Sanctoral Calendars for Eastern Rites

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If I had to guess, I would say most of the Eastern Rite Churches do not use the General Roman Calendar. I’ve tried looking for the Liturgical calendars of the different ones I know about (Chaldean, Maronite, etc), but I haven’t really found much. Are there online texts of them? where would one go to look?

(going to my first Eastern Rite Liturgy [Chaldean] tonight, that’s why I started looking)

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Sanctoral cycle is the Latin term so you won’t have much luck using that as a search. Try synaxarion. A quick search using a couple different keywords with synaxarion has given me the coptic, ethiopian and melkite synaxaria.

Example: This Maronite Synaxarion
 
amtf_april72012 said:
If I had to guess, I would say most of the Eastern Rite Churches do not use the General Roman Calendar. I’ve tried looking for the Liturgical calendars of the different ones I know about (Chaldean, Maronite, etc), but I haven’t really found much. Are there online texts of them? where would one go to look?

(going to my first Eastern Rite Liturgy [Chaldean] tonight, that’s why I started looking)

–
Nil nisi te, Domine!
-AM Thomas Fisher
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Melkite Menaion:
angelfire.com/ex/st.joseph/menaion.html

Byzantine Menaion:
metropolitancantorinstitute.org/LiturgicalCalendar.html

Coptic Orthodox:
copticchurch.net/topics/synexarion/

Maronite:
maronite-heritage.com/Synaxarion.php
 
amtf_april72012 said:
If I had to guess, I would say most of the Eastern Rite Churches do not use the General Roman Calendar. I’ve tried looking for the Liturgical calendars of the different ones I know about (Chaldean, Maronite, etc), but I haven’t really found much. Are there online texts of them? where would one go to look?

(going to my first Eastern Rite Liturgy [Chaldean] tonight, that’s why I started looking)

–
Nil nisi te, Domine!
-AM Thomas Fisher
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None should be using the Roman. Even some of the Western Rites maintain their own calendars, and the Roman Rite uses TWO - EF and OF are (slightly) different calendars.

The Menaion and Synaxarion are the terms to look for for the East, and every church sui iuris should have its own. (Noting that some, like the UGCC and the Ru.GCC have nearly identical ones.)
 
thanks everyone for the replies! And the Chaldean Rite is AMAZING!!!
 
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