The Liturgical YearThe Liturgical Year

The Liturgical yearThe Liturgical year

The notion of time The notion of time helps us helps us celebrate celebrate lifelife by marking and by marking and recalling the recalling the important dates important dates and events in our and events in our lives.lives.

Ex: Birthdays, Ex: Birthdays, anniversaries , anniversaries , graduations, etc.graduations, etc.

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Time has an Time has an important place in important place in our spiritual life:our spiritual life:

It helps us It helps us reconnectreconnect with God. with God.

There are two types There are two types of time:of time:

ChronosChronos and and KairosKairos

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Chronos is Chronos is the time the time we we measure.measure.

Ex: hours, days, Ex: hours, days, weeks, minutesweeks, minutes

Kairos is Kairos is the Lord’s the Lord’s time. time.

It is It is God’s special God’s special time. time.

Kairos Kairos revealsreveals his his will for our lives.will for our lives.

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The Liturgical year The Liturgical year or Church calendar or Church calendar helps us celebrate helps us celebrate the life, death and the life, death and resurrection of resurrection of JesusJesus..

This is called the This is called the paschal mystery.paschal mystery.

The Liturgical CycleThe Liturgical Cycle

The Paschal mystery The Paschal mystery is celebrated is celebrated through through specific specific seasonsseasons..

There are There are fivefive specific seasons in specific seasons in the Church’s the Church’s calendar:calendar:

Advent, Christmas, Advent, Christmas, Ordinary Time, Lent Ordinary Time, Lent and Easter.and Easter.

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The Liturgical year The Liturgical year is a is a cyclecycle of of seasonsseasons repeating repeating itself at the end of itself at the end of each cycle.each cycle.

The Church year or The Church year or cycle begins with cycle begins with AdventAdvent and ends and ends with with ordinary ordinary timetime..

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The Church The Church calendar or Church calendar or Church year begins with year begins with the Holy season of the Holy season of AdventAdvent..

The Church year The Church year begins in begins in late late November or Early November or Early December.December.

Four weeks prior to Four weeks prior to December 25.December 25.

The Liturgical YearThe Liturgical Year The wordThe word liturgical liturgical

comes from the comes from the Greek Greek word liturgy.word liturgy.

Liturgy meant Liturgy meant “Public Works”“Public Works”

In Church language In Church language liturgy is liturgy is the public the public worship given to worship given to GodGod..

I.E. Mass and I.E. Mass and sacraments.sacraments.

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Each season in the Each season in the Liturgical calendar Liturgical calendar has a particular has a particular themetheme..

Each season has a Each season has a particular particular liturgical liturgical colorcolor..

Each season Each season concentrates on concentrates on different parts of different parts of the Bthe Bibleible..

Each season has Each season has different religious different religious practices, and practices, and symbolssymbols..

Colors of the Liturgical YearColors of the Liturgical Year

Advent Christmas Ordinary Lent Advent Christmas Ordinary Lent EasterEaster

PurplePurple WhiteWhite GreenGreen PurplePurple WhiteWhite

SymbolsSymbols

Advent wreathAdvent wreath NativityNativity Chi-RoChi-Ro AshesAshes Paschal CandlePaschal Candle

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