the lesser known Feasts and Fasts. I am using two separate calendars so that I may have each one display differently, unfortunately that does not happen on the web version. I am sure for my friends who do calendrics(sp?) this is child’s play but I have been unable to find an electronic calendar that does what I am attempting to do. If you subscribe to the calendar all the events link to their description on the OCA Website. I am open for comments, suggestions, feature requests, or ideas on how to do something better. I am also going to link to the calendars on my navbar. Also if anyone knows of an easy and concise way to calculate Pascha it would be appreciated.

Orthodox Calendar: Feasts and Fasts was posted at 15:56:38 on Tuesday the 11th 2003f November 2003, and is filed under Religion.
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At 16:59:34 on November the 11th 2003f 2003 basil Said:
I thought such a thing was already available. Doesn’t one come with the Palm software download? Maybe I’m missing how iCal syncs with Palm devices.
At 17:51:14 on November the 11th 2003f 2003 Christopher G. Naughton Said:
A very basic one does come with the palm, however It does not include very many saint’s feast days, and none of the fast days (or at least the version I have). What I am trying to do is reproduce an electronic form of the calendars we have hanging in the church and at home, along with links to the info at oca.org.
At 18:59:58 on November the 11th 2003f 2003 basil Said:
Cool. WRT the calculation of Pascha, talk to DrBacchus. I’m pretty sure that what we do on OGM is a built-in function in PHP. You might see if Tim knows more.
At 22:53:56 on February the 13th 2004f 2004 Daniel Johnson Said:
Try doing a search on the words “Gauss Easter”. The famous mathematician Gauss developed an algorithm for determining the date of Orthodox Pascha which I have used in my online calendar at the URL above.
At 16:28:01 on April the 2nd 2005f 2005 Basil Said:
Is this calendar no longer subscribable? I’m new to Mac and have not been successful in subscribing.
At 14:44:07 on August the 9th 2006f 2006 Fr. John Said:
Thanks for your work on the feast day calendar. I’ve publsihed a link to it at http://ocf.uchicago.edu/calendar.html.

It would be great if you could finish it and we could bring in more publicity .

God bless,

Fr. John