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    The Liturgical Year

    • Two types of time:


    -Chronos (the time we measure) and Kairos (Lord’s time)

    • The Liturgical year or Church calendar helps us celebrate the life, death, and
    resurrection of Jesus.
    • The Paschal mystery is celebrated through specific seasons:
    Advent, Christmas, Ordinary Time, Lent, Paschal Triduum, and Easter.

    • The year or cycle begins with Advent and ends with Ordinary Time.
    • Liturgy has everything to do with the way people worship in public.
    • Greek = leitourgia = “public service”
    • In the Church language, liturgy is the public worship given to God.

    • Each season in the Liturgical calendar has a particular theme, a particular liturgical color,
    and different religious practices, and symbols.

    1. Advent - 4 weeks of preparation before the celebration of Jesus' birth.


     four weeks before Christmas beginning on November 30 or the nearest
    Sunday to it
     the Church's New Year's Day
     comes from the Latin 'adventus‘ or ‘ad-venire’ which means 'arrival' or
    'coming’
     equivalent Greek word of Advent = Parousia = second coming

    The Advent wreath consists of evergreen branches


    • The evergreen branches symbolize God’s faithfulness. It also indicate HOPE just as
    the green of spring indicates new life.
    • The wreath circle symbolizes God’s unending love.

    The first candle is the candle of 'Hope’.


    • It is sometimes called the “Prophecy Candle” in remembrance of the prophets.
    The second candle is a symbol of God's 'Peace’.
    • It is called the “Bethlehem Candle” as a reminder of Mary and Joseph’s journey to
    Bethlehem.
    The third candle represents ‘Joy’ and also called “shepherd’s candle”.
    The fourth candle symbolizes ‘love’
    • This final candle, the “angel’s candle”.

    2. Christmas - recalling the Nativity of Jesus Christ.


    -Christmas derives its name from the Old English “Cristes Maesse” or
    “Cristesmesse” meaning “The Mass of Christ”.
    -The story of Christmas is captured in the nativity scene displays you see during the
    Christmas season.
    -shortest season.
    The Symbolic Gifts
    1. Gold in the Bible is symbolic of God. Gold was used to honor kings.
    2. Frankincense is also a symbol of prayer.
    -pointed to the work of Jesus as a Priest of God, who ministered for three and
    a half years to the people.
    3. Myrrh was a spice used for medicine, cosmetics, and anointing oil. It was
    mixed into the oil that was used to anoint prophets for the divinely appointed
    work of revealing God and communicating His will and words to His people.
    3. Ordinary Time -
     Occurs twice during the year:
     the end of Christmas and the beginning of Lent, the end of Easter and the
    beginning of Advent
     The name of this season is derived from the word ordinal, meaning “to count.”
     The season of Ordinary time celebrates every aspect of the life of Christ.
     Longest season
    4. Lent - six weeks of penance before Easter.
     Begins on Ash Wednesday and continues for 40 days.
     Lent is a season to prepare for the celebration of Christ’s death and
    Resurrection at Easter.
    5. Paschal Triduum - the holiest "Three Days" of the Church's year, where the Christian
    people recall the suffering, death, and resurrection of Jesus.
    --Three most important days of the liturgical year –
     Mass of the Last Supper on Holy Thursday
     Christ’s passion on Good Friday
     Easter Vigil during the night of Holy Saturday.

    6. Easter - 50 days of the joyful celebration of the Lord's resurrection from the dead and
    His sending forth of the Holy Spirit.
    -It is an extended time celebrating the Resurrection.

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