2024 Calendar

This calendar contains:

  • particular 2024 dates of relevance to the Presbytery this year
  • listings of commemorations for past Christian witnesses, mostly drawn from A Calendar of Other Commemorations (with biographical notes), from the National Assembly of Uniting Church in Australia. Where the entry ends with a ǂ that calendar contains (or will in future contain) biographical notes for those people.

 

January

1 – New Years Day

2 – Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa & Gregory of Nazianzus [Christian thinkers] ǂ

3 – Gladys Aylward [Christian pioneer] ǂ

13 – George Fox [renewer of society] ǂ

14 – Monica Furlong [Christian thinker] ǂ

17 – Antony of Egypt [reformer of the Church] ǂ

17 – Martin Luther King Jr [hero of justice]

18 – Amy Carmichael [hero of mission and creativity]

21 – Agnes of Rome [martyr] ǂ

21 – Aboriginal Sunday – Day of Mourning

24 – Timothy & Titus [apostles]

27 – Lydia, Dorcas & Phoebe [faithful servants]

27 – John Chrysostom [faithful servant] ǂ

28 – Thomas Aquinas [Christian thinker] ǂ

29 – Alan Walker [faithful servant] ǂ

29 – Andrei Rublev [person of prayer] ǂ

30 – Lesslie Newbigin [Christian thinker] ǂ

30 – Coretta Scott King [hero of justice and creativity]

February

1-7 – World Interfaith Harmony Week

2 – Simeon & Anna [witnesses to Jesus] ǂ

3 – First Christian service in Australia [Christian pioneers] ǂ

5 – Joseph Henry Davies & missionaries in Korea & Japan [Christian pioneers] ǂ

7 – International Day of Prayer and Awareness Against Human Trafficking

11 – Sunday – Transfiguration of Jesus

12 – Friedrich Schleiermacher [Christian thinker] ǂ

13 – Anniversary of the National Apology to the Stolen Generations in 2008

14 – Ash Wednesday (beginning of Lent, which ends on 28 March)

14 – Cyril & Methodius [Christian pioneers] ǂ

17 – Saturday – Presbytery Meeting, Wauchope

18 – Martin Luther [reformer of the Church] ǂ

19 – James Robert Beattie (J.R.B.) Love [Christian pioneer] ǂ

20 – World Day of Social Justice

26 – Florence Li Tim-Oi [hero of mission]

27 – George Herbert [faithful servant] ǂ

28 – Martin Bucer [reformer of the Church] ǂ

March

1 – World Day of Prayer

5 – Dianne Buchanan [Christian pioneer] ǂ

7 – Perpetua & Felicitas [martyrs] ǂ

8 – International Women’s Day – Count Her In: Invest in Women. Accelerate Progress.

10 – Harriet Tubman [hero of justice]

17 – Patrick & Ninian [Christian pioneers] ǂ

18 – Joseph of Arimathea [witness to Jesus] ǂ

18-24 – Harmony Week 

19 – Joseph of Nazareth [witness to Jesus] ǂ

20 – Cuthbert, Aidan & Bede [Christian pioneers] ǂ

20 – Alan Mungulu [faithful witness] ǂ

21 – Close the Gap Day [3rd Thursday of March]

21 – Thomas Cranmer [reformer of the Church] ǂ

24 – Palm Sunday

24 – Óscar Romero [martyr & hero of justice] ǂ

24 – Paul Couturier [reformer of the Church] ǂ

26 – Caroline Chisholm [renewer of society] ǂ

28 – Maundy Thursday

29 – Good Friday

31 – Easter Sunday

 

31 – Fred McKay [faithful servant] ǂ

31 – Maria Skobtsova [martyr] ǂ

31 – John Donne [hero of prayer and creativity]

April

4 – Martin Luther King Jnr [martyr & social activist] ǂ

4 – Leonard Kentish [martyr] ǂ

5 – Pandita Ramabai [hero of Justice]

9 – Dietrich Bonhoeffer [Christian thinker] ǂ

10 – Corrie ten Boom [hero of prayer]

18 – Kentigern [Christian pioneer] ǂ

18 – Enoch Sontonga [hero of creativity]

