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From the infamous Wikipedia…enjoy and Merry Christmas, Gary
Christmas is an annual holiday that celebrates the birth of Jesus. The date of the celebration is traditional, and is not considered to be his actual date of birth. Christmas festivities often combine the commemoration of Jesus’ birth with various secular customs, many of which have been influenced [...]

This writing is from “A Guide to Prayer for all who seek God”.  I wanted to share it with you all.
“We begin the seasons of the church year with anticipation, and we end the seasons of the church year declaring a certainty.  In Advent we waited for the needed and longed for definitive and ultimate [...]

If we had time, we could consider transitional days and the Sanctoral Cycle in separate posts.  But in the interest of giving you time to consider these before class on Sunday, I’m going to combine them into one post.
Certain occasions in Ordinary Time (remember . . . counting by “ordinals”, e.g., First Sunday After Pentecost, [...]

We discussed Christmas, Epiphany and the Baptism of the Lord (Dec. 25, Sunday before or on Jan. 6, and the following Sunday) in our last class.  There are five other feast days that we observe through the year that relate to, or are dependent on, the date of Christmas.  They are:

The Anunciation — March 25
The [...]

What about the rest of the week?  In the early church there were daily morning and evening services in the larger cities — generally limited to a cathedral.  These services, which were attended by people going to and coming from their daily occupations, came to be referred to as “Cathedral Prayer”.  In addition to this [...]

Christmas doesn’t date back as far as Easter does in the Christian Year.  The Epistles, which are generally viewed as pre-dating other parts of the New Testament, make little mention of the birth of Jesus, but focus instead on the central mystery of our faith — his death and resurrection.  The earliest of the Gospels, [...]

Easter is to the year what the Lord’s Day is to the week.  It is significant that Christ was crucified and rose again at the time of the Jewish celebration of Pascha (Passover).  This was a time when God’s people celebrated deliverance from bondage in Egypt and the early Christians realized that now there was [...]

Christ the King Sunday is approaching.

Any study of Church Time begins with Sunday.  The resurrection is central in the life and faith of the Church, and Sunday is the day on which Christ rose.  Where before the focus was on the end of the week and a day of rest under the old covenant, the new covenant focus is on [...]