• The liturgical year, also called the church year, Christian year, ecclesiastical calendar, or kalendar, consists of the cycle of liturgical days and seasons...
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    The Liturgical Year (French: L'Année Liturgique) is a written work in fifteen volumes describing the liturgical year of the Catholic Church. The series...
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  • The Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar describes and dictates the rhythm of the life of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Passages of Holy Scripture, saints...
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    colours may serve to underline moods appropriate to a season of the liturgical year or may highlight a special occasion. There is a distinction between...
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    religious holiday. The Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar makes no provision for the observance of a New Year. January 1 is itself a religious holiday...
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    often referred to as Advent Sunday. Advent is the beginning of the liturgical year in Western Christianity. The name comes from Latin adventus ('coming;...
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    there were at least 97 liturgical appointments in Athens for the festivals, rising to 118 in a (quadrennial) Panathenaic year." Groups of rich citizens...
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    calendar of saints is the traditional Christian method of organizing a liturgical year by associating each day with one or more saints and referring to the...
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  • 1750 that 29 February was formally recognised in British law. In the liturgical calendar of the Christian churches, the placement of the leap day is significant...
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    A liturgical book, or service book, is a book published by the authority of a church body that contains the text and directions for the liturgy of its...
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    Catholic liturgy means the whole complex of official liturgical worship, including all the rites, ceremonies, prayers, and sacraments of the Church, as...
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    and M. J. O'Connell, The Liturgical Year (Liturgical Press, 1977), p. 162. A. Nocent and M. J. O'Connell (1977), Liturgical Year, pp. 163-80. J. H. Blunt...
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  • jurisdictions of the Eastern Orthodox Church. The Eastern Orthodox Church's liturgical year actually begins in September. In the Middle East, within the Alawites...
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    Gaudete Sunday (/ɡaʊˈdɛtɛ/ gow-DET-eh) is the third Sunday of Advent in the liturgical calendar of Western Christianity, including the Roman Catholic Church...
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  • A fiscal year (also known as a financial year, or sometimes budget year) is used in government accounting, which varies between countries, and for budget...
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    First Sunday of Advent or First Advent Sunday, is the first day of the liturgical year in the Western Christian Churches and the start of the Christian season...
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  • A cult of saints played a key part within Anglo-Saxon Christianity, a form of Roman Catholicism practised in Anglo-Saxon England from the late sixth to...
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  • Church for the beginning of the liturgical year. When the Julian calendar was adopted in AD 988 by Vladimir I of Kiev, the year was numbered Anno Mundi 6496...
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    Epiphany (holiday) (category Eastern Orthodox liturgical days)
    arranged to indicate passages for liturgical readings. If a congregation began reading Mark at the beginning of the year, it might arrive at the story of...
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  • The General Roman Calendar (GRC) is the liturgical calendar that indicates the dates of celebrations of saints and mysteries of the Lord (Jesus Christ)...
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  • year 1 BC is followed directly by year AD 1 (which is the year of the epoch of the era). However, there is a year zero in both the astronomical year numbering...
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    quarterly periods (usually three days) of prayer and fasting in the liturgical calendar of Western Christian churches. List of neo-pagan festivals and...
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  • The Liturgical Movement was a 19th-century and 20th-century movement of scholarship for the reform of worship. It began in the Catholic Church and spread...
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    feast in the liturgical year which emphasises the true kingship of Christ. The feast is a relatively recent addition to the liturgical calendar, instituted...
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    the proper of the liturgy: that is, the part that changes over the liturgical year. In the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church it is known as the antiphona...
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    Christmastide, also known as Christide, is a season of the liturgical year in most Christian churches. For the Catholic Church, Lutheran Church, Anglican...
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  • that adheres to the following calendar for the church's liturgical year. Like other liturgical calendars, the Syro-Malabar calendar loosely follows the...
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  • prelatures, and territorial abbacies. Liturgical rites also exist in two kinds: Liturgical rite: a liturgical rite depending on the tradition of an autonomous...
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    Wednesday, when Lent begins. The other two Sundays in this period of the liturgical year are called Sexagesima and Quinquagesima, the latter sometimes also...
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  • The Christian Year is a series of poems for all the Sundays and some other feasts of the liturgical year of the Church of England written by John Keble...
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