21 – Joo Ki Chul & Korean [Martyrs] ǂ

22 – Trevor Huddleston [renewer of society] ǂ

22 – Toyohiko Kagawa [renewer of society] ǂ

22 – International Mother Earth Day

26 – Mark [witness to Jesus] ǂ

28 – Dorothy Soelle [Christian thinker] ǂ

29 – Catherine of Siena [faithful servant] ǂ

May

1 – Philip & James [apostles] ǂ

1 – Bertha of Kent [hero of prayer]

2 – Athanasius [Christian thinker] ǂ

3 – Catherine Mowry LaCugna [Christian thinker]

4 – Monica, mother of Augustine of Hippo [faithful servant] ǂ

4 – Global 6K for Water

5 – John Flynn [Christian pioneer] ǂ

7 – Charles Harris [faithful servant] ǂ

8 – Julian of Norwich [person of prayer] ǂ

9 – Thursday – Ascension Day

9 – James Egan Moulton [faithful servant] ǂ

14 – Matthias, Simon & Jude [apostle] ǂ

18 – Saturday – Presbytery meeting, Nambucca Heads

18 – Week of Prayer for Christian Unity begins

19 – Pentecost Sunday

19/05-22/06 – Uniting in Prayer (national prayer event)

23 – Winifred Kiek [Christian pioneer] ǂ

24 – John & Charles Wesley [reformers of the Church] – on this day in 1738 John Wesley attended the Moravian worship service at Aldersgate Street ǂ

26 – Trinity Sunday

26 – National Sorry Day

27/05-3/06 – National Reconciliation Week

27 – John Calvin (1509-1564) [reformer of the Church] ǂ

June

3 – Pope John XXIII [reformer of the Church]

3 – Mabo Day

1 – Saturday – Saltwater Freshwater Festival: Celebrating Aboriginal culture of the Mid North Coast. This year at Smithtown.

9 – Columba of Iona [Christian pioneer] ǂ

9 – Ephrem the Syrian [person of prayer] ǂ

10 – Albrecht Ritschl & Adolf von Harnack [Christian thinkers] ǂ

11 – Barnabas [apostle] ǂ

15 – Evelyn Underhill [person of prayer] ǂ

16-22 – Refugee Week

20 – World Refugee Day

22 – 47th anniversary of Uniting Church in Australia

24 – John the Baptist [witness to Jesus]

28 – Irenaeus [Christian thinker] ǂ

29 – Peter & Paul [apostles] ǂ

July

2 – Catherine & William Booth [heroes of justice and hospitality]

7–14 – 9 Sunday to Sunday – National NAIDOC Week

3 – Thomas [apostle]

5 – Willem Visser ’t Hooft (1900-1985) [reformer of the Church] ǂ

6 – Jan Hus & Peter Waldo [reformers of the Church] ǂ

8 – Priscilla & Aquila [faithful servants] ǂ

9 – George Schmidt [hero of mission]

10 – 30th Anniversary of the Covenant

11-16 – 17th National Assembly of the Uniting Church, Sydney

11 – Benedict of Nursia [person of prayer] ǂ

12 – Desiderius Erasmus [reformer of the Church] ǂ

17 – Daniel Thambyrajah (D. T.) Niles [faithful servant] ǂ

18 – Macrina of Nyssa [person of prayer]

22 – Mary Magdalene [witness to Jesus] ǂ

23 – Susanna Wesley [hero of prayer and learning]

25 – James the Great [apostle]

29 – Mary & Martha of Bethany [witnesses to Jesus] ǂ

30 – William Wilberforce [renewer of society] ǂ

31 – Ignatius Loyola [person of prayer] ǂ

August

8 – Mary Helen MacKillop [Christian pioneer] ǂ

10 – Laurence [martyr]

11 – Christine Kilham [Christian pioneer]

12 – Ann Griffiths [person of prayer] ǂ

13 – the Moravian Pentecost

13 – Florence Nightingale & Edith Cavell [renewers of society] ǂ

14 – Maximilian Kolbe [martyr]

