Entry of the Most-Holy Theotokos into the Temple
Great Feast. One of the Twelve Great Feasts of the Church year.
Fast day.
Commemorated today
- The Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple in Jerusalem.
Appointed readings
- Composite 17 – Exodus 40:1–5, 9–10, 16, 34–35
- Composite 18 – 3 [1] Kings 8:1, 3–7, 9–11
- Ezekiel 43:27–44:4
- Luke 1:39–49, 56
- Hebrews 9:1–7
- Luke 10:38–42, 11:27–28
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on November 21 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on December 4 by the civil calendar. The movable cycle, which turns on the date of Pascha and changes every year, is on the calendar page. Where a life has been written on this site the name links to it; where it has not, only what the commemoration itself attests is shown, and nothing is added to it.