Key Consider Not Scheduling Events Consider Adapting Events Celebration Observed - No Accommodations Necessary Some celebrations include more than one color based on observance. A supplemental guide to observations is availible for red and yellow coded days.

Included Belief Systems ● Buddhism (a) ● Catholic Christian (b) ● Chinese Traditional Practice (c) ● Christian (d) ● Christian - other (e) ● Ethiopian Christian (f) This calendar was created to be accurate in name, date, ● Hinduism (g) and practice, however, we recognize that it may include ● Hispanic Catholic Christian (h) unintentional errors. Should you have suggestions for ● Islam (i) improvement, please reach out to our team at the ● Jehovah’s Witness (j) Minnesota Leadership Council on Aging online at ● Judaism (k) www.mnlcoa.org. ● Mormon (l)

● Orthodox Christian (m) ● Sikhism (n) ● Wicca/Paganism (o)

Healthcare and age-related days/months of celebration are also included along with traditional U.S. holidays (uncoded).

Cultural Practices/Religions NOT Included in this Calendar Due to the small portion of individuals in the Midwest and throughout the world that practice these forms of spirituality, they have been excluded. Please consider further investigating their observances if you interact with those who practice them. ● Baha’i ● Jainism ● Persian/Zoroastrianism ● Rastafarianism ● Shinto ● Other Minority Belief Systems

◄ December January 2023 February ► Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 -New Years Day -Twelfth Night (d) -Epiphany (a,b,g) -Day of Mary, -Birthday of Guru -Dia de los Reyes Mother of God (b) Gobind Singh (n) (h) -Feastday of St. Basil (m)

8 9 10 11 12 13 14 -Baptism of the Lord -Maghi (n) (d) -Lohri (k, n)

15 16 17 18 19 20 21 -Martin Luther King -Week of Prayer (d) ------Jr. Day -Timkat (f)

22 23 24 25 26 27 28 ------x -Conversion of St. -Vasant Panchami -Lunar/Chinese new Paul (d) (g) year (c)

29 30 31 -Mahayana New ------Year (a)

◄ January February 2023 March ► Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 3 4 ------x -Presentation of -St. Blaise Day (d) -Saint Brigid’s Day Christ in the Temple (g) (b,d) -Imbolc (o)

5 6 7 8 9 10 11 -Tu B’Shvat (k) ------x -Triodion begins (m)

12 13 14 15 16 17 18 -St. Valentine’s Day -Parinirvana Day (a) -Lailat al Miraj (i) (d) -Maha Shivaratri (g) -Isra’a & Mi’raj (i)

19 20 21 22 23 24 25 -Transfiguration -Presidents’ Day -Shrove Tuesday -Chair of St. Peter Sunday (d) (d) (b) -Meatfare Sunday -Ash Wednesday (m) (Lent Begins) (d)

26 27 28 Black History Month -Cheesefare -Clean Monday Sunday (m) (Great Lent Begins) (m)

◄ February March 2023 April ► Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 3 4 -St. David of Whales Day (d)

5 6 7 8 9 10 11 -Orthodox Sunday -Purim (k) ------x (m) -Fast of Esther (k) -Holi (k,n) ------x -Magha -Lailat al Bara’ah (i) ------x Puja/Sangha (a) -Hola Mohalla (n) ------x

12 13 14 15 16 17 18 -Daylight Savings -Saint Patrick’s Day Time Starts (d)

19 20 21 22 23 24 25 -St. Joseph’s Day -Ostara (o) -Novruz (i) - (i) ------(d) -Chaitra Navratri (g) ------Hindi New Year (g) -Annunciation of Blessed Virgin Mary (b)

26 27 28 29 30 31 Women’s History ------Month ------x -National Doctors Day -Rama Navami (g)

◄ March April 2023 May ► Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 ------

2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ------Patient Access ------x Week -Passover (k) ------Palm Sunday (d) -Lord’s Evening -Maundy Thursday -World Health Day -Lazarus Saturday Meal (j) (d) -Good Friday/Holy (m) -Theravada New Friday (d) Year (a) -Hanuman Jayanti (g) 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 ------x -Holy Friday (m) -Tax Day -Easter Sunday (d) -Easter Monday (d) -Palm Sunday (m)

16 17 18 19 20 21 22 ------x -Pascha (m) -Yom HaShoah (k) ------x -Jumu'atul-Wida (i) ------x -Laylat al-Qadr (i) -Eid al-Fitr (i) ------x

23 24 25 26 27 28 29 -Saint George’s Day -Yom Ha’Atzmaut ------x (d) (k)

30 Occupational Therapy Month

◄ April May 2023 June ► Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 3 4 5 6 -Beltane (o) -Saint Philip and -National Day of -Cinco de Mayo -National Nurses James Day (d) Prayer (d) -Vesak (a) Week -National Nurses Day

7 8 9 10 11 12 13 ------x -Lag B’Omer (k) ------x -International Nurses Day

14 15 16 17 18 19 20 -National Skilled ------x Nursing Week -Ascension Day (b) -Mother’s Day -Ascension Day (d)