15 – Mary, mother of Jesus [witness to Jesus] ǂ

17 – Saturday – Presbytery meeting, on Zoom

 18 – Helena, mother of Constantine [faithful servant] ǂ

20 – Bernard of Clairvaux [person of prayer] ǂ

20 – William & Catherine Booth [reformers of the Church] ǂ

24 – Bartholomew [apostle]

28 – Augustine of Hippo [Christian thinker] ǂ

31 – John Bunyan [faithful servant] ǂ

31 – Liyapidiny Marika O.A.M. [Christian pioneer] ǂ

September

1/09-4/10 – Season of Creation

1 – George Brown & John Thomas [Christian pioneers] ǂ

1 – Child Safe Sunday (UCA Child Safe Week)

4 – Albert Schweitzer [Christian pioneer] ǂ

5 – Robert Browne [reformer of the Church] ǂ

5 – Mother Teresa of Calcutta [faithful servant] ǂ

17 – Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) [person of prayer] ǂ

17 – Anniversary of Reconciliation - between Bennelong and Captain Arthur Phillip in 1890. Described in Here's a date that Governor Phillip and Bennelong might call Australia Day

18 – Dag Hammarsjkold [faithful servant] ǂ

19-21 – Thursday-Saturday – Presbytery Retreat, Stuarts Point

20 – John Hunt & Pacific Martyrs [martyrs] ǂ

21 – Matthew [witness to Jesus] ǂ

22 – Lazarus Lamilami [faithful servant] ǂ

23 – Henri Nouwen [faithful servant] ǂ

27 – James Watson [Christian pioneer] ǂ

October

4 – Clare & Francis of Assisi [faithful servants] ǂ

4 – Seluvaia Ma’u [martyr] ǂ

6 – William Tyndale [reformer of the Church] ǂ

6 – Helen Pearl Mackenzie [medical missionary and educator] ǂ

11 – Ulrich Zwingli (1484-1531) [reformer of the Church] ǂ

12 – Elizabeth Fry (1780-1845) [renewer of society] ǂ

15 – Teresa of Avila & John of the Cross [people of prayer] ǂ

18 – Luke [witness to Jesus] ǂ

26 - Saturday - “Preaching in the Lectionary Year of Luke” workshop, Port Macquarie Uniting Church  (more details to come)

23 – James, brother of Jesus [apostle] ǂ

31 – Reformation Day [reformers of the Church] ǂ

November 

1 – Friday All Saints Day [faithful servants] ǂ

4 – Soren Kierkegaard [Christian thinker] ǂ

16 – Saturday – Presbytery AGM, Port Macquarie

16 – Margaret of Scotland [faithful servant] ǂ

17 – Hilda of Whitby [faithful servant] ǂ

17 – John Wimber [hero of creativity and worship]

19 – Mechtild of Magdeburg [person of prayer] ǂ

20 – John Williams & Thomas Baker [Christian pioneers] ǂ

22 – Clive Staples (C.S.) Lewis [Christian thinker and apologist] ǂ

24 – John Knox [reformer of the Church] ǂ

25 – Isaac Watts, G. F. Handel & J. S. Bach [faithful servants] ǂ

26 – Sojourner Truth [renewer of society]

29 – Dorothy Day [faithful servant] ǂ

30 – Andrew [apostle] ǂ

December

1 – Advent Sunday

1 – Charles de Foucauld [person of prayer]

4 – Nicholas Ferrar [person of prayer]

6 – Nicholas of Myra [faithful servant]

8 – Richard Baxter [faithful servant] ǂ

9 – Karl Barth [Christian thinker] ǂ

10 – Thomas Merton (1915-1968) [person of prayer] ǂ

10 – Human Rights Day

14 – John Geddie & John Paton [Christian pioneers] ǂ

21 – Anniversary of Native Title passing in the Senate in 1993

25 – Wednesday – Christmas Day

26 – Stephen [martyr] ǂ

27 – John [witness to Jesus] ǂ

27 – Emma Cotton [hero of prayer and mission]

28 – The Innocents [martyrs]

31 – Josephine Butler [renewer of society]

 

Much of this list is taken from A Calendar of Other Commemorations (with biographical notes), from the National Assembly of Uniting Church in Australia.

ǂ – that Calendar contains (or will in future contain) biographical notes for those people.