Articles related to "Liturgical Calendar"

Church holidays fall into distinct seasons, each of which celebrates a period in the life of Christ or the Early Church. Do you know your seasons?

Advent mixes joy and hope with trepidation and penitence as it prepares for Christmas as well as Christ's Second Coming at Judgment Day.

For Western Christians, it is now "Ordinary Time," the liturgically quiet time between the Easter and Christmas Seasons. But there are some important celebrations.

The time around Christmas is action packed with commemorations and celebrations of the many events that make up that first, magical Christmas.

Saint Damien of Molokai was a Catholic priest from Belgium as well as a Christian missionary in Hawaii, who lived and died in the 19th Century.

Ramesses III was unrelated to his Great predecessor, also a Ramesses, but his palace and mortuary temple at Medinet Habu stands as proudly as does Abu Simbel.

It's not a matter of whether to follow a calendar. All churches follow a calendar. The question is, which one to follow? Here are five reasons to follow the church year.