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The Church Liturgical Year
The Church Liturgical Year
The Liturgical Year of the Catholic Church or "Church Calendar" consists of the cycle of liturgical seasons in the Catholic Church. This is where you can know when feast days (including feast days of saints) are observed, and which parts of the Scripture are read in the daily mass.
Liturgy - In the Catholic Church, it is used to describe all the public acts of worship that take place, as it draws the people to God.
See the Church Calendar for 2022.
Courtesy of MassExplained.com
Seasons of the Church Year
Seasons of the Church Year
Advent > Christmas > Ordinary Time > Lent > Triduum > Easter > Pentecost > Ordinary Time
...followed by the Advent of the next Church Year
Advent (purple)
Advent (purple)
Advent starts on the fourth Sunday before Christmas (always falling between 27 November and 3 December), and ends on Christmas Eve on 24 December. This is the period that we prepare for the celebration of the birth (or nativity) of Jesus Christ.
This is from the Latin word adventus which means coming or arrival.
This is the season when we prepare to celebrate the:
Coming of the Christ among us -- His Birth...Christmas -- but we also believe that he is...
Coming among us now and so we have to be prepared to receive Him. (Through His Sacraments, that is, Catechumen) and we know that He will...
Come again at the end of time (Final Judgement) and we have to prepare the world for His coming.
Everything we do as Christians is related to these three comings.
On the 3rd Sunday (Gaudete Sunday), the liturgical color is rose (pink).
The True Meaning of Advent (8 minutes 27 seconds) - Fr Mike Schmitz
The True Meaning of Advent (9 minutes 23 seconds) - Fr Chris Alar
The Spiritual Life and the Advent Season (almost 5 minutes) - Brant Pitre
Advent Wreath
We have the Advent Wreath, which has 4 candles. The 4 candles of Advent names are hope, love, joy, and peace. They represent the virtues Jesus brought us.
Christmas
Christmas
We commemorate the birth of our Lord, Jesus Christ, on December 25.
Christmas seasons begins on Christmas Eve and ends on the Sunday celebrating the Baptism of the Lord.
The Baptism of the Lord falls on the Sunday after the Feast of the Epiphany (usually the second Sunday of January).
During this season, we celebrate the birth or nativity of Jesus into our world and into our hearts. We remember and reflect of God's gift of salvation.
John 3:16 - "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life."
The Feast of the Epiphany commemorates mainly (but not solely) the visit of the 3 Magi (plural of magus) to the Christ Child.
Ordinary Time (green)
Ordinary Time (green)
This first Season of Ordinary Time is a preparation for Lent. This takes us through the life of Christ. This is the time of conversion. This is living the life of Christ. (Source: USCCB)
Lent (purple)
Lent (purple)
Lent is a 40-day season of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving that begins on Ash Wednesday and ends at sundown on Holy Thursday. It is a period of preparation to celebrate the Lord's Resurrection at Easter. (More information from USCCB) Sundays are not counted.
On the 4th Sunday (Laetare Sunday), the liturgical color is rose (pink).
On Palm Sunday, the liturgical color is red.
Lent (4 minutes 56 seconds) - Catholic Online
The Season of Lent and the Temptations of Jesus - Brant Pitre
Where is Lent in the Bible? (7 minutes 43 seconds) - Fr Mike Schmitz / Ascension Presents
Preparing for Lent (8 minutes 17 seconds) - Fr Mike Schmitz / Ascension Presents
What's the Purpose of Lent? (6 minutes 40 seconds) - Fr Mike Schmitz / Ascension Presents
What are Penances and Lenten Obligations? (1 hour 27 minutes) - Fr Chris Alar
Ash Wednesday
Ash Wednesday
This marks the start of the Lent.
Ash Wednesday (3 minutes 13 seconds) - Catholic Online
The Significance of Ash Wednesday (7 minutes 48 seconds) - Fr Mike Schmitz / Ascension Presents
The Biblical Roots of Ash Wednesday (35 minutes 11 seconds) - Brant Pitre
Palm Sunday
Palm Sunday
Palm Branches & Olive Trees: The Start of Jesus's Passion (10 minutes 19 seconds) - Brant Pitre
Eastern Triduum (red)
Eastern Triduum (red)
Triduum means a period of 3 days.
This begins with the liturgy on the evening of Maundy Thursday (or Holy Thursday), reaches its high point in the Easter Vigil. In this period, we recall the passion, crucifixion, death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Maundy Thursday is for the ceremony of washing the feet of the apostles by Jesus.
Also called the Paschal Triduum, Holy Triduum
Holy Thursday (white), Good Friday (red), and Holy Saturday
Easter (white)
Easter (white)
This is the most important of all liturgical times.
This begins on Easter Sunday (the Lord Jesus' resurrection from the dead)
An important event is the Feast of the Ascension of Jesus. This is 40 days after Easter Sunday.
This ends on Pentecost Sunday (sending of the Holy Spirit upon the Church). (See the Bible in Acts 2.) This is a feast day celebrated 50 days after Easter. The word Pentecost is rooted in Greek for “fiftieth.” (More information from USCCB)
This marks the birth of the Church.
Mark 16:19 - So then the Lord Jesus, after he spoke to them, was taken up into heaven and took his seat at the right hand of God.
Ordinary Time (green)
Ordinary Time (green)
Time after the Pentecost
This second Season of Ordinary Time is a time for growth and maturation, a time in which the mystery of Christ is called to penetrate ever more deeply into history until all things are finally caught up in Christ. The goal, toward which all of history is directed, is represented by the final Sunday in Ordinary Time, the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe. (Source: USCCB)
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