Event Category: Multifaith Calendar

Tradition: Baha’iLink: http://www2.hds.harvard.edu/spiritual/multifaith_about.html Commemorates ’Abdu’l-Bahá’s death. …Continue Reading Ascension of 'Abdu'l-Baha

Tradition: Christianity-Protestant,Christianity-Roman CatholicLink: http://www2.hds.harvard.edu/spiritual/multifaith_about.html Period of four weeks in which Christians prepare for Christmas and meditate on the end of all time. In Western churches, the first Sunday of Advent marks the beginning of the Christian liturgical year. …Continue Reading First Sunday of Advent

Tradition: Indigenous AmericanLink: http://www2.hds.harvard.edu/spiritual/multifaith_about.html Held at Zuni pueblo (New Mexico). Celebrates the end of the old and the beginning of the New Year and blesses the houses of the Pueblo erected during the year. …Continue Reading Shalako Kachina Ceremony

Tradition: BuddhismLink: http://www2.hds.harvard.edu/spiritual/multifaith_about.html In the northern tradition, this is the anniversary of the Buddha’s Enlightenment, ca. 596 B.C.E. In the southern tradition, the Buddha’s Enlightenment is celebrated during Wesak. The dates and names of Buddhist celebrations vary significantly among cultures and communities….Continue Reading Bodhi Day (Rohatsu)

Tradition: Christianity-Roman CatholicLink: http://www2.hds.harvard.edu/spiritual/multifaith_about.html A feast day that celebrates the belief that Mary, mother of Jesus, was born without sin….Continue Reading Feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary

Tradition: Christianity-Roman CatholicLink: http://www2.hds.harvard.edu/spiritual/multifaith_about.html Commemorates the day on which the Guadalupana (the Virgin of Guadalupe) appeared to San Juan Diego and her image appeared on his tilma (apron). The miraculous roses Juan Diego found and carried to the Bishop took the form of the image of Mary exactly as she had appeared to him at…Continue Reading Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe

Tradition: JudaismLink: http://www2.hds.harvard.edu/spiritual/multifaith_about.html Celebrated for eight days to commemorate the rededication of the Temple following the Jews’ victory over occupying forces in 165 B.C.E., which reestablished for a time their religious and political freedom….Continue Reading Hanukkah