The Common Calendar
Season	Length	Color
Advent	4 weeks preceding Christmas	Purple (or Blue)
Christmas	Dec. 25 - Jan. 6 (13 days, Christmas Day to Epiphany)	White & Gold
Season After Epiphany (or ordinary time)	Jan. 7 - Shrove Tuesday (length varies)	Green **
Lent	40 days and 6 Sundays preceding Easter	Purple
Easter	The Great 50 days beginning with Easter Sunday and ending with Pentecost	White & Gold (Red on Pentecost)
Season After Pentecost (or ordinary time)	Sunday after Pentecost (Trinity Sunday) to Sunday preceding Advent, (Reign of Christ Sunday)-length varies	Green **

**Designates that the season color is green except for the first and last Sundays, which are special days and their color is white. Anglicans who do not celebrate Transfiguration as the last Sunday after Epiphany have green here also.