21 22 23 24 25 26 27 -Shavuot (k) ------x

28 29 30 31 Mental Health Awareness Month -Pentecost (d) -Memorial Day Arthritis Awareness Month Stroke Awareness Month Nurses Month Older Americans Month

◄ May June 2023 July ► Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Cataract 1 2 3 Awareness Month

4 5 6 7 8 9 10 -Trinity Sunday (d) -Feast of Corpus -St. Columba of -Pentecost (m) Christi (b) Iona Day (e)

11 12 13 14 15 16 17 -National Nursing ------Assistant Week -Feast of Sacred -World Elder Abuse Heart of Jesus (b) Awareness Day -Martyrdom of Guru Arjan (n)

18 19 20 21 22 23 24 ------x -Nativity of St. John -Father’s Day -New Church Day -Litha (o) the Baptist (d) (e) -Juneteenth

25 26 27 28 29 30 Cataract -Feast Day of Saints Awareness Peter and Paul (d) Month

◄ June July 2023 August ► Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1

2 3 4 5 6 7 8 -Guru Purnima (g) -Independence Day -Seventeenth of -Asalha Puja Day Tammuz (k) (a)

9 10 11 12 13 14 15 -Imamat Day (i) -Saint Vladimir the -Saint Benedict Day Great Day (d) (b)

16 17 18 19 20 21 22 - ------x (i)

23 24 25 26 27 28 29 -Pioneer Day (l) -Saint James the -Tisha B’Av (k) ------x -Eid al-Adha (i) ------x Great Day (d) -Day of Arafat (i) ------x -Day of Ashura (i) ------x

30 31

◄ July August 2023 September ► Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 3 4 5 -Lammas (d) -Lughnasadh (o)

6 7 8 9 10 11 12 -Transfiguration of the Lord (m)

13 14 15 16 17 18 19 -Obon (a) ------x -Dormition Fast (m) ------Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary (d) -Dormition of the Theotokos (m)

20 21 22 23 24 25 26

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27 28 29 30 31 -Remembrance of -Raksha Bandhan ------x Beheading of John (g) the Baptist (d) -The Ghost Festival (i,j)

◄ August September 2023 October ► Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2

3 4 5 6 7 8 9 -Labor Day -Krishna -Nativity of Mary Janmashtami (g) Feast (d)

10 11 12 13 14 15 16 -National Suicide ------x Prevention Week -Holy Cross Day (d) -Rosh Hashanah (k) ------National Assisted ------x Living Week

17 18 19 20 21 22 23 -Fast of Gedaliah -Mabon (o) ------x (k) -Ganesh Chaturthi (g)

24 25 26 27 28 29 30 -Yom Kippur (k) ------x -Meskel (m) -Sukkot (k) ------

◄ September October 2023 November ► Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ------x -Simchat Torah (k) -St. Francis Day (d) -Shemini Atzeret (k) ------Blessing of the Animals (d)

8 9 10 11 12 13 14 ------x -Columbus Day ------x

15 16 17 18 19 20 21 -Navarati (g) ------Luke, Apostle, & -Installation of Evangelist Scriptures as Guru Remembrance (d) Granth (n)

22 23 24 25 26 27 28 ------x -Dasara (g) - an Nabi (i) ------x -Milvian Bridge Day (d)

29 30 31 National Physical Therapy Month -All Hallows Eve (d) Health Literacy Month -Reformation Day (e) - Samhain (o)

◄ October November 2023 December ► Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 3 4 -All Saints Day (d) -All Souls Day (b)

5 6 7 8 9 10 11 -Allied Health ------x Professionals and -Election Day -Veterans’ Day NP Week

12 13 14 15 16 17 18 -Diwali/Deepavali -Vikram New Year -Nativity Fast (m) ------(g) (g)

19 20 21 22 23 24 25 ------Thanksgiving Day -Martyrdom of Guru Tegh Bahadur (n) -Native American Heritage Day

26 27 28 29 30 American Diabetes Month ------COPD Awareness Month -Christ the King Day -St. Andrew’s Day Family Caregivers Month (d) (d) National Hospice and Palliative Care Month

◄ November December 2023 January ► Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 ------

3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ------First Sunday in -Saint Nicholas Day -Hanukkah (k) ------Advent (d) (d) -Feast of Immaculate Conception of Mary (b) -Bodhi Day (Rohatsu) (a) 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 ------x -Posadas -Feast of Our Lady -Salgirah (i) Navidenas (h) of Guadalupe (b)

17 18 19 20 21 22 23 ------Yule (o) -Tenth of Tevet (k)

24 25 26 27 28 29 30 ------x -Christmas Day (d) -St. Stephen’s Day -Holy Innocents Day ------x -Feast of the (d) (d) -Christmas Eve (d) Nativity of our Lord (m)

31 -New Year’s Eve -Watch Night (d) -Feast of the Holy Family (b)