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The Liturgical Year

The Liturgical Year. Divided into Five seasons Ordinary Time (Green) Advent (Purple) Christmas (White) Lent (Purple) Easter (White). Advent. Advent begins the new liturgical year Advent means “coming ” Penitential Season: Penance is the best way to prepare our hearts for Christ.

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The Liturgical Year

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  1. The Liturgical Year Divided into Five seasons • Ordinary Time (Green) • Advent (Purple) • Christmas (White) • Lent (Purple) • Easter (White)

  2. Advent • Advent begins the new liturgical year • Advent means “coming” • Penitential Season: Penance is the best way to prepare our hearts for Christ. • Advent maintains a “joyful” expectations since the coming of our Savior is an event of great Joy. • Liturgically this joy is expressed by: 1. maintaining the singing of the Gloria during Mass 2. Gaudete Sunday (Gaudete is Latin for “Rejoice”) Rose vestments and reading of Philippians 4:4. • Advent ends with Midnight Mass on December 24-25th.

  3. Questions on reading • Why did pagan peoples have public worship? • What does the word “liturgy” mean? • What does the word “liturgy” mean in reference to the Church? • How does the Liturgy differ from our private devotions? • What is the Liturgy of the Hours composed of? • How does the Church ensure that the Liturgy is a sign of unity? • What do the rituals of the Liturgy ensure for the Church? • What three major feasts is the Liturgical Year based on? • What principle events do these feasts celebrate?

  4. Christmas Christmas celebrates the birth of the Son of God. December 25 through the Feast of the Baptism of our Lord is the season of Christmas (New Calendar). In the Old Calendar the season is celebrated until Candlemas on February 2. The season of Christmas also includes the Feast of the Epiphany (means manifestation). Christmas is an octave (8 day feast) View part of the Roman Rite Liturgy, Byzantine Liturgy

  5. Easter • Season marked by a sense of Triumphant Joy • Jesus has overcome death and risen from the dead. • Easter is an 8 day Feast • Season lasts 50 days concluded with Feast of Pentecost

  6. Pentecost • Celebrates the presence of the Holy Spirit in the Church. • Jn 14:26 – Promise of Christ • Birthday of the Church

  7. Holy Days & Liturgical Colors • Three Categories: • Holy Days • Sunday Feasts • Feasts of Saints & the Blessed Mother

  8. Holy Days of Obligation • Immaculate Conception (December 8) • Christmas (December 25) • Solemnity of Mary Mother of God (Jan. 1) • Ascension Thursday (forty days after Easter) • The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (August 15) • All Saints Day (November 1st)

  9. Major Feast of the Liturgical Calendar • During the Christmas season the Church celebrates the Feast of the Holy Family • 12 days after Christmas the Church celebrates the Feast of the Epiphany • The second Sunday after Epiphany the Church celebrates the Baptism of our Lord.

  10. Major Sunday Feasts During Ordinary Time (After Pentecost) • The Feast of the Holy Trinity • The Feast of Corpus Christi • The Liturgical Year comes to an end with the Feast of Christ the King (last Sunday before Advent)

  11. Review of Liturgical Color • Purple – penance, preparation, sorrow • White – Glory, purity, celebration • Green – Growth, life, hope Other liturgical colors used less frequently: Red – fire and blood (HS, Martyrs, Passion) Rose – Joy in the midst of sorrow Black – death and mourning (funerals, All Souls Day) Gold – Christ the King

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