As the 12-month Roman calendar was adopted for both civil and religious purposes, all of the Celtic days began to conform more closely with the liturgical year of the Christian church and became identified with major religious festivals. March 25, Lady Day Around the time of the spring equinox...
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Does she want to live more attuned to the ebb and flow of the different seasons and stages of life? The liturgical calendar has it all, from feasts to ember days to entire seasons dedicated to various aspects of our faith, helping us to live a good and holy life. ...
In the judgement of the Church of England Liturgical Commission, this view has been seriously challenged[43] by a view based on an old tradition, according to which the date of Christmas was fixed at nine months after 25 March, the date of the vernal equinox, on which the Annunciation was...
If Advent is the season par excellence that invites us to hope in the God-Who-Comes, Lent renews in us the hope in the One who made us pass from death to life. Both are seasons of purification - this is also indicated by the liturgical colour that they have in common - but in a ...
At Epiphany (real Epiphany is today) we Latins have – traditionally – chanted a solemn proclamation of the key liturgical dates or movable feasts for the new year of salvation, just begun. This underscores how these dates and seasons are all interconnected. The liturgical year is a reflection...
This is one reason why the fear and repress sacred liturgical worship in Latin: bishops don’t want to see not to know what is going on, which is a problem that is driven into their heads by the structure of the Novus Ordo, because the Novus Ordo tends to be celebrant animated rather...
Words are powerful; I just said that. Words set to music — those can be even more. Part of that is simply that words-with-tune lock into our minds like few other things! I still know a couple tunes by the Oak Ridge Boys, from the radio stations of childhood car trips.The first ...
If you’re looking for a more general discussion of the Christian year (liturgical year, Christian calendar, church year, etc.), please check this series: Introduction to the Christian Year. What Colors Are Used in Advent? My Advent wreath at home, after the fourth Sunday of Advent and bef...
God and Jesus placed this call in my heart and my head and God and Jesus have not left me or taken that call away. That’s as good a reason as any why I’m still here. The love of God is as strong a tether as I know, and I am grateful, because there are seasons in pastorin...