Holidays

This is a page in progress. Active links go to subpages with lots of detail. For now, there are a lot of holidays listed with no or few resources. In time, that will improve—but meanwhile we want you to have full access to the subpages that do have good information.

Holidays are important in any religious organization; part of what makes us a community is our celebrations. We’ve assembled resources for some of the annual celebrations that bring us together throughout the year.

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January

  • Watch Night/New Year’s Eve
  • New Year’s Day
  • Martin Luther King, Jr., Birthday

February

  • Valentine’s Day

March

  • St. Patrick’s Day

April

  • Easter
  • Passover
  • Earth Day or Earth Month

May

  • Older Americans’ Month
  • Mother’s Day
  • Memorial Day

June

  • Father’s Day
  • Juneteenth
  • Summer Solstice

July

  • Fourth of July (link to Frederick Douglass’ descendants reading “What to the Slave?”)

September

November

  • Election Day
  • Thanksgiving/National Day of Mourning

December